I've Been Naughty

[Wexflyer]

My Ancestry profile/Family Tree does what some of you rail against.

I appear to be an aunt of mine.

[shanreagh]

On which side of the family?

Did this happen recently or has it been going on for some time?  I'm assuming some time as it it must be at least at parental level...strange that they did not seem to notice that their son had morphed or co-existed as their sibling esp one of a different sex. 

If you belong in a family where aunts are prime targets for being godmothers .....how does that work?  Are you your own godparent as well? 

Has it got some thing to do with an NPE?
'In genetics, a non-paternity event (also known as misattributed paternity, not parent expected, or NPE) occurs when an individual's presumed father is not in fact their biological father.'

All the best in working your way out of that.   

Yours in silliness
Shanreagh!

[Erato]

Well, Mario Vargas Llosa married his aunt, making himself his own uncle.  Maybe it doesn't count, though, because she was an aunt by marriage, not blood, so just a technical uncle.  Still, it gave him some of the material for his comic novel "La Tía Julia y el Escribidor" [Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter].

And I have a similar case amongst my own in-laws.  Again, not blood relatives but, nevertheless, an uncle marrying a niece.

[Biggles50]

On one family line in my Wifes’s tree three Brothers are each her xGreat Granfathers and each is her xGreat Uncle.

I’ve had odd Ancestry occurrences, wrong relationships added, worst is it not linking to a Parent despite the check box being ticked.  Then to Edit Relationships the person does not show when their name is typed in the box, a workaround is to add them as a new person then to a Merge Duplicate.

Then there is the Manchester thing, Ancestry keeps adding Manchester, Jamaica instead of Manchester Lancashire.  In a search a couple of days ago the results showed Manchester Jamaica in the search pane despite Manchester Lancashire being recorded in the profile.  Very odd.

[Pheno]

My Ancestry profile/Family Tree does what some of you rail against.

I appear to be an aunt of mine.

I am assuming you mean deliberately in order to confuse people looking at your tree, rather than as a result of some unfortunate merging or other scenario.

You are not the first and these instances are not too difficult to unscramble - I have several dna matches where my note says 'this is x masquerading as y'.

Pheno

[aghadowey]

I'm also my aunt on my online tree    She married late in life and had no children but a surprising number of people seem to have attached children to her in their family trees (some years before her marriage and others when she was in her 50s).

[Wexflyer]

Interesting mix of replies!

Yes, deliberately, but not to deliberately confuse people.

I control several DNA tests, which I bought and had processed. No problem. Until I had one processed in Britain. Then there was a problem.

Absent written confirmation from the subject of the test, they wouldn't associate it with anyone on my family tree. Other than myself. So I've been my aunt for some time now.....