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Should be easy shouldn't it?
I tested with Ancestry some time ago and uploaded my raw DNA to as many sites as I could, one being MyHeritage
Every so often they email me to say I have matches, but today I got a message to say I have a close match. I looked, and the match is 665.7 cM across 21 segments, the longest being 64.1 cM.

My biggest on Ancestry is 546 cM across 16 segments, Longest segment: 115 cM. (My first cousin's daughter)

Even though Ancestry does a little pruning and is not quite comparable, my new MH match is pretty close, but I cannot identify him at all.
He has a tree with only himself in it giving his birth year. He has a surname which doesn't appear anywhere in my tree -
He's in his 20s and I'm in my 70s, so that excludes a lot of relationships. I have no children, I have one sibling who has no children, so that excludes great nephews.
I can see from shared matches that he would be related to my paternal grandfather's mother's line, so that excludes the only first cousins who could have a child in their 20s - they're on maternal side.

I can find two possible births which fit his year of birth, one has a mmn the same as his and location is better fit. The other has a different mmn, but I cannot find a marriage for parents. Possibly his father married a widow or divorcee so her surname at marriage is different from her maiden surname.
Can't find him on Electoral register, probably chose not to be on public register
So Facebook is my last resort I think!

I was writing a Christmas card this morning, when I realised I didn't have the postcode for one of my friends. So knowing the house number, street, town and county I looked her up on FindMyPast electoral registers. She was on the open register from 2002 to 2009 then decided to come off the open register. FindMyPast has included an age guide of 56 to 60, but where do they get their information from and which year is it supposed to refer to? She would have been 56 in 2009, so the age range must only apply to the last date they have records for, or so I thought
But then I looked up my own entry. There is only one year (2002) for me as we moved house in 2003 and came off the open register immediately. It gives my age range as 58 - 62, whereas I was under 50 in 2002. OH is down as 65 +, which is correct now but more than 10 years too high in 2002.
Thinking it might be more accurate with more recent records, I checked a relative who is in the same house and on open register from 2006 to 2023, It has her age range as 50 - 54, but she is now 61.
So it's a mystery where this age guide comes from.

In the past (post 1837) did people not know their actual date of birth even though they should have a birth certificate, or not care whether they gave accurate information.
Nowadays it seems you have to quote your date of birth on everything. A few years ago I had to state my date of birth four times in one hospital out-patients visit - twice to the same person a few minutes apart without leaving the treatment room in between.

My paternal grandmother's date of birth according to her birth certificate was 5th April 1885, according to 1939 register 7th April (which presumably would be the date on her later NHS record) and she always celebrated her birthday on 8th April.

My maternal grandfather was born on 30th September 1892 (according to birth Certificate), but is recorded as 25th September on 1939 register.

Both birth registrations were well within 42 days of birth.

So if either of these grandparents had to state their DOB when receiving NHS treatment, their actual DOB, or what they believed to be their DOB, wouldn't match their medical records.
 
I have found several people in 1939 reg, who have a DOB exactly 1 year out, but to be just a few days is puzzling

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My grandmother's DOB according to the BC copy my aunt sent for when my grandmother went into a care home said 5th April, so that is what she told the registrar when she registered grandma's death. But I've just bought a digital BC and that says the eighth, but it is not all that clear and could be read as fifth. But even if the original BC matches the date she celebrated her birthday, why does the 1939 register say the 7th? We shall never know.!

Henrietta Lane was born about 1828 in King's Somborne. She married Henry Green on 4 July 1853 Portsea, her father was William. An online tree has her mother as Mary nee Norris. In 1841 Henrietta is with her father and presumed siblings. I think her mother must have died by then. In 1851 she and younger sister Ellen /Helen are with Thomas Stride and his wife Elizabeth in Romsey, they are recorded as nieces. Thomas Stride b West Tytherley married Elizabeth Norris in Romsey, so if Henrietta's mother was Mary Norris it is possible she was Elizabeth's sister.
If so this would make Henrietta the niece of Elizabeth Stride nee Norris, but no blood relative to Thomas Stride.
I have a DNA match with a descendant of Henrietta and a Common Ancestors / thrulines hint that suggests That our link is through my Stride line. Can anyone find out if Thomas and Henrietta are related other than by marriage, please