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Hi.  I’ve created a number of trees on Ancestry for family and friends so I know the basics about setting up trees.  For a couple of reasons, I just started a new tree solely for my mum’s mother’s branch. I now have a problem that I’ve not previously run across.

Earlier today, I realized that while I can view mum’s gr-grandfather’s first wife’s (Mary’s) profile and make changes to it, when I try to view the entire tree, Mary does not appear.  William’s and Mary’s children appear in “view tree” with a line to just William.  William’s second wife and their children all appear in view tree.

I tried several ideas to rectify the problem and nothing has worked.  I really don’t want to start over by deleting Mary and her children as I’m only 90-95% certain that they were William’s first family so I have typed numerous notes for all of them, indicating why I believe they were his family.  I’ve also included supporting documents (burial records).

Tonight, while looking at the tree again on view tree, I noticed that there is an identical problem with another family member (who was also married twice).

I’ve never had this problem before.  I don’t know how to correct it, short of deleting the entire tree and starting over.  I hope I’ve clearly explained my situation; I know it’s confusing. Any suggestions would be very much appreciated, please.  Thank you, Lisa.

I am helping a friend.  I’ve found documents with Oroseni, Romania.  However, I cannot locate the town on any maps. Any suggestions, please, exactly where this town was located?  Thank you in advance, Lisa

My mum’s maternal great-grandparents were born in Ireland (Co. Fermanagh, Tuam-Co. Galway, Co. Wicklow and Belfast-Co. Antrim/Co. Down).  I believe four of her gggp were born in the same areas; I don’t know about the others.

Looking at Anc*try’s ethnicity inheritance, she inherited from her maternal side
Ireland - 2%
England & NW Europe - 26%
Scotland - 22%

I’ve read that DNA percentages are estimates, Belfast would actually be in the Scottish category, borders change, and we inherit different DNA amounts from our relatives/ancestors, but looking at the above percentages might it be plausible that her mother’s ancestors had not lived in Ireland for generations, as she believed?

Any insight would be gratefully welcomed.  Thank you, Lisa

While I’ve run across incorrect names and dates on census returns, I’ve rarely run across puzzling facts. Tonight, I found something puzzling but perhaps it was simply a communication problem?

1931 Ontario census - Gertrude, age 40, William, age 39 (wife and husband)
Gertrude was recorded as born in Ontario (parents born in England), “race or tribe” was English.
That is correct.  Gertrude’s parents, grandparents and most likely her great-grandparents were all born in England.

William was recorded as born in Ontario (parents born in Ontario). That also is correct.
However, William’s race or tribe was recorded as Irish; William’s and Gertrude’s children were born in Ontario and recorded as race: Irish.

William’s paternal family/ancestors were born in England to at least the 1750s.  William’s mother was born in Ontario but her parents were born in Ireland c1820s.

According to relatives, William enjoyed talking about his paternal side. To my knowledge, he never talked about any Irish family and neither his children nor other family even knew they had Irish ancestors.  When I discovered that William’s maternal grandparents were born in Ireland, William’s children were just short of shocked.

The puzzling part: could it have simply been a recording error?  Has anyone ever run across a similar situation?  William’s mother was still alive in 1931 (but not living in his household); perhaps she was visiting and told the census enumerator that William was (and his children were) Irish?  Because William enjoyed telling anyone family stories, I have difficulty believing he or his wife stated that he was Irish.  Thank you for reading this long message, Lisa.

PS. I know the Irish notation is trivial but I always thought his mother was an only child. When we found out William’s mother had several siblings, and aunts and uncles, I was very surprised. This family has been a mystery since I started searching so long ago.

Hello.  I have a couple of favourite games that I play on my iPad.  I have trouble running one of the games; it freezes (I’m not the only one who has problems with the game). I followed their instructions to resolve my problems (closing other applications, removing the game, etc.).  Nothing has worked.  Now I’m being told to use a speedtest and then send them a screenshot of the network quality. (I don’t know if I’m allowed to use the exact name here.)

My question: would something like this be safe to do - running the test, then sending them a screenshot of the results? I don’t trust anything about the internet after receiving viruses, etc. (years ago).  Any guidance would be very appreciated.  Thank you, Lisa