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I'm helping someone with their DNA link to me as she has no idea who her father is but he's obviously reasonably closely related to me.  She and I have 113cM of shared DNA.  I know this isn't a huge amount but I've found with this sort of length I can usually place someone in my tree or at least have a clue about which part of the tree they belong to.

By crossmatching etc with trees she has various DNA links with, I've discovered we have a link via my 2 x greatgrandparents.  She is younger than me so I will obviously have a much longer cM of shared DNA with her father but even then I think we would have a two generation gap.

We have located DNA information on descendants of various children of those 2 x greatgrandparents and, for each of us, people who would be placed in more or less our respective generations have much shorter cM matches with each of us. 

Could anyone else agree with my thought that it's likely she and I are actually both descended from the next generation down, ie my great grandmother?  If that's the case it would make it very easy for us to ascertain exactly who her father might have been.

I'm usually quite good at finding my way through this but it's a strange situation when she really is fighting in the dark as no one can tell her about her family history. She's thrilled with finally finding information on her "family" and has no intention of contacting anyone else with her findings.

Looking through other threads, I can see mention of DNApainter.  Could anyone say whether this might be something worth experimenting in this type of case please?

I think my detective work is paying off!  I think his service number was 11185.  This was a private Albert Bailey, born 1892 (wrong year...) who was discharged in May 1918 due to a disability, this being Malaria.  Something you may well find in India?  If this is him I now have his pension info, which was paid until 1922.  It does not tell me where he actually served though.  The illness seems to tie in with family lore about him coming back sick from his time in the army,  Thanks for the pointers!

Thank you for that interesting info. 

Looking at Wikipedia it seems the 4th battalion were used as a source of replacements for the Regular battalions. I'm wondering if he was transferred into another battalion at some point as I can see others DID go to India.  The story was that his health suffered for years (in fact he died very young) as a result of his time in India. On that basis I would like to explore that thought a bit more I suppose...

This is a photo I've been given and it has the date of 1914 on it. Does anyone know if there is any significance to this type of uniform?  Also, if 75% of the original war records were destroyed, is it likely DLI themselves have records? I'm happy to pay but just need to know where to start!

As I say, not sure where to start with this so I'm looking for pointers.

My favourite uncle, Horace Westwood (born 1912 in Redditch, died 1976) was crippled for the entire time I knew him.  Today over lunch my mother explained that he had been a farm worker for a Mr Palmer and was injured when he fell from a horse in the 1930s/1940s.  This triggered some sort of Parkinson's type illness (I remember he used to take Dopamine tablets).  For the entire time I knew him he had a very long scar down his spine and was crippled on his right side with zero feeling on his left side.  He actually led a happy life, getting married in his 60s. Mom was explaining that the operation scar arose because he went to the USA (she thinks this will have been early 1949) for a pioneering operation.  This was only partially successful and did away with the violent shaking he had suffered from, but did then leave him with the partial paralysis and lack of feeling.  I would love to know more about that trip but have no idea where to look.  He doesn't appear in the Immigration/Emigration records.  Does anyone have any clue where I might find records or information?  Mom thinks the Red Cross may have been involved with arranging his transport etc but can't be sure.

Thanks for the input.  This is my first venture into looking deeply into anything from records based in Scotland and I wasn't quite sure where to start. I certainly hadn't been able to find that information you have pointed out.  I appreciate the pointers and I'll see what else I can find!