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I recently convinced my father to submit his DNA to Ancestry(I have an account which is the reason I used Ancestry)
The main reason was to try and identify his Maternal Grandfather. His mother was given away at birth and was with several families in her early years.

I have spent the time going through matches linking them into my family tree.

I was them left with a group of matches I could not fit into my tree as a starting point. Several of these responded to requests and i have one match that has replied and together we think we have identified a person who may be the person we are looking for.

However due to complexities in both families i have not been able to confirm this match with any other tree branches.

I am now left with several good matches that I still cannot fit into my tree and have not replied when I have contacted them.
There is a range of between 625 cM (1st – 2nd Cousin) and 270 cm (1st cousin 2 removed) and can be broken down into two groups of shared matches. I have built trees for those I can and have found no links to my tree.

I have started to look at the various on-line tools like DNA painter i could use to establish the links i need to research,
However i am to be honest confused as to which to use. I started with the DNA painter and realised that the WATO tool needed the matches DNA matches from my matches not my own.

Are there any tools that i can use where i can use the Ancestry shared match data to help.

As an aside i have also uploaded the DNA to Gedmatch and myFTDNA but the matches i want to identify are not listed

thanks in advance

I bow to your superior knowledge on Military Dress Shaun, but, in my opinion, the studio backdrop doesn't fit with the 30s/40s style of photography.

I have corrected the perspective and given it a clean.
Carol

Thank you for doing the corrections and clean.
I have attached a confirmed photo of my grandfather during WW2 and although there are some similarities i am not sure if it is him.

In a few weeks i can show it to my father as he was sent a lot of photos by his father during the second world war and would be able to say if it is him.

If not then we probably will never find out as we didn't have any family in Palestine or any Jewish connections

I still think the badge is Royal Signals not Palestine Police but that's just my opinion and I would not have been able to come to that conclusion without everyone's help.

Martin

Thank you for all the reply's and help.

As I have mentioned the photo was found in a stack of photos belonging to my Grandaunt. It is not her husband or his father so is probably her side.
Her Father fought in WW1 and his full record and medal card survive and we also have photographs of him so we know it was not him as he was ASC in Belgium and France 1914-1919. He died before WW2.
The next option is WW2 and my Grandaunts brother's and brother in law. One was Canadian air force so not him the other was RAF from 1940 and not him.
That leaves my Grandfather "Percival Sidney Jubb 31 MAR 1915". He was a radio operator in India and Burma. That is all we know so far. He never spoke about it, but I remember he was always sat next to his ham radio talking to other people around the world.
My Aunt is going through her  papers to see if we can find anything to help.
I am going to get my father to request his record and see what it reveals.(in a years time by the sound of others applications)
Of course there is always the option of it not being anyone in my family and just a random photo.

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