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Hi,
I have noticed that I have several instances where a match on Ancestry DNA matches both my Mum and myself, but the amounts we match are reversed -that is, I share more DNA with the match than my mother does with the same match.
I have assumed that this means the match must be on both my paternal and maternal ancestral lines, and perhaps the lines linked up a generation or two further back on my mother's line than my father's.
Is this a correct assumption, or am I missing something here with regards to this anomaly?
Any advice will be most welcome!

Hi, I am deciphering a 1618 Will by William Pagett of Pawlton (Poulton) in Wiltshire. William was born abt 1587.

He was oldest son of James Pagett and his third wife Barbara Foster. They had twin sons (William and Thomas) and a bevy of daughters.

James died in 1607 and it appears that Barbara remarried, to Sir Giles Fettiplace. I haven’t gone into research yet as to any children from this marriage, but it must have been shortlived. Barbara died before 1612 and Sir Giles then married Frances Hopton -her second marriage as her first husband Richard Jones had died previously.

James Pagett’s son William died in 1618, and in his Will he left bequests to a couple of his sisters. He also left bequests to his “Uncle Nicholas Foster” , presumably his mother’s brother. He did not name a wife or leave bequests to a wife.

William named “my beloved father-in-law Sir Giles Fettiplace and my brother-in-law Robert Fettiplace” as executors of his Will.

Was this a convention, to refer to your step-father as an “in-law”, and likewise your step-brother? Or can I infer from these terms that William married a daughter of Sir Giles from a previous marriage (not that there is evidence of one)?

Or perhaps Gyles’ son Robert had married one of William’s sisters, thus making them brothers-in-law. And might William then call Sir Giles his “father-in-law”?

Any advice gratefully accepted.

Hi all,
I do hope everyone is staying safe in these troubling times. Genealogy research has been a good way of taking my mind off all the worry for a while.

I have uncovered an ancestor via some old letters, who claims to have been born at the Rectory at Durham Cathedral, and that his father was the Rector, Church of England at Durham Cathedral. I have tried Google to see if there is indeed a Rector at Durham Cathedral, and not had any luck.

He seems also to have been inventive with his name, which contains no less than five christian names to go along with his surname. I also wonder at the British Naval career he was claiming, but let's get his birth sorted out first. I actually think he was born at South Shields, son of a shipwright.

Can anyone out there please help me with this Rectory business? Was my ancestor inventing a history to impress his new bride and her family?

Another claim was a connection to "Tunnicliffe Hall" in Durham, around the 1870's.  Was there such a place in Durham?

Hi,
I would like to get clarification regarding a Y-DNA test result vs an atDNA test result.

Am I correct in thinking that two men may not be a match through atDNA testing, but can still be a match using Y-DNA, ie they can have a shared common male ancestor but not share any atDNA?

From what I have read, the Y-DNA test is a completely different test, using only the Y chromosome. The atDNA test is looking at the 22 other non-sex chromosomes. Is this correct?

Any help or advice on this would be very much appreciated.