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Hi Everyone,

I have hit a brick wall and I'm hoping someone can help.

I am researching Joseph Armitage born 1812 in Cumberworth Half, he is listed as being a "fancy woolen weaver". The information, (apart from the names of children he fathered), appears to stop there though. Despite exhaustive online searches I cannot find his parents.

Joseph was married to Ann (possibly Ann Carter).

Joseph's birth date and birth location are listed on numerous census documents and so I know those details are at least accurate. There is a man named John Armitage listed on his marriage banns document, but I'm not sure whether this is his father or his brother.

Two mothers have come up as a result of Ancestry searches, Martha Rowley and Sarah Firth. I have, by means of deduction, ruled both of these ladies out. Sarah's son was born in 1826 and Martha's son married someone else entirely.

Can anybody help? Or hope upon hope, does anyone already have this man listed in their tree?

Thanks,

P

Hello,

I need some advice please. I took a 23andme test in January and matched with lots of distant maternal relatives but no one remotely related to my Paternal tree. In amongst all this I have several matches ranging from 80cm through to 255cm that don't fit my maternal or my paternal tree! And the 255cm lady isn't talking.

Instead of panicking and thinking that I was someone else's kid I ordered an Ancestry kit because I thought that it would match me with other people's trees. Again I got easy maternal matches (I have two XXs, go figure) but nothing remotely paternal. Non of my matches had any relation to my father's family tree.

I am now resigned to the fact that there is a major discrepancy here, (namely me), and so I have been working to build my tree on Ancestry. I've gone from 300 people to almost 3000 and I'm yet to get a clear match out of that. I had one bad match that linked me to my Uncle's family tree and the trees of my DNA matches have all the same the names as his but still no smoking gun.

So many of my matches now are from my birthplace in West Yorkshire, all linking to old West Yorkshire families and none at all linking to my Dad's Lancashire heritage or names. You would think this would make things easier but it doesn't as nearly all the names I'm dealing with are common names that lots of people share in West Yorkshire.

After building another tree, I've hit information overload and don't know what to do next.

I'm considering resorting to using GWorks. Has anyone used this and did it work?

Any suggestions much appreciated!

P

Hello everyone,

I'm new to Roots Chat. I have an extensive family tree on the go but I am hitting a brick wall with my Paternal Grandmother's family line.

The irony is that I met my Grandmother when I was a child, (I did not have that opportunity with any of my other Grandparents), I know her maiden name and where she lived and who she was married to but she shares a common first name with many others born around the same time and a last name that is so common that it's hard to tell which family line is hers.

The family on that side is now deceased and there was only one other family tree that listed her on Ancestry but they too have admittedly hit a brick wall.

I have found a marriage record for her, but I cannot decide between five different children with the same name and relative birth dates for a birth certificate. My grandfather, her husband, is listed in multiple family trees but as my grandmother was his second wife, most only list the first family details.

To further confound things, I did decide to sketch in a potential matching family for her but then took a DNA test which suggests that there are/or were eastern Europeans briefly in my line. There are no other opportunities in my tree for that to occur unless it happened in my missing line.

Any helpful tips and advice most welcome.

Thanks,

Paula