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I bet sorting that out felt really satisfying ladyk    Have to admit I hadn't given a Y-dna test a thought but it is an option.  Thank you for mentioning it.

Well, thanks for trying.  It helps to know I haven't missed something obvious 

No, mum was working away from home. 

Hi, Sarah Ann Edwards, born to Eliza Edwards at Hannington, Wiltshire in 1840 is with Edwards grandparents Henry and Sarah in the 1841 and 1851 census but is missing from that point onwards.  What happened to her?  Haven't found a marriage nor a burial nor in later census.  Some of her Edwards family stayed put, some scattered - London, Oxfordshire, Hillingdon and Somerset so this feels like a needle in a haystack but if someone with eagle eyes can help I'd be very grateful

Another update which might be the last and a quick question - thanks for all the help, it's been very useful!

Update -  I believe the two parts of this thread are linked to the same family and probably the same chap.  The pennies just keep dropping and my lovely tree is losing it's leaves, not to mention the 'trauma' of discovering the relatives aren't quite who I thought they were!  Oh, the joys of family history

Anyway, a quick Ancestry tree editing question - my subs have expired and I want to take a short break but I can still add individuals to the public tree but can't delete people - is that saved for people who have paid their subs?  Or am I doing it wrong?  I want to unlink a father and son but not lose either individual.  Do I need to wait until I've paid up?

Thank you.

A bit of a catch-up and something that got me thinking...

This thread began about a mystery match and then introduced the question of paternity relating to my great grandfather.  It's likely that the two are connected, at least the answer to the mystery match will probably be found in the family of the other.  They are that kind of family - beer, fighting and women seemed to be their favourite thing. 

I've poured over the matches trying to make connections and so far I've failed.  Tree holders with  'my' family in them have tended to be unrelated themselves so no use for DNA testing.  Those that are most likely to hold the key aren't responding so I'm stumped.  For now - I know it's a waiting game.  However, while sorting through other stuff I came across the  DNA match that cropped up last year which seemed to answer the parentage question.  Thrulines suggested a sub10cM match with someone who shared a 3xgreatgrandmother on that particular branch.  I checked the matches links and it ticked the boxes.  I was delighted.  DNA proof to connect my greatgrandfather with paternal ancestors. Yay!

However, recently I found I'd made an error in attributing that shared individual to my tree.  I've checked again and I was definitely wrong.  The DNA match doesn't stand, the proof isn't proof at all.  My mistake. So I altered my Ancestry tree accordingly. Interestingly Thrulines hasn't updated itself- did I think it would?  Probably not.  As a slow adopter of this side of FH research I've tended to rely on the matching of trees to confirm connections - clearly that's not enough proof when a particular question needs answering.  It looks like I need to tackle the science too, assuming I can find someone willing to share their test results, of course.