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Hi everyone,
Just an update. I have searched all the trees on Ancestry I could find searching my surname in the right area and have come up with no DNA matches. My grandparents are the right couple and I do have DNA matches to my grandmothers side. It looks like I have no DNA matches to my 2x great grandfather but I do with my 2x great grandmother. I went back one more generation and still no DNA matches. I will now follow up all the unknown matches that have West Yorkshire as a common area with me and see what I can find.
I am glad I took your advice and changed focus for my research. How good is retirement. Thanks again.
Heather

Unfortunately, you are right. Because my father’s family lived with their grandparents, I thought they would be correct, silly me. I should have known better.  I know my tree will have mistakes but I am doing my best to fix those. I will concentrate on my great grandfather’s brother’s family and see where that leads but its looking more like we don’t belong there.

I am going to research back 2 generations beyond my MRCA and see where that takes me. Hopefully I will be lucky but am prepared to play the waiting game.

I will take on board your family circumstances Glen as that is also a possibility, something is not right somewhere. I find many of my DNA matches trees have different people attributed as family members making it difficult to follow through the generations. There are so many differences in people’s trees it makes researching that much harder.

I realise the complexities and problems thrown up by DNA results could throw one’s research out the window and am happy to do that, but I can’t seem to get my head around my one. My matches are fairly high so I should be able to work it out. I guess I will have to be patient and hope someone takes a DNA test that will provide answers.

Thanks everyone for your input.

Point taken and you may well be right! I might own the NPE. My family tree on my father’s paternal line is very small. I will go back and look at things with a change of focus.

I have found DNA matches to my great grandmother and back to her grandparents, but I have found NO matches to my great grandfather other than my immediate family and 1st cousins.
I have looked at the Ancestry trees for my 2x great grandparents and no-one connected to it is a match to me. My great grandfather’s only sibling does not have a tree on Ancestry. I am not sure now if either side is a match to me, so I need to do lots more work.

I will have to check out my unknown matches in the Yorkshire/East Midlands, my common areas. My biggest match is 315cM, the 3 matches already mentioned and my biggest matches nephew at 147cM then down to 35cM.

I have communicated with her, and she knows nothing about her family after her grandparents. She did not answer my last message through Ancestry over 2 years ago. I have done some work on her family but not with the focus on mine being the NPE so will take another look. Dad, I wish you were here.

Thank you both so much for your interest and input. Thank you for educating me.

I am having trouble finding a common ancestor for 3 of my DNA matches. They are aged around 26, 14 & 12 and I am in my early 70s. They match my paternal line, and a half sibling would be a surprise.
They share enough DNA to be 2nd cousin, 1st cousin 2x removed or half 1st cousin 1x removed with 165, 224 & 203. The parent of the 14 & 12 year-olds is in their late 50s and not tested so they have one generation less than me in their tree. They do not know of any adoption or illegitimate birth.
Would our common ancestor be at my grandfather and their great grandfather? Any help is much appreciated.
Heather