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The Common Room / Re: NPE Nightmare!
« on: Tuesday 22 March 22 20:20 GMT (UK) »
That's very interesting .
I helped someone who had lots of Pennsylvania matches we traced the common ancestor back to someone who went to salt lake city became latter day saint and had several wives and lots of children American descendants tend to test more readily than British ones so she had a lot of matches from that one line .
They didn't all have a man in common as the younger wives also had several remarriages
So if the mutual ancestor is a woman you can expect different surnames
Looks like you could identified your grandmother's true birth father or narrow it down
A second cousin level can be a half first
Cousin as only share one grandparent
I helped someone who had lots of Pennsylvania matches we traced the common ancestor back to someone who went to salt lake city became latter day saint and had several wives and lots of children American descendants tend to test more readily than British ones so she had a lot of matches from that one line .
They didn't all have a man in common as the younger wives also had several remarriages
So if the mutual ancestor is a woman you can expect different surnames
Looks like you could identified your grandmother's true birth father or narrow it down
A second cousin level can be a half first
Cousin as only share one grandparent