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