Anyone discovered illegitimacies after doing Ancestry DNA? How do you figure it

[frostyknight]

Re the 9cM match, DNA painter gives a 7% chance of it being a 3rd cousin, so quite possible.

[Petros]

It does seem that you can get quite a range from the same heritage.

One set of great grandparents has yielded a lot of connections but, as yet, no confirmed ones from the only son of my GGM's second marriage.
3C  26.8 cM
3C1R 14 to 95 cM (8 confirmed)
3C2R 13 to 35 cM (4 confirmed)

[GingerVicky]

I've found matches on my both my maternal grandparents side and on my paternal grandmothers and on my paternal  grandfather's mothers side but found none on my paternal grandfathers fathers side. Is very mysterious or may be there's not very many people researching that branch.

[Romilly]

It’s just down to who’s tested really.

DNA testing seems to be far more popular in Australia and the USA, and most of those matches are on my maternal side. Unfortunately, not many people seem to have tested on my paternal side, - where I’m stuck...

Romilly 

[GingerVicky]

It's annoying isn't it. I feel like doing my DNA has brought up more questions than answers. I have a lot of American matches, a lot of whom I can't figure out how we're related. I wonder how far I have to go back with some of them to find the link.
Found royalty on my Mum's side which has made it a lot easier.

[Romilly]

I have a group of 300+ matches, all in Tennessee, North Carolina and Alabama, who I know are on my mother’s side, but I have no idea how we match...

I’ve messaged a few of them, and most of them have Trees going back to the very earliest settlers, and so it’s very perplexing how they match to me.

Romilly 

[GingerVicky]

How do you know they are on your mother's side?
I found a cluster with the same surname in the same parts of America. I also have that surname in my tree but I haven't been able to get mine as far back as when their settlers went to America.

[Romilly]

I know that they’re on my Mother’s side because she took a test before she died last year, and most of them also match to her.

Romilly.

[GingerVicky]

Ah that makes sense.  Sorry that she died.