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Sometimes you wonder why you do FH if there is a small chance that due to a naughty ancestor, that some of them are not your real ancestors. DNA opening up wounds that our forebears thought they took to the grave. Extra marital dalliances, informal adoptions.
Say if you had a favourite great, great grandfather and he was in the army and travelled the world, but DNA revealed you shared many matches with the descendants of their male next door neighbour, and not the man you thought was an ancestor, thus meaning they are not one of the people responsible for your existence today due to them not being a blood ancestor.
I hope to get a figure on the rate out of 100% of NPE's took place prior to 1900.
What about the ones after 1900? I have quite a few. Some I knew of or suspected and a bunch I didn’t know about. I’ve decided that I have one line who didn’t know where their beds were as I have so many matches answer that they don’t know someone at grandparent or great grandparents level.
Yes it did happen after 1900, wars often made infidelity increase, and I talk from a family experience during WW2.
Researching:
LONDON, Coombs, Roberts, Auber, Helsdon, Fradine, Morin, Goodacre
DORSET Coombs, Munday
NORFOLK Helsdon, Riches, Harbord, Budery
KENT Roberts, Goodacre
SUSSEX Walder, Boniface, Dinnage, Standen, Lee, Botten, Wickham, Jupp
SUFFOLK Titshall, Frost, Fairweather, Mayhew, Archer, Eade, Scarfe
DURHAM Stewart, Musgrave, Wilson, Forster
SCOTLAND Stewart in Selkirk
USA Musgrave, Saix
ESSEX Cornwell, Stock, Quilter, Lawrence, Whale, Clift
OXON Edgington, Smith, Inkpen, Snell, Batten, Brain