Something or nothing? Opinions please

[TraderSam]

This is my post and it may be long winded so I apologise in advance.

My brother and I have our family tree hosted on a website. The website crossmatches possibilities from various records and other peoples trees and lists them for you to approve or decline.
On checking the “matches” I was surprised to find our paternal grandparents on the family tree of a name I did not recognise. More surprising, was that also on the other tree, was the name of our  uncle who was killed in WW2. The layout of the tree showed a further name descending from our uncle, although the name was marked private. This is how the website shows the names of living people. What would you think upon seeing this?
More info..
My brother is the owner of the tree. I am an additional contributor.
It is not a paid subscription so we cannot contact the owner of the other tree.
I’ve looked back to find the connection between the two families and it seems to be several generations back, to GG Grandparents being siblings. The connection is on the other tree owners WIFE’s side.
There were more offspring than just the Uncle, but other tree has not included them. Just him.
Why
If you have made it this far, I thank you.
I’d love to hear your thoughts on this discovery as my brother and I have differing opinions.

[Viktoria]

Could it be as simple as the person whose tree does not show everybody is being snobbish and does not want to acknowledge people who have perhaps not achieved as much as those he has included ?


There’s nowt so queer  as folk tha knows!
Viktoria.

[TraderSam]

Could it be as simple as the person whose tree does not show everybody is being snobbish and does not want to acknowledge people who have perhaps not achieved as much as those he has included ?


There’s nowt so queer  as folk tha knows!
Viktoria.

Thank you for replying Viktoria!

So you think they have only added Uncle to their tree because he died in action? Two of his brothers fought, one having quite an interesting Airforce career but yet they were not added.

 What do you make of their tree implying that the line carries on after uncle?

[Lily M]

If the other family don’t connect until your 3xGt.grandparents, how likely are they to know whether your uncle had children or not?
Do they have details of his wife/partner?

[LizzieL]

I have two trees on Ancestry. One is private and contains a lot of information and was set up as a back up for my ageing off-line Family Tree software. The other is public and contains little more than my own direct line and is linked to my DNA results. Only in a few cases have I included siblings of my direct ancestors. Anyone looking at my public tree would therefore think, for example, that my 2 x great grandparents only had one child or I did not know about any others.

[TraderSam]

If the other family don’t connect until your 3xGt.grandparents, how likely are they to know whether your uncle had children or not?
Do they have details of his wife/partner?

Hi Lily and thank you so much for replying.

I agree with your thinking on the connection.  This is someone researching their wife’s family tree back to the 1850s where their connection is the sister of my GG Grandfather. They then come all the way down that line to end up at my uncle and imply offspring. Surely, you don’t do that without good reason? Uncle was not the eldest child so to my mind, they didn’t research and stop at the first born with a view to coming back to add more detail.

Uncle was unmarried when he was killed aged 20 but of course, he could have had a sweetheart. That’s the part I don’t know and am wondering whether to investigate. Any further thoughts would be most welcome. Am I reading too much into this?

[TraderSam]

I have two trees on Ancestry. One is private and contains a lot of information and was set up as a back up for my ageing off-line Family Tree software. The other is public and contains little more than my own direct line and is linked to my DNA results. Only in a few cases have I included siblings of my direct ancestors. Anyone looking at my public tree would therefore think, for example, that my 2 x great grandparents only had one child or I did not know about any others.

Hi Lizzie and thank you for replying.
 So, from what you are saying, you are thinking that this person may also have a more detailed family tree which includes my uncle and all his siblings which he has not made public. Okay yes I see that could be a possibility. But not only has this person included siblings of his wife’s direct ancestors, he has followed one line all the way down to the present day and indicated that the line carries on, when none of us are aware that it did. This is what fascinates me the most.

[Lily M]

Personally, I’d be intrigued to learn of an unknown cousin.

I’ve not seen any WWII records (I’m sure there are many on here who have), but I wonder if they would show who to pass unclaimed earnings on to.  Next of kin etc.

[TraderSam]

Personally, I’d be intrigued to learn of an unknown cousin.

I’ve not seen any WWII records (I’m sure there are many on here who have), but I wonder if they would show who to pass unclaimed earnings on to.  Next of kin etc.

Thank you Lily! My brother thinks I’m perhaps reading too much into this, but I would dearly like to find out if we do indeed, have another cousin. It’s how to go about it when we know very little.
Could uncle be named as father on a birth certificate before or just after after his death?