Hello everyone. I have been doing family history for Nealy 40 years and a couple of years ago had an ancestry DNA test done.
I had a connection 53cM across 4 segments and on contacting this person it proved the system worked!
It was to a cousin sharing gg grandparents on my mother's side (family lost contact about 120 years ago) but on contacting this person we both had the same "carte de visite" of our gg grandparents and similar old paperwork. So the DNA worked OK.
On my father's side I have a connection 47cM across 3 segments to the same generation gg grandfather (MR X) but a different "wife", so we have the true connection to his parents ggg grandparents.
My question is this - MR X had two "partners". Is there a way of finding who is descended from MR X + Lady A and MR X + Lady B. Obviously I have the shared matches from above and others in this line but still working out how to approach the problem.
Hope this is clear!!
If I understand correctly your common ancestors are your ggg grandparents.
Have you found two marriages for Mr X or could there be two brothers X?
In either case the key will be through the women concerned whether they were married to or in a relationship with Mr X or whether there were two Mr Xs, have you checked for brothers?
In such instances you can work down from that generation forward and at the same time work backwards from you and your cousin loking for times where pregnancies coincide, i.e. if two children are born close together it is likely they have different mothers.
DNA matches of the different lines should also become clear if it is available.
Cheers
Guy