Genealogy trashed by DNA

[Colleen Johnson]

Hi,
After well over a year of cross checking DNA results with trees, I am now almost certain that a whole quarter of my tree is wrong.  There was a NPE only a couple of generations back.  All the DNA and other evidence confirms that in my mind.  The question is, what do I do now?  I don't want a legal opinion but a genealogical one.  What does one do with the tree? There must be others out there who have had the same experience after DNA testing. 

[Ruskie]

It’s quite a common scenario.

A very similar recent thread:
https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=860023.0

Some people have success tracking down the father of an illegitimate child. That will give you another family to research.

[Nanna52]

I knew there was a NPE in my recent line so I wasn’t that interested in that line as it was a step relationship.  I did trace back some generations but concentrated on the other lines.
When I had my dna done it provided a whole new line to trace, and it was interesting.  So my tree has both biological line and paper line.  Makes a big tree.  I did this as some of the cousins that I grew up with were from the step fathers line.

[brigidmac]

I knew that my grandmother was adopted .her adoptive family are very interesting but not very fertile ...I included as many as possible on my tree . Now have both her birth parents too ...it leads to a very full tree .

Ancestry tree allows for alternative parents and to choose which you put as prefered  .

[Colleen Johnson]

Thank you for your responses. They were helpful.  Can anyone tell me how it works with Ancestry - that is introducing another line, but not eliminating the "step" line?

[Rosinish]

Do you have a tree on ancestry in order to guide you through it or are you only enquiring as to whether or not adding different parents can actually be done?

Annie

[Colleen Johnson]

I have a tree on Ancestry, and also MyHeritage

[Rosinish]

I've never had to add a NPE to my tree (yet)! but...

For each person, if you go to the top right (Edit) with an arrow & dropdown list & click on 'Edit relationships' you can take it from there.

You will be able to add in whatever other details you want/need to but I'd suggest you don't try & do it all in one transaction (if that's the correct word)? but after your changes are confirmed, go back & then add the appropriate info. (if it makes sense)?

Annie

[Colleen Johnson]

Thank you. That does make sense.  I'm not going to jump into this, but it's good to know how to go about it when the time comes - and that will be when there is a family consensus