I’ve been doing some more work on my Family Tree recently and – via Ancestry’s website – I have found a tree from another Ancestry member that partly matches mine.
Because the trees on Ancestry don’t show the names of people still living – data protection and all that – I can’t tell whereabouts this guy fits in, but I suspect he stems from one of my paternal grandfather’s siblings.
That would make his relationship to me, First Cousin, Once Removed.
Apparently.
Immediate family aside, our trees match, up to a point. One major difference though is a shared relative. My paternal great-grandfather was Charles George Masher, who was born in Windsor, but this other guy’s tree shows him as Charles George Masher who hailed from Northampton.
Obviously, one of us is wrong.
I have tried contacting him via the messaging system in Ancestry, but haven’t heard anything back yet.
I do hope I hear back from him though, as this is a cousin I never knew I had (actually, his tree reveals there are dozens more) and it would be nice to learn some more about his side of the family.
As my great-grandfather had so many children (eighteen… twelve of which reached adulthood) there are probably large swathes of the family, related by blood, who have never actually met each other.
Which is a crying shame.
I’ve turned up a few dodgy secrets in my family tree. It’s interesting stuff. But it’s a frustration when other folk don’t respond to signals.
Can’t have been easy tracing Joneses in Wales!
Paternal grandfather was Peter Jones from North West Wales. There were thousands of those to sift through!
Will knowing between Northampton vs Windsor make a huge difference Mark
It does, because they are two different people, descended from different ancestors. They also have different dependents, according to their individual census’ of the time. My grandfather’s name appears on both, as it was a common name back then.