Looking for Grandfather
Looking to exchange dna results to confirm ancestry
My brick wall is my grandfather . I know who he is but nothing of his family. And when I try to trace his tree i find people with a different name. If I can find a dna match for my grandfather on maternal side, that would help.
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It is a lot to share. Where do I start, I just can't put it all in this comment !
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Lets start with your Grandfather: When and Where was he born? Who did he marry? I am assuming that your grandparents have passed.
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Thought I would share—I have had the same issue for 20 years!! I spent some time this week at the research library in SLC——- DIscovered by GGGF was illegitimate and was adopted by his mother's first husband……….. That is why I was hitting a brick wall——- This was in Germany!——- I was also told that you had to ask permission to get married and many couples would just live together and start a family because it took so long to get approval for marriage…….. So just passing along don't be surprised if he was adopted at some point as I was!!
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So is this your maternal grandparent? Are there siblings? What did you mean when you wrote " when I try to trace his tree i find people with a different name" - trace where, do you have y-dna results? Have relatives tested dna and where? These would help a bit to consider what would help you.
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There are many things to consider, your and your parent's sex and who else are there in the close family. Family investigation this close needs autosomal testing. You should test your cousin from that side and compare shared matches. And also x-dna can be used to confirm family lines, so it does not matter if there is a daughter in between. Nowadays 23andme shows x-matches but they do not show chromosome browser so one does not know where people match. So Familytreedna is the company to show x-matching and haplogroups. Here some charts https://familylocket.com/charts-for-understanding-dna-inheritance/ If you tested y-dna then it is not even supposed to show you last names, as the results often go much further in time. Only some areas or families are represented in modern times, others could be 800- 2500 years ago, even though the database is busy growing. Here some help https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTKzgN1JD5c https://clanmacleod.org/genealogy/dna-project/a-beginners-guide-to-y-dna-testing/ https://help.familytreedna.com/hc/en-us/articles/360004593876-Y-DNA-Matches-Guidehttps://help.familytreedna.com/hc/en-us/articles/360004593876-Y-DNA-Matches-Guide https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-uZn3JJ2yo
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