I had originally participated in the NG Genographic project a couple years ago. Since then I had run into a brick wall while researching my surname, just couldn't get past this one g(+)grandfather in the 1840's. Recently I found that you can have your DNA results from the Genographic project transferred over to a FTDNA surname project. I thought "woohoo", I'll find a cousin from a branch of the same surname and work backwards. So I had my data transferred, hit the "match" button and there it was, a match to someone of a different surname!
A year or so before I participated in the NG Genographic project I had been searching for my paternal grandparents marriage record, couldn't find it but I did find an "extra" (2nd) marriage record for my grandmother. I asked my mother about it, she knew but said my dad wouldn't talk about it. Since my dad was born BEFORE the 2nd marriage and since his birth certificate had the same surname as my grandmothers 1st husband I thought that maybe her 2nd husband had been a jerk and my dad just wanted to forget about it. The marriage had only lasted 3 years anyway and they were divorced before my dad turned 6 so I let it go.
As you might have guessed, the DNA match is to the same surname as the man from my grandmothers 2nd marriage. Obviously my father had been born BEFORE the affair was found out.
Oh well. I don't have that brick wall anymore and have been able to trace my surname back to a small villiage in Shropshire.
Anyone else exposed a skeleton?
A year or so before I participated in the NG Genographic project I had been searching for my paternal grandparents marriage record, couldn't find it but I did find an "extra" (2nd) marriage record for my grandmother. I asked my mother about it, she knew but said my dad wouldn't talk about it. Since my dad was born BEFORE the 2nd marriage and since his birth certificate had the same surname as my grandmothers 1st husband I thought that maybe her 2nd husband had been a jerk and my dad just wanted to forget about it. The marriage had only lasted 3 years anyway and they were divorced before my dad turned 6 so I let it go.
As you might have guessed, the DNA match is to the same surname as the man from my grandmothers 2nd marriage. Obviously my father had been born BEFORE the affair was found out.
Oh well. I don't have that brick wall anymore and have been able to trace my surname back to a small villiage in Shropshire.

Anyone else exposed a skeleton?
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