Another ethnicity eye opener or total rubbish

[Glen TK]

My paper trail goes back 5 to 9 generations on my main pedigree on maternal and paternal lines, not one single record in my pedigree is outside of England yet my ethnicity estimate is 55% Irish, 28% English and 12% Scottish plus a bit of Norway & Sweden..

t doesn't help that most of the shared DNA have either no tree or just two/three names and apart from one first cousin they are all at least 3rd or 4th cousins and only a handful are 1000+ names, those that are public share no surnames with my tree or each others but I don't have a sub so the snapshot I can see doesn't help.

I don't know whether to doubt my research, curse the minimal trees of others (and their often lengthy inactive status) or pretend I never took the flipping test.

[kiterunner]

You can group your DNA matches into groups of shared matches and then within a group, extend each person's tree a few generations back and see if you find common ancestors for them.

[Glen TK]

Without trees and/or inactive members it's not going well. The shared surnames aren't giving me any clues that's for sure.

Trying to work out how three trees converge on the same male ancestor, I share dna with both as an indicated 2nd cousin (paper trail says the same) but the two others don't share dna? I feel like a new kid in a foreign school right now, nothing makes sense anymore

[kiterunner]

What do you mean by "the two others don't share dna", Glen?

[Glen TK]

The paper trail leads us all back to the same man George Chambers, he was married twice, the names on the left are first marriage, I'm centre and 2nd marriage, tree on the right is down from the 2nd marriage too.

I get a dna match to both other trees but the two others don't have a dna match to each other (the blanked out boxes all have their own dna tests upoaded). Maybe I'm being thick but as we 'should' all go back to the same man his dna should filter down to all of us.

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52341715126_02f1cfe503_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2nKfYmf)no dna (2) (https://flic.kr/p/2nKfYmf) by Glen Jones (https://www.flickr.com/photos/50125734@N06/), on Flickr

[kiterunner]

Once the relationship is more distant than 2nd cousin, there is no guarantee of a DNA match. Yes, you have all inherited DNA from George Chambers, but not all the same bits as each other.

[Glen TK]

That might explain why two other 2nd cousin matches have just replied to messages with 'no idea' when I've asked about the potential link but won't open their trees or mention any names.