When you click on Common Ancestor, then on one of the common ancestors, you get the family tree showing links - if you click on "show thru lines" it shows all the different branches linked by family trees and DNA. You may notice that some names have "Susan's Tree" or "David's tree" underneath them. This means the person/branch has been picked up from another ancestry tree (public or private). If the match is through a private tree, no other information will be shared, even for non-living people.
I have two Common Ancestor hints which I think are wrong - one is a man of the same name as my ancestor, but 10 years older. There is DNA shared with the other man's descendant, there must be a family link, but I have not sorted that out yet (in the late 1700s). The other one shows a shared DNA match, but I cannot work it out, the common ancestor seems completely wrong place - am I investigating.
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