[Merry]

Yep, that's happening here! Not so much with me, but with OH and his daughter who have both tested. I thought separating out her results into her maternal and paternal line would be straightforward (Ancestry does it for you when a parent has also tested!), but there are people crossing the line when there's no reason for it geographically. None of these matches (four of them) has a tree or even a real name to work with, so every time come back to it I get as confused as the previous time! They don't seem to be related to each other, just to OH and also his ex and in each case only have shared matches with a small number of people (maybe between 1 and 3 people). Everyone confusing me is in the 4-6cousin bracket.

I know there is more of the same in OH's line where people from Ireland are apparently related to people from Huntingdonshire (that's one example) when I'm sure they shouldn't be!

I say "not so much with me", but I think the same issues are probably there, just that my side is too overwhelming to get to grips with at all, that I probably just haven't noticed the problem yet having concentrated more on OH's side.