I have problems with my Northamptonshire families too, lack of baptisms because they were non-conformist so finding a couple of DNA links looks very helpful.
I have been able to track down some of those many US DNA matches about whom I had no clues - too many female lines and name changes, but the ThruLines show the pathway. And they were very mobile some of them - Cambridgeshire to Yorkshire to Liverpool, some to Canada, some to Kansas and very mobile within the US. Without DNA they would be difficult to track across the US states.
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