False link

[Jill]

I was delighted to see a DNA match which Ancestry helpfully linked to my 5x great grandfather even though the match only had 16 people on his tree so I fired off a cheery message to my new distant cousin.

Things started to fall apart when his grandfather's WW1 obituary mentioned a different bride, ooh a bigamist I thought but that was not the case, my DNA match has married his grandmother to the wrong Frampton, mine from Somerset instead of his one from the Isle of Wight.

Note to self - check carefully and don't get carried away.

Helpfully though, barking up the wrong tree has helped my find that my relation Henry Frampton Badcock in later life went by the name of Henry Frampton Frampton.