Strange things you see on Ancestry

[deeahgwitch]

Both Dh and I have an account on Ancestry.
Today he showed me a rather strange match he had.
This match claims on their bio section that they are a full blood Native American being three quarters Cherokee, one eighth Comanche and one eighth Apache.
They have a Native American name.
Yet their Origin Regions are given as almost 50% Northern Ireland / Central Scotland
and almost 50% SE England and NE Europe.
With a wee bit of another European country.
Deluded much or are DH and I missing something ?

No, not yet. After seeing him on this random tree, I checked some passenger lists departing UK, and he was on there. I already knew there weren't any marriage or death records for him on FreeBMD so it all makes sense. Not got any further with him, there's a lot more immediate leads to follow. I've been away from research for the best part of 20 years (life got in the way) and I've only recently started to get back into it again. Since I was doing it before, there has been an explosion of new information everywhere, so the first thing I'm going to do is go over all my existing records and update them with newly available stuff.

@ForPearlViper I feel your pain. There's someone in America who has my FIL in her tree and all his ancestors. I politely pointed out that she had confused him with someone else -same city, close dob but will she have it, no. She's insisting that it's me who's wrong. How can it be me who is wrong when there are photos of me with some of these ancestors and I've been to their funerals!

I don't post pictures on my Ancestry site since sharing one of a very, very elderly great grandmother holding me as a baby ended up attached to her profile in about a dozen trees. Sadly, these profiles give her date of death (with the wrong certificate) as 25 years before I was born which is very evident from the distinctive style of car behind us in the photo.

There's actually more records than you think for Ireland but you have to think a little out of the box without the census.

It does help that you can view bmd before 1922 for free on https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/

This was a bit of a revelation for me. It does take some serious sifting through records though but I was able to put together a lot from this.

Then there's the land records. Again takes a bit of sifting but it's doable for some names. My family names were common for the area but not too common.

I'm back to about 1820 now with reasonable confidence on all Irish branches.

I was looking up a will earlier, made in the 1870s by my great grandad's grandad, made three days before he died at the age of 92, and he has left his grandson (my great granddad, then 9) his farm and his other grandsons he has left money. GGF's father, who seems to have managed the farm, was dead himself at this point. However, he has left his other son (still living but in Australia) one shilling, 'being of independent means'. I ask you, a shilling!? Was this a thing, perhaps done for legal purposes, or was it a calculated insult?

However, he has left his other son (still living but in Australia) one shilling, 'being of independent means'. I ask you, a shilling!? Was this a thing, perhaps done for legal purposes, or was it a calculated insult?

it might be. But sometimes it was because the person had already had their share - to set up in business perhaps, or if it was a daughter, her marriage portion. Maybe Australian son had his when he emigrated.

Or maybe he was wealthy and his father thought the grandsons needed it more.

Yes, perhaps - or maybe a token amount to prevent the will being contested. He's made sure to leave it to the grandson, in case the absent son ran into difficulties in Australia, decided to come home and take over the farm - he's been protecting his grandsons and daughter-in-law.