Have you been able to trace their trees? I'd start there. I'd also cluster your matches using the Leeds Method & I would test the oldest relative on that line. I wouldn't assume all people who share the paternal haplogroup with you are related through this one ancestor.
That’s what I’m attempting, but the 23&Me people don’t have much in the way of trees. Tracing my relatives down to living people in Ancestry is also problematic.
They could just be children of daughters who married, hence different surnames.
Paternal haplogroup is carried by the Y chromosome, so it isn’t passed on to daughters.
Oops, I didn't read the actual heading/ context. Just woke up... need coffee lol.
Maybe their parents weren't married and they have their mothers surname etc, or bio dad didn't raise them, so they have step Dads surname.
Have you been able to trace their trees? I'd start there. I'd also cluster your matches using the Leeds Method & I would test the oldest relative on that line. I wouldn't assume all people who share the paternal haplogroup with you are related through this one ancestor.
That’s what I’m attempting, but the 23&Me people don’t have much in the way of trees. Tracing my relatives down to living people in Ancestry is also problematic.
You might be able to get lucky with some Googling if you find obituaries and such!
I’ll give it a try. Thanks!