Question about proof of identity for marriages in the 40s

[kylejustin]

DNA is fairly useful for research or confirming it.....with such a recent ancestor you are looking for, DNA may be the only way to solve the mystery. Potentially desecendants of william's siblings could glean his family, if not what happened to him.

[Searcher64]

DNA is fairly useful for research or confirming it.....with such a recent ancestor you are looking for, DNA may be the only way to solve the mystery. Potentially desecendants of william's siblings could glean his family, if not what happened to him.

Yes, it’s definitely a good idea!

[Janet in Yorkshire]

Did you say the marriage was1940?? - if so, early part of WW2 had brought about great changes. People volunteering to join the forces, others being conscripted; some rushing to change jobs so they they could be registered as being in a reserved occupation and so exempt from call up. Have you tried to find the parties concerned on the 1939 register?
Was the marriage in a church or at the registrar's office?

[PhotoFamily]

Hi PhotoFamily,

No, I haven’t tested. Maybe that’s something I could look into when there is a special price on.

Usual recommended testing steps:

Test at AncestryDNA, if your question is not answered there,
Migrate your raw data to the sites that will take your AncestryDNA results: MyHeritage, GedMatch, FamilyTreeDNA and LivingDNA.
Still not a good answer: test again at 23andme.

The sites that accept outside test results are usually no or low cost to upload your results, but there may be some low cost to access their complete tool box.

If there is a direct-male-line descendant from the grandfather, then Y-DNA testing might confirm a surname. Not necessary if you're getting results from the first steps.

DNA Day has just past, dunno if Ancestry has a sale on. USA's Mother's Day is coming up, so they will have sales at least in the US.

[Searcher64]

Usual recommended testing steps:

Test at AncestryDNA, if your question is not answered there,
Migrate your raw data to the sites that will take your AncestryDNA results: MyHeritage, GedMatch, FamilyTreeDNA and LivingDNA.
Still not a good answer: test again at 23andme.

The sites that accept outside test results are usually no or low cost to upload your results, but there may be some low cost to access their complete tool box.

If there is a direct-male-line descendant from the grandfather, then Y-DNA testing might confirm a surname. Not necessary if you're getting results from the first steps.

DNA Day has just past, dunno if Ancestry has a sale on. USA's Mother's Day is coming up, so they will have sales at least in the US.

Thank you, will keep an eye out 😊