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I am on my heritage and it keeps coming up with DNA matches but I don’t understand how they do that when I can’t even find name matches.
Ok moan over, thank you for reading this.

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it's your DNA that links not names. The people are your relatives because you share DNA from the same relative(s), it's up to you to find out which, if it's possible, as paper trails are not always the truth but DNA is.

I have found a lot of the trees on the DNA sites are incomplete so there is no name to match. And of course you only need 1 person to be missing off a tree, they might be your DNA match.

And there's a lady who is one of my closest matches but we can't find the link going back several generations. Then she found out that the man she had always thought was her father wasn't biological, a great shock to her.
I suspect that he might be our 'missing link'.

One of OH's closest matches, has a matching surname. When I contacted her, she said they'd never heard of OH's ggrandma, so there couldn't possibly be a link.......
However, I was able to trace her back to that family and establish a tree link. I did message her with the findings, but she didn't reply, obviously doesn't want to know.

My mum was born illegitimately in the 1920s so not many people know of her existence and because of that I check to make sure there is a connection, on one such occasion I knew beyond a shadow of doubt that this chap was related to me but he didn’t want to know because of my mums birth circumstances, all this before DNA.

I've done that a few times Grannyfranny and traced missing people on other people's trees to find the match! It's usually a wife that's not been traced that is a match.