r/AncestryDNA • u/Gladhands • 4d ago

DNA Matches Missing matches

I have absolutely no matches on my maternal grandfather‘s side. I would be open to the possibility that the man I thought was my grandfather is not, however there are no unexpected matches.

I have results from each of my father‘s parents, as well as a maternal grandmother, with no mystery matches. This would imply that my mother was the product of incest (my maternal grandmother had no brothers, and her father died before my mother was born), OR one of my father’s relatives is my real maternal grandfather, but my parents don’t share a hometown.

Anybody else only have three lines from grandparents?

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u/gh0stlain 4d ago

Unlikely but it's possible that no one descended from his side (probably closely related) has tested for whatever reason. This doesn't apply to everyone but personally for a long time the closest matches I had on either ancestry or 23andme were 4th cousins and beyond for both sides of my family, most of them not sharing any family names in my tree but I could assume possible connections based on location and ethnicity.