Fleshing out my King Line Part 1

I was going through my matches one day when I realize that I had two new close matches. One match appears to be a 1st or 2nd cousin and the other looks to be a 2nd or 3rd cousin. The first thing that I became aware of was that neither of these matches were a match to my mother, who I tested a couple of months ago. I could feel my excitement growing already because I knew these were most likely matches to my father. As I have stated previously, my father's paternal line is a blank so the possibility of a close match to that line nearly had me giddy, So the closest match did not have a family tree attached but the other match did. When I looked closer at the match, I realized that we are related through my paternal grandmother. So I circled back to the closer match and realize that they were not related to each other! I began to realize that I was looking at a match to my biological grandfather.

I wrote a blog about my grandfather, Isaac King here. One of my most frustrating brick walls is this man. I know very little about him and unfortunately, my father doesn't know much either. All we have is his name. When I initially started on my journey, I did not even know that he existed and that John Keys was my grandfather. Even now there are times when I am working on Keys matches and it'll hit me that I need to refocus on my DNA branches. It has been 15 years since I first heard Isaac King's name and for the first time, after a few breaks that led to nowhere, I feel so close to getting some information.


I reached out to this match and (HOORAY) I get a response. We exchange two more messages, which does not reveal any pertinent information, and then....NOTHING. The match stops responding! It has been a week since he logged into Ancestry and I am ready to pull out my hair. I try to keep reminding myself that maybe he got sent out of town for work or maybe his computer crashed and it is taking time to get it repaired. I just feel so FRUSTRATED to get so close and have it stop. Hopefully I will hear something soon from this match and I hope there is concrete information about my King line. Until then, all I can do is wait.....