Hi there,

I really hope nobody from my John Henry Parry post sees this, but if you do then that is all still relevant to our family tree, but I have a new problem and I'm hoping to clear it up.

My mum suspects that who she thought of as her real father was actually not, and that her mother had an affair with his best friend.

I'm a little afraid of where this may go if I look into it, but I feel I must.

His friend was called Kevin Fanning, and he died within months of my mothers birth. I only recently found out his full name.

I searched his name within my mothers DNA matches, and it brought up someone who shares 7cM across 1 segment with my mother. When I checked her tree, her grandfather would have been Kevin Fanning's half brother.

Okay so two questions:

1: What is the likelihood that his link is just coincidence?

2: Let's say that Kevin Fanning is her real father; does that make sense in terms of this DNA matched person's place in the tree? 7cM across 1 segment between Kevin Fanning's daughter, and his half-brothers daughters daughter?

I'm also a little worried about his date of death if this is the case.