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From my late Grandmother whose own mother was a Patch. She could not tell me more unfortunately. I am hoping there are other Patch ancestors out there who might know.

Rowena,

I assumed that the Patch family members who had left Somerset to go to Canada and America were already all in your family tree. Obviously that is not the case as you state that you do not know who they were.

I can only suggest therefore that you try to discover who they actually were.

If you do not know who they were how do you know that they were Patches in Somerset before becoming Russells in either Canada or the USA?

What I mean is that there is a Russell family living in the States whose ancestors at one point went over to Canada and then America from England where they were once members of the Patch family. I have no idea which generation of the Patch family moved across the Atlantic and have no specific names either. I appreciate that it will be by birth or marriage. How do I find this automatically as you suggest?

Not quite sure exactly what you mean by connecting the relatives.

If they are relatives either by birth or by marriage then the normal convention of parent, child, siblings in your family tree program either on GR or Ancestry or on your computer should automatically link them.

Does anyone know how I can link my Patch ancestors from Somerset, England, to their relatives in America and Canada who eventually became the Russell family? Many thanks. Rowena