Ancestry.com only says I have 1000+ matches. I haven’t actually counted them, so I have no idea what the complete total is. My mother was born in 1920, and never knew her father. Her parents were separated/divorced before my grandmother came from Canada to the US when my mother was a little girl. My mother had an older brother who was married, but never had children. I started my initial family search for her side of the family in 1991 after she had passed, by going to Picton, Ontario where she was supposed to have been born. She knew nothing of her family, and was never even able to get a certified birth certificate for herself. I’ve never been able to find out what happened to my grandfather (her father), nor her aunt (my great-aunt) who married a silversmith in Canada and moved to Covington, Ky. in the late 20’s or early 30’s. He died young, and the last info I ever found on her was that in the 50’s, she was still living in Covington, and working at Western Union. They have no record for her. I have no idea if she ever became a citizen either. Her husband is buried in a double plot, but her side is empty, and she’d definitely be dead by now. It’s strange that I can make all these connections in older family lines, but I can’t even solve what should be the easiest ones.
I don't have any ideas on where else to search records.
Possibly it would help to take another DNA test because many of the matches would be people who did not take the Ancestry test. MyHeritage had a sale last week for $39. That's over but you might watch for their next sale.