Hi Cheri!! My maternal grandfather's Y-DNA is one of the matches that you wrote about, as you know Cheri! I had one of my first cousins tested and Cheri can tell you that it took me months to get the sample and I finally had to catch him at a family wedding........I guess those stories about crazy people who stalk people for their DNA are true!! To explain, my cousin said he would give me the sample but never got around to it....so I caught him at the wedding with the test kit in my hands!! It was tricky to try to get three samples in between all the festivities!! Anyway, it looks as if the pursuit was worth it! His sample is 106619 and I just wrote to the e-mail address attached to kit 75203 and look forward to corresponding with her. The interesting part is that both of our last male line ancestors come from Lajes, Pico.....which makes so much sense, as we have a match...but still, it is exciting to see this little bit of validation. On my part, my grandfather's ancestry goes back to about 1755 where I hit a brick wall as this ancestor was the son of an unwed mother. Also interesting is the fact that this end of the line ancestor, Jose Inacio Bettencourt, was married to a Helena Maria. The other person, whose DNA matches my grandfather's was also married to a Helena Maria. They are not the same Helena Marias and it is probably just a name that is popular in that area....but this is the ONLY Helena Maria I have in my ancestry. I feel that this common name might indicate that the "family lines" are getting closer as you do see the repetition of names in one locality. While it looks certain that we ARE related...it does not look as if we could ever prove it. Still, it is very exciting to me! Susan Vargas Murphy
On Nov 7, 9:35 am, "Cheri Mello" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The results from the "Sizzling Summer Sale" are starting to come in. There > are nine others still due between now and Christmas. > > On the Y-DNA results (the male DNA which strictly follows an all-male line: > a man's father's father's father's father all the way back in time), we got > a 36 out of 37 marker match (kits 75203 and 106619). They match probably > within a couple of hundred years. Now to wait for them to figure out the > paper trail. This is our 2nd Y-DNA match in the project. Use Ctrl+F to > search for the kit numbers:http://www.familytreedna.com/public/Azores(clickon > Y Results) > > On the mtDNA results (the female DNA which strictly follows an all-female > line: anyone's mother's mother's mother's mother all the way back in time), > we got close. mtDNA is different. You must match exactly since mutations > happen once every few thousand years. The close match was between kits > 134202 and 106374. Use Ctrl+F to search for the kit > numbers:http://www.familytreedna.com/public/Azores(click on mt Results). > > I'm not trying to be coy by stating the kit numbers. The DNA is kept > private. Everyone involved in these matches are on this list, so if they > want to let everyone know their kit number they will speak up. > > -- > Cheri Mello > Family Tree DNA Administrator > Azores DNA Project --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Follow the confirmation directions when they arrive. For more options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my membership." -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
