Cheri - - I'm looking through the old pictures, with the names that my
grandmother has on them. I found the following:
Mary Costa - - sister of three boys, Enos, Andrew and Joseph (taken at
Bussell, Adams Bldg., Quincy, MA.
Teresa Costa (Mary's sister) taken at Bussell as above)
(notes on the pics say that both Mary and Teresa were "old
maids.")
Enos Costa lll (taken at Beckford Photo, 43 Winter St., Boston, MA.
Enos Costa (which one, it doesn't say) - - "son of Joseph Soares'
sister" (taken at Bekford's Photo Studio,
43 Winter St., Boston, MA
Joseph - - "son of Enos Costa Jr." (taken at Beckford Photo as above).
Joseph Costa "brother of Enos." (also taken at Beckford's in Boston,
MA.
Filomena Evangello & Matilda Sears (Soares) (taken at Cook's
Photographer, Tremont St., Boston, MA
Enos (Costa?) taken at Bussell's in Quincy, MA.
Enos in Quincy again (no photographer name on photo)
Thomas M. Soares (taken by J. Frazier Photographer, 111 Royal St.,
opposite St. Louis Hotel, New Orleans
And a few others which have only the following information:
tin type glued onto backboard which has the name, "Charles Jiereira de
Sboza"
tin type glued onto backboard which had the name, "Jose Jiereira de
Sboza"
An old picture of a man taken at McCosker, 85 Hanover St., Boston, MA.
2 photos, both of a woman, taken ag Severino Joao D'Avellar, 49 Rue De
Santo Espirito 49
1 photo of a boy taken at Photogrphia Artistica De A..J. Raposo, rua de
Esperanca-49, St. Miguel, Acores
1 photo of a young man taken at Photographia Artistica Rus Esperanca,
S. Miguel, Acores
I also have severl tin types, which appear to be Portugues, but with no
identifying information on them.
Does anyone make any connections with any of these people??? I'll try to
find time to get them put on a disc and enter them on the site. Thanks.
Diane
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On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 12:14 PM, Diane Lavely <[email protected]>wrote:
> Thanks again, Cheri, for all the information!!! I ordered one kit today
> for my mother, andhave emailed my uncle requesting that he participate, if
> he is willing. If so, I will order another kit for him. I think that some
> of the old pictures tha t my grandmother had are of people named "Mello."
> Perhaps we will turn out to be related!!!
>
> I assume from your phone area code that you are in Los Angeles?? Thanks.
> Diane
>
> On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 12:04 PM, Cheri Mello <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Here's another question that I'm getting, so I thought I would copy this
>> info from before.
>>
>> Question: What do you get with the Family Finder test?
>>
>> Your personal page at FTDNA will have its own Family Finder section.
>>
>> One section is your Matches (see List of Matches screen shot above).
>> Since I don't have everyone's permission to post their names, I blocked out
>> most of it except Shirley Allegre who is on this list. The notes in red in
>> the screen shot are mine. I'll just use Shirley since she's my dad's
>> Portuguese match (the others are my dad's American half. My dad is 50%
>> Portuguese, so I used his DNA for Family Finder. He will get more
>> Portuguese matches than I will, since I'm only 25% Portuguese).
>>
>> My dad matches Shirley Jane Cambra Allegre (the buttons under her name
>> give me her email, allow me to make notes, or view her Gedcom). The math
>> and science (and there's A LOT) suggests my dad and Shirley are 2nd to 4th
>> cousins. They fine tune it more in the next column and suggest that they
>> are 3rd cousins. That's based on the fact that in the next column shows
>> that they share a total of 105.71 cM (centoMorgans - a genetic unit of
>> measure). The longest block is 16.76 cMs long. Since I know my dad and
>> Shirley are 4th cousins, once removed, I assigned that (there's so much
>> intermarriage in my lines and Shirley's that it screwed up the algorhythmn
>> slightly). Shirley's surnames should have appeared, but they didn't (you
>> can see where my dad has his American lines bolded where the surnames
>> match). I'm guessing it's because I put my "de" for "de Mello" in the given
>> name field in my program and Shirley may put it in her surname field or
>> pre-surname field.
>>
>> The screen shot titled "Where Dad Matches Shirley" shows the 24 locations
>> where my dad and Shirley match. This is the Barilla brand that fused
>> together with the other brands. It's probably a lot of our Antonio de Mello
>> line with a little of the other lines thrown in.
>>
>> The screen shot titled "Population Finder Beta" shows my dad is 99.43%
>> Western European. They tested only French, Basque, Ornkey Island (the are
>> to Scotland what the Azores are to Portugal) and Spanish. For whatever
>> reason, the geneticists. think my dad's DNA is closer to French than Spain.
>> You can't see it on the screen shot, but it's says below it's in Beta with a
>> link to 36 Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) with the gory details. I figure
>> one day when they test Portuguese, my dad will be reconfigurated.
>>
>> Hope this helps!
>> Cheri Mello & Rick Pimentel
>> Family Tree DNA Co-Admins
>> Azores DNA Project
>>
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