Cheri, you have permission to use any of my submitted DNA's. In a message dated 7/17/2011 12:04:35 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, [email protected] writes:
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 -- 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_ (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." -- 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."
