On Sep 15, 2012, at 8:43 AM, jt <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm wondering how other members are doing on matching. Finding many links? > Do you find that some people just don't respond? Are many members doing the > dna tests? I'm enjoying working with people from all over to find out how we > are related.
I had the mtdna test done a few years ago. The only match I have gotten is with a young man whose mother's family has lived in a certain area of Portugal for generations. Interestingly enough, he had visited the village in the Azores where my GGrandmother's family was from. He had no knowledge of anyone in his family having moved to the Azores. Of course, this match is likely very ancient. With the Family Finder I show relationships with several on this list but we have only confirmed one so far. The trouble is that Azoreans sometimes married Irish or other Europeans once they got to the US, which was the case in my family and some of my matches. So the connection could be there, too. I have confirmed a connected to several of my other European lines. Remember that some people are adopted and that's why they did the Family Finder and don't have a gedcom. This is the case with one person who linked me as a "distant cousin". We are suggested as 4th cousins by the test. She had instructions that suggested adding herself as confirmed distant cousin to several suggested relationships to "triangulate" her identity. Imagine what it must be like to be unaware of your ethnicity and then be able to at least figure that out! I was offered a free family finder type test through Ancestry.com but have not been as successful there. I found one known 4th cousin on my non-Portuguese side. There's also a suggested link to someone with ancestors from the Azores but she didn't have info going very far back. Well, that's my experience. Mary Bordi -- 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."
