I have come to the conclusion that I am the village idiot in this group. I cannot "get" this DNA thing. I got very excited about reading the results of others' DNA tests and happy cousin matches and wanted to be counted too. Well, I spent a lot of money got autosomal (mother's father's line is Flores and Sao Miguel), MtDNA (mother's mother's line goes back to Poland)...and waited on pins and needles for my results. They finally came in last week and I have been sitting here looking at the numbers and reports like a deer in the headlights. What does all this mean?? I've tried to read up on some of this but it's like trying to read a Jackson Pollock painting. I've gone back and forth with all the generous information that is posted here, but still, all I have are numbers with no meaning (to me). The few distant cousin matches make no sense to me and are not from where I'd expect. Charts, numbers, groups, types....must be cool to understand it all. One report says I have no missing info, scrolling down it says I have extra info....so?? What does this mean? Will I be growing an extra ear on my hip?? Arrrrgh!! I can make out maps and follow the migrations which is interesting, I'll admit. But the rest... I dunno. I thought if I stuck with it, I'd "get it"....but so far...nada. Every day I open this stuff up and look again. Am I getting too old to learn something new? Perhaps. I'm kind of bummed that I'm not getting this since I'm generally a science junkie and had high hopes of opening up new lines and information about my Azorean roots. The name changing process has me stumped so how would I ever know my connections for sure unless I can figure out this DNA thing. I want all this primarily because I have two very troubling family stories that I want to either prove or disprove, once and for all. I am getting nowhere. I wish I was like everyone else that seems to have it all sorted out about how to connect and manage all this information. I'm not giving up yet, but I think I'll have to sit back and wait for someone else to contact me because I do not know how I'd contact someone and say anything that makes sense. I joined your project, hopefully this will click eventually, somehow. So I guess my question is....is there something I can look at that explains each of the DYS sequences and what it applies to? And if my charted gene matches comes up, what that particular matching gene means?? I'd sure like to know what my "extra" genes mean as well. I wonder if maybe one of those is the "idiot" gene. LOL? Cindy D Out here in Kansas where it's either too hot, too windy, too humid, too rainy, too dry, too annoying Pimentel-Flores da Silva-Sao Miguel Silva-Santa Maria (I think) de Jesus-Flores (I think)
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