Hi Cindy,
If you don't mind my asking, how old are you? I only ask because that could have a major impact on what your results show. If you are 23 and have living relatives who are elderly, then you should get them tested. They will have more matches than you.
Another thing, how much research have you done? How far back have you traced your people from all four sides? Of course, only the Portuguese sides will be of interest here.
I can say that there are relatively few who have tested who have Santa Maria ancestors. But there are many with Sao Miguel. And some from Flores, but I don't know if a lot.
Do you have any matches with anyone other than mysterious people who don't seem to be Portuguese? I have some of those for my father (mostly all Portuguese) and tons of mysterious matches which must be coming from my mother's German and Hungarian sides. Most have not done much genealogy and didn't post a gedcom. But some did and I still don't have any clue how we connect. I think it would be a connection beyond what church records allow us to show. In Hungary, I exhausted one side of my tree when I reached the early 1700s. But from my experience with Family Finder, it can show 400 years or more and if that is how these remote connections are showing, we'll never likely find it.
It reminds me of one person with no known Portuguese ancestry, I believe with Kentucky area roots, who is a fairly close match by DNA. I wonder if she descends from Melungeons.
I am willing to look at your results, not that I'm any expert on them, but since I have so many matches and have done so much research on all my sides, maybe I will detect something of interest. Just tell me privately, of course. ([email protected])
Doug da Rocha Holmes
Sacramento, California
Pico & Terceira Genealogist
916-550-1618
Sacramento, California
Pico & Terceira Genealogist
916-550-1618
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Subject: [AZORES-Genealogy] Village Idiot DNA Report
From: Cindy D <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, July 02, 2013 8:41 am
To: [email protected]
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 DOut here in Kansas where it's either too hot, too windy, too humid, too rainy, too dry, too annoyingPimentel-Floresda Silva-Sao MiguelSilva-Santa Maria (I think)de Jesus-Flores (I think)--
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