Cindy: We're all village idiots when it comes to this stuff.... though you're the only one with enough humor to admit it! Just my opinion, Denis
On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 9:13 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > www.dholmes.com > > > -------- Original Message -------- > 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 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) > > > -- > For 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. 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