I just wanted to say that you have given me my laugh for the day. Thank you!
Sent from my iPad On Jul 5, 2013, at 11:16 AM, Cindy D <[email protected]> wrote: > Cheri- > > Ahh thank you for your reply and trying to explain some of this....this is > both welcome, yet depressing news. It's good to know that this is going to > take me awhile to figure out, also depressing because I have no patience. I > would like to know it all....like yesterday. I also don't have a lot of > free time to designate as DNA-info-absorption time. So I'll just have to > grab what I can for awhile. > > The extra genes......sorry, my lackaknowledge error, it isn't extra genes, > it's extra mutations. I'm not missing any mutations apparently, but have a > few extra....why is that and what's it mean?. It's under MtDNA: Results: > RSRS Values: "extra mutations". Sure wish I could click on those boxes and > it'd explain what that indicates. Although I'm interested in connecting with > others, I'm wildly interested in what the sequencing means, and the > sequencing differences, extra mutations. I would need charts and information > that explains those numbers and values so I can compile what exactly I am. > I'd probably have to make it a full-time job too. > > I might have to hire a gypsy with a crystal ball to get this. Oh wait, my > Azorean g-grandmother used to get paid to read tea-leaves, but she can't read > for me as she's long gone and I missed getting that all-seeing, all-knowing > gene. Darn. > > Cindy D > Out on the Kansas Prairie seeing eye-to-eye with the whistling prairie > dogs...I'm short. > > > On Tuesday, July 2, 2013 8:22:57 PM UTC-5, Cheri Mello wrote: >> >> Cindy D, >> >> DNA does have quite a learning curve. And yes, you do feel like a deer in >> the headlights. I do lecturing. One of my topics is DNA. I had one person >> tell me it was her 5th DNA lecture she attended and that it was finally >> coming together. It's not easy. It takes awhile. Check out your local >> genealogy society. If they have meetings they probably bring in a speaker. >> Find out when they have a DNA speaker and go. Also, if you go to genealogy >> conferences, go to the DNA classes. Go to your public library and check out >> "Trace Your Roots with DNA" by Megan Smolenyak Smolenyak and Ann Turner (no, >> I did not type Smolenyak twice. She married a Smolenyak and they are not >> related). Although the book is a little out of date now, you can still get >> a lot out of it on Y and mtDNA. I summarized it and posted it to the list >> years ago. The summary is on the Azores GenWeb here: http://goo.gl/myBNk >> The book is better though because of the illustrations. Back then, they >> didn't think we could make autosomal DNA (Family Finder) useful. My, what a >> difference a few years makes. >> >> You said: >> <<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??>> >> LOL, no ears on your hip (FTDNA doesn't get into the medical stuff). But I >> need to know where you are reading no missing info or the extra info. You >> mentioned both autosomal and mtDNA, so I need to know which one. >> >> DYS means DNA Y Segment. That's part of Y-DNA. I thought you tested Family >> Finder and mtDNA. Or were you in the Frequently Asked Questions? On in the >> Interactive Tour where it shows you everything? No wonder you are confused! >> >> Cheri Mello >> Azores DNA > > -- > 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. Click in the blue area on the right > that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my membership." > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Azores Genealogy" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/azores. > > -- 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. Click in the blue area on the right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my membership." --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Azores Genealogy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/azores.
