Here's how I did it...... Todd has his Gedcom up on FTDNA. He's got about 5 or 6 generations (some 2 greats, some lines are 3 greats). So his lines go back to the 1820s or so.
In FTDNA, I found Todd in my dad's FTDNA matches (he didn't match me - guess I don't have enough of that DNA left) and I clicked the blue button below his name. His pedigree opened. Then I started pointing at each person. A little window reveals the details...date and place of birth as well as date and place of death. I saw a couple of his ancestors with Vila Franca. I have lots of Vila Franca ancestors. Then I kept looking. Soon I found a group of his ancestors from Ribeira Quente. I swear I'm related to half of Ribeira Quente (RQ). RQ is online at the CCA and I happen to have a book that has the marriages in it. Since Todd matches Shirley Allegre, I called Shirley, talked her through finding Todd, and told her to take one group of ancestors from RQ and I'd take the other. It took about 2 hours I'd say, for me to make the connection (part of that is I'm still on my slow laptop to it takes a little bit of time for the images to load from the CCA site). I now have 4, 5, or 6 people who all match each other. I'm pretty sure we are all coming from a couple that I call Antonio and Constancia. A couple of the people are stuck in Hawaii still, but they are matching me/my dad, Shirley, Todd, etc. And we all come from the same couple. So I'm about 99% sure of that being the connection! Cheri Mello FTDNA Admin (volunteer) Azores DNA Project -- 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 azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to azores@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/azores.
