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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/azores.
