Cheri: No, this paper is not from Walter White or any other of his less famous cousins. Wikipedia is your friend here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_paper
João Ventura http://tombo.pt/en On Wednesday, 7 May 2014 17:03:44 UTC+2, Cheri Mello wrote: > > I think a lot of these questions are going to have to wait for the White > Paper to come out. I'm not sure if the author's name was White or why it's > called the White Paper. It's the scientific study and methodology of how > this all came about. > > So, these questions are NOT going to being answered definitively right > now, because I don't know until I read the paper. > > 1) How far back do these results go 200,500, maybe 1,000 years or 2,000. > Do they know? Which ethnicities are recent? How recent? Which are the most > distant? Do we really know more now? > > Answer: We'll have to wait for the paper. I know that some of the sample > database did come from FTDNA customers. In the fall of 2012, FTDNA sent > out an email to those who had tested Family Finder (I don't know - 50,000 > people maybe) and only about 1200 answered about their ethnicity. I did > send a notice out to this list at that time, asking people to fill out the > survey. As for the rest of the sample that they used - we'll have to wait > for that scientific paper to come out. > > 2) What is the margin of error? > > Answer: I don't know. We'll have to wait for the paper. In past > scientific papers that I've read or utilized, 1-3% would be within a margin > or error. T-scores, p-scores, z-scores, ANOVA....I don't know, I'd have to > get out my stats book and look all that stuff up. The paper will state > which test was used and what the margin of error was. > > 3) Why is the North Mediterranean described as being "From Spain to > Greece" (I can see the graphic), and why are the Azores described as being > "off the coast of Spain"? > > Answer: My wild guess: If I look at the map of the Mediterranean Sea, the > countries on the north part of the Sea are Spain, France, Italy, Greece, > and Turkey (but I think myOrigins classifies Turkey as something else), and > the countries on the south part of the Sea are Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, and > Algeria. But to a history or geography major, that may be wrong. As for > the Azores to being off the coast of Spain, I let FTDNA know that they are > off the coast of Portugal and that the Balearic Islands are off the eastern > coast of Spain. Stuff like that is low priority for them. They probably > thought of us when they *tried* to include us in the description! LOL. > -- > Cheri Mello > Listowner, Azores-Gen > Researching: Vila Franca, Ponta Garca, Ribeira Quente, Ribeira das > Tainhas, Achada > -- 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]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/azores.
