Pam,
Are your uncles matches to the Azores from Mitochondrial DNA from the maternal line or Y-DNA from their paternal line Mitochondrial haplogroup U6a is very common in the Canaries but also found in the Azores U6b1 is considered specific to the Canary Islands. On Saturday, August 30, 2014 6:00:25 PM UTC-7, Pam Santos wrote: > > Now that would make sense why Azores are matching to my Spanish uncles > line who I believe his most distant ancestor I believe was from Canary > Islands. > > > On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 5:39 PM, A Faria <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> The Marcronesia Islands includes four Atlantic archipelagos Azores, >> Madeira, the Canary Islands and the Cape Verde Islands. >> >> >> http://www.academia.edu/3186396/Mitochondrial_DNA_patterns_in_the_Macaronesia_islands_Variation_within_and_among_archipelagos >> >> >> Antonio >> >> >> -- >> 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] <javascript:>. >> 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]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/azores.
