Antonio,
Your point is excellent.
I have a cousin of a cousin by marriage (if you can follow that one!) who did Y-DNA testing and has no matches from his mainland Portuguese ancestry. Of course, it's no surprise. But if we are to have any chance at finding family connections to mainland people, DNA is the only way. I will point this out in the Portuguese Genealogy group on Facebook, where we have about 250 or so members and growing (but not growing as fast as the Azores group) and I think it could have some impact.
Similarly, I recently was invited to join a Facebook group of people with Madalena, Pico ancestry and found I am related to them all (over 100 members of that group) and slowly working on convincing them to test.
The answer is always to get more to test, so that's what I work on.
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Subject: Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] DNA matches that link the Azores to
Mainland Portugal
From: A Faria <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, October 18, 2014 3:54 pm
To: [email protected]
That's too bad about the Portugal DNA project, I realize that the biggest chunk of FTDNA samples are from North America there is a good sized Continental Portuguese community in the US in New Jersey,
New York . There is a lot of potential samples there.
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