Hi all, I may also help with my side of the plan.. Those that use tombo.pt must have seen the FTDNA link that I recently added to the left sidebar in the site. I'm an affiliate of FTDNA, meaning that any sales lead that I generate will earn me 5% of the 'sale'. That is, if you buy a test in FTDNA after following that link, and that test costs you $100, FTDNA pays me $5.
I believe that any serious genealogist researching in Portugal visits my site several times per week. It's a bit different for the Azores (considering there's only 3 or 4 parishes remaining, and you get the news of their availability faster via this group), and Madeira (where there hasn't been any news to report in more than a year). I'm in the process of making a front-page article (in Portuguese) explaining what Genetic Genealogy is, with links back to FTDNA. It will both help me personally, as I'm 100% mainland and I have 1-2 significant FF matches, and financially (running the site costs money, not to mention the time I put in it). If it works, we should see some more matches popping up. João C. Ventura http://tombo.pt/en On Sunday, 19 October 2014 18:40:30 UTC+2, Doug da Rocha Holmes wrote: > > Antonio, > > I share your goal. > > I spent last night writing an article about this conversation and topic. I > will submit it to a Portuguese newspaper and hope they decide to use it. > That will surely help our cause. > > I can send you the article if you like. > > Doug da Rocha Holmes > Sacramento, California > Pico & Terceira Genealogist > 916-550-1618 > www.dholmes.com > > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] DNA matches that link the Azores to > Mainland Portugal > From: A Faria <[email protected] <javascript:>> > Date: Sun, October 19, 2014 8:58 am > To: [email protected] <javascript:> > Cc: [email protected] <javascript:> > > > My goal Doug is through DNA to obtain clues about the ancestral Village, > Town or City of my ancestors prior to settling in the Azores I predict > interest will increase in this area and there will be some format to > > share and discuss this information with others that are interested. I have > some good clues already that indicate that my direct paternal ancestor that > settled on Pico in the 1500's was from Porto, it is important > > that more people of Azorean ancestry test to give us more clues but we > will get a clearer picture when more Portuguese from the Mainland test > > > > > > On Saturday, October 18, 2014 5:33:01 PM UTC-7, Doug da Rocha Holmes wrote: >> >> 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. >> >> Doug da Rocha Holmes >> Sacramento, California >> Pico & Terceira Genealogist >> 916-550-1618 >> www.dholmes.com >> >> > -- 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.
