Betty, Pacheco can be found in Portugal, Mexico, Spain, and I don't know where else.
I see 28 members in the Pacheco DNA project. You might want to take another look. Looks like the admin stepped down. Usually someone from FTDNA monitors those projects, but if the admin simply removed their name and did not notify FTDNA, then FTDNA doesn't know (there are almost 8100 projects today). I will let them know there's not admin. But what I was wondering is why would you have your male relative join a surname project? Us Portuguese do not stick with the same surname. Here's a few samples from my tree: Antonio Pacheco > Antonio Pacheco > Antonio Mendes Francisco Pacheco > Antonio Bento (his wife was the Pacheco) Francisco Antonio Pacheco > Antonio Pacheco Dutra > Manuel Pereira Dutra > Domingos Pereira > Manuel Pereira de Mendonca This why we have geographical based projects like the Azores Project, Madeira, Cape Verde, Hawaiian Ancestry, Mayflower, etc. You'll still be matched against the entire FTDNA database whether your relative joins the Azores, Pacheco, etc project. You get more filters in the project to help you filter matches. Cheri On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 8:56 AM, Cheri Mello <[email protected]> wrote: > Repost for Betty Fredericks, bbffrrpp11 at gmail.com > > I want to "attempt" to talk my husband's uncle into taking a DNA test. > It won't be easy, and he wouldn't pay for it but maybe his daughter will. > But, I went to the FamilyTreeDNA site to check out the PACHECO Project. > On quick look there are less than 20 people participating, and there > doesn't seem to be an Admin. This surprises me in one way but doesn't > surprise me in another way. I very rarely find another PACHECO researcher > with ties to Greater Boston, MA. But, I thought there would be PACHECO's > in all of the U.S. who might be interested in their family-tree. > > (At Thanksgiving Dinner last week, I brought this subject up, and my > step-son - just out of the Navy - reminded me that PACHECO's were in many > countries. Of course most know about the name in Mexico, but he > mentioned the Philippines.) > > http://www.familytree.com/surnames/Pacheco > > http://www.geni.com/surnames/pacheco > > (interesting info there !) > > Betty (near Lowell, MA, USA) > > > P.S. I think I already mentioned that a month ago I found out from a > 1921 newspaper article that my husband's grandfather, Antone PACHECO, "did" > have a brother, Manuel PACHECO. They were both living in Cambridge, MA, > in 1920's, and the brother managed "a tap." There were 3 Manuel > PACHECO's in Cambridge in 1920, so I don't know which one was the > brother. But, my "gut feeling" is the one who owned the "Willow Furniture > Store" was the brother. ... I haven't had time to try to find out more > about "Manny," but I'll try this week. > -- 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.
