Hello Antonio, I noticed on Gedmatch that I match to both you and your mother. My Portuguese side is from Terciera I have not found a Pico link yet. I will have to see if you show up in my FF list on FTDNA.
Tony Soares On Wednesday, December 3, 2014 8:34:18 PM UTC-8, A Faria wrote: > > Hello Everyone, > > > I thought I would post an update now that I have my mothers myorigins > results in l I have also ordered a kit for one of my daughters I will > update when it comes in. > > My Results > > 69% Southern Europe > 15% Scandinavia > 12% British Isles > 05% North Africa > > My Fathers Results > > 80% Southern Europe > 08% British Isles > 06% Scandinavia > 05% North Africa > > My Mothers Results > > 67% Southern Europe > 23% Western and Central Europe > 03% Eastern Europe > 05% North Africa > 02% East Central Africa(I do share SNP's with people with origins in > Eritrea) it is located very close to the Middle East. > > As I have posted many times my family is from Pico Island. One of the > reasons that I chose to test all three of us was to get a better idea of > our DNA. > > I have discovered some interesting things. > > As I expected most of the matches were to people from Pico, and quite a > few with Faial and Sao Jorge, those are the nearest islands to Pico not > surprising . But then it gets interesting I will list in order of > frequency, next it jumps to Sao Miguel, then all the way to Flores, then > Graciosa, Terceira, and Santa Maria we have no matches with Corvo. I really > was expecting to have more matches with Graciosa and Terceira than Sao > Miguel and Flores based on the recorded history and the proximity of those > two islands with Pico. It really does look like we are one big extended > family in the Azores. We also have many matches that appear to not have > Portuguese ancestry. > > However I believe most of the Middle Eastern portion of our DNA is > swallowed up by the Southern Europe category that issue will hopefully be > resolved if FTDNA includes a Sephardic Jewish population in myorigins for > comparison. > > Antonio Faria > > > -- 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.
