Hi Cheri,
Thanks for your patience explaining – and re-explaining. Each of my grandparents immigrated, from four different countries. I’m one quarter Portuguese, via my maternal grandmother. It’s unlikely that I’d be able to influence near relatives to test – I’m the only researcher in our family. Does the lower, 57ish cM just mean more distantly related? More like 4th/5 th/further cousins? The FTDNA cutoff is frustrating. We’re thinking about finding a project we could both join and perhaps the project can see and tell us what is/isn’t there. Why more meaningful for Portuguese – the quantity of participants? I’m finding plenty of intermarriage in all backgrounds. My own English quarter includes one couple who are my 6xGgrandparents via three of their children. FTM says I’m myself and my own 5th and 7th cousin. If the couple turns out be 1st cousins (as strongly suspected), I’m also my own 8th and 9th cousin. Thanks, Marsha Stringer [email protected] ------------------------------ *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Cheri Mello *Sent:* Sunday, September 11, 2016 9:09 PM *To:* Azores Genealogy *Subject:* Re: DNA Matches RE: [AZORES-Genealogy] Marsha, The conference did this computer in. My monitor is going out so I'll be brief. I don't know how much Portuguese you are in theory (half, quarter, etc). But 57 cMs for a Portuguese person isn't a good starting point. Start with 100 cMs or more. Try to get siblings and cousins to test if possible. They could have a missing piece to the jigsaw puzzle that you don't have. I'm not going to go into your husband's English matches. He's probably not endogamous (has intermarriage in his tree). Yes, FTDNA has a threshold for reporting their matches. So if you want to go outside their parameters, download your raw data and upload it to GedMatch and play with their tools. You will be comparing yourself to those who chose to upload to GedMatch. So you won't get the same matches there either. Kinda like some stores carry different brands of things. NOTE: Your DNA info will be out there in the Internet for anyone to see who chooses to make a GedMatch account. Cheri -- 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 https://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 https://groups.google.com/group/azores.
