A good chunk of people in the Azores project show traces of African (FTDNA rounds their numbers). With the 1%, 2%, 3% we don't know if that is what they call "noise" and isn't a clear reading or if it is beyond a genealogy time frame. It's hard to tell.
If anyone in the records had a slave, it would say "escravo" or "escrava." I'm not so sure that it means the person was black though. Others who are much better at the history would be able to say. Cheri Mello Listowner, Azores-Gen Researching: Vila Franca, Ponta Garca, Ribeira Quente, Ribeira das Tainhas, Achada On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 7:34 AM, Paul <[email protected]> wrote: > According to both FTDNA and 23andMe I have some African DNA in my family. > FTDNA has my total at 2% African, while the 23andMe total is 1.5% Sub > Saharan African. I have no idea if this is from my paternal or maternal > side of my family. My paternal great grandparents were from the Azores > (Silva-de Medeiros) and Madeira (Gomes-de Sousa). Maternal great > grandparents were from Sweden (Berglund-Jonsson) and England > (Matthews-Harvey). Besides O Africano, what are some of the other terms I > should be looking for in the baptismo, casamento, or obito records? > > Paul G. > > -- > 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.
