I've been doing some research on the Portuguese slave trade. My reason for doing so is because I took a big interest in this as every time I've gone to either the USA or the Carribean I'm always asked if I'm mixed.
The first time I was asked this question was over 20 years ago in Jamaica and I was taken aback as I do have green eyes and naturally lighter hair. I've been told over and over again that I have "black traits". I became intrigued and tried to find if there was any African in my roots ( haven't found any as of yet) Apparently in Madeira there is a greater probability of African DNA and a small amount in Sao Miguel. It's a very fascinating subject to me and I have come across some very prominent Portuguese Moors who contributed greatly to the USA Nelia On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 10:35 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.
