Yeah, it looks like the geneticists children programmed the estimates. From what I hear, *many* people are not happy and find them even less accurate than before.
Cheri Mello Listowner, Azores-Gen Researching: São Miguel island: Vila Franca, Ponta Garca, Ribeira Quente, Ribeira das Tainhas, Achada On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 7:22 PM, Donald Rodrigues <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > > FamilyTreeDNA ethnicity estimates follow. My paternal grandmother was > Portuguese, born on Madeira; as were her parents and her parent’s parents. The > family was dirt poor and lived for generations in a remote hamlet in the > countryside, seemingly far away from the influence of outsiders . My > paternal grandfather was the son of a Spaniard from the Canary Islands. > His wife, my great grandmother, was a Portuguese woman from Madeira, whose > family similarly originated from a remote hamlet where her ancestors had > lived for generations. One would think that these folks would contribute at > least some percentage of Spanish/Portuguese ancestry, yet the Ethnicity > estimate shows ZERO Iberian ancestry. It’s hard to make sense of this! > > Donald Rodrigues > > Old FTDNA Ethnicity Estimate New FTDNA > Ethnicity Estimate > > European 99 * European * > 90 > > Southern Europe 48 Iberia > 0 > > Western & Central Europe 36 > Western & Central Europe 76 > > British Isles 8 British Isles > 14 > > Finland & Northern Siberia 4 > Finland < 2 > > Eastern Europe 3 Eastern Europe > 0 > > South East Europe > < 2 > > * Middle Eastern * > 5 > > North African > 5 > > West Middle East > < 2 > > African 2 * African* 0 > > West Africa 2 West Africa > < 2 > > South Central Africa > < 2 > > East Central Africa > 0 > > -----Original Message----- > From: PRT-MADEIRA [mailto:prt-madeira-bounces+drodrigues=pacbell.net@ > rootsweb.com <[email protected]>] > On Behalf Of Cheri Mello > Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2017 7:47 AM > To: Azores Genealogy; [email protected]; > [email protected] > Subject: [PT-MADEIRA] New Ethnicity Estimates for Family Tree DNA > > (Cross posted to Azores, Madeira, IslandRoutes) > > For those who have tested with Family Tree DNA (FTDNA), it appears that > they have released their new ethnicity ESTIMATES. This is version 3 of this > interesting tool. > > Since it's brand new, I'll just start with looking at my family. The > Portuguese was clustered into Southern Europe, a big purple swath from > Portugal to Spain to Italy then Greece. Good news! They've split the > western part (Spain and Portugal) into Iberian and the eastern part (Italy > and Greece) into Southeast Europe. My dad, 50% Portuguese is now 12% > Iberian and 13% Southeast Europe! His British Isles (the other 50%) is > gone! I guess the key word is they are still ESTIMATES. > > It'll be interesting to see what others get! Cheri Mello, Family Tree DNA > Admin (volunteer) Cheri Mello Listowner, Azores-Gen > > Researching: São Miguel island: Vila Franca, Ponta Garca, Ribeira Quente, > Ribeira das Tainhas, Achada > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "IslandRoutes" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/islandroutes. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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.
