Over the last year, I've been noticing 4th to remote cousin DNA matches whose trees are entirely on Pico. I pretty much ignored them because my tree several generations back is entirely on Sao Miguel Island. I didn't really think much of it and thought maybe they are identical by state, rather than true cousin matches.
Then, last week I got a new match. This person is another 4th to remote. But the difference is he matches my 3rd cousin on the Pacheco line (primarily in Fenais da Vera Cruz, Estrela, Nordestinho, Conceicao) on the same sequence on chromosome 2. My Pacheco cousin shares most of her DNA with me on this block. My new match has 2 generations in Furnas and then the rest of the tree is on Pico. I didn't see common surnames in his Furnas names and I have no ancestry there that I know of. So, now I wonder if someone in my Pacheco line has roots in Pico. I am back into the mid 1750s or earlier on many of the lines on this side of my tree. There's no clues thus far. How far back can autosomal DNA predict a relationship? If it is a real match, I think it's probably going to be in the 1600s. Mostly this is curiosity about how far the autosomal test can really reach. I'll continue to work on this side of the tree, but I'm not going focus on finding a link (unless it falls into my lap...LOL) -- 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 azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/azores.
