Hi Sandra, With mtDNA, you want to look at your Full Sequence matches. And that is what you are looking at.
Yes, you have genetic distances or differences of 0, 1, or 3. A "0" is a perfect match. These are the ones you most likely want. Once the database gets to critical mass, they expect about half of these to be within a genealogical time frame. Since we are islands, will that be true for us? Don't know yet, as we are still in a kind of survey or census mode, trying to get enough people to take this type of test to figure it out. The "1" is a difference of 1 mutation so they don't match you perfectly. A "3" is a mutation of "3." I don't remember why FTDNA includes the 3s as that's rather far out there for mtDNA (Y-DNA is a different story). So click on the trees of your "0" matches and check out their trees. I'd contact your first match. Your 2nd match is a child whose kit appears to be managed by someone else and they didn't fill out the information correctly. The tree is completely private and they put a man's name for the mother, so it appears that they are struggling to figure out how to enter the info into their genealogy program. I'll see if I can get them into the project so I can help them and get them fixed. It's a bit of a technical story, but the original woman who had her mtDNA sequenced had a mutation. Everyone was compared against her and the mutation was reported. They have since revised this and now everyone is compared to the newer updated sequenced mtDNA. The old one is still available though for those who would still like to see it. Cheri Mello, Family Tree DNA Admin (volunteer), Azores DNA Project Cheri Mello Listowner, Azores-Gen Researching: São Miguel island: Vila Franca, Ponta Garca, Ribeira Quente, Ribeira das Tainhas, Achada On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 5:30 PM, Sandra Perez <[email protected]> wrote: > Cheri, > > I get mtDNA matches all the time. It used to show a whole bunch. Then it > started showing only 3 matches. I do recall > you saying that changes to FTDNA would show fewer matches--I can't > remember why. > > Now, I have *4* Matches! I have the distances' 0, 0, 1, & 3. Is "0" the > best match or would it be a higher number? > > On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 5:15 PM, Cheri Mello <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Repost for Ava, netasdosacores at gmail.com >> >> mtDNA is just as important as the Guys taking the Y, only that with the >> Female line the surname changes with each generation, and that can get >> frustrating. The test results are only as good as how many have tested. >> Without going into a lot of boring details, after years of "speculating" >> how a group of Family Finder matches match to our Family, we finally found >> a Female descendant of Mary, daughter our Matriarch. On the MTFULL Sequence >> Test - Mary's female descendant matched to the other family's female >> descendant at a distance of "0" which we were thrilled, and excited that >> we finally know how these two lines connect. Of course, we now have to >> find the paperwork that will explain their connection, sisters? >> Mother/Daughter? Aunt/Niece? or earlier in time. >> >> AVA >> Vieira Anselmo - Sao Miguel >> Pinheiro Nunes - Faial >> >> ALLY Vieira Anselmo/Pinheiro >> Sao Miguel & Faial >> >> -- >> 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. >> > > > > -- > Sandra Perez > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
