Thank you Rick, Now, I have a better understanding.
On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 5:43 PM, Richard Francis Pimentel < [email protected]> wrote: > *An exact match would be 0 (meaning all markers are the same). With your > exact matches look for location their most distant ancestor lived if it > matches the location of your most distant ancestor then you have a real > good match and you should pursue the paper trail to try and connect them. * > > > > *Rick* > > > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] *On > Behalf Of *Sandra Perez > *Sent:* Wednesday, August 16, 2017 8:30 PM > *To:* Azores Genealogy Google Group > *Subject:* Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] mtDNA testing > > > > 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. > -- 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.
