Cheri needs to explain to you about each company and who has tested with them. It all depends on what that company is basing their info on. She can explain better than I can. Also, as Michael has stated, and we all know, the Azores were settled by many peoples from different lands. Europe was also conquered by many different groups so all that comes into play.
Rosemarie rcap...@gmail.com Researching Sao Jorge, Terceira, Graciosa, Faial and Pico, Azores, Isola delle Femmine, Sant' Elia, Sicily On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 8:33 AM Michael Giffin < michael.giffin.1...@gmail.com> wrote: > I just got back from my first trip to Sao Miguel and my family village, > Porto Formoso. My family left there in 1883 for Hawaii. Our guide said the > archipelago began to be settled sixty years before Columbus sailed for the > New World, the first settlers included the Flemish, and some were from > Brittany (and spoke Portuguese with a French accent). Complicating this, my > genealogical research of the US censuses of 1900 and 1910 tells me that the > Portuguese were not regarded then as Caucasian. So the DNA experience is > indeed complex. > > On Thu, 15 Nov. 2018, 7:29 pm Rosemarie Capodicci <rcap...@gmail.com > wrote: > >> Hi List, >> I transferred my FTDna raw data over to MyHeritage with Cheri's >> instructions, on Nov. 12th. I just now was notified that my ethnicity >> breakdown was available. Quite a few differences from FTDna! On FTDna I >> have *zero *Iberian ethnicity showing, on MyHeritage I show 47%! I show >> 84% Europe with 47% Iberian (Spain/Portugal) and 28% Greek (don't show this >> at all on FTDna. I'm showing 12% N. Africa and 1.8% Middle East which is >> basically what I show on FTDna. So, if you want to check out another DNA >> Company transfer your raw data over and take a look! >> >> Rosemarie >> rcap...@gmail.com >> Researching Sao Jorge, Terceira, Graciosa, Faial and Pico, Azores, >> Isola delle Femmine, Sant' Elia, Sicily >> >> -- >> 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. >> > -- > 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. > -- 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.
