My nephew had his done by one company, original finding no French, and they recently updated his DNA and somehow he was now 50% French....there is NO French in the family to our knowledge!! I've come to the conclusion, for now, the only thing DNA tests are really good at is finding relatives; family members--cousins, an unknown daughter another nephew is the father of..............................
"E" On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 8:28 AM Liz Migliori <[email protected]> wrote: > How can this be???? > What if this were a paternity test done by all different companies? 😳😳😳 > Sent from my iPhone > > On Nov 15, 2018, at 11:14 PM, 'Susan Murphy' via Azores Genealogy < > [email protected]> wrote: > > Ok I’ll chime in.... > I am 100% Azorean Portuguese > > FTDNA gives me: > 48% Iberian > 23% SE Europe > 10% Scandinavian > 8% British Isles > 8% North Africa > 2% Jewish > > Last Spring I did Ancestry sale and got > 99% Iberian > 1% Senegal > > Just got results from My Heritage this week: > 45.2 %Iberian > 13.6 %Ireland, Scotland, Wales > 12.5 %Scandinavian > 10.2 %Ashkanazi Jewish > 18.5 %“three more ethnicities”.... and if you look at their map it is > mostly Northern Africa. > > Not huge differences but wonder which has the biggest database at this > point.... I would suspect Ancestry with all those Hallmark like commercials > on TV. If so, it would make sense for me as it’s the closest to what I know > I am. I’ve always rationalized all the many people who colonized the Azores > explained the mix before, but when I got Ancestry results I thought “wow” > that’s the closest to what I know to be true! > > Susan Vargas Murphy > > On Nov 15, 2018, at 10:37 PM, Rosemarie Capodicci <[email protected]> > wrote: > > That is so funny,Bill! Both of us show no Iberian with FTDna and in the > 40% range on MyHeritage! I'm half Portuguese and half Italian. MyH is > showing Greek which FTDna doesn't show at all but then my Italian side is > from Sicily and it was overrun by everyone! > > Rosemarie > [email protected] > Researching Sao Jorge, Terceira, Graciosa, Faial and Pico, Azores, > Isola delle Femmine, Sant' Elia, Sicily > > > On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 10:25 PM <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I had previously tested with FTDNA and 23andMe. FTDNA had me 0% Iberia >> and 23andMe had me as 42% Iberian. I just transferred my FTDNA data to >> MyHeritage and they estimate my Iberian to be 40% (based on the same data >> that FTDNA had at 0% Iberia) >> >> I am 50% Azorean with two grandparents from the Azores (Terceira and São >> Miguel), one grandparent whose parents were German-Swiss, and one >> grandparent from Ireland. >> >> Bill Seidler >> >> -- >> 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. > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
