Sharon and Kathy, My understanding is that the people of the Iberian peninsula had contact with North Africa and the countries and islands in the Mediterranean. There would have been interbreeding of course.
Using FTDNA you get the cM of the segment length of shared DNA. I think comparing the matches from there would help give some idea of whether other families have the same thing and perhaps how recent the matches are. Does FTDNA have a function that shows the origin countries of matches? Something like Ancestries? I haven’t found it. In closing, my husband‘s DNA origins keep changing and fine tuning as it gets more users to compare to. His earlier ITALIAN is gone and more Iberian Peninsula is the result. I suspect a “full” Italian would have similar changes. We haven’t found any links to the small but significant bit of European he has. His grandfather (1869-1947) born on São Miguel was quite tall and does not look very Portuguese. We thought we would find a hint by now. Your thoughts? Debbie Shepherd Mendonca Researching 1. LUIZ, SOUZA, PIMENTEL, PEREIRA on Sao Miguel: Sao Roque, Ponta Delgada, later Hawaii and California 2. MENDONCA, AGUIAR, ORNELAS on Madeira: Santana and Brazil: Sao Paulo On Mon, Dec 9, 2019 at 7:52 AM 'Kathy Cardoza' via Azores Genealogy < [email protected]> wrote: > Sharon > > The Iberian Peninsula consists mostly of Spain and Portugal with a little > bit of south west France, as I recall. No Italian is considered to be from > the Iberian Peninsula. > > Kathy > > ********************************* > Sent to you from my iPhone > ********************************* > > > On Dec 8, 2019, at 9:22 PM, Sharon Reif <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hello all, > > I have been following this group for awhile, and not contributing very > much. > > I do want to ask a few questions. Do many of you have family trees that > link our Azores genealogy with Italian, namely southern Italian families? > My DNA shows that I have some Iberian connections, but it must go really > far back in time. The ancestry that I am familiar with are all from Eastern > Europe (Hungary, Austria, Balkland, etc.) and Southern Italy and the Middle > East (Sicily, Greece, Northern Africa, Syria, etc.). With all of the > conquering armies a long time ago, there must have been some mixed in with > my ancestors. > > > -- > 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]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/azores/db421ca5-69cf-4abd-bff3-c701cf5f4190%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/azores/db421ca5-69cf-4abd-bff3-c701cf5f4190%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > -- > 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]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/azores/77D9DD0C-B1FA-4185-BD7F-D49F8D0426FF%40me.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/azores/77D9DD0C-B1FA-4185-BD7F-D49F8D0426FF%40me.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/azores/CAJ7050uBEzjYtrtVC2zLhWPSVe%2Bv-CsPtTT5tS1ZBPOYE0wDrg%40mail.gmail.com.
