My maternal line is V. Matos surname is my farthest. Santa Clara (Ponta
Delgada) São Miguel.
Todd
On Monday, September 19, 2016 at 12:05:13 PM UTC-4, David wrote:
>
> Would love to hear from anyone else whose direct maternal line runs
> through the Azores and whose mtDNA tests as haplogroup V.
>
> From what I am reading, V is spread out across Europe at low levels,
> except for accounting for over 50% of the Sami people ("Lapps") and around
> 19% of the Cantabrian people in Spain. (If I recall correctly, Basques
> have a lower percentage than Sami and Cantabrians, but still higher than
> average...)
>
> And I've seen genetic studies of the Azores where the overall prevalence
> of V thrpughout the archipelago is similar to that around most of Europe --
> but also one study that says that its prevalence in the Western group of
> the Azores is 33% (which would apparently be the highest rate in the world
> other than among the Sami), and that it's the most heavily represented
> haplogroup in the Western group.
>
> My earliest known ancestor in my direct maternal line lived on Flores, so
> she forms part of this pattern for V in the Western group. I'm interested
> in trying to set up a database for Azoreans and Azorean-descendants who
> fall into V, to see if we can construct a tree back to one or more
> identifiable "mothers" of V who brought the haplogroup to the Azores and to
> whom (or to one of whom) all Azorean Vs can trace their direct maternal
> lines.
>
>
>
> David da Silva Cornell
> Miami, FL
>
> Researching the following surnames and places:
>
> Faial - Furtado, Terra, Furtado da Terra (unknown freguesia(s), but signs
> currently point to Pedro Miguel)
>
> Flores - Freitas, Lourenço, Coelho (unknown freguesia(s))
>
> Pico - Silveira Cardoso, Macedo, Machado, Pereira Madruga, Ferreira,
> Cardoso, Cardoso Machado, Vieira, Bettencourt, Dutra, Castanho, Homem,
> Goulart, Quaresma, Moniz, Barreto, Silveira, Pereira, Álvares (all Lajes
> do
> Pico)
>
> S. Jorge - Silva, Botelho, Azevedo, Cardoso (Urzelina); Silva, Azevedo,
> Cardoso (Santo António in Norte Grande)
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