Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Who to test with Family Finder

2013-07-02 Thread rondo ranch
-Original Message- From: Pam Santos <pamsanto...@gmail.com>Sent: Jul 1, 2013 6:56 PM To: azores@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Who to test with Family Finder Since I did my sons, with not many matches. I would do the oldest person possibly since its 200 years back. Mea

RE: [AZORES-Genealogy] Who to test with Family Finder

2013-07-02 Thread rondo ranch
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Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Who to test with Family Finder

2013-07-02 Thread rondo ranch
-Original Message- From: Cheri Mello <gfsche...@gmail.com>Sent: Jul 1, 2013 2:32 PM To: Azores Genealogy <AZORES@GOOGLEGROUPS.COM>Subject: Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Who to test with Family Finder Doreen CJ,Yes, FTDNA says that the Family Finder goes back 5 generations. B

RE: [AZORES-Genealogy] Who to test with Family Finder

2013-07-02 Thread Richard Francis Pimentel
Pimentel Spring, TX Formerly of Epping, New Hampshire From: azores@googlegroups.com [mailto:azores@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of rondo ranch Sent: Tuesday, July 2, 2013 8:39 AM To: azores@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: [AZORES-Genealogy] Who to test with Family Finder Thanks Richard, so I

[AZORES-Genealogy] Who to test with Family Finder

2013-07-01 Thread rondo ranch
I'm trying to figure out who to test. I have several double cousins in the family and when we get back to the 10th Great-Grandparents all sides of my family share some of the same people multiple times. Since the DNA Family finder test only goes back to the 5th generation I should be able to

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Who to test with Family Finder

2013-07-01 Thread Cheri Mello
Doreen CJ, Yes, FTDNA says that the Family Finder goes back 5 generations. But it's more like 200 years back from the birth of the testee. Having the same people in your DNA make up will mess up the prediction. Shirley Allegre and I are cousins 12? different ways - something like that. Because

RE: [AZORES-Genealogy] Who to test with Family Finder

2013-07-01 Thread Richard Francis Pimentel
Hi Doreen, This is part of what I posted last week I then realized that there was a way to sort out the two sides of the family by doing another family finder test. What I needed to do was test one of my dad's 1st cousins. This was a big challenge. As my dad is 93 and most of

RE: [AZORES-Genealogy] Who to test with Family Finder

2013-07-01 Thread pico
(or maternal line) that could get the Y-DNA and mt-DNA tests.Doug da Rocha HolmesSacramento, CaliforniaPico Terceira Genealogist916-550-1618www.dholmes.com Original Message Subject: RE: [AZORES-Genealogy] Who to test with Family Finder From: "Richard Francis Pimentel" rfr

RE: [AZORES-Genealogy] Who to test with Family Finder

2013-07-01 Thread Richard Francis Pimentel
Pimentel Spring, TX Formerly of Epping, New Hampshire From: azores@googlegroups.com [mailto:azores@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of p...@dholmes.com Sent: Monday, July 1, 2013 7:44 PM To: azores@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: [AZORES-Genealogy] Who to test with Family Finder Hi Richard

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Who to test with Family Finder

2013-07-01 Thread Pam Santos
7:44 PM *To:* azores@googlegroups.com *Subject:* RE: [AZORES-Genealogy] Who to test with Family Finder ** ** Hi Richard, ** ** Your logic is sound, but I don't know if it really matters. The reason is that there is no telling how much DNA any one person gets. Just like you