Hi Everyone, At the risk of looking silly because this may have been discussed in the past, I am going to go ahead and post something that just became clear to me this past week. Besides my Azorean DNA tests, I have tested my non Azorean husband with the Family Finder and he has a very mixed background (half Irish, but then Heinz 57 with Canadian French, Sioux Indian, German, and too far back in the US to know where they came from!!). So I noticed that two of his FF matches had clicked the little button to confirm the relationship and had posted their GEDCOMs and I looked but could not find a match. So I wrote to them and they both answered back to say that they did that so they could use the "IN COMMON WITH" function. I don't know if this has been discussed as I have been gone a lot this summer but it certainly was news to me!! I guess once you confirm that you are related then you can search by putting the name of the person that you are related to in the second fill in slot and when you search that way, you find out who shares the same ancestry. It is pretty cool and for my husband's lines, especially helpful.
I am so "inbred" that it might not be quite as helpful with my Azorean background but it can sure give hints....if most of my "in Common" matches have ancestry in Pico, or Flores etc....then it points us in the right direction. So maybe you all know about this already......but I have usually found that if I have a question about something....someone else does too!! So hope this will help someone! Also interesting.....a mystery in my matches! Joao C. Ventura wrote to me as I am one of his few matches. I ONLY have Azorean ancestry and he ONLY has mainland Portugal matches!!! I did the "in common with' function and there is NO ONE else that matches BOTH of us! So Joao conjectured that it may be one of my "incognito" fathers....a wayward sailor that spent time on the Azores and remains unnamed in the baptismal records (and I have quite a few of those). I wrote to Joao and threw in that it could also have been an Azorean, (maybe a whaler)......who spent some time on the Mainland. Wait....I just thought....it could have been a woman who spent time in either place, LOL, ......I really don't think that would be the answer! Anyway, I am having fun with the "In Common With" function! Susan Vargas Murphy -- For options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my membership." --- 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. To post to this group, send email to azores@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/azores.
