Those were the samples that were in population sample at the time they started running the ethnicities. And that was 3 or more years ago. A lot has changed since then. Ancestry DNA and 23 and Me have both just recently rolled out new ethnicities, so I suspect FTDNA will have an announcement about their new rollout next weekend at their DNA conference. Cheri On Nov 2, 2013 12:57 PM, <p...@dholmes.com> wrote:
> Yea, that's a little strange. > Why isn't German there? Why not Slav? I think they lump them in with > Orkney and maybe because of the high concentration of Viking blood in the > DNA of the Orkney population. > > I think it will be refined eventually. > > My wife's Population Finder results with her 100% Slovak ancestry came up > as 90% Orkney. > > Doug da Rocha Holmes > Sacramento, California > Pico & Terceira Genealogist > 916-550-1618 > www.dholmes.com > > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Family Tree Dna results > From: Cheri Mello <gfsche...@gmail.com> > Date: Sat, November 02, 2013 12:17 pm > To: azores@googlegroups.com > > The 4 Western European populations in the database are Basque, French, > Spanish, and Orkney Islands. So Portuguese are "fit" into one of those 4. > Until they get a wider population sample, you can kind of think of it as a > cocktail party conversation piece. Cheri > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
