Good Morning Patricia, In order to have an mtDna match that is genealogically significant you would need to upgrade to Full Sequence even then you could only verify whether the match is is more recent or distant through comparison of genealogical records an HRV1 match has a 50% chance of being within the last 1,300 years however reviewing your matches at this level will give you anthropological insight on your mother in laws ancestry. MtDna haplogroup J mutation is believed to have come from a woman that lived in the Near East or Caucasus region 45,000 years ago and is equally frequent in Europe(particularly norther Europe) and the Middle East. This Ftdna link clarifies matching levels.https://www.familytreedna.com/learn/mtdna-testing/tell-closeness-relationship/
It is also interesting that I match your husband's mother on family finder and have no recorded genealogical ancestors from Sao Miguel. Antonio On Friday, June 6, 2014 12:41:35 PM UTC-7, Patricia Straube wrote: > > We just received the MtDNA results for my husband's mother, Mary Elsie > Amaral. Only the basic test was performed but there were no matches at HVR1 > and HVR2. There were over 1000 matches at HVR1 alone and while that is > interesting, it is not that helpful. She is a part of the Family Tree DNA > Azores Project but her results haven't appeared on the MtDNA results page. > She belongs to Haplogroup J and her earliest known ancestor in the female > line is Anna de Jesus Pavão, who married Francisco Sousa and whose > daughter, Rosa de Jesus, was called a native of Ribeirinha, when her > children were baptized at Nossa Senhora da Estrela, Ribeira Grande, São > Miguel, beginning in 1868. Rosa de Jesus married Jose Raposo, also called > Jose Raposo Pombeiro. Sorry, but because this is Ribeira Grande, I don't > have any birthdates or marriage dates for them yet. > -- 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. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/azores.
