Hi Everyone My ancestry is 100% Azorean but I have noticed that I have a significant amount of matches to people with heavy amounts of British ancestry and that show no evidence of Portuguese ancestry with regards to their surnames and genealogies, some posting genealogies as far back as the 1700's. My matches are very dispersed geographically with ancestries in the United States, Australia, Britain and Ireland.
I would like to float the theory that these matches could be from shared Flemish ancestry I did a little research and have uncovered documentation of Flemish settlement to Britain starting in 1066, the Flemish were allies with the Normans and participated in the Norman Invasion with the result being land shifting to Norman and Flemish invaders. This population movement apparently continued for centuries this resulted in a profound benefit to the cloth industry in Flanders with England and Scotland providing the bulk of the wool. Many of us already know that some Azoreans have heavy amounts of Flemish ancestry our surnames and DNA results support that fact, but I was unaware of the Flemish impact on the British Isles. I found some interesting links discussing Scotland and the Flemish people that I would like to share. http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/flemish/ http://flemish.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/ Antonio -- 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 [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/azores.
