Hi Anthony, Thanks for letting me know I think it's really neat that I share DNA with people from so many islands. I don't have as many matches with people with Terceira ancestry as I thought I would. I have one Moniz ancestor that moved to Angra after his wife passed away in 1768 and ended up passing away there I assumed he may have been born there. I was hoping to be able to confirm that with matches.
http://www.ghp.ics.uminho.pt/geneweb/gwd.exe?b=Lajes;lang=en;p=antonio;n=moniz;oc=2 On Saturday, December 27, 2014 6:40:04 PM UTC-8, Anthony Soares wrote: > > Hello Antonio, > > I noticed on Gedmatch that I match to both you and your mother. My > Portuguese side is from Terciera I have not found a Pico link yet. I will > have to see if you show up in my FF list on FTDNA. > > Tony Soares > > On Wednesday, December 3, 2014 8:34:18 PM UTC-8, A Faria wrote: >> >> Hello Everyone, >> >> >> I thought I would post an update now that I have my mothers myorigins >> results in l I have also ordered a kit for one of my daughters I will >> update when it comes in. >> >> My Results >> >> 69% Southern Europe >> 15% Scandinavia >> 12% British Isles >> 05% North Africa >> >> My Fathers Results >> >> 80% Southern Europe >> 08% British Isles >> 06% Scandinavia >> 05% North Africa >> >> My Mothers Results >> >> 67% Southern Europe >> 23% Western and Central Europe >> 03% Eastern Europe >> 05% North Africa >> 02% East Central Africa(I do share SNP's with people with origins in >> Eritrea) it is located very close to the Middle East. >> >> As I have posted many times my family is from Pico Island. One of the >> reasons that I chose to test all three of us was to get a better idea of >> our DNA. >> >> I have discovered some interesting things. >> >> As I expected most of the matches were to people from Pico, and quite a >> few with Faial and Sao Jorge, those are the nearest islands to Pico not >> surprising . But then it gets interesting I will list in order of >> frequency, next it jumps to Sao Miguel, then all the way to Flores, then >> Graciosa, Terceira, and Santa Maria we have no matches with Corvo. I really >> was expecting to have more matches with Graciosa and Terceira than Sao >> Miguel and Flores based on the recorded history and the proximity of those >> two islands with Pico. It really does look like we are one big extended >> family in the Azores. We also have many matches that appear to not have >> Portuguese ancestry. >> >> However I believe most of the Middle Eastern portion of our DNA is >> swallowed up by the Southern Europe category that issue will hopefully be >> resolved if FTDNA includes a Sephardic Jewish population in myorigins for >> comparison. >> >> Antonio Faria >> >> >> -- 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.
