Yeah, it looks like the geneticists children programmed the estimates. From what I hear, *many* people are not happy and find them even less accurate than before.
Cheri Mello Listowner, Azores-Gen Researching: São Miguel island: Vila Franca, Ponta Garca, Ribeira Quente, Ribeira das Tainhas, Achada On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 7:22 PM, Donald Rodrigues <drodrig...@pacbell.net> wrote: > Hi All, > > FamilyTreeDNA ethnicity estimates follow. My paternal grandmother was > Portuguese, born on Madeira; as were her parents and her parent’s parents. The > family was dirt poor and lived for generations in a remote hamlet in the > countryside, seemingly far away from the influence of outsiders . My > paternal grandfather was the son of a Spaniard from the Canary Islands. > His wife, my great grandmother, was a Portuguese woman from Madeira, whose > family similarly originated from a remote hamlet where her ancestors had > lived for generations. One would think that these folks would contribute at > least some percentage of Spanish/Portuguese ancestry, yet the Ethnicity > estimate shows ZERO Iberian ancestry. It’s hard to make sense of this! > > Donald Rodrigues > > Old FTDNA Ethnicity Estimate New FTDNA > Ethnicity Estimate > > European 99 * European * > 90 > > Southern Europe 48 Iberia > 0 > > Western & Central Europe 36 > Western & Central Europe 76 > > British Isles 8 British Isles > 14 > > Finland & Northern Siberia 4 > Finland < 2 > > Eastern Europe 3 Eastern Europe > 0 > > South East Europe > < 2 > > * Middle Eastern * > 5 > > North African > 5 > > West Middle East > < 2 > > African 2 * African* 0 > > West Africa 2 West Africa > < 2 > > South Central Africa > < 2 > > East Central Africa > 0 > > -----Original Message----- > From: PRT-MADEIRA [mailto:prt-madeira-bounces+drodrigues=pacbell.net@ > rootsweb.com <prt-madeira-bounces+drodrigues=pacbell....@rootsweb.com>] > On Behalf Of Cheri Mello > Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2017 7:47 AM > To: Azores Genealogy; prt-made...@rootsweb.com; > islandrou...@googlegroups.com > Subject: [PT-MADEIRA] New Ethnicity Estimates for Family Tree DNA > > (Cross posted to Azores, Madeira, IslandRoutes) > > For those who have tested with Family Tree DNA (FTDNA), it appears that > they have released their new ethnicity ESTIMATES. This is version 3 of this > interesting tool. > > Since it's brand new, I'll just start with looking at my family. The > Portuguese was clustered into Southern Europe, a big purple swath from > Portugal to Spain to Italy then Greece. Good news! They've split the > western part (Spain and Portugal) into Iberian and the eastern part (Italy > and Greece) into Southeast Europe. My dad, 50% Portuguese is now 12% > Iberian and 13% Southeast Europe! His British Isles (the other 50%) is > gone! I guess the key word is they are still ESTIMATES. > > It'll be interesting to see what others get! Cheri Mello, Family Tree DNA > Admin (volunteer) Cheri Mello Listowner, Azores-Gen > > Researching: São Miguel island: Vila Franca, Ponta Garca, Ribeira Quente, > Ribeira das Tainhas, Achada > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > prt-madeira-requ...@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "IslandRoutes" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to islandroutes+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to islandrou...@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/islandroutes. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/azores.
