The paper on the previous version is gone. They only have this, which, to me, is nothing but placating the customer: https://goo.gl/wb2y7F
When they were developing the previous version, they had a survey on our DNA page. We filled it out and hit send. It asked very basic information of our name and birth place, parents names and birth places and grandparents names and birth places. I don't remember it asking for the great-grandparents (but it's been 3 years). I'm guessing that if one of those people (you, parents, grands) were born outside the U.S. that they pulled your data and used it. They also combined it with scientific data from the field as well. The largest population sample they had was 147 Japanese. They also had a large sample of a couple African places. Portugal? There was 25. Just 25 people representing ALL of the Azores, ALL of Madeira, and ALL of Portugal (Portugal is roughly the size of Indiana). It was probably an inadequate sample, but it sorta seemed to work. Whoever looked up the Azores on a map said that they were part of the British Isles and if you read the descriptions on the My Origins page, you would have seen it there. When that came out, I did email the Bennett Greenspan, president and owner of FTDNA, and told him the Azores was not part of the British Isles as the description stated. He concurred, but the description was never updated. This technology for ethnicity ESTIMATES (and you need to remember that word) has only been around 7 years. So it still has a ways to go. It's supposed to be kind of a broad brush, giving you an overview of your ethnicity as an approximation. Except for this version. It seems like the cat jumped up and knocked the paint over and some of us had something else in our brush (contamination in DNA terms) while others were just fine. So while we wait for them to release the paper, go log into your Matches and if they are at least 100 cMs or more, look at their trees and figure out how they match you. If they have no tree, email them and ask them to upload their Gedcom. If they don't know what a Gedcom is, they need to do an Internet search for: name-of-software create gedcom. After you get your matches in your tree, upload new Gedcom and start linking your people. Once you do that, you'll see your matches populate your Paternal and Maternal tabs (Parental Matching) My dad's page: [image: Inline image 1] If you can't figure out the Parental Matching, just get those matches into your tree and upload a new Gedcom. Then let me know and I'll start the Parental Matching for you. The meat of the DNA is working with our Matches. The ethnicity ESTIMATES (remember that word?) are amusing, but until they release the paper, there's nothing to do. So please, go figure out your Matches :) Cheri Mello, Family Tree DNA Admin, Azores DNA Project Cheri Mello Listowner, Azores-Gen Researching: São Miguel island: Vila Franca, Ponta Garca, Ribeira Quente, Ribeira das Tainhas, Achada On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 7:53 AM, "E" Sharp <bellema...@gmail.com> wrote: > As our noble leader would say......maybe too much vino???? > > "E" > > On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 7:42 AM, Rosemarie Capodicci <rcap...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Bill, I show no Iberian at all and my 'full' brother shows 30%! Doesn't >> seem right but who knows,maybe something was tweaked a little too much! LOL >> >> Rosemarie >> rcap...@gmail.com >> Researching Sao Jorge, Terceira, Graciosa, Faial and Pico, Azores, >> Isola delle Femmine, Sant' Elia, Sicily >> >> On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 1:38 AM, <bsei2...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Count me among those puzzled by these ethnicity estimates. I would have >>> thought it unlikely for me to be 0% Iberian with two Azorean grandparents. >>> >>> My maternal grandfather's family was mostly in Ribeirinha, Terceira >>> since the 1600s. My maternal grandmother's family was from Sao Miguel >>> since at least the early 1700s. One side from Rabo de Peixe and one side >>> from Agua Retorta (later moved to Ponta Delgada). >>> >>> My father's side is half German and half Irish and are well represented >>> in my ethnicity estimates. >>> >>> Bill Seidler >>> >>> -- >>> 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. >>> >> >> -- >> 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. >> > > -- > 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. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Azores Genealogy" group. 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