[AZORES-Genealogy] Re: translate help

2015-01-22 Thread bsei2816
Status : solteira (single) Profession: governa domestica (housekeeper) Age: 27; Height: 1.62 meters Face: comprido (long) Hair, eyebrows, and eyes are all dark brown; nose and mouth are both regular (like everyone on the page) Color is listed as either normal or natural so she is not fair (claro)

[AZORES-Genealogy] Re: translate help

2015-01-22 Thread bsei2816
Oh and she cannot read/write and her ship is the Veronica. On Thursday, January 22, 2015 at 1:07:55 AM UTC-8, bsei...@gmail.com wrote: Status : solteira (single) Profession: governa domestica (housekeeper) Age: 27; Height: 1.62 meters Face: comprido (long) Hair, eyebrows, and eyes are all

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] $15 off FTDNA testing until Feb. 28

2015-01-22 Thread Rosemarie Capodicci
Thanks I'll try again although it didn't work this AM! Rosemarie rcap...@gmail.com Researching Sao Jorge, Terceira, Graciosa, Faial and Pico, Azores, Isola delle Femmine, Sant' Elia, Sicily On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 10:26 AM, Cheri Mello gfsche...@gmail.com wrote: Good question. Kalani is

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Horta Passport

2015-01-22 Thread Cheri Mello
Genetic variation happens in every population. At my Portuguese hall, I see what people would think of as typical Portuguese looks with dark hair and eyes. There are also a few blondes, and a couple of redheads (they are 100% Portuguese too!) It just is what it is. -- For options, such as

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] $15 off FTDNA testing until Feb. 28

2015-01-22 Thread Rosemarie Capodicci
Cheri, went thru this time! On to FamilyFinder for my Souza's!! Rosemarie rcap...@gmail.com Researching Sao Jorge, Terceira, Graciosa, Faial and Pico, Azores, Isola delle Femmine, Sant' Elia, Sicily On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 10:26 AM, Cheri Mello gfsche...@gmail.com wrote: Good question. Kalani

[AZORES-Genealogy] Study on Sub-Saharan African Admixture in Europeans and Middle Easterners

2015-01-22 Thread A Faria
Hello, This study is a few years old but I hadn't noticed it before. I have noticed that it isn't unusual for some of my family finder matches to have between 1-3% African DNA I am referring to West African and East African not North African DNA. My mother has myorigins results show 2% East

[AZORES-Genealogy] Re: Assistance Finding Sibling

2015-01-22 Thread João Ventura
Hi Julia, First of, I'm not the same João Ventura mentioned by E Sharp. Just to make it clear :) Second, can't he at least tell you the name of the mother? And can you at least tell us the year when the baby would have been born? The law changed a few years ago in Portugal, and it's no longer

[AZORES-Genealogy] ancestry.com question

2015-01-22 Thread E Sharp
Evidently, Ancestry.com is changing their format again. As a person who does not do well with change (probably why I have been married to the same man for 60 years..well he is a great person), I have this questionwhen I enter the info I want, it is in the regular typehowever, when I click

RE: [AZORES-Genealogy] Study on Sub-Saharan African Admixture in Europeans and Middle Easterners

2015-01-22 Thread nancy jean baptiste
Hi Antonio, Thanks for the article...it was quite timely for me since I've been on Gedmatch looking at my admixture information. Within my Middle Eastern there are links to several areas of Africa. Nancy jean Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 08:08:40 -0800 From: antoniof1...@gmail.com To:

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Horta Passport

2015-01-22 Thread mnk
What I found surprising was the detail in his description. Plenty of blonde, blue or green eyed people my family that are 100% Azorean. However my childhood nicknames were princesinha Belchior Nossa pretinha so you can guess that I am not one of them. MNK -- For options, such as changing to

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Study on Sub-Saharan African Admixture in Europeans and Middle Easterners

2015-01-22 Thread Mary Bordi
I have indicators showing some North African DNA. What was interesting to me was the Hazda people in the population list. There are no indications that I have that DNA, but I happened to visit these hunter gatherers when I was in Tanzania a few years ago. A very interesting people whose language

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Study on Sub-Saharan African Admixture in Europeans and Middle Easterners

2015-01-22 Thread A Faria
I personally find the whole thing fascinating it is believed the San People are the most similar to the the original group of 2,000-10,000 people estimated that all people descend from. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_people -- For options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged,

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Study on Sub-Saharan African Admixture in Europeans and Middle Easterners

2015-01-22 Thread A Faria
Your welcome, On Gedmatch I have looked at my mothers East African that myorigins assigns her it isn't all East African some is West African although she has more East African the same with my daughter she has both but in her case slightly more West African. I think some of the East African is

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] ancestry.com question

2015-01-22 Thread Cheri Mello
I'm not having that problem, Elaine. It all stays the same. On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 1:35 PM, E Sharp bellema...@gmail.com wrote: Evidently, Ancestry.com is changing their format again. As a person who does not do well with change (probably why I have been married to the same man for 60

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Horta Passport

2015-01-22 Thread Joan Jurancich
Not actually surprising to me. My great-aunt told me that her father (from Faial) was blue-eyed, fair skinned, and with strawberry blonde hair. He was a farmer and used to get very red-skinned after working in the California sun. --- Joan Jurancich On 01/17/2015 11:15 AM, mnk wrote:

[AZORES-Genealogy] Assistance Finding Sibling

2015-01-22 Thread Julia Rudden
My father just informed me that he fathered a child in the Azores. He knows the year,month, and parish the child would have been born, but knows little more. Does anyone have suggestions on where to begin looking for birth records of children to single mothers within a certain location and time

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Assistance Finding Sibling

2015-01-22 Thread Cheri Mello
Julia R, It's probably going to be difficult. The records would be at the Civil Registry. I don't know how it is over there today regarding illegitimacy. They just may flat out ignore your request. Maybe others will chime in here. Cheri Mello Listowner, Azores-Gen Researching: Vila Franca,

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] $15 off FTDNA testing until Feb. 28

2015-01-22 Thread Cheri Mello
Good question. Kalani is really good at sending the screen shots so you know where to look. If my directions don't work, I'll ask him to post a picture. Log into the kit. Upper right corner, click the blue UPGRADE button. Next page, click the blue $99 button for the Family Finder purchase. Next

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] $15 off FTDNA testing until Feb. 28

2015-01-22 Thread Rosemarie Capodicci
Cheri, is this also good for an upgrade? I tried this AM to upgrade my cousins Y to FF and it didn't give me a place to enter the code. Rosemarie rcap...@gmail.com Researching Sao Jorge, Terceira, Graciosa, Faial and Pico, Azores, Isola delle Femmine, Sant' Elia, Sicily On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Assistance Finding Sibling

2015-01-22 Thread 'John Raposo' via Azores Genealogy
If the record is less than a century old, research will be difficult. Also, if less than 100 years old, and the child is labeled as illegitimate, some restrictions apply as to whom the record can be released, just like in most of our states. The word illegitimate can be reacted from a typed

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Horta Passport

2015-01-22 Thread Edna Epps
My Grandfather, Antonio Pereira DeFaria was also from Faial and had blue eyes and fair skin. Our family is like that too so I'm not surprised either.;) Edna Lemos Epps dave-e...@comcast.net You are a letter from Christ ❤ 2 Corinthians 3:3: You show that you are a letter from Christ, the result

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Re: translate help

2015-01-22 Thread Elizabeth Migliori
Thank You for this. I'm sure it's her but I was hoping it said something about where she was going or to whom she was going. On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 1:07 AM, bsei2...@gmail.com wrote: Status : solteira (single) Profession: governa domestica (housekeeper) Age: 27; Height: 1.62 meters Face:

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Assistance Finding Sibling

2015-01-22 Thread A Faria
The stigma that existed in my parents generation has eased many people don't even marry anymore but choose to live together I have several cousins that have no interest in marriage but than again they also don't have immediate plans on having children and a good percentage don't marry

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Assistance Finding Sibling

2015-01-22 Thread E Sharp
Wonder if the mother named him as the father at the time??? Or did/do they do that in the Azores. If so, wouldn't, he as the father, be able to obtain the record? Maybe Joao Ventura could give you some help on this joao_vent...@sapo.pt His fees are very affordable. E On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at