Armando,

How many "suggested relationship," names appeared on your FamilyFinder (autosomal) print out?

If you did not contact everyone on your FF listing, what method did you use in deciding who to contact first?

You noted that FTDNA went back 10 generations, are you saying that the common ancestor that you shared with the three individuals that you mentioned wasn't established until that 10th generation linking?

If so, that was a remarkable find for all of you...most researchers are lucky to have traced their ancestry back 5 generations.

I'm now thinking that this FF autosomal testing is only helpful in establishing relationship for individuals that have a paper trail of at least 5 generations or that have known family members tested.

A couple of the 38 individuals that appeared on my husband's FF autosomal listing have no idea nor have done research because of just not knowing where their ancestors actually came from...it's for this reason that I think that the FF autosomal test in many cases leads to frustration and false hope of locating a much need clue to their ancestors.

I'm opened to suggestions and comments on how to change my current thinking about FamilyFinder autosomal testing...

Is it a fair conclusion to say that a suggested area of origin/region and or population % are solely based on ones DNA comparison to the testing lab's database for all individuals tested by a given lab?

Thank you,
Pat Silva Corbera

----- Original Message -----
From: "Armando"
To: general@nuestrosranchos.org
Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2012 5:05:20 PM
Subject: [Nuestros Ranchos] FamilyTreeDNA Family Finder

I never thought Family Finder was going to be able to go back 10
generations or so. I have found three different people through Family
Finder with whom I share a different ancestor about 10 generations back.
WIth one person I share ancestors on the Macias Valadez and Martín del
Campo lines. With another person I share ancestors on the
Cervantes-Villaseñor and Macias Valadez lines. With the third person we
share Diego de Burgos Villaseñor y Tovar as an ancestor. There are a couple
more that if I had their great-grandparents info I would most likely be
able to find our common ancestor. If enough people did this then we could
triangulate and figure out which markers are for which ancestor and at the
same time some missing branches could be found for some people. I recommend
everyone, even siblings, parents, and aunts/uncles to take this test and to
look closely at their matches no matter how distant the match seems to be.

Nunca pensé que pudiera encontrar parientes separados por 10 generaciones o
mas usando Family Finder. He encontrado tres parientes por medio de Family
Finder con quienes tenemos un ancestro en común hace 10 generaciones, mas o
menos. Con una persona coincidimos con ancestros por las lineas Macias
Valadez y Martín del Campo. Con otra persona coincidimos con ancestros del
apellido Cervantes-Villaseñor y otros del apellido Macias Valadez. Con otra
persona coincidimos con Diego de Burgos Villaseñor y Tovar como ancestro.
Si tuviera los bisabuelos de muchas otras personas seguramente podría
encontrar el ancestro que tenemos en común. Recomiendo que todos los
miembros (sus hermanos, padres, y tíos también) hagan este análisis de ADN
para completar lineas y para ayudar a otros que no han podido completar sus
lineas.

https://www.familytreedna.com/order-now.aspx?ty=1334&Group=Mexico-DNA&c…

Saludos
Armando

Sanchez-Castellanos

Armando, I think family finder go back more than 10 generations, for example in my case I am 5% Siberian (tribe Yakut) my mtDNA is haplogroup A and that sound that the native americans of my mother side came from that part thousands of years ago. I do not have any relative in the last 10 generations of Siberia.

Saludos.