Do you have Lucayan-Taino Preacher's Cave Ancestry?

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I bought in to a few levels of MyTrueAncestry levels over time and finally got to the level that tells you about your DNA matches to ancient samples in the Americas. Among my matches a lot came up about my Indigenous Americas and Native Carribean ancestry. This included matches with 2 of 3 ancient Preacher's Cave individuals that are reading like the ancestors of the Tainos and natives of the Carribean Islands. Is anyone else here a match? I added the screenshots as proof to My Images and included a caption about Lucayan-Taino/Preacher's Cave ancestry, along with a link to an article explaining more about this.

Sources: 1) MyTrueAncestry, 2) Link to article: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/oa.1180

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Thank you.  Where can you see the screenshots you added?

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I recently added a bunch of screenshots with a wealth of information about the Preacher's Cave individuals, can you get to my images?

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I matched to those remains, but not on MTA.  I found the sample on GedMatch.  My match was high enough to allow me to join the CONCH project on Facebook.  

What level did you have to get to on MTA? I am at Knight level and found a high connection to Guanches in Canary Islands.  I would love to get to the Americas level

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Hello Maureen,

Where in GEDmatch did you find the sample?  What is MTA?

ADDED: Oh, I assume MTA is My True Ancestry.

ADDED: I searched online and found that the Preacher’s Cave sample appears to be GEDmatch ID QK8102408

There are just 15 people in WikiTree who share a segment larger than 7 cM. Among them, the largest shared segment is 11.3 cM.  Their ancestry is mostly Central and South America.

Thanks and sincerely, Peter

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Hi Maureen,

I'm on the Zeus level of MTA. I wish I had known sooner that doing this would unlock my Native American ancestry matches, I would have done it sooner. I have the Guanches result too, as well as Aztec, Mayan, Inca, Iroquois, Eskimo, Inuit, Amazons, Mikmaq, Siberian/Bering Strait, Kennewick man and Clovis Man.

On Gedmatch, are you matching against the Atunwa Inarru remains?

I'm a related to two of the three remains in Preacher's Cave, a male and female. But I don't know kit numbers to search on GEDMatch.

Here are details about my two Preacher's Cave matches

https://www.wikitree.com/photo/png/Taveras-18-18

https://www.wikitree.com/photo/png/Taveras-18-19

I can send you screenshots directly from MTA if you want.

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These screenshots are of the text from my other MTA level Zeus Americas results. If you prefer to see screenshots directly from MTA, Let me know.

I'm a related to two of the three remains in Preacher's Cave, a male and female. But I don't know kit numbers to search on GEDMatch.

https://www.wikitree.com/photo/png/Taveras-18-18

https://www.wikitree.com/photo/png/Taveras-18-19

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It was QK8102408. My largest section is 9.8 on Chromosome 1. This is freaky.  DNA has opened up so much and allowed us to verify links to our past that we only dreamed of.

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Hello Mel,

WikiTree says “ This image is privacy protected. Only the thumbnail is open.” So unfortunately the resolution is too low to read.

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This is my first time dealing with images on here. This site isn't exactly user friendly. If you don't mind sharing your email address I'll send it that way. WikiTree says that no living person can have a public or open profile. I could put you on a "trusted list" but that gives other people authority to edit your profile. I don't know why they don't let you send attachments vis private message. Why wouldn't there be an "add friend option”? This website isn't user friendly.