There were Italians who came to Portugal as sailors, but I would say that this is truer for the urban areas and particularly coastal ports. Though I poured over the 17th and 18th century parish records of Lisbon and did notice some foreigners, the largest by far being Galicians, followed by...
I got mine and it showed accurately Leiria and Santarem districts, but it was interesting that the Azores was #1. I guess that Portuguese-Americans and maybe Portuguese-Canadians are overrepresented because they account for 70% of the diaspora in North America despite being around 2.5% of...
I am Portuguese with all of my ancestors from a small cluster of villages and I was wondering how much North African I would have in me. I was told on another forum that my North African DNA is very low for a Portuguese person, but I traced my family tree and almost all were from central...
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