{"id":501,"date":"2019-06-09T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-09T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertogreco.eu\/genetealogia\/busuttil-dna-match\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T13:15:44","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T11:15:44","slug":"busuttil-dna-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertogreco.eu\/genetealogia\/busuttil-dna-match\/","title":{"rendered":"Busuttil (DNA Match)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; da revisionare &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>BBU, managed by SBU from UK, has a DNA-Match with me on<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/famiglia-greco.eu\/i-siti-per-la-genetica\">myheritage<\/a>: 180,3 cM (longest one 38,5 cM) across 7 segments, possible <strong>3th to 5th\u00a0 cousin<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>and with my father, also on<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/famiglia-greco.eu\/i-siti-per-la-genetica\">myheritage<\/a>: 292,8 cM (longest one 39,5 cM) across 11 segments, possible <strong>2nd to 3rd\u00a0 cousin<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>as well as with my brother on<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/famiglia-greco.eu\/i-siti-per-la-genetica\">myheritage<\/a>: 67,1 cM (longest one 27,1 cM) across 4 segments, possible <strong>5th to 7th\u00a0 cousin<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>and my two daughters.<\/p>\n<p>BBU is the father of WBU, from UK, which whom I&#8217;m in contact<\/p>\n<p>Following table shows the possible relationship to our MRCA (Most Recent Common Ancestor). In parenthesis the less probable surnames, reported here just for sake of completeness and because DNA-matches and family trees are often not so precise or reliable.<\/p>\n<table border=\"1\" width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"40%\">My family<\/th>\n<th style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"20%\">MRCA<\/th>\n<th style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"40%\">WBU&#8217;s family<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" colspan=\"3\">The possible MRCA between WBU and me should be found in the And\u00f2 family. He could be: Domenico And\u00f2 (husband of Giuseppa Scuderi) or Diego And\u00f2 (husband of Domenica Battaglia)<br \/>\nSee also <a href=\"https:\/\/famiglia-greco.eu\/the-peri-families\">The Possible Connection with the Peri Family<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">My <strong>2x-great-grandparents<\/strong>: Domenico And\u00f2<br \/>\n+ Scuderi, Aliotta + Donato (Greco + Tomarchio, Sciuto + Gangemi)<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">Siblings?<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">WBU&#8217;s 2xgreat-grandparents: And\u00f2<br \/>\n(Busuttil, Vitelli, Falanga)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">My <strong>great-grandparents<\/strong>: Francesco And\u00f2<br \/>\n+ Aliotta (Greco + Sciuto)<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">Siblings or 1st cousins?<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">WBU&#8217;s great-grandparents:<br \/>\nBusuttil, Vitelli, Giovanni And\u00f2 + Lucia Falanga<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">My <strong>grandparents<\/strong>: And\u00f2<br \/>\n(Greco)<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">1st or 2nd cousins?<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">WBU grandmother:<br \/>\nWalter Busuttil + Mary And\u00f2, Vitelli + &#8230;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">My <strong>father<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">2nd or 3rd cousins?<br \/>\n(matches in myheritage)<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">WBU parents:<br \/>\nBBU and AMV (both b. ~1930 in Alexandria (Egypt))<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Me<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">3rd or 4th cousins?<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>WBU<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Thus, according to the table above, WBU and I should be<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>3rd cousin, if Francesco And\u00f2 (my great-grandfather, husband of Emanuela Aliotta) &#8211; or one of his brothers &#8211; and Giovanni And\u00f2 (great-grandfather of WBU, husband of Lucia Falanga) &#8211; or one of his brothers &#8211; were brothers,<\/li>\n<li>4th cousin, if Domenico And\u00f2 (my great-great-grandfather, husband of Giuseppa Scuderi) &#8211; or one of his brothers &#8211; and the father of Giovanni And\u00f2 (great-grandfather of WBU, husband of Lucia Falanga) &#8211; or one of his brothers &#8211; were brothers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The younger brother of WBU&#8217;s grandmother, Mary And\u00f2, was Salvatore And\u00f2 (b. 1908), who married Clelia Greco (b. 1910). A relatdness of my Grecos with this Clelia is not confirmed, as of the current status of research.<\/p>\n<h2>Location<\/h2>\n<p>Clearly the MRCA between me and BBU and WBU should be found in Alexandria (Egypt). Either he lived there or, if we are lucky, he was born there and his famnily can be traced back through the books of St. Catherine Cathedral.<\/p>\n<p>In the Latin Cementry of the Holy Land in Alexandria, there are many graves of the And\u00f2 and Falanga families. In particular there are the graves of my Francesco And\u00f2 and his Giovanni And\u00f2.<\/p>\n<h2>Common DNA-Matches<\/h2>\n<p>Following table shows the DNA-matches in common between BBU and me.<\/p>\n<table border=\"1\" width=\"80%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"15%\">Name<\/th>\n<th style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"25%\">relationship to me<\/th>\n<th style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"25%\">relationship to BBU<\/th>\n<th style=\"text-align: center;\">Notes<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>FDC<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">father<br \/>\n(3.537,2 cM 49,9%)<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">2nd-3th cousin<br \/>\n(292,8 cM 4,1%)<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>FAP<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">dautghter<br \/>\n(3.517,2 cM, 49,6%)<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">3th-6th cousin<br \/>\n(94,6 cM, 1,3%)<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>GFE<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">daughter<br \/>\n(3512,3 cM, 49,5%)<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">3th-Dist. cousin<br \/>\n(19,0 cM, 0,3%)<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>DNG<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">brother<br \/>\n(2622,3 cM, 37,0%)<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">5th-7th cousin<br \/>\n(67,1 cM, 1,0%)<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">R.P. Farrugia<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">3th-dist. cousin<br \/>\n(8,9 cM, 0,1%)<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">3th-9th cousin<br \/>\n(67,1 cM, 1,0%)<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">M. Zahra<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">3th-dist. cousin<br \/>\n(18,3 cM, 0,3%)<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">5th-9th cousin<br \/>\n(35,9 cM, 0,5%)<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">D.M. Scicluna<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">3th-dist. cousin<br \/>\n(11,6 cM, 0,2%)<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">5th-9th cousin<br \/>\n(34,4 cM, 0,5%)<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">I\u00d8B<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">3th-dist. cousin<br \/>\n(23,8 cM, 0,3%)<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">3th-dist. cousin<br \/>\n(17,6 cM, 0,3%)<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">A. Cauchi<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">3th-dist. cousin<br \/>\n(11,6 cM, 0,2%)<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">5th-9th cousin<br \/>\n(28,8 cM, 0,4%)<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">D. Gangemi<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">3th-dist. cousin<br \/>\n(23,5 cM, 0,3%)<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">3th-dist. cousin<br \/>\n(11,5 cM, 0,2%)<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">Related maybe through Agata Gangemi (wife of Giuseppe Sciuto, father of Anna Sciuto, my great-grandmother) too?<br \/>\nTo be checked.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">CME<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">3th-dist. cousin<br \/>\n(10,1 cM, 0,1%)<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">3th-dist. cousin<br \/>\n(23,5 cM, 0,3%)<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">See <a href=\"https:\/\/famiglia-greco.eu\/ricerche-in-corso\/the-mercieca-families\/\">The Mercieca Families<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">J. Caruana<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">3th-dist. cousin<br \/>\n(15,8 cM, 0,2%)<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">3th-dist. cousin<br \/>\n(16,2 cM, 0,2%)<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">B. Ferando<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">3th-dist. cousin<br \/>\n(8,6 cM, 0,1%)<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">3th-dist. cousin<br \/>\n(23,3 cM, 0,3%)<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">F. Crowe<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">3th-dist. cousin<br \/>\n(9,3 cM, 0,1%)<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">3th-dist. cousin<br \/>\n(22,1 cM, 0,3%)<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">G. Grech<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">3th-dist. cousin<br \/>\n(8,8 cM, 0,1%)<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">3th-dist. cousin<br \/>\n(19,9 cM, 0,3%)<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">urname common also in Alexandria (Egypt).<br \/>\nManaged by F. Crowe.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">PTA<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">3th-dist. cousin<br \/>\n(10,2 cM, 0,1%)<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">3th-dist. cousin<br \/>\n(18,5 cM, 0,3%)<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">See <a href=\"https:\/\/famiglia-greco.eu\/onomastica\/cognomi\/the-tanti-families\/\">The Tanti Families<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">P.D. Cancellier<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">3th-dist. cousin<br \/>\n(13,4 cM, 0,2%)<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">3th-dist. cousin<br \/>\n(15,2 cM, 0,2%)<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">R. Mangani<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">3th-dist. cousin<br \/>\n(9,1 cM, 0,1%)<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">3th-dist. cousin<br \/>\n(17,4 cM, 0,3%)<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">L. Malmstr\u00f6m<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">3th-dist. cousin<br \/>\n(11,6 cM, 0,2%)<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">3th-dist. cousin<br \/>\n(12,8 cM, 0,2%)<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">M. Cancilla<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">3th-dist. cousin<br \/>\n(10,5 cM, 0,2%)<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">3th-dist. cousin<br \/>\n(12,0 cM, 0,2%)<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">R. Sant<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">3th-dist. cousin<br \/>\n(9,9 cM, 0,1%)<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">3th-dist. cousin<br \/>\n(10,0 cM, 0,1%)<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">Nadine P.<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">3th-dist. cousin<br \/>\n(9,6 cM, 0,1%)<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">3th-dist. cousin<br \/>\n(9,6 cM, 0,1%)<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">L.D. Schrouder<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">3th-dist. cousin<br \/>\n(8,6 cM, 0,1%)<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">3th-dist. cousin<br \/>\n(10,0 cM, 0,1%)<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">A. Miceli<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">3th-dist. cousin<br \/>\n(10,1 cM, 0,1%)<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">3th-dist. cousin<br \/>\n(8,4 cM, 0,1%)<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">A. Leone<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">3th-dist. cousin<br \/>\n(8,5 cM, 0,1%)<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">3th-dist. cousin<br \/>\n(8,0 cM, 0,1%)<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Strange is that PTA doesn&#8217;t match with my father neither with my brother. Probably this is due to the small percentage of DNA that we have in common.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; da revisionare &#8230; BBU, managed by SBU from UK, has a DNA-Match with me on myheritage: 180,3 cM (longest one 38,5 cM) across 7 segments, possible 3th to 5th\u00a0 cousin and with my father, also on myheritage: 292,8 cM (longest one 39,5 cM) across 11 segments, possible 2nd to 3rd\u00a0 cousin as well as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":502,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[117,118,119,120,121,695,122,123,124,125,126,127,128,129,130,131,132,133,134],"class_list":["post-501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-famiglie","tag-busuttil","tag-cancellier","tag-cancilla","tag-canuana","tag-cauchi","tag-corrispondenze-dna","tag-crowe","tag-farrugia","tag-ferando","tag-gangemi","tag-grech","tag-leone","tag-malmstrom","tag-mangani","tag-miceli","tag-sant","tag-schrouder","tag-scicluna","tag-zahra"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertogreco.eu\/genetealogia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertogreco.eu\/genetealogia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertogreco.eu\/genetealogia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertogreco.eu\/genetealogia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertogreco.eu\/genetealogia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/robertogreco.eu\/genetealogia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":873,"href":"https:\/\/robertogreco.eu\/genetealogia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions\/873"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertogreco.eu\/genetealogia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertogreco.eu\/genetealogia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertogreco.eu\/genetealogia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertogreco.eu\/genetealogia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}