This is the copy of a message I sent to someone who is a direct descendant of the same great grandfather:
"" Hi Marika!: I was checking Cecil B. De Mile and I found you, but Geni report does not reflect our supposed blood relationship, we are both grandchildren of Henrique de Borgonha, conde de Portucale, as given by Geni, instead gives this one:
“Marika Hakola is your 18th cousin 6 times removed's wife's 22nd cousin 6 times removed.”, not a blood link… How unexpected.. Best regards, Sergio Alves (what are we from the link of this common grandfather?
You
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Victor Hugo Alves Vergara
your father
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V. Rinne
his son
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M. Hakola
his daughter
Marika Hakola is Henrique de Borgonha, conde de Portucale's 28th great granddaughter
Henrique de Borgonha, conde de Portucale is your 29th great grandfather.
You
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Victor Hugo Alves Vergara
your father
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Afonso I o Conquistador, rei de Portugal
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Henrique de Borgonha, conde de Portucale
his father
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Hello Sergio, I see you're now following me, be welcome to do so. I checked our path and I see there is an indirect relationship between us. Sometimes the paths differ depending on the curator or manager of the person you're interested in. Geni's Search engine tries to follow the shortest path. Sometimes it happens that more important bloodlinks are ignored. All that gets corrected with time, as the merges take place. In order to do that you must be aware of the "matching" profiles you're being informed of. I checked the "de Blois" name, with which you have a link, and also Alfonso I o Conquistador who is also one of my great grandfathers. That means there should be a more direct bloodlink between us. It also happens that when you are investigating something, the existing links you have get distorted, the way to correct that is to go person by person, father to son, or mother to son until you relocate the old path. It requires patience but it works. It also helps to use the information of other genealogical networks such a Geneanet, Ancestry, etc. Anyhow, I find Geni perhaps the best and swiftest of them all. Have a good day !
Hello Sergio,
yes I am Venezuelan, from caracas, my mother is from Bogotá, and yes, Cristina Ferrero Tamayo (+) was my aunt, she died some 10 years ago. She was a sociologist and writer, very bright. She was the youngest of the Ferrero Tamayo's, my father is Gustavo Ferrero Tamayo (89), architect and Urban Planner. If you look me up in FACEBOOK as Gustavo Ferrero you will see pictures of the 11 brothers in 1938. Why should you have heard of them, where are you from ? My father was a good friend of Roberto Burle Marx and Oscar Niemeyer. I have books in my library autographed by them, I presume you're Brazilian, by the way we have a relationship with Pedro I and also Leopoldine. Fondest regards, Gustavo.
Gustavo que pequenho es el mundo, si, mi madre me dijo que conocio a tu tia cuando recien llego a Venezuela en los setentas, y que tu tia le ensenho a escribier el curriculum al estilo que se usaba en Venezuela, por eso es que yo oi de ella y todavia me acordaba. Te busque en facebook pero hay cuatro, y no se pueden ver las fotos de ninguno o no hay fotos de familia. Un abrazo Gustavo.
En estos dias ando super ocupado, por eso a veces no contesto con la premura que quisiera. Mi padre y mi madre son uruguayos, pero mi padre tiene un tal 100% "brasileiro", su madre nunca hablo espanhol sin acento, y el abuelo de mi padre era brasilero, en fin, por todos lados es de apellidos o brasileros o espanholes, pero del Brasil, los Vergara. El asunto es que la zona de Cerro Largo y Treinta y Tres, en una de las fronteras con Brasil estaba poblada 100% por brasileros (o brasilenhos), eran la misma gente que en Rio Grande do Sul, la frontera no existia...Tengo un libro que habla de ellos, y de un tatara abuelo paterno dice que venia de la corte de Rio, y otras cosas, pero no tengo de el mas info genealogica anterior, pero si que habia comprado muchisima tierra, 1800"s...David Fernandes/z de Soto/Souto,ese es el que quiero investigar...
El mundo es muy pequeño Sergio, Mi tía se retiró a vivir sus últimos años en un sitio alto desde donde se veía el mar. Ella tuvo sólo una hija, Carmen, a quien veo poco porque no vive en Caracas. Allí escribió sus últimos trabajos y vivió, por cierto, con un Uruguayo quien también murió ya. Yo tengo 62 años, soy arquitecto me gradué en Bogotá y mi esposa es de allá. Voy a desbloquear FB para que puedas acceder a las fotos. En mensaje privado te enviaré mas información, Un abrazo y saludo muy cordial desde esta tierra con preocupaciones que esperamos comenzar a disipar el 7 de Octubre de este año.