More testing new tools

In my last post I wrote about MyHeritage's new GAIA tool, and while I had intended to test it over the weekend, I ended up testing a not-yet-public tool built on current AI platforms. This is pretty cool, I can't yet write in detail about this. This new tool is a set of prompts, but seems quite powerful in digging into ethnicity estimates and ancestral journeys across the various testing companies, and highlighting areas worth further exploration.

On MyHeritage, one of my genetic groups is Chileans in Chile. This makes sense as my 3rd-great-grandfather Gabriel Vasquez was born in Valparaiso, Chile in 1838. I know the names of his parents from his Informacion Matrimonial in Hermosillo, Sonora in 1863 - Jose Vasquez and Agustina Rojas. There are signs that further back, a maternal line ancestor of Agustina may have been indigenous, but I don't know how far back. Jose's line most likely points to the Basque Country, and the MyHeritage genetic group says that between 1750-1800, top places of origin for this group includes Cadiz in Andalusia, Campiña del Pisuerga (Valladolid) in Castille and Leon, and Biscay and Gipuzkoa in the Basque Country. This gives me some new leads to follow for possible connections to the Vasquez line.