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You had to have more than one ancestor taken to the Americas.

I’ve always wondered and searched to see if there were stories passed down in Africa about people stolen during the Slave trade. And this filled me with so much joy❤❤❤

You should, if you haven’t already, send an email message on the Ancestry site to your relatives.

That’s wonderful that you took the DNA test. I’ve always hoped to connect with some distant relatives in Africa, so that we can form a connection. I’m African American.

I've been helping Africans in the diaspora to find their living African relatives using AncestryDNA and 23 & Me. Thank you for sharing this story! I was able to find my living African relatives through AncestryDNA just how you showed. I now know part of my African ancestry and my two of the peoples that I come from.

Thank you so much. You proved a lot with this test and video. It proves to me that if more Africans take the test (especially those in the diaspora) it will help them find their ancestors and their tribes. All those 5-8 cousins of yours along with yourself have the same 3rd or 5th great grandfather which is a very close relation. That’s incredible

Hey, I'm from the diaspora and I also did the DNA test. Unlike you I didn't find hundreds of people from the motherland who shared my DNA, I found 6 with African sounding names amongst the 5000 or so who were related to me. I was shocked to find my original family members 400 years later. I immediately made contact. I tried everything for about 2 years... nothing. In year 3, I tracked down one, after the initial greetings... that was it. Again no communication. My mother said I should leave it. She said "what if they find out that you are rich".....

I am so happy you made this in English. I was able to find some Benin relatives from Whidah/Kingdom of Judah on the Slave Coast. Many who were later taken to Dauphine Island in Alabama. This is exactly what I needed. Thank you so much I wish I could understand the other videos because I have some ancestors from France surnamed Boyette but I will definitely share this one. Blessings

What test did you take

Sorry always amazes me that the African cousins remembered these stories and passed them down for so long hear of the Griots in Senegal I hear can recite tribe histories so far back …. Im wondering do you know what year this ancestor might’ve been taken ? Know the oral history in Africa has no dates but wondering if their was a war going on between tribes around this time ?

Wow this was so emotional 😢 Were you able to connect with any of them?

YOU BRUNG YOUR GREAT UNCLE BACK HOME BY TAKING THE TEST..BLESS YOU.

This made me cry, pls I hope there is a way you can reach out to them

Wow this is amazing 👏. I did my African ancestry test and Ancestry.com test and I am 97% African and I am Balanta from Guinea Bissau 🇬🇼 and Mende from Sierra Leone 🇸🇱 in West Africa on my mother's side and I am Bubi from Equatorial Guinea 🇬🇶 and Ewondo from Cameroon 🇨🇲 on my father's side in Central Africa. I plan to visit one day, as I always wanted to know my African roots. But your story inspires me even more to know if I have relatives in Africa living today. Many blessings to you and I hope you were able to connect with some of your relatives in the African diaspora and peace and love to Gabon 🇬🇦 as well.

Je te découvre. Au plaisir de te lire.

Les cheveux Afro c’est la classe 🙌 trop beau le cover d ton livre j te souhaite plein de courage …

i often think of what it was like for the family members who got heart left behind. makes my heart cry😭

I had met an African woman in England some 9 years ago that said she knew nothing about the slave trade until she came to the UK!

Tell me Alice! Ever heard of Nzambi,or Modimo?? (briefly)the colonial powers gave us the English version of HIM (God)..U can check this out alittle more,, sincerely your spirit has connected to your house roots, your tribal ancestors associate's with the 12 lost tribes of Bantu,or So Ni niNaNi ,chosen people,,, Welcome,home Siemi!!!👋👋👋💥🙏🙏🙏

We love you too. I'm about to receive my ancestry results soon... come to see my channel to the results by this coming friday.Friday.. I may be 75% African and that other percentage.

Thank you for sharing your story and for doing the dna test. Which company did you use? It is amazing that your family history would include a long lost ancestor whom was not heard from and probably kidnapped. Sad. Thank you for looking for him. Peace to you.

Nice video and you English is perfect too

Hi Alice, I am Ivorian and I've had the same experience. I found hundreds of African Americans matches across several DNA platforms, including about 30 4th cousins, some of whom I met. I tell my experience in the video below. I hope that like you and I, many continental Africans do the test and find their family. Great job! ruclips.net/video/YDeUJsHiU0o/видео.html

Thank you for making this video - I'm in search of finding distance relatives. Surname Saddler

Wow. This means your X great-granduncle survived the transatlantic trip and other horrendous atrocities to bear descendants today. Thank you for sharing your story! I hope more people from your same continent test and dig into research to help African Americans trace their way back. Both of my parents have in their AncestryDNA results "Cameroon, Congo & Western Bantu Peoples". I have yet to trace any of my ancestors back across the ocean.

What was the name of the company you used for your DNA test?

Looking at your face I thought YOU were black American 😆 you look just like us. Thank you for caring enough to search for your long lost bantu family on this side. Much love ❤ to you sister.

It’s crazy to think that a family lost a son or a brother with no closure but showing he has descendants means he survived

dont be sad for him. He created a grand legacy! He survived things we cant imagine. He was a worrior.

I was so disappointed when I didn’t match any distant relatives in Africa. Please to my family back on the continent take the test. We are looking to re-connect. Building bridges will only make us stronger !

Great video. I’m waiting on my DNA results. Maybe we may be related. How cool would that be.

this is my first tyme seeing african american who is 100percent african

When u look at it. Salvery wasn't that long ago.

Je souhaite vraiment que vous écriviez votre livre

Thank you so much for this. I’m from the DRC, but my mom’s dad is from the Republic of Congo. There are so many secrets in my family that I’ve been trying to get a DNA test. I’ve been hesitant because of the fact that the results are being sold to big pharma, but after watching this, I’m going to take the test.

You have a story, it would be an excellent thing to contact your family.

Thank you for your video, I am on Ancestry ans I was wondering if one of your matches had the user name of SEMBEV? that is me. Thank you in advance

I thank you for doing your video in English I am a African-American and I off and I always been researching Africa and the slaves trade the middle passage and it's such hot warming to hear you speak of your family and how they have kept their loved one who was taken kidnapped and put into slavery and how they have kept him alive we are the same in so many ways we were born here in the west but our roots are in Africa our I guess thank you for your video thank you for your message

I reached out to a distant African cousin from Nigeria. She's much younger than me and was born and lives in England. She was very confused when I contacted her, she asked me many questions, she kept questioning me about how we could be related if my parents are from Puerto Rico and the British Virgin Islands and all here family is from Nigeria. So, I reminded her of slavery and explained she must have lost some ancestors to slavery centuries ago and that I'm the descendant of one of them. That's when she got excited. I see her in my facebook and look at here pictures and so she does with mine and that's about it for now; maybe I'll meet her one day. Usually when I approach someone on Ancestry it's because I know for sure who is our common ancestor. But in her case, I guess I'll never find out but I'm still very happy that I found her.

More people should do this

Wow so interesting hear there are tribes in west and central Africa that can recite their histories back to the first kings and queens and such this was how Alex Haley found his family in gambia abasing your family remembers that story of the relative who was taken into slavery our ppl are so resilient kinda wish I know my family tribe found out I’m 40% Nigerian

Beautiful story! Thanks for sharing my sista!❤

That's actually pretty crazy. I always wonder how Africans reconciled with the idea that their ancestors were sold away. I know to you it may have been a story but to think of how your great great uncle's siblings and parents dealt with that and knowing that they would never see him again because he was in America. As an African American I thought I would never find out about Africa or from which African countries I came from. I still have not taken a test. I didn't grow up around anyone from Africa. I think I met someone from Nigeria in high school and he was a sub teacher. So Africa and it's many countries were like a concept that I only saw on tv and most movies about Africa surrounded around South Africa I don't know if I knew that AAs didn't come from SA when I was a teen or not. In college, I dated a Ghanian and hung around his friends and it was negative and positive but it was a learning experience because I started to learn about the foods the languages and different tribes. The thing that was hard to relate to Africans on is how race isn't a concept in Africa but it was and is apart of reality in America. Then after college, I really started to learn about each country and what languages they spoke and the major tribes. I even made a video about different African tribes and their attire I did not include Bubis and Fang sorry. I mostly spoke on Fulanis, Mandinkas, Igbos and Yorubas and Ashantis and massai.

Thanks! This is AMAZING! I wish more Africans would do this. We are here in America wanting to connect with our family in Africa.

Do they teach the slave trade in africa?? Or did you come to the states and learned that?

i’m 15 years old and african american and i’m really into wanting to learn my heritage and ancestry so whenever i start working i want to save money and buy me an dna test and know what i am

That's an amazing story sister you should write a book because you actually found your loss uncles relatives God bless

I've been going thru my father's DNA matches. All the 100% African matches have turned out either Igbo or Ewe. I want to have my mother tested to check her side.

wow I've never heard someone from homeland point of view of how they feel about slavery. never thought about it really. eye opener. and im afrolatino and want to take a dna test who knows you may be my cousin lol jk. good video

Glad I found your video. You even look like someone I know... That’s so amazing and hopeful. 🙏🏾