I did it and am connected to central Sudanese people and I showed my results to a colleague, and she is Egyptian/ Sudanese and she ran to another department and brought back 2 other ladies and they spoke another language a little, but said "I told you, she looks just like us..." and hugged me tight and treated me like family every sense ...it felt so emotional fulfilling 💓
@Jwill Business Class Online I am not, keep your pseudo information to yourself. You, people, hate archeology, anthropology, primary sourced history, and DNA because it debunks your beliefs. It doesn't stop you from trying to use it, so you look for confirmation bias instead of following the evidence. The evidence will reveal that people are who from West and Central Africa have nothing to do with Abrahamic faiths. You are a convert and you are confused.
@Jwill Business Class Online Wrong, you need to get outside of the pseudo information. Abrahamic faiths are not indigenous to West Africa, those people are converts who are linked to Sephardic Jews who married into tribes. Those Igbos claim to be related to white Jews with the Cohen marker.
Those who do not believe the Atlantic Slave Trade happened is also saying the pain of Africans who were separated from their family members is non-existent.
Stop babbling dude! The transatlantic slave trade did happen but not how they told everyone and most of them spaces went into the Caribbean or North America!
@@cutime6712 The slave trade happened bro but not the way they claimed it did and most went into the Caribbean, not America! Most Carribeans are Africans and a few are indigenous! Most Black in America are aboriginal but the Caribbean Africans themselves out almost!
@@wisdommasterreviews4712 This is like reaching for a star to prove the sky exists. Whomever did this test and report and designated as being able to find long lost cousins in the U.S. after over 500 years needs to show proof of how they came to these conclusions. There is more diversity in ONE African village than in the entire world. So in essence you can have thousands, even millions of people with pieces of your dna who are not your cousins. Africa is a name Europeans gave that continent and it comes from a Roman. Black Americans are free to call themselves what they want. Most of us understand that land mass was not called Africa until the Europeans came in. Everyone did start from the same place but migrated all over the earth, long before the Atlantic Slave Trade. The earth was one landmass and have it has been proven to have been flooded. It has been proven that EVERY INDIGENOUS people in every corner of this earth who are indigenous descend from Black people. On every continent you will find Black Indigenous, if they have not been wiped out.
Jaaaay! Bam! You did it again 👏🏾. I would love to be b part of this. I an ghanaian born. I live in the UK. Would love to meet my family ripped from me all those years ago 😢
I'm African American from the US. My DNA of 98% is found in people living today in over seven different West African countries including 3% Luhya which is a Bantu tribe that is now in Kenya. My other 2% is Amazonian Native American from Brazil. The Bantu people have migrated to many parts of Africa. I look forward to more people in Africa taking ancestry dna tests so that I can find my cousins living in Africa through my cousin matches!
Did my DNA test through Ancestry some years ago and found so many long lost relatives. Two uncles had children they lost touch with in which my DNA matched. Also, found an entire side of my Mother’s family that we had lost touch with for generations. The DNA is real.
@Apollo Mayaimi You made no argument if you think about it. No ethnic group living on this planet has DNA that is uniquely unique to them/themselves. That's why you build up a database so you can compare it to those who want to get tested.
It's great finding other African American cousins here in the tUS but I also want to find my cousins that live in Africa too. I'm African American from the US. My DNA of 98% is found in people living today in over seven different West African countries including 3% Luhya which is a Bantu tribe that is now in Kenya. My other 2% is Amazonian Native American from Brazil. The Bantu people have migrated to many parts of Africa.
The reason people reject the slave trade is not for lack of prof. It’s just very hard to accept that one is from a continent that one has been taught to despise. It’s shame. Their problem is emotional, not an issue with logic and evidence:
This can be seen by the fact Embid and Serge are not called African ballers, but Mutombo and Bol are. The problem is not evidence and science. You need psychology and psychiatry
Please take an ancestry DNA test to find your cousins that took that test. I'm African American from the US. My DNA of 98% is found in people living today in over seven different West African countries including 3% Luhya which is a Bantu tribe that is now in Kenya. My other 2% is Amazonian Native American from Brazil. The Bantu people have migrated to many parts of Africa.
I loved this video I can wait for my husband and I get a test so we can pass it on to our children I want to connect to all my family especially in Africa!
Great video. I hope more continental Africans or those with direct connections to Africa, can take the genealogy tests. This helps African descendants meet their ancestral relatives. I am first generation Liberian-American and have done it. I am a descendant of indigenous Liberians along with African descendants from Barbados and the United States, who repatriated to Liberia. With my tests, I am connecting with relatives as a result of the transatlantic slave trade and relatives who are connected to my maternal grandmother's side from the Caribbean and United States.
Good morning, oh i had my test results done ,and my 2nd cousin came to my email, it says this is your 2nd cousin, and already knew her and she's my father's niece, so i knew it was really legit, thats what show me right then ,that it was legit! So im African and no one cant ever tell me any difference 🙌
My first cousin took 23andme so did I. We show up as matches. We took Ancestry we matched. Thing is while I knew he was my cousin already. The point is he turned up on both tests as my first cousin.
I am from Winneba as well. And I have taken the test. I came in as mostly Ivory Coast/Ghana, Benin Togo and a bit of Norwegian, Portuguese and Eastern European. Have over 2500 matches, most of which are African American. My maternal Aunt and cousin's took the test as well and they are at the top of my list. This is very legit
I never saw the importance of doing a DNA test. I didn't want to get locked into a particular tribe or culture. I wanted to remain universal to be open to all cultures. However I think I'm going to get a DNA test done. It's time now. Thanks Jay
@Apollo Mayaimi You should also read the rebuttal to Meredith Small's article, who by the way is not a geneticist. Using a phrase from an article which was used out of context doesn't justify the means. Good try though.
I always thought of doing it since years , but I thought to my if that is necessary as an African!? Now because of this video I saw how necessary it is for us Africans to take a dna test so that our brothers and sisters overseas will connect us and we connecting to them .
Jay, I saw a NATODD ON THAT LIST. CAN YOU PROVIDE MORE INFORMATION ON THIS INDIVIDUAL. MY FAMILY HAS HISTORY FROM ALL OF THESE AREAS. ITS POSSIBLE HE MAY BE RELATED
@Apollo Mayaimi I did read Meredith's article and it's evident she views the DNA testing with an anthropological eye. She clearly knows the DNA tests seeks to determine only ancestral heritage and not the other components which make up one's ethnicity.
I did my dna through ancestry a couple of years back, and since then, results updated 3 times, as more people have sent in for dna results. My largest percentage comes from the region now called Nigeria, but after that, Cameroon Congo and southeast Bantu regions. I also found the dirty footprints of the Portuguese, which according to Ancestry, entered my bloodline in the early 1700’s, and possibly earlier (of course, Europeans put their foot in it, too😒😒😒). I think of my ancestors who suffered through, yet persevered, so that I have life today. I already knew I came from strong men and women, but tracking things back to Mama Africa is so amazingly wonderful to me! I’ve had a relative travel to Ghana, and he said everywhere he looked, he was seeing people that looked just like people in his family. No doubt about it. Even having smaller percentages from Benin & Togo, Mali, Ghana and Senegal shows that my ancestors were kidnapped and stolen away from different regions of West and Central Africa, and I’m so very pleased to know this history, much less mysterious now! So much more to learn. Thank you for being one of many lights shining through!
@@cutime6712 What a silly and immature comment. I’ve been able to document two lines of my family tree back SEVEN generations to the early 1800’s, located the “owner” and plantation of one of my ancestors, and points of entry to the States from Cuba of another. I and members of my family have found relations we did not know of previously and have been able to confirm by cross verifying through census records, birth and death certificates, wills, military records, and even some pictures. I’ve been able to pierce the veil that had previously prevented going back any more than 3 generations, which as a descendant of survivors of this hypocritical country’s chattel slave system. I consider it money (which is mine; I’ve earned it by working for it) well spent. What you choose to do for yourself is YOUR business, and what I choose to do with MY money is mine.
@@cutime6712 And you have proved your own lack of knowledge, science, and history. Like I said, childish. One day you may grow up enough to realize it.
@Apollo Mayaimi It was a hot mess…which is why they sent out conquistadors and colonizers to steal from others, since they’d already despoiled their own lands.
@Apollo Mayaimi That’s an interesting designation. I will agree that, at least on the Y chromosome side, there’s plenty of (forced) “interaction” from various European oppressors - I have Portuguese, Spanish, and English, for the most part, impacting my genetics, but I believe the older impact was from Portuguese, which were greatly involved in the slave trade from West Africa and the greater Cameroon/ Congo/Angola area especially back in the 16th and 17th centuries. One of my woman ancestors in my paternal line was the child of a black woman and either plantation owner or his son (it was unclear which, in the documentation I saw, but it was published record in the archives.) We know abuses happened up and down the line, through 400 years (give or take), but “black Europeans”….what Europeans are these, large enough in population to seed 90% of African descendants in North America…and when did they do it?
One thing I didn't understand was my father side black foot Indian. My mother side Cherokee and none of that showed up. Question how can you get DNA from the dead unless you dig them up. I understand you can get it from the living. So how can they connect us to Africa. I talked to the Elders that are still alive and we have Absolutely no connection to Africa none we are the indigenous people to the Americas period.
I have this deep searing feeling that in addition to connecting us to people and regions, these dna database companies are searching for certain strains of dna to make biological weapons and medicine. Happened before numerous times.
I did 23andme. I’m 47% Igbo of 91% African and 2.1% Asian. Yes, 23andme gives the ethnic group if they are highly sure. Not everyone has the tribe. I did research because I was shocked my % of one ethnic group is so high. I found the igbo are well documented in Va and the Carolina’s. I can’t believe I never knew this. So far I have no dna matches that are igbo. Hopefully soon.
I did not get a tribe or an update but once I paid for the 23andme + I see that some of my other AA matches have recent ancestry locations in Igboland Imo, Anambra,Enugu, and Abia states. I indirectly found Igbo matches who used 23andme using gedmatch. I found 3 of them. 10 cM 12 cM 13cM. Most of my Igbo matches though are on Ancestry
I believe in DNA, we were also taught about the slave trade in school in Ghana and there is evidence it happened. The interesting thing about Paul’s results and the matches is that there are people with Ghanaian surnames. I know Addo Yobo’s in Ghana and some living in New York. His shows also possible link to Ghanaian immigrants to all over the world. Ghanaians do travel to seek greener pastures, get married, had children and these ancestory can be traced.
If you live in the US you can order a kit such as 23andme or Ancestry DNA. They have Ghanaians sampled so that's a good place to start once you get the kit you just follow the instructions. Now if you live in Africa you may have to get a relative who lives in a country they ship to to take your sample when they visit home. It's just spit into a tube mail and wait
Brother I comend and I salute you for what you are doing proving just like I does that is possible to find your roots I Africa whit your relative whit ancestry dna or 23 and me whit out needed to spend 500 for african ancestry this is prove that is possible keep your good work and hope other people will be inspired by this
Can you ask Paul to say hi to Katumi Comfort Madah from Winneba. Mary and I are friends of hers, and she hosted us a few times in her place. Katumi teaches at the University in Winneba.
My Ghanaian fiance looks like a Black American man. He literally had our phenotype. His skin is more milk chocolate than dark. His mom is from Dixcove where Fort Metal Cross is. I told him that he just may have Black American ancestry
Do you know where in Ghana his dad is from by any chance? Or rather what ethnic group. The name Eshun got me curious as it means seventh born child and was usually given to 7th borns as one of their names and eventually became a surname among some groups
15:00 E. Kotogbor and his sister(?) D. Kotogbor are in my mother's DNA matches. Do you know if they are Ewe or not? He never replied to my message inquiring.
The name Hayford is also from the area where he comes from. My best friend here in the west is from the area, and his name is Hayford. The name Hayford is actually from there central region as he said.
DNA test don’t really matter as long anyone that is black African diaspora it’s all from west African ´any one can chosen any nation ! But we knew Nigerian millions has larger population taken from d more 300 tribes of Nigerian mostly d southern Nigerian
A lot of Fanti were sold into slavery, and sold people from other clans to the Dutch, British, Portuguese and Danish. They were sold largely by the Ashante nation
The Fantes were the first people in Ghana to engage in slavery due to their relationship with the British invaders. They gave the British a foothold in Ghana to seek protection from the Ashantis. When the British were able to defeat the Ashantis in a battle with the help of the Fantes, the Ashanti captives would be enslaved and send mostly to the Carribean and Southern USA in the Louisiana area. Later when the British would forment tribal wars and the Fantes lost, they would enslave the Fantes as well. They were playing one tribe against the other to get captives for enslavement
i am a doubter but you approach is good. however better to not even make a video pre-stating who he is. maybe do a vid with someone else but not say where the person is . what factors are in the dna to tell them any location? make a further research vid on the science of matching dna. maybe find an African dna biologist /scientist.i mean show their microscope samples. what do they match? also our dba changes regularly more variation is added.
Mr Cameron, the ga people are the indigenous people of Accra, and their language is the native language of Accra... the migration from present day Nigeria is an ancient migration which more than thousand years. So they are the indigenous people of Accra, and lands of Accra belongs to them.
Who told you that it was originally called Ethiopia? According to many historians (that’s who), the land mass we know as Africa had several names it was referred to by Europeans. From Alkubam to Ethiopia to Africa, this land mass has had many references. Since the vast majority of the original inhabitants didn’t see the world through European eyes, they didn’t even see “Africa” beyond their local region and didn’t identify it as a continent. Additionally, there was no separation between “Africa” and “Asia” until the late 1800’s when a European, man made waterway was created just like the borders to all of the countries. With all of that said, you can call yourself whatever you like. The land mass we now know as Africa is where many heavily melanated people descend from.
It has been said that they migrated from the areas we now know as Nigeria, Benin and Togo. Btw many people who are in various places in Africa, migrated from somewhere else. If you have information to the contrary, please share it.
@@basgah4292 It’s a true account of the GaDangme /Ewe people , there are GaDangmes communities still in Togo, Benin and Nigeria. We share common traditions, like naming ceremony, funeral and festivals. The Yoruba of Nigeria ethnic group even have words that are intelligible to the GaDangme people of Ghana . This historical link is undeniable
@kris Kwame Give your reasons why you believe what is stated here is 💯 percent incorrect! You are an aimless shooter, l guess ? you shoot first and next you try to aim at the intended target . Go to any library in Ghana, Togo, Benin and Nigeria, this information is there for you to read , and if you care ! 🤨
@@jaycameronofficial bro the Gas migrated to present day Ghana from Ille Ife in Nigeria, and that is their factual history. They passed through the lands of present day Benin and Togo. The lands the Gas occupy in Ghana now belonged to the Akwamus which later got into the hands of the Akyems and subsequently came under the Ashantis under Opoku Ware I. The Danes who were then in control of the Christianburgh Castle were paying rent to the Ashantis then. There's a reason why there are some Ashanti names in Ga names with a prominent one who is now deceased called Asante plus some other name I don't remember now. That man was a Minister under Kwame Nnrumah presidency
DNA test don’t really matter as long anyone that is black African diaspora it’s all from west African ´any one can chosen any nation ! But we knew Nigerian millions has larger population taken from d more 300 tribes of Nigerian mostly d southern Nigerian
I did it and am connected to central Sudanese people and I showed my results to a colleague, and she is Egyptian/ Sudanese and she ran to another department and brought back 2 other ladies and they spoke another language a little, but said "I told you, she looks just like us..." and hugged me tight and treated me like family every sense ...it felt so emotional fulfilling 💓
I did it, and I'm related to Africans, Caribbeans, Afro Latinos, and my fellow Black Americans.
@Jwill Business Class Online I am not, keep your pseudo information to yourself. You, people, hate archeology, anthropology, primary sourced history, and DNA because it debunks your beliefs.
It doesn't stop you from trying to use it, so you look for confirmation bias instead of following the evidence. The evidence will reveal that people are who from West and Central Africa have nothing to do with Abrahamic faiths. You are a convert and you are confused.
@Jwill Business Class Online Wrong, you need to get outside of the pseudo information. Abrahamic faiths are not indigenous to West Africa, those people are converts who are linked to Sephardic Jews who married into tribes. Those Igbos claim to be related to white Jews with the Cohen marker.
Those who do not believe the Atlantic Slave Trade happened is also saying the pain of Africans who were separated from their family members is non-existent.
S.A Smith
You said it all!
To deny the Atlantic Slave trade is to deny it all!
Thank you for that statement.
Stop babbling dude! The transatlantic slave trade did happen but not how they told everyone and most of them spaces went into the Caribbean or North America!
@@cutime6712 The slave trade happened bro but not the way they claimed it did and most went into the Caribbean, not America! Most Carribeans are Africans and a few are indigenous! Most Black in America are aboriginal but the Caribbean Africans themselves out almost!
@@wisdommasterreviews4712
This is like reaching for a star to prove the sky exists. Whomever did this test and report and designated as being able to find long lost cousins in the U.S. after over 500 years needs to show proof of how they came to these conclusions. There is more diversity in ONE African village than in the entire world. So in essence you can have thousands, even millions of people with pieces of your dna who are not your cousins. Africa is a name Europeans gave that continent and it comes from a Roman. Black Americans are free to call themselves what they want.
Most of us understand that land mass was not called Africa until the Europeans came in. Everyone did start from the same place but migrated all over the earth, long before the Atlantic Slave Trade. The earth was one landmass and have it has been proven to have been flooded. It has been proven that EVERY INDIGENOUS people in every corner of this earth who are indigenous descend from Black people. On every continent you will find Black Indigenous, if they have not been wiped out.
@@wisdommasterreviews4712 stop inhaling the white substance. It messes up your brains
The children’s cheerful voices on the background brought life to the result reveal. Thanks for sharing
Jaaaay! Bam! You did it again 👏🏾. I would love to be b part of this. I an ghanaian born. I live in the UK. Would love to meet my family ripped from me all those years ago 😢
I'm African American from the US. My DNA of 98% is found in people living today in over seven different West African countries including 3% Luhya which is a Bantu tribe that is now in Kenya. My other 2% is Amazonian Native American from Brazil. The Bantu people have migrated to many parts of Africa.
I look forward to more people in Africa taking ancestry dna tests so that I can find my cousins living in Africa through my cousin matches!
Did my DNA test through Ancestry some years ago and found so many long lost relatives. Two uncles had children they lost touch with in which my DNA matched. Also, found an entire side of my Mother’s family that we had lost touch with for generations. The DNA is real.
@Apollo Mayaimi You made no argument if you think about it. No ethnic group living on this planet has DNA that is uniquely unique to them/themselves. That's why you build up a database so you can compare it to those who want to get tested.
Ok. Thank you
I've been saying this for some time now, the only way we will find our family is to have test done by the family@ home in Africa.
It's great finding other African American cousins here in the tUS but I also want to find my cousins that live in Africa too.
I'm African American from the US. My DNA of 98% is found in people living today in over seven different West African countries including 3% Luhya which is a Bantu tribe that is now in Kenya. My other 2% is Amazonian Native American from Brazil. The Bantu people have migrated to many parts of Africa.
Most Definitely.
Waaw....we're all mother Africas children...COME BACK HOME..❤️❤️
No. lol
The reason people reject the slave trade is not for lack of prof. It’s just very hard to accept that one is from a continent that one has been taught to despise. It’s shame. Their problem is emotional, not an issue with logic and evidence:
This can be seen by the fact Embid and Serge are not called African ballers, but Mutombo and Bol are. The problem is not evidence and science. You need psychology and psychiatry
Wow that's amazing..I would love to see the guy and see the resemblance..
I'm a Ghanaian but when I took the 23andme DNA test, I found a lot of distant cousins in the Americas, the Caribbean, and a few others in Europe.
Yes bro my family is Caribbean Grenada to be exact and I’m like 32 % Ghanaian Sierra Leone
@@garthyahudahandrews8504 Some of them connected to me and will be visiting us here in Ghana soon.
I found a Ghanaian match on 23andme. I'm AA
Please take an ancestry DNA test to find your cousins that took that test. I'm African American from the US. My DNA of 98% is found in people living today in over seven different West African countries including 3% Luhya which is a Bantu tribe that is now in Kenya. My other 2% is Amazonian Native American from Brazil. The Bantu people have migrated to many parts of Africa.
So cool!
wow its like Paul is the root and the diasporians the branches. we need to get back to our roots..love this video!!
I loved this video I can wait for my husband and I get a test so we can pass it on to our children I want to connect to all my family especially in Africa!
So much for that we are not the same talk we are One..........
This is an interesting way of bringing reality to the deniers of the middle passage.
U won't go looking for cousin, cousin come looking for u.
Great video. I hope more continental Africans or those with direct connections to Africa, can take the genealogy tests. This helps African descendants meet their ancestral relatives. I am first generation Liberian-American and have done it. I am a descendant of indigenous Liberians along with African descendants from Barbados and the United States, who repatriated to Liberia. With my tests, I am connecting with relatives as a result of the transatlantic slave trade and relatives who are connected to my maternal grandmother's side from the Caribbean and United States.
I personally know Nicole Norton!
I’ll send her the link to the video. This is amazing!
Whoa!!!!! Let’s make the connect.
That's amazing. If both Paul and Nicole could do their family trees they maybe able to determine the ancestor that binds them.
This is so wonderful and someone USA is very blessed to connect with this brother. I long to connect with my African roots.
I like the perspective from Africa and then the connection to the diaspora interesting, good information.
This perspective is extremely interesting!
Good morning, oh i had my test results done ,and my 2nd cousin came to my email, it says this is your 2nd cousin, and already knew her and she's my father's niece, so i knew it was really legit, thats what show me right then ,that it was legit! So im African and no one cant ever tell me any difference 🙌
Your fathers niece is your first counsin
@@kaln6973 my second cousin, her mother is my 1st cousin
@@kaln6973 her mother is my 1st cousin and she's my second cousin
@@anikacorbett7714 ok
My first cousin took 23andme so did I. We show up as matches. We took Ancestry we matched. Thing is while I knew he was my cousin already. The point is he turned up on both tests as my first cousin.
I am from Winneba as well. And I have taken the test. I came in as mostly Ivory Coast/Ghana, Benin Togo and a bit of Norwegian, Portuguese and Eastern European. Have over 2500 matches, most of which are African American.
My maternal Aunt and cousin's took the test as well and they are at the top of my list. This is very legit
Thanks for sharing
I pray we get all DNA results from all our African ancestors wherever they are....
This is interesting. I am an African from east Africa. This DNA has left me wondering. Goodness
23&Me will give you the maternal and paternal haplogroups as well as DNA matches. Ancestry doesn't give that.
Right.
Wow..love the end intro!😇😇❤ Wow got to get the book for my children!
Jay appreciate you champ.
I have been waiting for this.
I never saw the importance of doing a DNA test. I didn't want to get locked into a particular tribe or culture. I wanted to remain universal to be open to all cultures. However I think I'm going to get a DNA test done. It's time now. Thanks Jay
@Apollo Mayaimi You should also read the rebuttal to Meredith Small's article, who by the way is not a geneticist. Using a phrase from an article which was used out of context doesn't justify the means. Good try though.
I always thought of doing it since years , but I thought to my if that is necessary as an African!? Now because of this video I saw how necessary it is for us Africans to take a dna test so that our brothers and sisters overseas will connect us and we connecting to them .
Jay, I saw a NATODD ON THAT LIST. CAN YOU PROVIDE MORE INFORMATION ON THIS INDIVIDUAL. MY FAMILY HAS HISTORY FROM ALL OF THESE AREAS. ITS POSSIBLE HE MAY BE RELATED
I just mailed 📬 mine off today!
@Apollo Mayaimi I did read Meredith's article and it's evident she views the DNA testing with an anthropological eye. She clearly knows the DNA tests seeks to determine only ancestral heritage and not the other components which make up one's ethnicity.
Can you connect with one of the connections in the USA with an English sounding name to see their history? This would be so interesting.
I did my dna through ancestry a couple of years back, and since then, results updated 3 times, as more people have sent in for dna results. My largest percentage comes from the region now called Nigeria, but after that, Cameroon Congo and southeast Bantu regions. I also found the dirty footprints of the Portuguese, which according to Ancestry, entered my bloodline in the early 1700’s, and possibly earlier (of course, Europeans put their foot in it, too😒😒😒). I think of my ancestors who suffered through, yet persevered, so that I have life today. I already knew I came from strong men and women, but tracking things back to Mama Africa is so amazingly wonderful to me! I’ve had a relative travel to Ghana, and he said everywhere he looked, he was seeing people that looked just like people in his family. No doubt about it. Even having smaller percentages from Benin & Togo, Mali, Ghana and Senegal shows that my ancestors were kidnapped and stolen away from different regions of West and Central Africa, and I’m so very pleased to know this history, much less mysterious now! So much more to learn. Thank you for being one of many lights shining through!
@@cutime6712 What a silly and immature comment. I’ve been able to document two lines of my family tree back SEVEN generations to the early 1800’s, located the “owner” and plantation of one of my ancestors, and points of entry to the States from Cuba of another. I and members of my family have found relations we did not know of previously and have been able to confirm by cross verifying through census records, birth and death certificates, wills, military records, and even some pictures. I’ve been able to pierce the veil that had previously prevented going back any more than 3 generations, which as a descendant of survivors of this hypocritical country’s chattel slave system. I consider it money (which is mine; I’ve earned it by working for it) well spent. What you choose to do for yourself is YOUR business, and what I choose to do with MY money is mine.
@@cutime6712 And you have proved your own lack of knowledge, science, and history. Like I said, childish. One day you may grow up enough to realize it.
@Apollo Mayaimi It was a hot mess…which is why they sent out conquistadors and colonizers to steal from others, since they’d already despoiled their own lands.
@Apollo Mayaimi What is an “FBA”?
@Apollo Mayaimi That’s an interesting designation. I will agree that, at least on the Y chromosome side, there’s plenty of (forced) “interaction” from various European oppressors - I have Portuguese, Spanish, and English, for the most part, impacting my genetics, but I believe the older impact was from Portuguese, which were greatly involved in the slave trade from West Africa and the greater Cameroon/ Congo/Angola area especially back in the 16th and 17th centuries. One of my woman ancestors in my paternal line was the child of a black woman and either plantation owner or his son (it was unclear which, in the documentation I saw, but it was published record in the archives.) We know abuses happened up and down the line, through 400 years (give or take), but “black Europeans”….what Europeans are these, large enough in population to seed 90% of African descendants in North America…and when did they do it?
This is so interesting jay!!
Add this to ur program
Jay knows so much about Ghana
I did ancestry DNA test 47% Nigerian
One thing I didn't understand was my father side black foot Indian. My mother side Cherokee and none of that showed up. Question how can you get DNA from the dead unless you dig them up. I understand you can get it from the living. So how can they connect us to Africa. I talked to the Elders that are still alive and we have Absolutely no connection to Africa none we are the indigenous people to the Americas period.
I have this deep searing feeling that in addition to connecting us to people and regions, these dna database companies are searching for certain strains of dna to make biological weapons and medicine.
Happened before numerous times.
People get their blood checked by their doctors all the time, what's to stop them taking your DNA, if THEY are as sinister as you indicate?
Your doctor could have swiped your DNA several times though.
I’m shocked that this comment made it through.
Agreed but as our host stated before.
We have given up our DNA unknowingly. They already have what they need.
@@Diligently2U If you were born in a hospital, or ever did blood work your genetic material is already in some place.
Thank you for this! 💎
I did 23andme. I’m 47% Igbo of 91% African and 2.1% Asian. Yes, 23andme gives the ethnic group if they are highly sure. Not everyone has the tribe. I did research because I was shocked my % of one ethnic group is so high. I found the igbo are well documented in Va and the Carolina’s. I can’t believe I never knew this. So far I have no dna matches that are igbo. Hopefully soon.
I did not get a tribe or an update but once I paid for the 23andme + I see that some of my other AA matches have recent ancestry locations in Igboland Imo, Anambra,Enugu, and Abia states. I indirectly found Igbo matches who used 23andme using gedmatch. I found 3 of them. 10 cM 12 cM 13cM. Most of my Igbo matches though are on Ancestry
I believe in DNA, we were also taught about the slave trade in school in Ghana and there is evidence it happened. The interesting thing about Paul’s results and the matches is that there are people with Ghanaian surnames. I know Addo Yobo’s in Ghana and some living in New York. His shows also possible link to Ghanaian immigrants to all over the world. Ghanaians do travel to seek greener pastures, get married, had children and these ancestory can be traced.
I am one curious guy and wanna understand my family or ancestry tree. how do I do it? what do I need to do?
If you live in the US you can order a kit such as 23andme or Ancestry DNA. They have Ghanaians sampled so that's a good place to start once you get the kit you just follow the instructions. Now if you live in Africa you may have to get a relative who lives in a country they ship to to take your sample when they visit home. It's just spit into a tube mail and wait
Now I want to do the test 🥺
Brother I comend and I salute you for what you are doing proving just like I does that is possible to find your roots I Africa whit your relative whit ancestry dna or 23 and me whit out needed to spend 500 for african ancestry this is prove that is possible keep your good work and hope other people will be inspired by this
Hey jay nice 👍 one you’re doing the lords work
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Excellent episode.
Ghana is a mixed of different people who migrated to the regions. I am Ewe from Keta migrated generations ago. I will like to take the test too.
Correct, My dad is Yoruba and I got 35% Nigerian, my mum is Ashanti and I got 32% Ghanaian, the other 33% is Benin/Togo
Nice one there 👍
Can you ask Paul to say hi to Katumi Comfort Madah from Winneba.
Mary and I are friends of hers, and she hosted us a few times in her place.
Katumi teaches at the University in Winneba.
I would also like to do the DNA test
Well there's also African ancestry DNA test as well..
We are family, and we should have all our brothers with us!!!😎 I mean All!!!
Absolutely.
Wineba is guan and the first nation and spread North to the boarders of Libya.
He’s handsome. I should do this… i Will have lots of surprises.
Do they have DNA samples from East and Southern Africa?
We are waiting on the results from someone from Ethiopia
@@jaycameronofficial I’m Kenyan and I would like to do it some day just for fun and out of curiosity
My Heritage is more valuable to me for the black ancestry stand point. It showed me more DNA and the location that my people came from in Africa.
I had a DNA test which was 20% Nigeria 18% Ivory Coast & Ghana 4% Senegal 4%Benin&Togo 2% Wales 9% Ireland ,what does this mean?
My Ghanaian fiance looks like a Black American man. He literally had our phenotype. His skin is more milk chocolate than dark. His mom is from Dixcove where Fort Metal Cross is.
I told him that he just may have Black American ancestry
Do you know where in Ghana his dad is from by any chance? Or rather what ethnic group. The name Eshun got me curious as it means seventh born child and was usually given to 7th borns as one of their names and eventually became a surname among some groups
DAM YOU GUYS LOOK TOTALLY DIFFERENT WOW
15:00 E. Kotogbor and his sister(?) D. Kotogbor are in my mother's DNA matches. Do you know if they are Ewe or not? He never replied to my message inquiring.
Yes they are GA and Ewe tribal people.
Great
The name Hayford is also from the area where he comes from. My best friend here in the west is from the area, and his name is Hayford. The name Hayford is actually from there central region as he said.
DNA test don’t really matter as long anyone that is black African diaspora it’s all from west African ´any one can chosen any nation ! But we knew Nigerian millions has larger population taken from d more 300 tribes of Nigerian mostly d southern Nigerian
Will Paul connect with them
A lot of Fanti were sold into slavery, and sold people from other clans to the Dutch, British, Portuguese and Danish. They were sold largely by the Ashante nation
That's not true, no one sold anyone ok,it was a genocide of the black people, do your diligent research
Well documented.
The Fantes were the first people in Ghana to engage in slavery due to their relationship with the British invaders. They gave the British a foothold in Ghana to seek protection from the Ashantis. When the British were able to defeat the Ashantis in a battle with the help of the Fantes, the Ashanti captives would be enslaved and send mostly to the Carribean and Southern USA in the Louisiana area. Later when the British would forment tribal wars and the Fantes lost, they would enslave the Fantes as well. They were playing one tribe against the other to get captives for enslavement
i am a doubter but you approach is good. however better to not even make a video pre-stating who he is. maybe do a vid with someone else but not say where the person is . what factors are in the dna to tell them any location? make a further research vid on the science of matching dna. maybe find an African dna biologist /scientist.i mean show their microscope samples. what do they match? also our dba changes regularly more variation is added.
one day, i will do the dna testing
How can I get my done I am from Ghana 🇬🇭
This test l et us realize so many history are lost
Robinson he might be kin to America cause Ghana married into American Indians
You and Paul have the same type of nose. Wow you can take the African out of Africa but not Africa out of the African.
Mr Cameron, the ga people are the indigenous people of Accra, and their language is the native language of Accra... the migration from present day Nigeria is an ancient migration which more than thousand years. So they are the indigenous people of Accra, and lands of Accra belongs to them.
And another thing, Africa was originally called Ethiopia so we would be Ethiopian and not African. Do your genealogy.
Who told you that it was originally called Ethiopia?
According to many historians (that’s who), the land mass we know as Africa had several names it was referred to by Europeans. From Alkubam to Ethiopia to Africa, this land mass has had many references. Since the vast majority of the original inhabitants didn’t see the world through European eyes, they didn’t even see “Africa” beyond their local region and didn’t identify it as a continent. Additionally, there was no separation between “Africa” and “Asia” until the late 1800’s when a European, man made waterway was created just like the borders to all of the countries. With all of that said, you can call yourself whatever you like. The land mass we now know as Africa is where many heavily melanated people descend from.
@@jaycameronofficial No one told me that, I actually seen a map with Ethiopia on it but it was spelled Ithiopia.
@@jaycameronofficial Some say that is was called Alkebulan but it wasn't Africa. That is new.
@@He_Knows7 Who created the map? Who gave it those names? Who or what is the source of the information?
Who the hell said Ga are from Togo and Nigeria? That’s 100% incorrect
It has been said that they migrated from the areas we now know as Nigeria, Benin and Togo. Btw many people who are in various places in Africa, migrated from somewhere else. If you have information to the contrary, please share it.
Ga migrated from Ile-Ife in Nigeria to present day Ghana
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It’s a true account of the GaDangme /Ewe people , there are GaDangmes communities still in Togo, Benin and Nigeria. We share common traditions, like naming ceremony, funeral and festivals. The Yoruba of Nigeria ethnic group even have words that are intelligible to the GaDangme people of Ghana . This historical link is undeniable
@kris Kwame
Give your reasons why you believe what is stated here is 💯 percent incorrect! You are an aimless shooter, l guess ? you shoot first and next you try to aim at the intended target .
Go to any library in Ghana, Togo, Benin and Nigeria, this information is there for you to read , and if you care ! 🤨
@@jaycameronofficial bro the Gas migrated to present day Ghana from Ille Ife in Nigeria, and that is their factual history. They passed through the lands of present day Benin and Togo. The lands the Gas occupy in Ghana now belonged to the Akwamus which later got into the hands of the Akyems and subsequently came under the Ashantis under Opoku Ware I. The Danes who were then in control of the Christianburgh Castle were paying rent to the Ashantis then. There's a reason why there are some Ashanti names in Ga names with a prominent one who is now deceased called Asante plus some other name I don't remember now. That man was a Minister under Kwame Nnrumah presidency
The children’s cheerful voices in the background brought life to the result reveal. Thanks for sharing
DNA test don’t really matter as long anyone that is black African diaspora it’s all from west African ´any one can chosen any nation ! But we knew Nigerian millions has larger population taken from d more 300 tribes of Nigerian mostly d southern Nigerian