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@@emmanuelervin5035 Your negative energy sucks. I haven't seen anyone that is mostly African claiming they aren't black in any of these DNA videos. If a person is 85% African and 15% European they are mixed. Period. That doesn't mean they don't identify as black. My son is essentially 1/3 African, 1/3 European and 1/3Native American and he identifies as black as do I. Is he not black enough for YOU? What about me? It's ignorant and lame to try to accuse someone of denying they are black when they never even made the claim. Who tf are YOU to tell someone how to identify anyway? You are just an angry and hateful lame imo. Btw, send add links of mostly black Africans denying they are black.
@@rogerwilliams4742 So to tell black people to love ourselves and stay black is a problem for you? Personally I you are wrong. Someone who is 1/4 white is not mixed. It doesn't matter how much you hate being black or want to be mixed. I'm tired of everyone acting like all African Americans are mixed or have something else in their blood. Most of you don't have white or native American ancestory. That is false. Maybe this new generation, but those early 2000s babies and up No! Its amazing how you think everything with 1 or 2 percent of something is mixed. It's not. What your son and you are, is black people (pure black people with white and native Ancestory)
@@rogerwilliams4742 And if you read the damn comment correctly I am talking about those who are 85 to 100 percent. I never mentioned anything about 75% people being black or not. And to be honest No they aren't black, technically speaking they are Octroons and or Quadroons. People who have a white or mixed parent or grandparent. If you have an Ancestor at least 3 to 4 generations down and you are living today, then you are black. Their Gene's will not spread to everyone in the stock especially if your Ancestors went back into marrying black people! That's how genetics works.
@@emmanuelervin5035 no correction...rather majority Sub-Saharan Africans with European and Natives admixture...therefore YES, Ethnically and scientifically that what you call mixed-race
You're only the second person I've seen on RUclips who revealed their results and it showed 97% African. I think that's great. I haven't done one and I'm undecided if I ever will.
@Roxanne Extreme Ok. I don't doubt there are more, it's just that "I" have only seen two with that high of a percentage. While I've watched a lot of RUclips videos, ancestry videos have been the least of them.
That means YOUR EARLIEST ANCESTORS were Native American/Asians who got Europeanized then Africanized. It's important to consider that your SMALLEST percentages means your EARLIEST ancestors and your LARGEST percentages means your LATEST ancestors
@@toddmaek5436 HOW DOES THAT MEAN THAT? that's like me meeting you in town! and i am walking towards you and you walking towards me! how do we define what is towards? we could just as well argue that it was africans that moved to america and got europeanized? imagine you standing next to me and an object is in between us! the object being to my right and your left! who's perspective do we choose?
Just note that most African countries are modern colonial creations. Your ancestors will have come from tribes in those areas before those countries existed
Yes the way the test works is to compare your DNA markers with those of modern people in those countries. Hopefully as they get better sampling they can start narrowing down the ethnic and tribal groups better.
Wow!! 🤗 Thank you so much for your comment! It prompted me to dig deeper. We located documentation confirming that my great grandmother was born in Beaufort, SC on one of the sea islands of the Gullah Geechee people. I could not be more delighted to be uncovering this information about my family.
@@NaturallyMotivatedLadyThats great I've traced my ancestry far back into the mid 1700s on several lines of my family and many of my ancestors had African names.
But don't get too attached to the percentages. They change sometines. At the continent level the test are accurate. But sometimes the regions will change amd so will your ethnicity estimate. But my Mali and Congo was always high every update because it represents South Carolina importing Africans from those regions to come here and grow rice.
843 Gullah Newz The continental level is only accurate for those of non complex ancestry. It does not apply to people with very complex and mixed ancestry. Overall, people are too attached to “estimates” which is the least accurate in DNA testing. People should be paying more attention to cousin matches to learn about their ancestry, argues genetic geneaologists.
@@001islandprincess You are so correct I'm African American of very mixed ancestry, I taken several different test companies and my results are every where..
Outstanding results my sister! 97% Is very high for an AA which is awesome! My African % pending the company range from 80% to 70% about the average for AA. Thanks for sharing!
@@emmanuelervin5035 True that it depends on the family, and regions where Black people comes from for instance Black people from South Carolina are higher in African ancestry than say Black people in Southern Louisiana. So, yeah I get what you're saying I'm going by the provided data from Ancestry. Com, 23andme, FTDNA, and National Geographic Population references.
The Conversation channel We descuss, everything. Majority of us are mixed tho not all of us have at 80%-90% my family is from Louisiana and are african percent is lower than hers
@@creex7118 It's skewed because biracial people usually identify as African American but honestly that doesn't make sense. An AA with 2 Black parents would average at around 85%.
You're right. Most African Americans are between 75 to 85% African and 15 to 25% European. Most studies I've read have AA at roughly 78 to 83% with a mean average with 16 to 19% European and .7 to 1.5% indigenous amerincan. 23andme was the only outlier where they had the average at 73% African, but they heavily sampled from NY and California.
@@NaturallyMotivatedLady Glad I can share. The funny thing is that everyone whether they are black or white thinks they have Amerindian ancestry. It's pretty funny how this lie gets passed down through generations.
If your ever noticed AA with 90% and above African ancestry origins usually be from the South Carolina region... in the Charleston, SC region it’s a lot of darker complexion AA there...
It would probably round up to 87% or so with more diverse samples. The south would push the median or mean depending up a few percentage points at least.
I bet if they sampled more African Americans the south, those statistics would turn on their heads! They’d probably show 80 to 90+% African. A lot of AA’s here in South Carolina are nearly full African, especially the Gullah-Geeche peoples
I’m 97 percent European and 3 percent Indigenous Americas-North. The European was mostly German, English and Norwegian, and I was already aware of all of those. The Native American in me is from the St. Lawrence River Valley through a French-Canadian ancestor. So the results didn’t tell me much I didn’t already know. lol
I was told I have a half native grandmother like most whites and blacks are told and usually don't have so I didn't expect to really have some in me and I was right I was a 100% European. 68% British and French, 25% Irish and Scottish and 7% Swedish.
I would say that's pretty typical for immigrants. If you are African American or adopted THAT'S when you are given info you probably didn't have an idea existed.
I'm starting to feel a little slighted I thought my 87% was high (compared to the videos i've seen). But 97% is just wow!!!! You're gorgeous by the way and love the tone of the video!
97% Sub Saharan African. That's amazing. I have 77% with 45% Nigerian and my Genetic Community is the Early Virginia African Americans. I found my biological father and matched with my aunt who is his sister through it. So I can relate to you because I was adopted at 8 and was foster homes when I was 4. So I reconnected with my biological father and I hope to reconnect with him in August. My mom died when I was 7. I'm 44.
@@freedom_is_gold6747 It's been great. I have a wonderful relationship with my dad. It hasn't been easy but I'm glad to have found him and have him in my life.
Did say, Virginia? I'm a Nigerian, and I'm aware that lots of slaves were shipped from Nigeria to Virginia in the 1800s from the Igbo tribe in Nigeria. According to the author's calculations, the Igbo accounted for about 1.3 million of the 1.7 million people exported from the Bight of Biafra during the era of the Atlantic slave trade. Out of a total of 37,000 Africans that arrived in Virginia from Calabar in the 1700s, 30,000 were Igbo.
Yooo a full blooded Malian from Mali here Be proud, you're a descendant of the Mandingo people, mansa musa, Soundiata Keita (the real lion king), Aboubakar II,
@@africanandproud6792 no offense but i think she met southern africa, not south africa, most slaves taken in mozambique world etc was basically to the arab world! if she has origin in southern africa it would most likely be there, i have never heard of transatlantic slaves being taken as far south as namibia,zimbabwe or southern africa though!
I enjoyed your presentation of your family history. You have a beautiful way of expressing yourself. Congratulations on your DNA results. I also took a DNA test which I felt was quite accurate with my family history.
Wow, I remember getting my results a few years ago and finding out what part of the Homeland I was from. I was surprised when you shared your test results because they are very similar to mine. My family stems from Virginia, and I have a lot of family in the Carolinas. My immediate family circle is out of Georgia. My connection from the Continent is predominately Cameroon, and dropping drastically off into the other countries you mentioned. Thanks for sharing this video.
Your delivery made me fell like I was in a classroom but with a teacher who really enjoyed sharing her knowledge, whether the students enjoyed it or not. lol! That's good though. In life we should consistently do things that make our hearts overflow with joy.
Naturally Motivated Lady I also wrote that before you mentioned SC origins at the end of the video, I’ve watched like a million of these videos, and I’ve noticed people origins from the SC region always in the high 80s -to mid 90s percentile of African ancestry
CeddieCed you are correct. I’m from South Carolina and every person I’ve seen here who has taken the test they have very high African percentages. I have South Carolina and Louisiana ancestry so my African percentage is lower because of White ancestors from my Louisiana side. But my uncle who has taken the test has no Louisiana ancestry he has full on South Carolina ancestry his African percentage is extremely high. He was 97% African
Ugh I'm hoping my test results come back that strong. Africa is beautiful 😍 I should be getting my results in a few weeks. I'm hoping that I test in the 90 percentile
great video. congrats on finding your ancestry. Great that you decided to find out to begin with. I agree with some of the comments that you should test with african ancestry; you may even find some close relatives nearby. will be viewing your sax plays next!
I'm 32% Nigerian. I really need Nigerian friends to teach me how to cook Nigerian food and culture. I'm in Australia and hard to find anything to submerge myself in this culture.
That is one reason why I am distrustful of DNA ancestry testing. I don't want to be happy about my results only to be disappointed that they changed. So, I put off testing and wait.
@@carolynsteele1465 I am also in the putting it off and waiting boat. Maybe there’ll be a point in the future where it seems advanced enough (*cough* and cheap enough *cough*) for me to be ready to try it, but that day isn’t here yet. In the meantime, since both of my father’s parents decided to try it, I just have fun with their results, knowing that I can probably know what about half of my DNA is comprised of, although my mother’s ancestry is a total blank, which leaves every other possibility open.
@Mitistouchyamama No, they work well as is, it just gets more accurate the more data they have. It’s like how with surveys, there’s always an expected margin of error, but the expected margin of error is smaller if the number of people who answered the survey is larger.
Congratulations on your high mark African percentage... •African 93% •European 7% (My Great Great Great Grandfather on my Mother’s paternal line was White).
Abdiyel Baruch Yeshuruwn If your 3rd great-grandparent was “white” your percentage European would only be 3.125%. You have another unknown European ancestor. A great-grandparent contributes 12.5% of your genome; a 2nd great-grandparent contributes 6.25%.....
@@001islandprincess No, you can’t know that. Only a random 50% of someone’s DNA is passed on to their child. Someone who was 50% Irish and 50% Nigerian who had kids with someone who was 100% Irish might end up with kids who are 100% Irish, because the half of their DNA that got passed on might have ended up being only the Irish half, or they might end up with a kid who’s 50% Nigerian, like them, because their Irish DNA ended up not getting passed on at all. It’s not likely, but it’s always possible. It’s not even that unlikely that they’d end up with a few percentage points more than expected. Even assuming that 3x-Great Grandfather was 100% European and everyone else was 100% African, the 2x-Great Grandparent would be guaranteed to be 50-50, but from there they might’ve ended up passing on 35% European and only 15% African to the Great-Grandparent, and they might’ve passed on 20% European to the Grandparent, and they might passed on 10% European to the Parent, and they might’ve passed on 7% European to this person.
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The reason you have all these countries together in dna is because they all share bother and interaction through trading and fishing. They are mostly in West Africa and were almost like one big country hundreds of years ago.
Literally every single black person that does these dna tests say they are native Indian or have a family member that says they are Indian💀 Cherokee in specific😭
That’s one of the things that Black and White Americans all have in common... Right down to the Cherokee, lol... My mother told me that she was told she had Cherokee ancestry, and, I mean, I guess it might be true, but I felt like I had to disappoint her by telling her it probably wasn’t, because so many people think that. My father’s mother knew a family story that her great-grandfather married a Native American woman, but never found any proof of it, and her DNA test didn’t show any Native American DNA, but, funnily enough, she did get a small percentage of Northern Asian DNA, which is close, and which makes me wonder if that ancestor might’ve actually been a Native Siberian who passed herself off as a Native American because the DNA was similar enough for her to do so.
@@autumnphillips151 u forget that 90% of the native Americans were killed but every black person every white person claims to be Native American I am Native American😐😐😐😐, so someone is lying hmmm I wonder who bc 90% of us got killed and there were no black ppl I promise
Senegambian! I’ve never seen anyone with 25% Mali. Are you Gullah? My maternal roots are SC and I have 19% Mali..but I have no known connection to the Gullah culture but what I have figured out is that the Mali on AncestryDNA means Senegambian. And your Nigeria is likely Igbo/Cameroon! The Bantu is Angola/Congo. SC had 45% Congo/Angola. 20% Senegambian! I’m 97% SSA for ancestry. 2 percent native 1 percent European
Same! I was a little disappointed with my results there. And for other companies my African ancestry was a little lower. I’d hoped to at least see 75%. But I do have a significant amount of Nigerian ancestry.
I guess you are, lol. Did you really not get any other results aside from Indigenous Mexican and Iberian? It’s rare to not see some surprising small percentages.
Your smooth skin told me you were at least 90% but 97%? Wow! Damn near an Original Woman. Btw, I am 60% African, 33% European and 7% Native American. My mother is 92% African and her baby brother is 94% (same parents). Feel free to swing by to watch my updated ANCESTRY DNA vid. ✌
'Somebody's ancestry results can change over time depending on how methods are developed & applied to the data, what genetic databases are used in the analysis... ancestry results for today might not be static, if they check back in 2 years from now they might get different results" BBC Radio 4 Inside Science 2/1/2019
Thanks! 😊 Yes, I read up on that prior to purchasing the dna test. It is definitely an "estimate" based on the current info that they have in their database. They run the DNA 40 times to get an average of the ethnicity results so that it reflects most of the ethnicities that shows up in your dna. Thanks for watching!
Small percentages change based on the information gathered. It's a given. There wouldn't be a significant change though. She isn't going from 97% to 70%! 😂
I have a small amount of African ancestry and it is pretty much a dead end right at that person. It is true that African Americans don't have trees going back very far. If your ancestry goes back to Africa they don't keep records on really anything. No churches, no government records, etc. I don't know the deal with my ancestor other than he was 1/2 black and allegedly his mother was white and father was black. There is no other information about his parents... it was probably a pretty volatile time to have a mixed race relationship and child. I do not know if it was a slave who had a child with a white woman or a free black person who had a child with a white. Either way, it was somewhere in Virginia according to some records while others claimed they eventually wound up in New York. There is definitely something shady in the past of that individual. They could have been a criminal, they could have been a slave themselves.... it just seems like they up and left their life behind while young and never looked back. Crazy times.
actually there is a video here on youtube about an african american guy that found his 5th generation cousin in senegal and they look alike a lot! litteraly! because the company he used could trace cousins 5.5 generations and back!
Very cool results!! I've been watching all kinds of these videos ever since I just recently got my results :) I'm 61% subsaharan african 35% European 1% Native American My biggest percentages are Nigerian (24%!! Yay!!) and British (22%)
I’m so upset. Mine came back as 48% European and 39% African and then 12%afro-carribean. I’m very much a brown skin woman so I’m destined to believe that the European is moors? I need explanations.
I got an update from Ancestry. Did everyone else? MYUPDATE: Cameroon, Congo & Western Bantu Peoples 26% Nigeria 25% Mali 18% Benin & Togo 5% Ivory Coast & Ghana 3% Senegal 2% Indigenous Americas-North 3% Indigenous Americas-Mexico 1% The rest in european
I hope my guess is accurate, but I will estimate that you have 7-10% of your DNA from Ghana. I'm a white American but 2% of my DNA is African from Nigeria and Benin/Togo :-)
38%?! You’re more Nigerian than some Nigerians in Nigeria. In summary, your root is Nigeria. Other aspects are the usual journey of every human. No one is 100% in reality. Where they start from is their 100%, which they might want to connect to. Example, a 20% Jewish is Jewish.
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Wow 97% African For an African American that's super amazing. On my test I got 85%
Most African Americans will always get 85% to 100% African. Stop thinking you are mixed. You are black
@@emmanuelervin5035 Your negative energy sucks. I haven't seen anyone that is mostly African claiming they aren't black in any of these DNA videos. If a person is 85% African and 15% European they are mixed. Period. That doesn't mean they don't identify as black. My son is essentially 1/3 African, 1/3 European and 1/3Native American and he identifies as black as do I. Is he not black enough for YOU? What about me? It's ignorant and lame to try to accuse someone of denying they are black when they never even made the claim. Who tf are YOU to tell someone how to identify anyway? You are just an angry and hateful lame imo. Btw, send add links of mostly black Africans denying they are black.
@@rogerwilliams4742 So to tell black people to love ourselves and stay black is a problem for you? Personally I you are wrong. Someone who is 1/4 white is not mixed. It doesn't matter how much you hate being black or want to be mixed. I'm tired of everyone acting like all African Americans are mixed or have something else in their blood. Most of you don't have white or native American ancestory. That is false. Maybe this new generation, but those early 2000s babies and up No! Its amazing how you think everything with 1 or 2 percent of something is mixed. It's not. What your son and you are, is black people (pure black people with white and native Ancestory)
@@rogerwilliams4742 And if you read the damn comment correctly I am talking about those who are 85 to 100 percent. I never mentioned anything about 75% people being black or not. And to be honest No they aren't black, technically speaking they are Octroons and or Quadroons. People who have a white or mixed parent or grandparent. If you have an Ancestor at least 3 to 4 generations down and you are living today, then you are black. Their Gene's will not spread to everyone in the stock especially if your Ancestors went back into marrying black people! That's how genetics works.
@@emmanuelervin5035 no correction...rather majority Sub-Saharan Africans with European and Natives admixture...therefore YES, Ethnically and scientifically that what you call mixed-race
You're only the second person I've seen on RUclips who revealed their results and it showed 97% African. I think that's great. I haven't done one and I'm undecided if I ever will.
@Roxanne Extreme Ok. I don't doubt there are more, it's just that "I" have only seen two with that high of a percentage. While I've watched a lot of RUclips videos, ancestry videos have been the least of them.
JunBN C -Charlagmane the God is 97% but then again he is Geechee.
@@PrettyGurl12361 I seen the black.guy who.found out that they are 100percent European no African what so ever.wow.mire.black.men.are.european
Yeah, I have watched many of these and I have seen very few African Americans at 97% or higher. Perhaps 3 if I'm not mistaken.
I have seen African dna results of 100% many times
I'm 90% African and loving it. Can't wait for the next Ancestry update, its all becoming more clear.
You’re so beautiful!
I’m 83% African
12% European
3% Asian
2% Native American
38% Nigerian 🇳🇬
Thanks! 😊
That means YOUR EARLIEST ANCESTORS were Native American/Asians who got Europeanized then Africanized. It's important to consider that your SMALLEST percentages means your EARLIEST ancestors and your LARGEST percentages means your LATEST ancestors
@@toddmaek5436 HOW DOES THAT MEAN THAT? that's like me meeting you in town! and i am walking towards you and you walking towards me! how do we define what is towards? we could just as well argue that it was africans that moved to america and got europeanized? imagine you standing next to me and an object is in between us! the object being to my right and your left! who's perspective do we choose?
This is the highest I have ever seen for an African American. That's phenomenal
My results were 94.1% African 5.0% European and 0.9% Asian
Wow you are pretty much thouroughbed! My results show that I am 91% African with 35% Nigerian. Thats amazing!
Another sister. Welcome to the family. I am Nigerian living in America.
So cool I took 23 and me and discovered I'm 88% Sub-Saharan African with 36% nigerian 😎
Just note that most African countries are modern colonial creations. Your ancestors will have come from tribes in those areas before those countries existed
Yep. Your smaller percentages are your EARLIEST ancestors
Yes the way the test works is to compare your DNA markers with those of modern people in those countries. Hopefully as they get better sampling they can start narrowing down the ethnic and tribal groups better.
My results were 98 percent african im Gullah from Beaufort, South Carolina.
Wow!! 🤗 Thank you so much for your comment! It prompted me to dig deeper. We located documentation confirming that my great grandmother was born in Beaufort, SC on one of the sea islands of the Gullah Geechee people. I could not be more delighted to be uncovering this information about my family.
@@NaturallyMotivatedLadyThats great I've traced my ancestry far back into the mid 1700s on several lines of my family and many of my ancestors had African names.
But don't get too attached to the percentages. They change sometines. At the continent level the test are accurate. But sometimes the regions will change amd so will your ethnicity estimate. But my Mali and Congo was always high every update because it represents South Carolina importing Africans from those regions to come here and grow rice.
843 Gullah Newz The continental level is only accurate for those of non complex ancestry. It does not apply to people with very complex and mixed ancestry. Overall, people are too attached to “estimates” which is the least accurate in DNA testing. People should be paying more attention to cousin matches to learn about their ancestry, argues genetic geneaologists.
@@001islandprincess You are so correct I'm African American of very mixed ancestry, I taken several different test companies and my results are every where..
Outstanding results my sister! 97% Is very high for an AA which is awesome! My African % pending the company range from 80% to 70% about the average for AA. Thanks for sharing!
That depends on the family. That's not true for the average American black.
@@emmanuelervin5035
True that it depends on the family, and regions where Black people comes from for instance Black people from South Carolina are higher in African ancestry than say Black people in Southern Louisiana. So, yeah I get what you're saying I'm going by the provided data from Ancestry. Com, 23andme, FTDNA, and National Geographic Population references.
The Conversation channel We descuss, everything. Majority of us are mixed tho not all of us have at 80%-90% my family is from Louisiana and are african percent is lower than hers
@Chris Rollins That makes sense I have aunts and uncles that are more mixed with european and native then others in my family
@@creex7118 It's skewed because biracial people usually identify as African American but honestly that doesn't make sense. An AA with 2 Black parents would average at around 85%.
You're right. Most African Americans are between 75 to 85% African and 15 to 25% European. Most studies I've read have AA at roughly 78 to 83% with a mean average with 16 to 19% European and .7 to 1.5% indigenous amerincan. 23andme was the only outlier where they had the average at 73% African, but they heavily sampled from NY and California.
Thanks! 😊 I appreciate you sharing those statistics.
@@NaturallyMotivatedLady Glad I can share. The funny thing is that everyone whether they are black or white thinks they have Amerindian ancestry. It's pretty funny how this lie gets passed down through generations.
If your ever noticed AA with 90% and above African ancestry origins usually be from the South Carolina region... in the Charleston, SC region it’s a lot of darker complexion AA there...
It would probably round up to 87% or so with more diverse samples. The south would push the median or mean depending up a few percentage points at least.
I bet if they sampled more African Americans the south, those statistics would turn on their heads! They’d probably show 80 to 90+% African. A lot of AA’s here in South Carolina are nearly full African, especially the Gullah-Geeche peoples
Wow great results …….. I'm African American and got 98% with Ancestry DNA, and 96.4 with 23andme
Thanks for sharing! 😊 I am a bit curious as to what my results would be if I did 23andme.
98%% woowww!
@@DBrown-vg1fi After the update it drop to 94% ... but I'm still happy
@@Flowers4848 thats whats up girl
@@DBrown-vg1fi Sorry but I'm a guy ..... LOL!
I’m 97 percent European and 3 percent Indigenous Americas-North. The European was mostly German, English and Norwegian, and I was already aware of all of those. The Native American in me is from the St. Lawrence River Valley through a French-Canadian ancestor. So the results didn’t tell me much I didn’t already know. lol
I was told I have a half native grandmother like most whites and blacks are told and usually don't have so I didn't expect to really have some in me and I was right I was a 100% European. 68% British and French, 25% Irish and Scottish and 7% Swedish.
I would say that's pretty typical for immigrants. If you are African American or adopted THAT'S when you are given info you probably didn't have an idea existed.
I'm starting to feel a little slighted I thought my 87% was high (compared to the videos i've seen). But 97% is just wow!!!! You're gorgeous by the way and love the tone of the video!
You are good Mama, we cannot control everything. 87% is beautiful...
97% Sub Saharan African. That's amazing. I have 77% with 45% Nigerian and my Genetic Community is the Early Virginia African Americans.
I found my biological father and matched with my aunt who is his sister through it. So I can relate to you because I was adopted at 8 and was foster homes when I was 4. So I reconnected with my biological father and I hope to reconnect with him in August. My mom died when I was 7. I'm 44.
respect brother how did it go, your story touched my heart?
@@freedom_is_gold6747 It's been great. I have a wonderful relationship with my dad. It hasn't been easy but I'm glad to have found him and have him in my life.
@@curtiswilliams8285 so do you feel at home now finally? additionally have you connected with your african part as well?
Did say, Virginia? I'm a Nigerian, and I'm aware that lots of slaves were shipped from Nigeria to Virginia in the 1800s from the Igbo tribe in Nigeria. According to the author's calculations, the Igbo accounted for about 1.3 million of the 1.7 million people exported from the Bight of Biafra during the era of the Atlantic slave trade. Out of a total of 37,000 Africans that arrived in Virginia from Calabar in the 1700s, 30,000 were Igbo.
I'm 86 % African and my highest 34% Nigeria
I am Nigerian by birth but living in America. Welcome to the family.
Same 86%. But 32% Nigerian.
I also had 97 percent African majority from Mali and southern Africa
3% European, Scotland and Germany
Yooo a full blooded Malian from Mali here
Be proud, you're a descendant of the Mandingo people, mansa musa, Soundiata Keita (the real lion king), Aboubakar II,
Mali and South Africa...very unique for an African American...so cool girl
I’m South African , we claim you our queen.
@@africanandproud6792 feeling special 😊
@@africanandproud6792 no offense but i think she met southern africa, not south africa, most slaves taken in mozambique world etc was basically to the arab world! if she has origin in southern africa it would most likely be there, i have never heard of transatlantic slaves being taken as far south as namibia,zimbabwe or southern africa though!
I guessed you were around 90%African. I've been researching my family tree for over 40 years, and my DNA test validated all my years of research.
Nice results. I LOVE these videos 😭💯🙏🏾
I got 79% African
20% European (would’ve never known it was that high)
1% native African American
I enjoyed your presentation of your family history. You have a beautiful way of expressing yourself. Congratulations on your DNA results. I also took a DNA test which I felt was quite accurate with my family history.
Wow, I remember getting my results a few years ago and finding out what part of the Homeland I was from. I was surprised when you shared your test results because they are very similar to mine. My family stems from Virginia, and I have a lot of family in the Carolinas. My immediate family circle is out of Georgia.
My connection from the Continent is predominately Cameroon, and dropping drastically off into the other countries you mentioned.
Thanks for sharing this video.
That is awesome! 97% would make be cry as well.
You're a winner an A plus kid 97!!!!!👏👏👏👏👏 You're thoroughly properly bred.
So glad you are finding out about your results, btw don't forget the most important result is that you're pretty!
South Carolina maybe your my cousin. I will be doing my DNA test soon. Thanks for the lovely video cousin lol
I am 25% European and 75%!!! African. I am African 💃💃
@@helena8274 I'm loving it
Wow!! 97% African! Amazing! My people are from central Georgia! I'm 78% African here! My sister!
My first impression...........You have the demeanor of a school teacher.
LOL 🤣😂 I actually considered teaching as a career path, but went a different way.
Your delivery made me fell like I was in a classroom but with a teacher who really enjoyed sharing her knowledge, whether the students enjoyed it or not. lol! That's good though. In life we should consistently do things that make our hearts overflow with joy.
Same thing I said! Love it!!!
Found out I’m about 67% west African, 30% European, and 2% Native American,1% Pilipino. Thought I was more native. Def shocked me!!
Right there with ya. 59% African, 35% European, and 6% Native
My guess for your DNA is 95% African, 5% Euro, with the majority of African in Mali or Nigeria.
We need more black people from South Carolina to take the test. I'm sure we can find a 100 percent AA, especially in that region.
Why South Carolina? I'm curious. My Dad's family is from SC.
@@ceeceetracey9839 According too geneticist that area seems to have one of the highest black percentages in the 🇺🇸.
Whoaaaa!! 97%!!! Pure goddess!! Almost 100% actual human. I'm afraid mine is gonna be lower. Lol that's incredible news for you.
91% african; highest from Nigeria of 43%
I bet your origins from the South Carolina region, because they still hold majority of their African ethnicity than any other African Americans
You're right! 😊 I also had my dad find my great grandmother's death certificate, and turns out she was born in South Carolina.
Naturally Motivated Lady I also wrote that before you mentioned SC origins at the end of the video, I’ve watched like a million of these videos, and I’ve noticed people origins from the SC region always in the high 80s -to mid 90s percentile of African ancestry
Naturally Motivated Lady it’s a beautiful thing👑...
CeddieCed you are correct. I’m from South Carolina and every person I’ve seen here who has taken the test they have very high African percentages. I have South Carolina and Louisiana ancestry so my African percentage is lower because of White ancestors from my Louisiana side. But my uncle who has taken the test has no Louisiana ancestry he has full on South Carolina ancestry his African percentage is extremely high. He was 97% African
The Mississippi delta too.
Happy new year you will have so many new endeavors coming
Ugh I'm hoping my test results come back that strong. Africa is beautiful 😍 I should be getting my results in a few weeks. I'm hoping that I test in the 90 percentile
great video. congrats on finding your ancestry. Great that you decided to find out to begin with. I agree with some of the comments that you should test with african ancestry; you may even find some close relatives nearby. will be viewing your sax plays next!
I’m 63% African
I'm 32% Nigerian. I really need Nigerian friends to teach me how to cook Nigerian food and culture. I'm in Australia and hard to find anything to submerge myself in this culture.
Nigerians are in Australia they'll link you up
I started out as 96% Irish. That’s gone down to 58% over 4 years. As more people add their dna it will update
That is one reason why I am distrustful of DNA ancestry testing. I don't want to be happy about my results only to be disappointed that they changed. So, I put off testing and wait.
@@carolynsteele1465 I am also in the putting it off and waiting boat. Maybe there’ll be a point in the future where it seems advanced enough (*cough* and cheap enough *cough*) for me to be ready to try it, but that day isn’t here yet. In the meantime, since both of my father’s parents decided to try it, I just have fun with their results, knowing that I can probably know what about half of my DNA is comprised of, although my mother’s ancestry is a total blank, which leaves every other possibility open.
@Mitistouchyamama No, they work well as is, it just gets more accurate the more data they have. It’s like how with surveys, there’s always an expected margin of error, but the expected margin of error is smaller if the number of people who answered the survey is larger.
im 95.3% african
Congratulations on your high mark African percentage...
•African 93%
•European 7% (My Great Great Great Grandfather on my Mother’s paternal line was White).
Same here
Abdiyel Baruch Yeshuruwn If your 3rd great-grandparent was “white” your percentage European would only be 3.125%. You have another unknown European ancestor. A great-grandparent contributes 12.5% of your genome; a 2nd great-grandparent contributes 6.25%.....
Sorry, that you didn't inherit a lot of whiteness.
@@001islandprincess No, you can’t know that. Only a random 50% of someone’s DNA is passed on to their child. Someone who was 50% Irish and 50% Nigerian who had kids with someone who was 100% Irish might end up with kids who are 100% Irish, because the half of their DNA that got passed on might have ended up being only the Irish half, or they might end up with a kid who’s 50% Nigerian, like them, because their Irish DNA ended up not getting passed on at all. It’s not likely, but it’s always possible. It’s not even that unlikely that they’d end up with a few percentage points more than expected. Even assuming that 3x-Great Grandfather was 100% European and everyone else was 100% African, the 2x-Great Grandparent would be guaranteed to be 50-50, but from there they might’ve ended up passing on 35% European and only 15% African to the Great-Grandparent, and they might’ve passed on 20% European to the Grandparent, and they might passed on 10% European to the Parent, and they might’ve passed on 7% European to this person.
I’m exactly 38% Nigerian as well!
I just posted my results lol love your locs and your results !
Thanks! 😊
I’m 76.3% African 🥰
My results were 88.3% Sub-Saharan African, 11% European and 0.7% Central and South Asian
👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 I think every one of African descent should take a DNA 🧬 test to locate where their ancestors came from in Africa. I used AfricanAncestry.com instead & they revealed that I am related to 6 tribes in 5 African countries!
I uploaded my results online here: www.darnell.bio/dna
On my father's side, I am Yoruba from Nigeria 🇳🇬.
On my mother's side, I am:
- Mandinka from Senegal 🇸🇳
- Fula (aka Fulani) from Guinea Bissau 🇬🇼
- Mende & Temne from Sierra Leone 🇸🇱
- Kpelle from Liberia 🇱🇷
I ended up visiting Nigeria 🇳🇬 first & learned from my (now new) Yoruba friends in Nigeria 🇳🇬 about culture & history.
I plan on traveling to Sierra Leone 🇸🇱 next to apply for citizenship, as they are offering a ”right of return” to descendants of anyone who can genetically prove ancestry to a tribe currently living in the country.
Wow nice thats so interesting this definitely makes me want to try
This is interesting. congrats though,you can apply for Nigerian Citizenship later.
Yeah my results are pretty similar to your Nigeria. And Cameroon Congo are my main results. And my great grandma Mamie was from Georgia too.
The reason you have all these countries together in dna is because they all share bother and interaction through trading and fishing. They are mostly in West Africa and were almost like one big country hundreds of years ago.
Best video I've seen so far 🙌
You are blessed to be 97 percent African. That's Beautiful ❤️
That's so cool! I'm 92% African, 7% European, and 1% Native American- North. I got above 90 for African Whoo hoo! ✊🏾👍🏾
Literally every single black person that does these dna tests say they are native Indian or have a family member that says they are Indian💀 Cherokee in specific😭
That’s one of the things that Black and White Americans all have in common... Right down to the Cherokee, lol... My mother told me that she was told she had Cherokee ancestry, and, I mean, I guess it might be true, but I felt like I had to disappoint her by telling her it probably wasn’t, because so many people think that. My father’s mother knew a family story that her great-grandfather married a Native American woman, but never found any proof of it, and her DNA test didn’t show any Native American DNA, but, funnily enough, she did get a small percentage of Northern Asian DNA, which is close, and which makes me wonder if that ancestor might’ve actually been a Native Siberian who passed herself off as a Native American because the DNA was similar enough for her to do so.
@@autumnphillips151 u forget that 90% of the native Americans were killed but every black person every white person claims to be Native American I am Native American😐😐😐😐, so someone is lying hmmm I wonder who bc 90% of us got killed and there were no black ppl I promise
Senegambian! I’ve never seen anyone with 25% Mali. Are you Gullah? My maternal roots are SC and I have 19% Mali..but I have no known connection to the Gullah culture but what I have figured out is that the Mali on AncestryDNA means Senegambian. And your Nigeria is likely Igbo/Cameroon! The Bantu is Angola/Congo. SC had 45% Congo/Angola. 20% Senegambian! I’m 97% SSA for ancestry. 2 percent native 1 percent European
Damn unfortunately I'm only 60% African (Hausa Fulani) and 40% European.
Ooh fulani thats nice
Same! I was a little disappointed with my results there. And for other companies my African ancestry was a little lower. I’d hoped to at least see 75%. But I do have a significant amount of Nigerian ancestry.
You have a white parent or grandparent
@@zgurl94 all you can do at this point is fully embrace what God gave you.
@@DBrown-vg1fi yes... great Grandparents on both sides.
Wow that's amazing, Nigeria has a lot of musicians in afro beat, maybe that's where you got your talent,your welcome to 9ja 💖
Thank you! 💕 I hope to visit some day.
66.7% African 22.5% European 9.6 West Asian 1.2% Native American. I didn’t know what to expect
Wow girl 97 percent, that's beautiful. Just truly beautiful.
Damn girl you blessed
2:46 Tim Russ "Tuvok" is Vulcan.
Native American (Mexican Indian) 44 %
Spain 39%
Portugal 17%
I'm pretty much a typical Mexican 🌮🌮🌮
I guess you are, lol. Did you really not get any other results aside from Indigenous Mexican and Iberian? It’s rare to not see some surprising small percentages.
I love your voice. You should do voiceovers.
My guess would be Benin and Nigeria for they are usually the most “successful people
Somewhere in west africa
You’re a beautiful young woman and so likeable. I hope you will put together your family tree and share that someday.😁
Thank you! 😊
Your smooth skin told me you were at least 90% but 97%? Wow! Damn near an Original Woman. Btw, I am 60% African, 33% European and 7% Native American. My mother is 92% African and her baby brother is 94% (same parents). Feel free to swing by to watch my updated ANCESTRY DNA vid. ✌
I have seen you comment on a couple of these DNA RUclips so I decided to follow you. Hope you don't mind .
Perfect movie!
Joanna You're the best!
I love you and your music and your (smooth) saxophone
Thank you! 😊
I pegged you at 83% Guess I was wrong...
That makes both of us, lol.😊
'Somebody's ancestry results can change over time depending on how methods are developed & applied to the data, what genetic databases are used in the analysis... ancestry results for today might not be static, if they check back in 2 years from now they might get different results" BBC Radio 4 Inside Science 2/1/2019
Thanks! 😊 Yes, I read up on that prior to purchasing the dna test. It is definitely an "estimate" based on the current info that they have in their database. They run the DNA 40 times to get an average of the ethnicity results so that it reflects most of the ethnicities that shows up in your dna. Thanks for watching!
Agreed! I just checked my update and it changed.
Small percentages change based on the information gathered. It's a given. There wouldn't be a significant change though. She isn't going from 97% to 70%! 😂
Nice results! What's your name in Ancestry? You might be my relative.
@@courtneyb-uneek350 Why lol?
I have a small amount of African ancestry and it is pretty much a dead end right at that person. It is true that African Americans don't have trees going back very far. If your ancestry goes back to Africa they don't keep records on really anything. No churches, no government records, etc.
I don't know the deal with my ancestor other than he was 1/2 black and allegedly his mother was white and father was black. There is no other information about his parents... it was probably a pretty volatile time to have a mixed race relationship and child. I do not know if it was a slave who had a child with a white woman or a free black person who had a child with a white. Either way, it was somewhere in Virginia according to some records while others claimed they eventually wound up in New York. There is definitely something shady in the past of that individual. They could have been a criminal, they could have been a slave themselves.... it just seems like they up and left their life behind while young and never looked back. Crazy times.
actually there is a video here on youtube about an african american guy that found his 5th generation cousin in senegal and they look alike a lot! litteraly! because the company he used could trace cousins 5.5 generations and back!
Wow 97%!!! I am 69% African, 29.2% European, 1.0% Central Asian, and 0.8% Middle eastern.
Awesome let us know if you get an update. My DNA changed 2 or 3 times due to updates
73% African, 27% European ❤
Hey I'm from Ghana and I just want to let you know that you are always welcome here:) I'll be expecting you!!🙂
Before your result i said Mali, i am a Nigerian
Welcome to the family. I am Nigerian but lives in ATL. I travel home every year though.
Thank you! ❤ It's wonderful you get to travel home every year! I would definitely love to visit Nigeria some day.
wow i didn't know they had African American by region now amazing!
Wow, welcome home my Nigerian sis
Great video. Have you thought about doing the African ancestry DNA test which tells you which tribe your ancestors come from?
Thanks. That may be something I do in the future. 😊
Very cool results!! I've been watching all kinds of these videos ever since I just recently got my results :) I'm
61% subsaharan african
35% European
1% Native American
My biggest percentages are Nigerian (24%!! Yay!!) and British (22%)
Are both of your parents black or one of your parents biracial
@@frogsmith9578 I think my dad is biracial because he's super pale and could pass for Latino or white so probably and my mom is black
Africans from Madagascar are 30 to 80% Asian. Ethiopians show alot of Eurasian, arab and Jewish DNA. At the end of the day we are all mixed.
My queen 😘🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰👸🏾
WOW. Awesome!! I am also 97% but my family is from Jamaica.
97%! I'm hoping for that or higher.
you’re beautiful !
90%
Woooow. I had you at 88%. I'm 86%. Good on ya wow Queen.
Beautiful.
The majority of African Americans will have roots in South Carolina, Virginia, North Carolina, and Maryland.
I’m so upset. Mine came back as 48% European and 39% African and then 12%afro-carribean. I’m very much a brown skin woman so I’m destined to believe that the European is moors? I need explanations.
Simple. You're mostly White. You have a lot of White in you. And your ancestors were getting a lot in them too. You're welcome.
You’re so elegant and beautiful !
Yes she is..
I would have guessed Nigerian. You remind me of my favourite aunt and we are Nigerian.
I'm 79% African and also 4% American Indian. 31% Nigerian, 24% Cameroon Congo Southern Bantu, 14% Mali, 6% Senegal, 2% Benin/Togo, 2% Ghana.
Ayeeeeee I’m a bantu person. Welcome to the tribe ❤️❤️❤️, we have over 400 ethnic groups in sub-Saharan africa
The Bantus spread from the edge of Nigeria, through central, east and Southern Africa
I got an update from Ancestry. Did everyone else? MYUPDATE:
Cameroon, Congo & Western Bantu Peoples
26%
Nigeria
25%
Mali
18%
Benin & Togo
5%
Ivory Coast & Ghana
3%
Senegal
2%
Indigenous Americas-North
3%
Indigenous Americas-Mexico
1%
The rest in european
I hope my guess is accurate, but I will estimate that you have 7-10% of your DNA from Ghana. I'm a white American but 2% of my DNA is African from Nigeria and Benin/Togo :-)
WOW! Awesome results! I am 90.2% Sub-Saharan African. I tested through 23andme and ancestry.com.
Are you from south Carolina?
Guess what , I am 100 percent African. From South Africa.😁
You are almost pure.
Of I were you, I would research the 42 Nomes of Kemet...And learn Yoruba!!! It feels natural on your tongue.
38%?! You’re more Nigerian than some Nigerians in Nigeria. In summary, your root is Nigeria. Other aspects are the usual journey of every human. No one is 100% in reality. Where they start from is their 100%, which they might want to connect to. Example, a 20% Jewish is Jewish.