I have noticed that a lot of people from the Caribbean are always surprised of the percentage of African they are, just because you are not African American does not mean you are not African just means your ancestors were taken to the Caribbean instead of America
1958jac im jamaican i have no clue what your talking about...we tend to be more afrocentric than the average member of the african diaspora (we also have a bleaching problem on the other end of the spectrum, but thats self hate not self denial) we r very aware of our history sad as it may be
People always say that but imo caribbean people are way more in touch with their african heritage than AA, I been all up and thru the caribbean and never heard a black person say they're not black...I mean the music, the food, the festivals etc its all in there.
She said as much at the beginning of the video. She said that while she is not African American, she is of African descent. At the end of the video, she notes that some slaves were taken to the U.S., while others were shipped to the Caribbean.
1958jac Thats sooooo not true. One thing about Jamaicans...we claim our African...Maroon...Ancestry....and are one of the Caribbean Island still living close to our African Ancestral lifestyle...than most African Americans .. We hardly claim anything but AFRICA...in our culture. .
I have a biracial son for whom we do not have any contact with his biological father. So, for Christmas last year, I bought Ancestry DNA tests for the five of us in our family instead of gifts. He's 16 now and has always known that his father is African-American, but I was hoping to give him more of an answer to who he is and where he came from. We all had fun with ours, but he is especially happy with the results. Somehow it's 'grounding' (for lack of a better word...). We also have discovered 144 cousins of his, several who we have reached out to and he's been accepted by them. Several who are 5th - 8th cousins, still say, "Our DNA says we are family, so we are family." I think it's the best gift I could have ever given him. Love your video.
Jamaican is not ethnicity, it's a national designation. American is a national designation. Jamaicans and African Americans have pretty much the same origin. Please stop the division among the descendants of Africa. Jamaicans and not mystical there descendants were brought from Africa accept it's okay.
Lisa Branch , exactly. I was sitting here wondering why she felt the need to continue to make that distinction AND why she was confused and was looking for it to reference Jamaica. These tests get to origin of ancestry which extends beyond the establishment of Jamaica. That's why North America is not popping up on people's results.
But from the DNA, you can tell she's not like an average African American because no matter how dark, most African Americans have more than 1% European, due to the tragedies of our ancestors. So not saying Jamaican is a different race, but looking at her results it's different DNA
Alina Mitchelson exactly. The south Asian (Indian) admixture is also more common in West Indians vs. the European admixture in AA’s. She says the test didn’t pick her Jamaican heritage. Ancestry DNA picked up my ancestors migration to Jamaica. If she decides to try that test it should pick it up.
I am Jamaican but I am not only of African descent. My paternal grandfather came from Scotland ... I haven't done my DNA but I have African, Scottish, Indian and whatever other dregs is in my DNA ... Jamaica's are a mixed race of people ... Chinese, Indian, Spanish, British and African.
Girl you're beautiful! You look like an island girl. I lived in FL for 13 years and there's a lot of people from Jamaica there. At the end of the day, however whether you're Jamaican or Afro American we all are from the same parts of West Africa.
I am 82% African and 18% European; 19% African Southeastern Bantu and 11% Great Britain! I have a video of my results! So glad i did this! Thanks for sharing!
what is a full blooded Jamaican? Yes, you are of African descent. It goes way beyond country borders, especially for people of Africa, because we are everywhere!
Stacy-Ann, I've done the whole 9 yards! My interest with genealogy started in 1977 when the tv movie, Roots came out. I've embraced the DNA thing too. My results are I'm 32% Benin/Togo, 21% Cameroon/Congo, 7% Ivory Coast/Ghana, 6% Mali, 3% Nigerian, 22% European, and less than 1% Native and West Asian. My Mom is 84 and her results were very interesting. She is almost 36% European, (mostly England and Ireland) 18% Ivory Coast/Ghana, 16% Cameroon/Congo, 16% Benin/Togo, and less than 1% Asian and Native, about 62% subsaharan African. The older the relative, the more of your story is told. I suggest you might want to have a parent tested if they're still with us. The more relatives who are tested, the more of all your family's DNA information is revealed. It's like a puzzle with my Mom having pieces from her parents and grandparents, etc, my sister having pieces I don't have and I having pieces she doesn't have but together mysteries can be solved. We get 50% of each parent's DNA and the 50% we receive is random! My Mom's and my DNA (not my sister, hence randomness) has traced to Mom's great grandmother and HER mother, a Native who were slaves in this slaveowner's household in 1850, the year Mom's great grandmother was born. A social security claim index showed me my 2nd great grandmother's surname/slave name, which led me to his household, in the same location in Southeast Missouri where that side of the family were born. I just needed DNA from their family to confirm. He only had 2 slaves, he had no brothers or male relatives in Missouri (He's from Tennessee) and his son was too young to be a candidate. The slaveowner's descendants finally took the AncestryDNA test! He is Mom's 3rd cousin, once removed! He has not sought me out, nor I, him. I know he knows about this because Ancestry send emails! I just fixed my tree, LOL! Mom and this guy share a 2nd great grandfather. I assure you my initial interest was to find my ethnicity but the DNA has also opened up a new world of what can be done with it! One brick wall....destroyed!! :)
***** Well, I've spent a lot of money because I "sponsor" each test for family who are basically indulging my passion for genealogy. Right now is a good time to order a kit because of sales going on. FTDNA is selling the autosomal (family finder) test for like $59 for the holidays. They recently came down from $99 to regularly $79. Ancestry, I believe, is $99 or $89, 23&Me is $99. MyHeritage tests are on sale for $79, regularly $99. Ancestry is best for their database of over 1 million tests (for finding dna matches) and they have millions records and documents for a fee. FTDNA has good tools to determine where you share chromosomes with matches and I think 23&Me is the best with ethnicity..Their algorithms pick up native american ancestry where the other two might not or pick up minutely. I think FTDNA is poor for ethnicity estimates.
I mean yeah,if you're American,you're likely to be mixed with all kinds of ethnicities, what with the Spanish, Columbus and the Africans,the British,Indians all fighting each other and fu -- uh never mind,sorry
Debbie B Cool story 😀 Similar here. I ordered an autosomal/Y/mt for myself and a cheaper autosomal (€39) for my both patents and my only surviving granny (92) for more detailed information.
Just to be clear being Jamaican is NOT an ethnicity, it's a nationality. Ethnicity is the ethnic group that you are from. I'm an American with Grenadian heritage, yet I understand that I'm apart of the African diaspora. Where you are born and your DNA are 2 completely different aspects of who you are.
Awesome results! I can't wait to do this. My whole family is from Jamaica but of course, I am the 1st US born. And your results just mean that those DNA results found became dominant as they were passed down to you. I find that siblings can have different amounts. A grandparent could have a white parent but yet their grandchildren can come up with high African DNA. Super! Jamaica is so diverse but I do hear always that we are predominately from the Akhan. However, we seem to have mostly Akhan (Ghanian/Ivory Coast), Nigerian, then Cameroon. This was fun:)
Those charts you were reading off with the 40% caucuses etc., shows that the people they used in the reference panel(the people they use to tell that you're from an area) had that region show up in their results. It doesn't mean that you have those. Good video though
It would be nice if you got a chance to re-look at your results, there have been a few updates as more tests and results have changed or gotten more precise.
This is so cool! Its nice to meet other interracial couples, even virtually. I am Euro-American and my husband is an Indian national. We have one son. I would love for all of us to have the DNA test, as my husbands surname appears to come from Cambodia. My great grandparents' surnames are Jewish and Russian (they are from Galicia). We definitely want the test! Too bad its not available in India.
I did my test earlier this year and it makes you feel a little different after you get the results, in a good way!!!! I am 88% African (Ghana highest percentage), 2% Asian, and 10% European.
Anneloes Barth I have 100 percent. No trace blood except a like 0.1 Italian but that's considered European. Mostly Finnish and French 😁 I wasn't surprised though when I got my results lol
Its all European, Ethnicity aren't much difference, the fact he's European, and the Middle eastern is a trace genetic, which means there's a massive chance its not even right.
LOOOOOOL I was literally thinking she will be more African than those people born and raised in African she completely raised her nose to Africans and she turned out to be more African than every single African people that I have seen do this test smh.
She turned out to be more African than me😋me and I was born and raised in America..I really was surprised with her results💁🏾♀️..Of course I’m one of the North Carolina descendants ..Almost all African-Americans from that region ..have tons of distant white cousins on our list..And that’s a fact..
I don't know _what_ you guys heard....but at 1:24, she first said she believes she's African. There was no 'turned-up nose'. She just made a distinction that she wasn't African American. - And, truthfully, we all descended from the same family. We each just aren't being too social with our great-to-the-500th-power cousins. And we all have multi-descent of great or small quantity, but like the DNA tests, it only shows as a 'small fraction' (because of the # of generations back).
At 18:36 those ethnicities are not in you. Those are just a general list of regions that may also have Asia South. If your mother's grandmother was Irish you would get 12-13% European, not 1% european. Another note, there are tribes in Africa which have your eyes. It most likely is not coming from the Asian South.
The Caribbean got the first pick of the Africans because the ships arrived in the Caribbean before they went on to the ports in Southern USA.. Some Africans where also transported directly to South America.. It would have been very rare for Africans to be transported back from Southern USA to the Caribbean...
Hi I am a Gooden too my father was from Westmoreland Jamaica. Found your channel by chance and like you I always wanted to do an ancestry test. Tracing the Gooden surname I found out it was from Scotland but I also heard of Indian ancestry. Your results were very interesting. Thought it would reflect some of those stories. I want to do the test but being in Jamaica makes it so difficult.
What a wonderful gift to give to your children. I haven't done the test yet, but am planning on doing it soon. I was adopted so don't have anything to base my ethnicity off of and so my girls would love to know more.
There is not a huge Asian population in Jamaica. It is small country, where the Indians and Chinese make up only *minority* groups. Beautiful couple, btw.
its very interesting to see carribean peoples results. Ive noticed that their results are much much higher african percentages than african americans. i actually saw a man from grenada who had 100 percent!
That's because the Europeans weren't many. It has alot to do with the fact that the native Americans and first African tribes to arrive in the carribean like the maroons were more of black supremacists. They didn't really care about white folks and planned several slave revolts. It is said that they were feared throughout America and beyond. It's possible the europeans were scared of those regions and hence kept their distance.
Great video, thanks for sharing! You guys rock! Wanted to mention I didn't have many photos of my family either, never met any grandparents, but luckily though doing my family tree I now have photos of every great grandparent, grandparent, new uncles & aunts, cousins etc I never knew about growing! Defo worth looking into, you never know who may have old family photos lying around! ❤👍🏼😍👏🏼
Hi. I’m Irish, as in from Ireland ( for probably many thousands of years through some branches of the tree !). Over the last 20 or so years, we have had many people from all over the world move here. From the comments here, the experience of race relations in the U.S seems to be drastically different from that which exists here. There is no history of enslaved african people here, so my son plays with children of Nigerian parents on a completely equal footing. My son has an old Irish name and his buddies have traditional Nigerian names, reflecting different, yet equal cultural backgrounds. If anything, experiences of Irish History and that most African countries have many parallels in terms of colonial repression. I was lucky enough to visit Ghana which was the first African country to be free of the British empire which was cool coming from the first country to be (partially) free of the British Empire ! If you ever make it to Ghana, Elmina castle makes the dispicable history of slavery very, very real. It’s a chilling place. Really enjoyed your video, go raibh maith agaibh !
i don't know but I'm thinking if you're great grandmother was Irish, wouldn't you have more Irish in your genetic breakdown? I feel like we sometimes just look in a mirror and guess, like I know alot of Jamaicans with a "white ancestor " or "Indian" or "chinese" but they don't look it and can't produce a single portait of this so-called relative. It's an interesting phenomenon. I wonder why we are so quick to believe these rumors about our background.
Lynda Anthony "I feel like we sometimes just look in a mirror and guess, like I know alot of Jamaicans with a "white ancestor " or "Indian" or "chinese" but they don't look it and can't produce a single portait of this so-called relative." I never knew my grandparents (Irish), but know a little bit about them. I know zero about my great-grandparents and all previous generations before them. I don't have any photos either. Sometimes there is a lack of information, unless we can find it.
Then how do you explain the huge number of West Indians with European DNA+ haplogroups in them if there wasn't a white relative in their ancestry???.Such a stupid comment.
Lynda Anthony what? Phenotype and Genotype are not the same thing. The genes you carry are not the same as the way those genes are expressed (physical appearance). That’s just not how genetics work.
I'm just throwing this out there, but being raised in Jamaican culture is radically different from being raised in the US. So, I think insisting that she's not African-American is a cultural distinction. She says she's now American. I presume that she's become an American citizen. Citizenship is about allegiance and loyalty. I'm not Black. But I presume growing up Black in the US is very different than growing up Black in Jamaica. Just being in the majority gives a person a different mindset.
Tan Ler yes. You are absolutely right. Some people lump being black into the same category. Being from the islands is a lot different than being raised here in the US.
I’m just wondering did you all get a new updated version of your DNA results summary ??and have you made a video about that?? mine changed within the last year a lot just curious😋..One more thing have you on your cousins list..discovered any African-American Cousins..?
People that wish these tests could be more specific are forgetting that wars and conquests have been the history of the entire world. Europe has been a battlefield for millennia and that the boundaries of many countries were all different even 50 years ago; and 100 years ago (four or five generations) different than what they were 50 years ago. My dad's family always said they were German/Austrian, but it turns out at the time the families were migrating to the U. S., the Austrian empire covered a huge part of Europe, which explains in part all those other "nationalities" in my blood. And as for another part of my ancestry, the Swedes (on mother's side) had invaded and were struggling for dominance in Western -- what we now call -- Russia which may explain the Western Russian part of me. And then don't let us forget that the Mongol armies reached Easter Europe, and they always included inductees from those people they had conquered. People have been moving, country boundaries have been moving, wars have been waged which always includes rape, so these tests give us only an estimate of where we came from, who we are, and for the most part, only recent history at that. I, too, am part European Jew. But this did not surprise me, because another way to trace ancestry is through your family name (although because of adoption, marriage, rape, conversions, etc. it does not necessarily mean blood line and so is not used for that reason.) My family name, most recently, came from Hungary, but I found that back in the Renaissance it was a Middle Eastern name in Muslim countries; I found that during WWII it was a Jewish name of residents of Czechoslovakia who died in the holocaust, and when my fathers grandfather immigrated from Slovenia, they were all Catholic. I might inject here that both Muslims and Catholics force converted Jews, while the Jews kept to themselves. This meant to me that the most likely picture was that that family name was originally Jewish. My DNA test only confirmed this suspicion.
So frustating they don't break the eastern euope in many pieces . There are slavs, dacians,thracians ,but i think they don't go to 2000 research ... I'm from Romania , our ancestors were native people here,farmers, so I guess if i take the test it would say i am eastern european.. But when you want to find out something deeper and complex that doesn't help
Just ordered my DNA test yesterday, and my family keeps telling me I'm 100% european, but I really want to prove them wrong! I wonder if it's really common for people to get just one continent like how you got 100% european.
93% African Awesome! You kind of confused me when you started talking about the Asia South parts I think you didn't explain it correctly. With your husband 100% European the children will be almost 50% of both and African, and European.
Yours said specifically Asia South. Ancestry.com distinguish the Asian groups. It wasn't saying you had Irish, Middle East, or East Asian DNA. It was saying that people with Asia South DNA can be located in those different areas outside of Asia South primarily from migration. I hope that helps.
My husband and I did 23&me/ ancestry dna and I did Africa Ancestry DNA & myheritage. I am excited about who I am and I cook foods based on my DNA. I UNDERSTAND my personality more.😊 When Trinadad/Tobago and Barbados showed up-- no one could tell me nothing. I knew my dancing skills came from somewhere 😊😊😊😊 I am a 'Shimmy-shimmy girl!!
By the way, l'm American. Not white or Caucasian. My DNA testing tells me, I'm from western Europe and the British isles. So for those of you who still use the ihiphen (I know, not right spelling.) in the census. Then I'm European - American.
I had mine done through Ancestry as well. I think that you two forgot to click where you ethnic communities are. This is the section that identifies hundreds of years ago, not thousands. My DNA was 97% Europe and 95% Europe East. The 3% that's not Europe is attributed to West Asia. That wasn't a surprise because I've always heard that my mother's maternal side of the family has one Turk in the family tree.
There are actually plenty of African people with slanty eyes too! Google search it :) I'm Jamaican too but I had no Ghana in me I had 47% Nigerian though and 29% Sierra Leone I also had Kenyan and Egyptian and 17% European (Scottish, Irish, Welsh, Scandinavian and Finland) lol so 83% African and 17% European I was shocked about my results! You two are a beautiful couple! Very attractive! and it's so cool how he's full European and your almost full African! I saw a video like that where the husband was 100% European and the wife was 99% African 1% Middle Eastern! ruclips.net/video/Pnbufgs--EM/видео.html
I was raised being told that we have a lot of Cherokee Indian in our blood. It turns out that I have almost none. I can't tell you what percentage of southerners think they have Cherokee blood. Most would be greatly surprised, I think.
I'm 98% African and 2% European BrEakdOwn: (91.4% Nigerian, 3.7% Kenyan, 2% Finnish, 1.8% Maasai) But I'm actually Nigerian through and through as far back as I can remember.
Incorrect. We are all ADMIXED, but we are all not mixed or multiracial. Mix implies recent multi genetic ancestry. Admixture implies remote multi genetic ancestry. Obama would be someone who is mixed (actually or more accurately he is biracial).
You are Jamaican like my mother! She passed away very recently. I remember she agreed to do a DNA test with 23andme and her background was European (British) first, around 50%, African second, around 49%, the rest being Native American. Both of her parents were mixed. If you are curious, you can read more about her on this Wikipedia page. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hessie (where they incorrectly state she was Cuban-born) More on an exhibition of her art work here: www.lesabattoirs.org/en/expositions/hessie-survival-art
Isn't that though, as with the Caribbean, a mixing of sources, White and blue eyes because that's the dominant shared traits. Or the dark skin, brown eyes, being the dominant traits of sources, Caribbean.
no offense intended the slaves were not stolen the tribal leaders presented their tribal members to slavers. Slavery is wrong just get the facts straight. However, confronting the history of the Atlantic slave trade requires more than a sentence acknowledging that the Amistad prisoners “had been captured in Africa by Africans who sold them to European slave traders.” Website readers must understand that this terrible traffic in millions of human beings had been, as affirmed by the PBS Africans in America series, a joint venture: “During this era, Africans and Europeans stood together as equals, companions in commerce and profit. Kings exchanged respectful letters across color lines and addressed each other as colleagues. Natives of the two continents were tied into a common economy.” historynewsnetwork.org/article/41431
You never get 50-50 from both parents, that's a misconception. Sometimes you get 20 from mom and 80 from dad, or the other way around. Not even positive twins have the exact same dna but they often think the test is wrong because they look so alike. If you really want to know what was not passed along, have your parents and grandparents take the test as well, lol
No you cannot get 80% from dad and 20 from mom. You get 50/50. Sorry you are in correct with what you stated in your post. If you can show me a result where the person get 80/20 then I would believe it but in my over 20 years of studying DNA and ancestry, I have never seen that RATIO.
You get 23 chromosomes from your father & 23 from your mother. But those chromosomes are a mix of THEIR parents'. So you can get more of one grandfather than grandmother on both sides.
I must be honest there was a lot of things the kinda made me mad. The part about jamaican, and the Asian part, all Asian are not the typical Chinese people we see, central Asians like ppl from the STAN countries dnt look Chinese but are still Asian. You will never see 35percent jamaican or Puerto Rican or something like that, I just was like man her results are a disappointment bc u are 90% African and really didn't seem to care I guess maybe bc u clearly knew that but seemed interested in other things that you are technically wrong about.
They don't break down "Europe West" because it's genetically one and same group of people mixed during thousands of years. On the other hand they have separated Finland/Northwest Russia which actually means Finno-Ugric people of Finns, Karelians, Ingrians, Kvens. They have totally different genetic lineage having ancestors even as far as from Siberia. In fact there are talk inside genetic experts that are Finno-Ugric folks even Europeans. What's sure is that they are biggest non Indo-European group in Europe.
Your husband is 100% White & you are 93% African or Black so that is a LOT more African than I guess you thought. You are an African American woman that was raised in Jamaica. Congrats!
My results: 70% Africa- Nigeria and all Southern region, 29% Europe- Great Britian, Ireland, 1% Pacific Islander Melanesia. thats all folks There are approx. 1- 1st cousin, 2- 3rd cousin, and 214- 4th cousins. Thats all folks!
even with the results showing you are 1% euro, you're still hanging on to what your mom said about being Irish...let it go, you're not part irish :). The report gives you timeline that shows when each of the groups enter into your dna. I would assume that the 1% euro came in during slave era due to rape so no need to be happy about that. Also why are you "guessing" and "maybe" about slaves being brought to Jamaica, i thought that was common knowledge!
No. Maybe for some, yes... but that's not _always_ true. For _some of us,_ ethnic blending _is_ willful and purposeful, going back generations. My family on both sides have documented attestation (newspaper articles featuring some of my family gathering together, and it also highlights the multi-ethnic paths each took...also have family tree records and photos, etc., to this fact). My wife's family has this, as well. For me, there's French/Iroquois (Mohawk)/Blackfoot/Cherokee/Canadian (Possibly Scottish) and African, all from my mom's side, and my dad's side is Puerto Rican (Taino/Spanish/African) and Cherokee, with a possibility of Arabic. - For both my wife's family and mine, we have multi generational (beyond grandparent) mariages of multi-ethnic backgrounds, and it's definitely _not just_ one, or two. After meeting my wife's family (in the Carolinas), I actually found that her family had a similar pattern to mine, though a bit different in some ways (Irish/African/Cherokee, and a few others). - If only more people could either get to truly research their trees, or get some sense/feel for the _true_ world patterns and travels going on (and how it also links with the Bible's record of history), instead of just what the one corner of the world says/passes on (lots of generalizations are being told on _all_ sides, here in the western world, from both the so-called 'majority' and the so-called 'minority').
She looks more Ghanaian than. Anything though. As soon as I saw them I said this woman will definitely have strong Ghanaian ancestry. Her face particularly her cheeks and eyes. She really looks Ghanaian.
You guys are a beautiful couple!!! My test is not being processed yet,but it has arrived and I'm black and white I have the same skin type as Mariah Carey.My dad is black but very light skin and my mom is white but my dad has never met his dad so this is going to be a life changer for me.
Togoland 🤗. Fred from Ghana said the.people in Togo like to read the comic strip Pogo, I guess that makes sense from a setting perspective (wilderness wetland). Anyhow, congratulations to you both for finding your roots!
alot of the time they can only make a generalized area for europe because people moved around during wartimes and some of the original countries in europe east don't exist anymore
Im jamaican and we have an identity crisis we are all aware that we are of african orgin. Some jamaicans try to push away their africanist embrace other races.
"Europe West" is basically Germanic, since both French and German people have the same Ancestors. This also includes smaller countries like Austria, Belgium, Netherlands etc. All descendants from germanic tribes.
Hi Stacey, just to let you know that some years ago the Irish were enslaved by the British and many of them brought to the Caribbean, specifically Jamaica (also Australia). So you can in fact have some Irish DNA. Slainte!
Western and eastern europe are not easy to break down in terms of genetics because theres been so much mixing in short period of time and its been quite densely populated small area. Some areas have been more isolated, so the average genetic makeup of an area is easier separate from other areas. Scandinavia, for example, is more homogenous than western european at present time, so its easy to say what is a scandinavian genome. Those scandinavian traits are quite common in britain because theres been migration from scandinavia to britain (Viking settlements in british area). If your parents are from europe, there propably is lot of mixing already. On the other hand America is big melting pot, so there is no American genetic makeup. Even if your parents are typical, lets say, mother from Norway (scandinavian) and England without any mixing, you wont be 50/50 Norway/England because you wont get half and half your genome from your parents but it might 40/60 for example. There is lot more to it and and ancestry genetics can be very complex thing. So those percentages are just rough estimates.
The 46% ivory coast/ghana comes from the Akan heritage connection that most jamaicans from the mountain-side regions of the islands have. The Akans unfortunately dealt in the slave trade and would sell enemies captured in war into captivity. The misfortune visited the Akans in war against the english, whereby when the soldiers of the Ashantihene's (Ashanti King) army who were mostly (Akan) were captured and sold into slavery / shipped to jamaica and several of the english speaking carribean countries for the most part. Jamaican heritage has many connections to modern day Ghana that is home to the dominant Akan cultures of the Ashanti and Fante. The ivory coast shows up because Akans in dispute with the Ashanthene's warring policies in the beginning of the Ashanti empire broke off and migrated there. Another thing to note and correct,is that the Carribean was the first stop in the beginning of the slave trade (Triangular Trade). Ghana (Elmina Castle) was a shipping port/station for captures. However, many of your Africans that form todays black populations in the Americas are not Ivory Coast/Ghana decedents........they in fact will trace there ancestry to Nigeria, Congo, Senegal, and Cameroon. The IC/Ghana ancestry is more specific to Jamaica and many english speaking carribean countries because of the aforementioned. Due to the soldier survivor skills, knowledge of agriculture, and the political organizational skills in Jamaica especially, these Akans were able to escape, establish independent communities, and plan-out attacks eventually leading to a resolution with the english (look-up maroons).
My husband and myself did it as well waiting on the results, I'm also Jamaican and my husband New Zealander can't wait for the results i have always been curious, he even more than me.Thanks for sharing with us :)
Ivory coast is not part of Ghana, and Cameroon is not part of Ivory Coast but are the same Tribe.. Bantu. You are a Bantu. Cameroon, Gabon and Congo are Fangs You are definitely Bantu. don't worry about your eyes, there are plenty of Blacks with so called Slant eyes. As for the Middl East part, there is no such thing, it is the Whiteman's creation. The so called Middle East is what was in yester years known as North East Africa. that is from Israel to Yemen. this includes the Mesopotamia.
True - It seems your more African than you thought you were, and your saying your not American, but our history tells that many of us came from Ghana or other parts of West Africa...so regardless to where we ended up it really does not matter if we are sharing the stories that our DNA tells about each of us. However, if we are talking about citizenship or the culture we (one may) embrace then I can understand why it may be important to say your not American. I have met over a dozen white folks, now friends, who says they are from Africa, just like a couple of my Asian friends. The point is that they understand before our continent (Africa) broke in parts we all were a part of Africa (and still are), some of us ended up in Asia during the first great split. In other words, we are large diverse group of beautiful people connected either by blood and or history regardless to where we think or deny where we have come from. Knowing one's history makes what we learn from our genetic results - DN Analysis not so surprising, really. I am just delighted and hope the possibility of knowing more about ourselves will allow us to see ourselves in others and start sharing more love.
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I have noticed that a lot of people from the Caribbean are always surprised of the percentage of African they are, just because you are not African American does not mean you are not African just means your ancestors were taken to the Caribbean instead of America
1958jac im jamaican i have no clue what your talking about...we tend to be more afrocentric than the average member of the african diaspora (we also have a bleaching problem on the other end of the spectrum, but thats self hate not self denial) we r very aware of our history sad as it may be
Were taken or immigrated themselves
People always say that but imo caribbean people are way more in touch with their african heritage than AA, I been all up and thru the caribbean and never heard a black person say they're not black...I mean the music, the food, the festivals etc its all in there.
She said as much at the beginning of the video. She said that while she is not African American, she is of African descent. At the end of the video, she notes that some slaves were taken to the U.S., while others were shipped to the Caribbean.
1958jac Thats sooooo not true. One thing about Jamaicans...we claim our African...Maroon...Ancestry....and are one of the Caribbean Island still living close to our African Ancestral lifestyle...than most African Americans .. We hardly claim anything but AFRICA...in our culture. .
His results begin at 9:30.
Her results begin at 15:24.
Daaaang this is a long video!
Sweet Heart thank you for cutting through the blab.
thank yoooou
thx
Thanks again...forthe heads up🤣🙌🏽🙌🏽
Thank you sweet heart
I have a biracial son for whom we do not have any contact with his biological father. So, for Christmas last year, I bought Ancestry DNA tests for the five of us in our family instead of gifts. He's 16 now and has always known that his father is African-American, but I was hoping to give him more of an answer to who he is and where he came from. We all had fun with ours, but he is especially happy with the results. Somehow it's 'grounding' (for lack of a better word...). We also have discovered 144 cousins of his, several who we have reached out to and he's been accepted by them. Several who are 5th - 8th cousins, still say, "Our DNA says we are family, so we are family." I think it's the best gift I could have ever given him. Love your video.
Thanks. Yes. That's an amazing gift. So glad you had a experience.
dna.land and gedmatch will give you more free results
Thank you! I have already uploaded to gedmatch, but just learned of the others with Stacy-Ann's video. I appreciate your input and comment.
listinak Where did the father go?
@m121 You sound like a sad and lonely troll.
African-American is not a race. America is your nationality African is your heritage.
Jamaican is not a race either.
Give Evans a prize for being educated
Barbara Bach unless comment
African-American is an ethicnity.
Daron French no its not American is your nationality African is your heritage.
Jamaican is not ethnicity, it's a national designation. American is a national designation. Jamaicans and African Americans have pretty much the same origin. Please stop the division among the descendants of Africa. Jamaicans and not mystical there descendants were brought from Africa accept it's okay.
Lisa Branch , exactly. I was sitting here wondering why she felt the need to continue to make that distinction AND why she was confused and was looking for it to reference Jamaica. These tests get to origin of ancestry which extends beyond the establishment of Jamaica. That's why North America is not popping up on people's results.
But from the DNA, you can tell she's not like an average African American because no matter how dark, most African Americans have more than 1% European, due to the tragedies of our ancestors. So not saying Jamaican is a different race, but looking at her results it's different DNA
Alina Mitchelson exactly. The south Asian (Indian) admixture is also more common in West Indians vs. the European admixture in AA’s. She says the test didn’t pick her Jamaican heritage. Ancestry DNA picked up my ancestors migration to Jamaica. If she decides to try that test it should pick it up.
I am Jamaican but I am not only of African descent. My paternal grandfather came from Scotland ... I haven't done my DNA but I have African, Scottish, Indian and whatever other dregs is in my DNA ... Jamaica's are a mixed race of people ... Chinese, Indian, Spanish, British and African.
CherCherico .....as so many of us....spice is nice 👍 👍
Girl you're beautiful! You look like an island girl. I lived in FL for 13 years and there's a lot of people from Jamaica there. At the end of the day, however whether you're Jamaican or Afro American we all are from the same parts of West Africa.
African women have beautiful features and skin.
And so do European and Asian and native Americans too
@ハニーキティー well it's a matter of opinion
Link and Zelda Toon You are correct. Every so call “race” has them all. Phenotype is just our very smart biology adapting to the environment.
@@adammoore7059 Yes you are correct all groups of peoples have a mixture of beautiful features and skin and also plain features and skin.
I am 82% African and 18% European; 19% African Southeastern Bantu and 11% Great Britain! I have a video of my results! So glad i did this! Thanks for sharing!
82% + 28% = 110% though... ?
I obviously can't add 😂😂😂! I meant 18% European!
what is a full blooded Jamaican? Yes, you are of African descent. It goes way beyond country borders, especially for people of Africa, because we are everywhere!
Stacy-Ann, I've done the whole 9 yards! My interest with genealogy started in 1977 when the tv movie, Roots came out. I've embraced the DNA thing too. My results are I'm 32% Benin/Togo, 21% Cameroon/Congo, 7% Ivory Coast/Ghana, 6% Mali, 3% Nigerian, 22% European, and less than 1% Native and West Asian. My Mom is 84 and her results were very interesting. She is almost 36% European, (mostly England and Ireland) 18% Ivory Coast/Ghana, 16% Cameroon/Congo, 16% Benin/Togo, and less than 1% Asian and Native, about 62% subsaharan African. The older the relative, the more of your story is told. I suggest you might want to have a parent tested if they're still with us. The more relatives who are tested, the more of all your family's DNA information is revealed. It's like a puzzle with my Mom having pieces from her parents and grandparents, etc, my sister having pieces I don't have and I having pieces she doesn't have but together mysteries can be solved. We get 50% of each parent's DNA and the 50% we receive is random! My Mom's and my DNA (not my sister, hence randomness) has traced to Mom's great grandmother and HER mother, a Native who were slaves in this slaveowner's household in 1850, the year Mom's great grandmother was born. A social security claim index showed me my 2nd great grandmother's surname/slave name, which led me to his household, in the same location in Southeast Missouri where that side of the family were born. I just needed DNA from their family to confirm. He only had 2 slaves, he had no brothers or male relatives in Missouri (He's from Tennessee) and his son was too young to be a candidate. The slaveowner's descendants finally took the AncestryDNA test! He is Mom's 3rd cousin, once removed! He has not sought me out, nor I, him. I know he knows about this because Ancestry send emails! I just fixed my tree, LOL! Mom and this guy share a 2nd great grandfather. I assure you my initial interest was to find my ethnicity but the DNA has also opened up a new world of what can be done with it! One brick wall....destroyed!! :)
wow! Thanks for sharing.
***** Well, I've spent a lot of money because I "sponsor" each test for family who are basically indulging my passion for genealogy. Right now is a good time to order a kit because of sales going on. FTDNA is selling the autosomal (family finder) test for like $59 for the holidays. They recently came down from $99 to regularly $79. Ancestry, I believe, is $99 or $89, 23&Me is $99. MyHeritage tests are on sale for $79, regularly $99. Ancestry is best for their database of over 1 million tests (for finding dna matches) and they have millions records and documents for a fee. FTDNA has good tools to determine where you share chromosomes with matches and I think 23&Me is the best with ethnicity..Their algorithms pick up native american ancestry where the other two might not or pick up minutely. I think FTDNA is poor for ethnicity estimates.
I mean yeah,if you're American,you're likely to be mixed with all kinds of ethnicities,
what with the Spanish, Columbus and the Africans,the British,Indians
all fighting each other and fu -- uh never mind,sorry
Debbie B Cool story 😀 Similar here. I ordered an autosomal/Y/mt for myself and a cheaper autosomal (€39) for my both patents and my only surviving granny (92) for more detailed information.
Just to be clear being Jamaican is NOT an ethnicity, it's a nationality.
Ethnicity is the ethnic group that you are from. I'm an American with Grenadian heritage, yet I understand that I'm apart of the African diaspora.
Where you are born and your DNA are 2 completely different aspects of who you are.
A lot of Ghanaians have eyes like you do😊
Gabriella Adams all blacks have brown eyes dumbass
Man Flushes Away 100% European DNA
Gabriella Adams they really do
she is talking about the shape of the eyes not the colour
yeah her eyes shape says african to me
congratulations to the man to who won a beautiful African Queen.
C Mack Dude hit the lottery!
Congratulations to the woman who won a magnificent European King.
+Coregame3 shut up your big mouth
Moniqtee Jamaican is a nationality...not really a race.
You’re congratulating a white man for seducing a black female.. the times we living in...
people want to be mixed so bad
such a bad trend
Yellow Synth That's why I don't care to do this test, pretty sure I have some European in me but don't care to find out.
Denise I would say do it to find out if you are the lost tribe of the hebrew isralite
Denise Because you are racist
Cicero right, because knowing my great great great grandma was being raped by a white man on the plantation makes me the racist.
Denise Can you prove she was taped?
Awesome results! I can't wait to do this. My whole family is from Jamaica but of course, I am the 1st US born. And your results just mean that those DNA results found became dominant as they were passed down to you. I find that siblings can have different amounts. A grandparent could have a white parent but yet their grandchildren can come up with high African DNA. Super! Jamaica is so diverse but I do hear always that we are predominately from the Akhan. However, we seem to have mostly Akhan (Ghanian/Ivory Coast), Nigerian, then Cameroon. This was fun:)
Those charts you were reading off with the 40% caucuses etc., shows that the people they used in the reference panel(the people they use to tell that you're from an area) had that region show up in their results. It doesn't mean that you have those. Good video though
Thanks. I had no I idea.
Lol, I know I was wondering what they were talking about
It would be nice if you got a chance to re-look at your results, there have been a few updates as more tests and results have changed or gotten more precise.
My wife and I are waiting for our results. Can't wait :)
This is so cool! Its nice to meet other interracial couples, even virtually. I am Euro-American and my husband is an Indian national. We have one son. I would love for all of us to have the DNA test, as my husbands surname appears to come from Cambodia. My great grandparents' surnames are Jewish and Russian (they are from Galicia). We definitely want the test! Too bad its not available in India.
I did my test earlier this year and it makes you feel a little different after you get the results, in a good way!!!! I am 88% African (Ghana highest percentage), 2% Asian, and 10% European.
You gonna have to visit Ghana... Nice country
First time I've seen anyone with 100% European ancestry. :o
That's pretty common. Many of my matches on Family Tree DNA are 100% European.
Anneloes Barth I have 100 percent. No trace blood except a like 0.1 Italian but that's considered European. Mostly Finnish and French 😁 I wasn't surprised though when I got my results lol
Yeah they did Moniqtee hahahahahahaha lol
80 % of whites are 100 % European that is simple logic.
@QTee ikr?? I was like "wtf??"
btw the women in this video is freaking beautiful
There is no Jamaica part. The Jamaican part would be the Taino. Or what we Jamaicans say Arawak. Which is the language.
mee white the Tiano (Native Americans) Is what I refer to as "Jamaican" the are the original people who were there before slavery
results start at 9:06
This doesn't show that were all mixed, it shows that he's 100% European
Its all European, Ethnicity aren't much difference, the fact he's European, and the Middle eastern is a trace genetic, which means there's a massive chance its not even right.
There are many groups of people in Europe - you would see that if you even watched this video
most white people with pale skin like his are usually 98% or higher of European descent..ie...Meryl Streep
Oh, is "European" a single ethnicity?
No It's a race of people.
LOOOOOOL I was literally thinking she will be more African than those people born and raised in African she completely raised her nose to Africans and she turned out to be more African than every single African people that I have seen do this test smh.
Cookie lover Yes, and she has the ultimate egg on her face look...lol. LOVE THE SKIN YOU'RE IN!
Cookie lover bullshit africans are 100%
Mostly all Africans ive seen are 100% African my guy
She turned out to be more African than me😋me and I was born and raised in America..I really was surprised with her results💁🏾♀️..Of course I’m one of the North Carolina descendants ..Almost all African-Americans from that region ..have tons of distant white cousins on our list..And that’s a fact..
I don't know _what_ you guys heard....but at 1:24, she first said she believes she's African. There was no 'turned-up nose'. She just made a distinction that she wasn't African American.
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And, truthfully, we all descended from the same family. We each just aren't being too social with our great-to-the-500th-power cousins. And we all have multi-descent of great or small quantity, but like the DNA tests, it only shows as a 'small fraction' (because of the # of generations back).
I just have to tell you that you're absolutely gorgeous and you have no make-up on WOW!!! 😊🙏💗
Thanks for the screenshots. I hate when the reports are not shown.
The little munchkin in the background at 10:30 was a nice touch!
At 18:36 those ethnicities are not in you. Those are just a general list of regions that may also have Asia South. If your mother's grandmother was Irish you would get 12-13% European, not 1% european. Another note, there are tribes in Africa which have your eyes. It most likely is not coming from the Asian South.
The Caribbean got the first pick of the Africans because the ships arrived in the Caribbean before they went on to the ports in Southern USA.. Some Africans where also transported directly to South America.. It would have been very rare for Africans to be transported back from Southern USA to the Caribbean...
Hi I am a Gooden too my father was from Westmoreland Jamaica. Found your channel by chance and like you I always wanted to do an ancestry test. Tracing the Gooden surname I found out it was from Scotland but I also heard of Indian ancestry. Your results were very interesting. Thought it would reflect some of those stories. I want to do the test but being in Jamaica makes it so difficult.
What a wonderful gift to give to your children. I haven't done the test yet, but am planning on doing it soon. I was adopted so don't have anything to base my ethnicity off of and so my girls would love to know more.
Absolutely. That's our intention. Our daughter is very inquisitive about everything, including our background :)
There is not a huge Asian population in Jamaica. It is small country, where the Indians and Chinese make up only *minority* groups. Beautiful couple, btw.
its very interesting to see carribean peoples results. Ive noticed that their results are much much higher african percentages than african americans. i actually saw a man from grenada who had 100 percent!
Nomahr Lemma grenada rule !
not many white people to mix with
That's because the Maroons and Tainos kicked the Europeans ass!.
Not all Caribbean’s
That's because the Europeans weren't many. It has alot to do with the fact that the native Americans and first African tribes to arrive in the carribean like the maroons were more of black supremacists. They didn't really care about white folks and planned several slave revolts. It is said that they were feared throughout America and beyond. It's possible the europeans were scared of those regions and hence kept their distance.
Great video, thanks for sharing! You guys rock! Wanted to mention I didn't have many photos of my family either, never met any grandparents, but luckily though doing my family tree I now have photos of every great grandparent, grandparent, new uncles & aunts, cousins etc I never knew about growing! Defo worth looking into, you never know who may have old family photos lying around! ❤👍🏼😍👏🏼
Hi. I’m Irish, as in from Ireland ( for probably many thousands of years through some branches of the tree !). Over the last 20 or so years, we have had many people from all over the world move here. From the comments here, the experience of race relations in the U.S seems to be drastically different from that which exists here. There is no history of enslaved african people here, so my son plays with children of Nigerian parents on a completely equal footing. My son has an old Irish name and his buddies have traditional Nigerian names, reflecting different, yet equal cultural backgrounds. If anything, experiences of Irish History and that most African countries have many parallels in terms of colonial repression.
I was lucky enough to visit Ghana which was the first African country to be free of the British empire which was cool coming from the first country to be (partially) free of the British Empire ! If you ever make it to Ghana, Elmina castle makes the dispicable history of slavery very, very real. It’s a chilling place.
Really enjoyed your video, go raibh maith agaibh !
i don't know but I'm thinking if you're great grandmother was Irish, wouldn't you have more Irish in your genetic breakdown? I feel like we sometimes just look in a mirror and guess, like I know alot of Jamaicans with a "white ancestor " or "Indian" or "chinese" but they don't look it and can't produce a single portait of this so-called relative. It's an interesting phenomenon. I wonder why we are so quick to believe these rumors about our background.
Lynda Anthony
"I feel like we sometimes just look in a mirror and guess, like I know alot of Jamaicans with a "white ancestor " or "Indian" or "chinese" but they don't look it and can't produce a single portait of this so-called relative."
I never knew my grandparents (Irish), but know a little bit about them. I know zero about my great-grandparents and all previous generations before them. I don't have any photos either. Sometimes there is a lack of information, unless we can find it.
Then how do you explain the huge number of West Indians with European DNA+ haplogroups in them if there wasn't a white relative in their ancestry???.Such a stupid comment.
Lynda Anthony what? Phenotype and Genotype are not the same thing. The genes you carry are not the same as the way those genes are expressed (physical appearance). That’s just not how genetics work.
She was 93% Africa, 5% Asia South, 1% Europe (no country specified) and less than 1% Pacific Islander so no Irish great grandmother in those results.
I'm just throwing this out there, but being raised in Jamaican culture is radically different from being raised in the US. So, I think insisting that she's not African-American is a cultural distinction. She says she's now American. I presume that she's become an American citizen. Citizenship is about allegiance and loyalty. I'm not Black. But I presume growing up Black in the US is very different than growing up Black in Jamaica. Just being in the majority gives a person a different mindset.
Tan Ler yes. You are absolutely right. Some people lump being black into the same category. Being from the islands is a lot different than being raised here in the US.
That’s exactly how I took it! People are being weird in these comments.
I’m just wondering did you all get a new updated version of your DNA results summary ??and have you made a video about that?? mine changed within the last year a lot just curious😋..One more thing have you on your cousins list..discovered any African-American Cousins..?
People that wish these tests could be more specific are forgetting that wars and conquests have been the history of the entire world. Europe has been a battlefield for millennia and that the boundaries of many countries were all different even 50 years ago; and 100 years ago (four or five generations) different than what they were 50 years ago. My dad's family always said they were German/Austrian, but it turns out at the time the families were migrating to the U. S., the Austrian empire covered a huge part of Europe, which explains in part all those other "nationalities" in my blood. And as for another part of my ancestry, the Swedes (on mother's side) had invaded and were struggling for dominance in Western -- what we now call -- Russia which may explain the Western Russian part of me. And then don't let us forget that the Mongol armies reached Easter Europe, and they always included inductees from those people they had conquered. People have been moving, country boundaries have been moving, wars have been waged which always includes rape, so these tests give us only an estimate of where we came from, who we are, and for the most part, only recent history at that. I, too, am part European Jew. But this did not surprise me, because another way to trace ancestry is through your family name (although because of adoption, marriage, rape, conversions, etc. it does not necessarily mean blood line and so is not used for that reason.) My family name, most recently, came from Hungary, but I found that back in the Renaissance it was a Middle Eastern name in Muslim countries; I found that during WWII it was a Jewish name of residents of Czechoslovakia who died in the holocaust, and when my fathers grandfather immigrated from Slovenia, they were all Catholic. I might inject here that both Muslims and Catholics force converted Jews, while the Jews kept to themselves. This meant to me that the most likely picture was that that family name was originally Jewish. My DNA test only confirmed this suspicion.
So frustating they don't break the eastern euope in many pieces . There are slavs, dacians,thracians ,but i think they don't go to 2000 research ... I'm from Romania , our ancestors were native people here,farmers, so I guess if i take the test it would say i am eastern european.. But when you want to find out something deeper and complex that doesn't help
Scarllet well you take your result, upload it on Gedmatch.com and it gives you a breakdown of what you really are.
Yeah,why don't they break it down more,the Russians aren't quite like the Romanians,ethnic wise
Just ordered my DNA test yesterday, and my family keeps telling me I'm 100% european, but I really want to prove them wrong! I wonder if it's really common for people to get just one continent like how you got 100% european.
You can really see the Italy Greece in your husband.I am Puerto Rican i share the same results as both you and your husband lol.Good video
93% African Awesome! You kind of confused me when you started talking about the Asia South parts I think you didn't explain it correctly. With your husband 100% European the children will be almost 50% of both and African, and European.
It says 5 percent Asian. I was trying to tie in the areas where ancestry highlighted on the map. Sorry for the confusion.
Yours said specifically Asia South. Ancestry.com distinguish the Asian groups. It wasn't saying you had Irish, Middle East, or East Asian DNA. It was saying that people with Asia South DNA can be located in those different areas outside of Asia South primarily from migration. I hope that helps.
Thanks.
My husband and I did 23&me/ ancestry dna and I did Africa Ancestry DNA & myheritage. I am excited about who I am and I cook foods based on my DNA. I UNDERSTAND my personality more.😊 When Trinadad/Tobago and Barbados showed up-- no one could tell me nothing. I knew my dancing skills came from somewhere 😊😊😊😊 I am a 'Shimmy-shimmy girl!!
You guys are so right, it is important. Knowing what your genetic make up is as a child with parents of different races helps
By the way, l'm American. Not white or Caucasian. My DNA testing tells me, I'm from western Europe and the British isles. So for those of you who still use the ihiphen (I know, not right spelling.) in the census. Then I'm European - American.
How did you get Ancestry to sponsor your DNA test?
I had mine done through Ancestry as well. I think that you two forgot to click where you ethnic communities are. This is the section that identifies hundreds of years ago, not thousands.
My DNA was 97% Europe and 95% Europe East. The 3% that's not Europe is attributed to West Asia. That wasn't a surprise because I've always heard that my mother's maternal side of the family has one Turk in the family tree.
There are actually plenty of African people with slanty eyes too! Google search it :) I'm Jamaican too but I had no Ghana in me I had 47% Nigerian though and 29% Sierra Leone I also had Kenyan and Egyptian and 17% European (Scottish, Irish, Welsh, Scandinavian and Finland) lol so 83% African and 17% European I was shocked about my results! You two are a beautiful couple! Very attractive! and it's so cool how he's full European and your almost full African! I saw a video like that where the husband was 100% European and the wife was 99% African 1% Middle Eastern! ruclips.net/video/Pnbufgs--EM/видео.html
Why are you so upset that you’re 93 percent African, you really sat and broke down 5 percent 😂
I was raised being told that we have a lot of Cherokee Indian in our blood. It turns out that I have almost none. I can't tell you what percentage of southerners think they have Cherokee blood. Most would be greatly surprised, I think.
Those outtakes though! 😂
That sigh and eye roll is every parent at one point or another. 😂😂😂
I'm 98% African and 2% European
BrEakdOwn:
(91.4% Nigerian, 3.7% Kenyan, 2% Finnish, 1.8% Maasai)
But I'm actually Nigerian through and through as far back as I can remember.
Have you ever been to Nigeria? Would love to go some day.
We are all mixed but we are not all multiracial.
Incorrect. We are all ADMIXED, but we are all not mixed or multiracial. Mix implies recent multi genetic ancestry. Admixture implies remote multi genetic ancestry. Obama would be someone who is mixed (actually or more accurately he is biracial).
You are Jamaican like my mother! She passed away very recently. I remember she agreed to do a DNA test with 23andme and her background was European (British) first, around 50%, African second, around 49%, the rest being Native American. Both of her parents were mixed.
If you are curious, you can read more about her on this Wikipedia page.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hessie (where they incorrectly state she was Cuban-born)
More on an exhibition of her art work here:
www.lesabattoirs.org/en/expositions/hessie-survival-art
She seemed disappointed that she didn't have any European ancestry.
Lol I peeped that too
Joseph Simien I noticed that too, how sad
I didn’t notice it .
How did she not have any????? She was 4% Ireland..
@Din Sei That 4% Irish was within the 5% Asian, making it pretty close to 0%.
Upload the results on GEDmatch to get more details
Isn't that though, as with the Caribbean, a mixing of sources, White and blue eyes because that's the dominant shared traits.
Or the dark skin, brown eyes, being the dominant traits of sources, Caribbean.
no offense intended the slaves were not stolen the tribal leaders presented their tribal members to slavers. Slavery is wrong just get the facts straight.
However, confronting the history of the Atlantic slave trade requires more than a sentence acknowledging that the Amistad prisoners “had been captured in Africa by Africans who sold them to European slave traders.” Website readers must understand that this terrible traffic in millions of human beings had been, as affirmed by the PBS Africans in America series, a joint venture: “During this era, Africans and Europeans stood together as equals, companions in commerce and profit. Kings exchanged respectful letters across color lines and addressed each other as colleagues. Natives of the two continents were tied into a common economy.”
historynewsnetwork.org/article/41431
I enjoyed your DNA video so much! I have subscribed to your channel so that I can learn more about you guys! You are both beautiful!
every time he looked at the camera he didnt blink😂😂
Ummm, I hope you guys figured out to click in the actual "Europe West" button to get the full breakdown.
How are we all mixed if he's 100% European...?
Sydney ..because our ancestors were raped for hundreds of years...this is basic knowledge...why are you acting so dumb
because these tests just go 400-600 years back... not more than that
Sydney 7(6&
Sydney europeans arent one people for example if an italian and a german have a kid ,the kid will be half italiam half german and that makes it mixed
Lol, true, neither of them are, because she's predominantly African. She more African than Africans I seen take the test.
You never get 50-50 from both parents, that's a misconception. Sometimes you get 20 from mom and 80 from dad, or the other way around. Not even positive twins have the exact same dna but they often think the test is wrong because they look so alike. If you really want to know what was not passed along, have your parents and grandparents take the test as well, lol
No you cannot get 80% from dad and 20 from mom. You get 50/50. Sorry you are in correct with what you stated in your post. If you can show me a result where the person get 80/20 then I would believe it but in my over 20 years of studying DNA and ancestry, I have never seen that RATIO.
You get 23 chromosomes from your father & 23 from your mother. But those chromosomes are a mix of THEIR parents'. So you can get more of one grandfather than grandmother on both sides.
Great results!! Thank you for sharing.
23 & me is a better at telling you exactly what you are , even cities. Ancestry connects you to possible family.
I must be honest there was a lot of things the kinda made me mad. The part about jamaican, and the Asian part, all Asian are not the typical Chinese people we see, central Asians like ppl from the STAN countries dnt look Chinese but are still Asian. You will never see 35percent jamaican or Puerto Rican or something like that, I just was like man her results are a disappointment bc u are 90% African and really didn't seem to care I guess maybe bc u clearly knew that but seemed interested in other things that you are technically wrong about.
They don't break down "Europe West" because it's genetically one and same group of people mixed during thousands of years. On the other hand they have separated Finland/Northwest Russia which actually means Finno-Ugric people of Finns, Karelians, Ingrians, Kvens. They have totally different genetic lineage having ancestors even as far as from Siberia. In fact there are talk inside genetic experts that are Finno-Ugric folks even Europeans. What's sure is that they are biggest non Indo-European group in Europe.
LANGUAGE is non-indoeuropean.. If finnish people are not europian, what then? Some race of our own, or are you implying we're mongoloids?
i love the bloopers 😂 u guys are so cute and funny
Your husband is 100% White & you are 93% African or Black so that is a LOT more African than I guess you thought. You are an African American woman that was raised in Jamaica. Congrats!
My results: 70% Africa- Nigeria and all Southern region, 29% Europe- Great Britian, Ireland, 1% Pacific Islander Melanesia. thats all folks There are approx. 1- 1st cousin, 2- 3rd cousin, and 214- 4th cousins. Thats all folks!
even with the results showing you are 1% euro, you're still hanging on to what your mom said about being Irish...let it go, you're not part irish :). The report gives you timeline that shows when each of the groups enter into your dna. I would assume that the 1% euro came in during slave era due to rape so no need to be happy about that.
Also why are you "guessing" and "maybe" about slaves being brought to Jamaica, i thought that was common knowledge!
No. Maybe for some, yes... but that's not _always_ true. For _some of us,_ ethnic blending _is_ willful and purposeful, going back generations. My family on both sides have documented attestation (newspaper articles featuring some of my family gathering together, and it also highlights the multi-ethnic paths each took...also have family tree records and photos, etc., to this fact). My wife's family has this, as well. For me, there's French/Iroquois (Mohawk)/Blackfoot/Cherokee/Canadian (Possibly Scottish) and African, all from my mom's side, and my dad's side is Puerto Rican (Taino/Spanish/African) and Cherokee, with a possibility of Arabic.
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For both my wife's family and mine, we have multi generational (beyond grandparent) mariages of multi-ethnic backgrounds, and it's definitely _not just_ one, or two. After meeting my wife's family (in the Carolinas), I actually found that her family had a similar pattern to mine, though a bit different in some ways (Irish/African/Cherokee, and a few others).
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If only more people could either get to truly research their trees, or get some sense/feel for the _true_ world patterns and travels going on (and how it also links with the Bible's record of history), instead of just what the one corner of the world says/passes on (lots of generalizations are being told on _all_ sides, here in the western world, from both the so-called 'majority' and the so-called 'minority').
I think you must be from the Congo, rather than Cameroon. I am Congolese myself and I know my people when I see them ! You guys look adorable BTW ☝
I came out predominantly Cameroon/Congo, like 35%
darkandlovely01 ... you too funny 😂
she looks more Ghanaian
She looks more Ghanaian than. Anything though. As soon as I saw them I said this woman will definitely have strong Ghanaian ancestry. Her face particularly her cheeks and eyes. She really looks Ghanaian.
You guys are a beautiful couple!!! My test is not being processed yet,but it has arrived and I'm black and white I have the same skin type as Mariah Carey.My dad is black but very light skin and my mom is white but my dad has never met his dad so this is going to be a life changer for me.
Togoland 🤗. Fred from Ghana said the.people in Togo like to read the comic strip Pogo, I guess that makes sense from a setting perspective (wilderness wetland). Anyhow, congratulations to you both for finding your roots!
that guys getting his good dose of curry goat, dumplings and salt fish. im in the same boat bro haha. nothing better
weeddegree and he loves it. 😀
alot of the time they can only make a generalized area for europe because people moved around during wartimes and some of the original countries in europe east don't exist anymore
Im jamaican and we have an identity crisis we are all aware that we are of african orgin. Some jamaicans try to push away their africanist embrace other races.
"Europe West" is basically Germanic, since both French and German people have the same Ancestors. This also includes smaller countries like Austria, Belgium, Netherlands etc. All descendants from germanic tribes.
i would think jamaica residents were more interested in feeding themselves every day than having a camera....lol
I'm Swedish, and my DNA result was 78,8 % Scandinavian and 13,9 % Finnish and 7,3 % Baltic.
That is so cool. I'm so excited for you guys.🤗❤
Hi Stacey, just to let you know that some years ago the Irish were enslaved by the British and many of them brought to the Caribbean, specifically Jamaica (also Australia). So you can in fact have some Irish DNA. Slainte!
I think she thought it was gonna say that she's from Jamaica lmfao! :-)
She’s not happy to be African she thought American or Europen 😂😂
fashilka ka dhaaf abayo lkn luuq walba somali maryoley lagama waayo😂😂
Western and eastern europe are not easy to break down in terms of genetics because theres been so much mixing in short period of time and its been quite densely populated small area. Some areas have been more isolated, so the average genetic makeup of an area is easier separate from other areas. Scandinavia, for example, is more homogenous than western european at present time, so its easy to say what is a scandinavian genome. Those scandinavian traits are quite common in britain because theres been migration from scandinavia to britain (Viking settlements in british area). If your parents are from europe, there propably is lot of mixing already. On the other hand America is big melting pot, so there is no American genetic makeup. Even if your parents are typical, lets say, mother from Norway (scandinavian) and England without any mixing, you wont be 50/50 Norway/England because you wont get half and half your genome from your parents but it might 40/60 for example. There is lot more to it and and ancestry genetics can be very complex thing. So those percentages are just rough estimates.
The 46% ivory coast/ghana comes from the Akan heritage connection that most jamaicans from the mountain-side regions of the islands have. The Akans unfortunately dealt in the slave trade and would sell enemies captured in war into captivity. The misfortune visited the Akans in war against the english, whereby when the soldiers of the Ashantihene's (Ashanti King) army who were mostly (Akan) were captured and sold into slavery / shipped to jamaica and several of the english speaking carribean countries for the most part. Jamaican heritage has many connections to modern day Ghana that is home to the dominant Akan cultures of the Ashanti and Fante. The ivory coast shows up because Akans in dispute with the Ashanthene's warring policies in the beginning of the Ashanti empire broke off and migrated there. Another thing to note and correct,is that the Carribean was the first stop in the beginning of the slave trade (Triangular Trade). Ghana (Elmina Castle) was a shipping port/station for captures. However, many of your Africans that form todays black populations in the Americas are not Ivory Coast/Ghana decedents........they in fact will trace there ancestry to Nigeria, Congo, Senegal, and Cameroon. The IC/Ghana ancestry is more specific to Jamaica and many english speaking carribean countries because of the aforementioned. Due to the soldier survivor skills, knowledge of agriculture, and the political organizational skills in Jamaica especially, these Akans were able to escape, establish independent communities, and plan-out attacks eventually leading to a resolution with the english (look-up maroons).
Great Video and beautiful couple and family....
So what are the results NOW they has been updates to regions and database. europe west is now germanic europeon.
Ivory Coast/Ghana means you are an Ashanti. The Ashanti Kingdom covered a vast area of the Western part of Ghana and the Eastern part of Ivory Coast
My husband and myself did it as well waiting on the results, I'm also Jamaican and my husband New Zealander can't wait for the results i have always been curious, he even more than me.Thanks for sharing with us :)
You carried on and on about the little percent of other races you are mixed with, but didn't get into the details of your African ancestry.🤷🏾♂️
This was a great video ❤
She making a lot of excuses..okay..you were born in Jamaica, we get it
Caucuses are the Caucus mountains ..where the 'STAN' countries are ..and THAT is the REAL Caucasians..! Europeans are mostly NORDIC decent ..!
Ivory coast is not part of Ghana, and Cameroon is not part of Ivory Coast but are the same Tribe.. Bantu. You are a Bantu. Cameroon, Gabon and Congo are Fangs You are definitely Bantu. don't worry about your eyes, there are plenty of Blacks with so called Slant eyes. As for the Middl East part, there is no such thing, it is the Whiteman's creation. The so called Middle East is what was in yester years known as North East Africa. that is from Israel to Yemen. this includes the Mesopotamia.
John Kennedy Sr it was all one untill our oppressors invaded split the land so each European country could claim.....
True - It seems your more African than you thought you were, and your saying your not American, but our history tells that many of us came from Ghana or other parts of West Africa...so regardless to where we ended up it really does not matter if we are sharing the stories that our DNA tells about each of us.
However, if we are talking about citizenship or the culture we (one may) embrace then I can understand why it may be important to say your not American. I have met over a dozen white folks, now friends, who says they are from Africa, just like a couple of my Asian friends. The point is that they understand before our continent (Africa) broke in parts we all were a part of Africa (and still are), some of us ended up in Asia during the first great split. In other words, we are large diverse group of beautiful people connected either by blood and or history regardless to where we think or deny where we have come from. Knowing one's history makes what we learn from our genetic results - DN Analysis not so surprising, really. I am just delighted and hope the possibility of knowing more about ourselves will allow us to see ourselves in others and start sharing more love.
Beautiful woman! Be proud of your African ancestry.
You guys r so cute. Your beautiful mama and handsome daddy too. Your kids will b happy to know where they come from.
Erika B. Thanks so much. I hope so.😀