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I did he DNA test and matched with a descendant of man who owned my family as slaves. He is a historian who mapped our tree all the way to a small town in Mississippi to our mutual ancestor
@@ash13311 does this mean you now owe yourself reparations?
Haha... Just joking.
"Well, to share an old family secret: My grandmother was Dutch." ~ Cleavon Little, Blazing Saddles
Best. Movie. Ever.
My favourite movie 🤣🤣
What did he say?
He said the Sheriff is near!
Love that movie. Some one is going to have to ride back to town and get a 💩 load of dimes
Excellent choice!
I wish they had someone there to help them understand their results.
Dna science proves race is a social construct yet people will racialize their dna test. And talk about "features" like some racist science like phenology from like over a 100 years ago. People will also nationalize their dna and say "im polish" but Polands borders have changed like over 50 times in the last 400 years
@@tecumseh821 You're right, but you have kind of written this out of context...
But yeah, race is an outdated social construct, but ethnicity is not. And that nationality isn't rooted in biology, but in our heads should be clear.
I don't really get why Americans still do race theory. Luckily, we got over it here after WWII because we saw the damage of this ideology.
Who owns these testing centers where millions are freely sending there DNA, how long are they gonna keep it.. People shouldnt forget Henrietta Lacks...
@@solar0wind but borders arent real too. It helps using them for geographic reasons tho but your family might be mainly from an area that encompasses modern day poland but as i stated, their borders have changed dozens of times over the last few centuries.
Colonializing America and west indies is what created race or whiteness in general. Was never used before then and the Nazis got alot of their ideas from how the US treated indigenious and african peoples
At buzzfeed? Never
Yeah my father was from Aruba and from him I have native south american DNA and african. People from the U.S often forget there is a whole South America where many plantations grew sugar and many African people were enslaved. And a lot of mixed "black" people come from there.
I found out that I have indigenous eastern south american dna not sure where that came from still waiting on my moms results to see if it was her side or my dads
Apparently Brazil had more slaves than the U.S. And there is a whole lot of Native Americans living outside of civilization mainly in Brazil , well that was the impression that I get.
yupp, there were FAR more in south America than north, Brazil mostly.
No, no we don’t
Agree with the comments, Portuguese brought more slaves to Brazil than America even dreamed of. So you would have some Spanish, Portuguese, European (Britian, Ireland, Dutch, etc.) and yes they mixed with the indigenous people. You'd be surprised at who shows up in your DNA. It's like treasure hunting.
This idea of racial purity is totally funny here in Brazil, all Brazilians are a mixture of all ethnicities, I myself am a mixture of Portuguese with Japanese Indians and Africans
With a name like that I wouldn't need a test to prove it lol
@@rahinhuq1608 lelel
And you want the rest of the world to be like you don’t you? Does it anger you when you see somebody with a dna test results is “pure” result?
Indian means southern Asian or Native American ??
I'm quite sure not " all" brazillians (as you stated) are natives. In the course of hundreds of years, people have come and gone out of Brazil and have mixed with others a 100× over.
There is that british show, "Who do You Think You Are" where celebs go and learn more about there family history. There was an episode where a black british celeb found out his ancestors owned slaves in Jamaica. Its a pretty interesting show and the revelation it brings
I’m surprised how many people don’t expect this. Many ethnicities have owned slaves- including black Africans and Caribbean’s with regards to the transatlantic slave trade. Money and power talks, we are all human and when the opportunity arises history has shown most people will take it
That was also a show here in the US and in Australia.
@@Bringon-dw8dx yes, even the Native American owned slaves. I watched a program called red masters, black slaves that was really interesting.
@@Bringon-dw8dx I actually think @stephen P meant that thr black British celeb's white ancestors owed slaves - but I may be wrong
Why the condescending tone tho, that for the little sly comments. Why does it matter who owned slaves? Does it some how make it palatable? Also the Native Americans didn't use Slave Labor to build a America(which the forefathers copied from the Hiawatha's Federation of Native American State's before independence). Please more self aware unless you mean to offend. That way if people let you have it you won't be surprised.
You can use the ',' (comma) and '.' (period) keys on the keyboard to rewind and advance RUclips videos frame by frame (you do need to pause the video first). Very useful when you want to see something that flashes by too quickly to catch by just pausing.
Hey, wow thank you (Thumbs up on your help)
good tip, thanks
Thanks, Gustav! I tried this on my laptop and it worked! Before this tip, I used to just pause the video at rapid-fire speed until it got to the right frame, ugh!! 😩
Yup. It may be easier to remember by looking for left and right "arrows" (< > symbols on those keys)
You just changed my life!
Family tree reactions would be cool, but does not always mean much for family history or genetics.
My parents are Mormon so I have A LOT of our tree done on both sides, but weird things happen.
My grandmother found out through rumor and genetic testing, when she was 80 years old, she was actually the neighbors daughter....
My family tree changed significantly at that point.
How do family tree reactions not mean much for family history? History isn't just about race. This tribalism kick so many are on is one of the least important aspects of one's heritage. Any two physically capable people, whatever their race is, can produce children. That's just about biology, not about accomplishments, failures, beliefs, interactions or the characters of the people one comes from.
These tests are going to uncover a lot of family secrets.
"My family tree changed significantly at that point." LOL That was probably the understatement of the year!
Wow!
75% “African American “!?
Where’s Africa America? 😂
Are you being obtuse or do you genuinely want to know? I'll inform you either way. It isn't a geographical location but a group of people who are usually 75% African descended, 20-25% European defended and 1-2% Indigenous descended. They descend from the original 20 Africans transported to Jamestown in 1619, Indigenous people who were here and the Europeans mostly English, Scottish and Irish who were the colonizers. Africans were regularly transported and enslaved in what became known as the US until 1807 when the legal international slave trade ended. Using cluster group research, triangulation and other techniques, you can look at the DNA raw data and place who the descendants of those Africans enslaved in America are down to regions. Ancestry DNA will report the regions as low country South Carolina or Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi for example. Ancestry DNA can also pick up which Caribbean island a person's ancestors may have lived. Either way people get to define and Name who they are whether you like it or not.
You guys black people who live in America shouldn't be called African Americanm that's what I believe the op was pointing out.
@@GeeBee212 I think he was trying to be funny (semantics). I think he was implying that it should be 75% Sub-Saharan African rather than 75% African American since the source of that DNA is Africa & not America. That's how I took it.
@@sassytheclassy_rose9778 Agreed. Really it’s an afrocentric subculture who wants to lump all of us together because of their own personal beliefs and biases. They leave no room for different perspectives and growth. Just the same old cookie cutter mindset that allegedly "represents" us which is false.
@Paulette Stinson The bible was used to justify slavery. Any belief in it should be tossed in the trash.
I read in college that 80% of white americans have black dna and 95% of black americans have white dna. We are all mixed.
I am Jamaican. I did my DNA along with my brothers we share
A paternal lineage with Ramesees III. Maternal Mitochondrial DNA is L1C1, 2,4, 6. 48% Nigerian !!!! 20% Senegambian, Liberian and Ghanaian. 12.3% British/Irish. 0.2% Iranian , Caucasian ,Mesopotamia. 0.3 % Native American and others... a few more but those are the more interesting bits for me.
I can send to you if you’re interested.🤗
Hi, Very interesting mix indeed. In the 1700 century there was a migration from Europe to the "new world" by wealthy black Jewish & Muslims Convertors, also known as crypto Jews/Muslims, New Christians, Marranos/Maroons & Black Dutchs among other names. As Convertors they escaped persecution in Europe before emigrating to the Americas were they intermarriage with Free black indigenous native peoples. The convertors were not slaves in any way but merchants & skilled professionals in different fields. Trade was one of their specialties. In the Iberian Peninsula, Spain & Portugal, they were wealthy & powerful, but persecuted & forced to flee. So they went to France & The Netherlands before relocating to England & Ireland and eventually moving to the "new world". They were big plantation owners, sugar/cotton/tobacco, & slave traders of black indigenous native Americans, not Africans. Jamaica was just one of the islands were they settled down, had plantations & did business from. So interesting that you have such a mix in your DNA. =)
Nothing North African in your DNA lady.
Which test you took
The Ramesees part might be connected to your Irish part. The Irish had stories of an Egyptian princess marrying into Irish royalty. DNA has now shown that the old legends were right and many Irish people do have connections to Ramesees. In which case you might be connected to Irish royalty as well.
No it is not Irish it's haplogroup E-P252 which is African. E- M96 is the main African male lineage which had two major descendants E1 and E2. Most African men are in E1. But I'm in E2 or E2b1 or E-M85. Most Irish are in R-M269 or R1b as are most West Europeans.
Nobody has been full blooded Taino for a well over a hundred years they are one of the first tribes to come in contact with Europeans.
Yup. Puerto Ricans get the highest percentage of Taíno, at about 12-25%, but no one has been fully Taíno for a very long time.
Doesn’t mean they aren’t descendants Taino that happen to not be in your genes. If really, they are native but by long ancestry lineage.
Puerto Rican Is not a ethnic group it is a nationality..There are white and afro puerto ricans not just the very mix looking Puerto Ricans...Its like that in all latin countries..The ppl that the media always show on tv in Latin America are very mix
Someome from Mexico had a 90%+ indigenous result.
They're on islands in full blood.
I would be interested in seeing you build a partial family tree for someone, and then compare and explain the results and where the dna traits come from as seen on one of these tests.
Finding your roots with Lupita Nyong'o was good!!
My family is so mixed we have more colours than skittles and love it .
There are a couple of videos of identical twins doing multiple of these heritage DNA tests, they extremely rarely got the same results.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts and observations. You always do a great job explaining.❤️
Check out Keenan Ivory Wayans ancestry and DNA results from his appearance on a episode of Finding your roots... It was one of the most interesting stories I ever heard about when it comes to ancestry and DNA testing results.
Lol this video was frustrating. I felt your frustration from the screen because I don't like it when they show it completely! I like analyzing it too!
You still tried your best with what you got!
It helps to slowdown the Playback speed of the video when you want to pause at a specific spot. Love your videos!
Hey man! I really appreciate your professional input on this topic.Your input is invaluable here and serves as an important footnote to the Buzzfeed video.
Being Caribbean of African descent (Jamaican) I resent watching videos like these because through lack of information, everyone always seems ignorant about their heritage.
After taking my DNA test I realized there was ALOT more to uncover than I had initially thought lol
R u aware of the Jamaican motto...this shouldn't be a surprise to you.
I'm from America well as my parents I took DNA test it show st Elizabeth and st prish Jamaica and far as Africa Nigerian
I wonder why Buzzfeed deleted the video
Narrative. If it becomes normalized that majority of black americans are 1/4+ white that couldn't potentially effect the racial divide they are pushing.
You are 50% from one parent and 50% from the other. However, you don't know what parts you get.
If one of your parents is 100% Japanese, then you will be 50% Japanese. But if your other parent is 50% African and 50% European, you aren't getting 25% of each. It's theoretically possible that you could get be 50% Japanese and 50% African or you could be 50% European and 50% Japanese. You don't know how much African or European your gonna get from that parent.
I'm half hispanic and Irish, and half african I wonder how much african I have
And spainish blood
You seem really passionate about your line of work. I gotta admit. It is pretty cool that we can analyze our DNA and know so much about ourselves. Science is wild. I'm glad I found this channel. It's fascinating
My results: 50% Caucasian 40% Clear 10% Invisible
😂😂😂
So 100% sucks
Invisible = blend in like the gazelle avoiding the lion?
Invisibke= Blend in, ..like the gazelle avoiding being eaten by the lion?
😂😂😂😂😂
So glad I found your channel! I have been on a genealogical quest for the last 10 years...so far I've found my fathers biological family bloodlines. Ive found out that my mothers father is not her father. Im still trying to figure out who my moms dad is. Ive found that one of my great grandfathers was involved in the 'Ndrangheta and had a "bar" in Chicago with his best friend. It's been an eye opening experience. Still not giving up on my maternal grandfather! I will find out who he is..the quest continues!
Love your channel!!
you got me addicted to watching these videos i am finding myself trying to guess beforehand as well from what they say about their family history
Hey Jarrett, if you click on the gear at the below right of the window, you can change the playback speed to really slow down the playback to stop it on the frame you want to see.
Circa 15:30, you were so right about the most frustrating part about including DNA testing in your family history/genealogy of an estimated 2nd-3rd cousin match who will not respond... the amount of clues that can be provided. Good video!
I appreciate how often you upload! Love your content :D
And I'm excited for the next episode of relative race :)
My great grandfather was a Black man who had people in SC working for him
Sad
Ok? What's the rest of the story? Why do people make random statements with no context? Good grief!
I have people that work for me .... So what do you mean? This was random lol
13:17 You can slowly move frame by frame by pausing it and then the comma key is one frame previous, and the period key is one frame next. Tap the key to get to what you want to see if it's there.
That “it should’ve been higher” is exactly the reaction I got 🤣😅😂
Ive just found your channel and i like how informative these videos are. Im trying to trace my family tree buts it proving harder than i thought 😂
Also I love genetics and family history. I know that my great great grandmother was born enslaved and that my grandmother is named after her. I also know that because my great great grandfather was white. My brother has carried the recessive gene and my nephew was born with blue eyes that changed to green. Genetics are just amazing
Africans can get blue eyes as well but it’s rare. But yeah that’s a shame about that because that probably meant she was abused unfortunately.
Neat! Love your explanations. So interesting how genealogy works.
I traced my roots back to some dude named Adam, and a hippie chick named Eve...
💀💀
Yeah 🥁💜💛
You're dumb af🤦♀️
lol good one.
@@joeschlotthauer840 what's up cuz
One must keep in mind that 23 and Me runs a quick and dirty test which is a long way from completely accurate.
What test would you say is superior?
23andMe is still the most accurate out of the most popular American DNA services
I've done 23andme, ancestry, myheritage, ftdna and national geographic helix. 23andme is definitely the list accurate‼️
@@christophermilhas5005 I'd say Nebula. For the cheaper ones, CRI was mostly accurate based on me tracing my dads side to 1428. Nobody else came close, but CRI pegged the countries to a t for most recent dna and only of the cheaper popular tests that found my 3% Mongolian
What shocked me the most was how little they wanted European ancestry.
Oh, man, that last observation about DNA matches that won't message you back or just basically used the site for a day or two and then never went back is so true - and so frustrating!
My mom's grandmother is also full Carib Indian so I guess I could expect similar results
So is my grandmother.
Pretty difficult to happen . Caribs and Tainos have being extinct over 300 years . There are anecdotes of certain small clusters until the late 1800's - early 1900's .
Is very possible your great grandmother had something between 20 to 30 % Native - American DNA . This is if one of her grandparents were part of one of those anecdote groups .
But is pretty common to find people from the Caribbean to have around 10% Native American DNA . It could be from either family tree.
Lesser Antilles usually have Carib . Major Antilles tend to have Taino . ( Both groups were enemies . )
@@MariaRodriguez-hb4ix lol they here in 🇩🇲 in they own reserve so what u talking about
🤔🤔
That's not true and even if they weren't around anymore the DNA would still lingers. Please stop telling people they don't exist just because some who does not know better said it
Funny, I just realized my AncestryDNA results just updated again. Does everyone else’s change same time as well too? 🤔Not much changed for me but a bit of trace like 1% northern India. My largest never changes 49% Nigerian
Love the vids
For the most part everybody's results are updated at the same time, although some updates they roll it out in waves to different customers. So you may get an update while others might not get the update for a few weeks.
I had a big change in my DNA results on Ancestry... I went from 8 % Nigerian to 32% Nigerian.
On one update, I lost the North African dna but still have Iberian peninsula dna on 23&me but ancestry has me at 99.9% Western European and British Isles with .1% undetermined.
I love these videos. I’ve done genealogical translation but hasten to tell people I am not a genealogist at this time. I just don’t know enough yet, but I can probably decipher your great grandmother’s handwritten German letters. :)
My father is Afro-Caribbean from British Antigua and my mom is Puerto Rican 😩I probably shouldn’t care about anything because it’ll be hard to really trace back
I'm adopted and I have no idea who or what ancestry I have...and it really makes not one whit of difference. What matters is HOW you treat people and how you are treated by others.
@@Thom1212 agree I am adopted too. I always thought I was black... turns out I’m just a white guy that is super dark. Mostly European
I'd like to challenge everyone who uses the term slave so broadly to change the terminology in regards to African American to be referred to as prisoners-of-war and descendants of prisoners of War. Because slave is a European term for the Slavic Nations who became prisoners of war and sold in the times of the Turkish Islamic expansion
I'm from The Bahamas 🇧🇸 and my results are from all over the place, the majority from Africa I also have Irish, European, Scotland, and also Native American or Indigenous Indian. It was a great experience and I was not shocked to see European but how wide of a range it was, was kinda cool. But my daughter was a whole different story 😅😅 I love your channel and keep it up. 🖤🖤
I also agree I’d like to see more family tree being investigated in the videos. With my 14% European I had to know when did the last full European appear in my tree. Surprisingly I’ve gotten pretty far. Pretty cool.
Same here. I'm African-American and I have about 19% European, with significant British/Irish ancestry. According to 23andMe, my last full UK ancestor was at least a 3rd-great-grandparent. Very interesting stuff.
If your mix your not black.
@@Iamblack34 bullshit
did you try multiple tests. Doing the research, i saw that some tests aren't great...as in they do extras that are uneeded, as well as only test from certain points..then take some of those points and assume more than get acccurate data..the last part I feel i mixed up, because I did the research about 3yrs ago. I just don't remember the fine details of what I found out, but it was enough for me to understand that certain tests aren't the best to get as accuarate as I would like. Some are better while others just can't compensate for the fact that..slaves were just separated and messed around with
That's why I'm afraid to do these tests. I don't want to be anything but black but I know there are other things in there. 😔
Thanks for doing this video I hope they watch it, I see and hear some really cringey stuff in these DNA videos you won't believe so thanks for enlightening them
I just received my CRgentics DNA results and I am African American I thought. Well, I am 59% Tuscany, Italian with Southern Slvac, Frankfurt, Germany, Lyon, France and British Isles. I am 35% Tribes of 3 different peoples that traveled with the Roman dating back to 500 A.D. to the British Isles. Amazing
I am not convinced of the accuracy of CRIGenetics tests. I just got mine back, too, and in addition to their regular testing, I also opted for the mtDNA test to see if they had more specificity than my previous tests, and it wasn't even the same haplogroup that I've received test results for from two other companies and that my mother's brother also had as his result (his test was done later and had more specificity than mine, hence my wanting to get re-tested to see if I would also get a more specific result). Plus it thought I had recent Sri Lankan/Tamil ancestry within the last few generations, and I have done enough genealogical research to be pretty darned certain that I do not have any Sri Lankan/Tamil ancestry at least going back to the 1600s or 1700s. It might be an issue of possibly some error in their reference populations, and that might get fixed later on if they update their results when their reference data is updated like Ancestry does, but that doesn't explain the different mtDNA haplogroup result I got compared to previous tests. So the jury is still out on them for me.
Same I knew I was black but only 51% it was a shock
So what is the African part?
@@mysticalstylings2456 Are you bi-racial or not? And what percentage did you expect? With 50% I would have assumed that the person was bi-racial.
I used them too. 50% European and it sounded fishy. I'm gonna do another one with a different company to see what happens.
Most Afro-caribbeans and afro-latinos didn't lose their African culture it just evolved but many elements remain the same .
Heavy African elements are very evident in Haiti ,Jamaica , Cuba , Colombia & Brazil .
African Americans and Afro Canadians lost a lot of their African culture removed .
Often in the past it was caribbeans who reinvigorated the Africaness in African American culture .
I’ve tried to explain that to some African Americans and they just don’t get it, the think the African American experience is universal to all African peoples.
Unlike Caribbeans, Black Americans were always a minority population in the United States, so naturally they'd lose more African culture. African Americans are American first...the best parts of American culture belong to them.
On the struggle of trying to see the shots of the break down of their DNA: when editing cuts too fast for you to read what you want to, slowing the playback speed makes it much easier to pause on the part you want.
The original video's focus was on how "black" these people were. I think that's why the rest of the other admixtures weren't really addressed.
I started watching shows like Who Do You Think You Are that look into the genealogy and personal history so the DNA is the new and exciting side of it for me still
I hope these people see your video . I’m a Caribbean who has also done my dna test , I’m 80% west African and 20% British , which makes sense. However, so many people would swear on their last dollar that I have some form
Of East Asian in me , mainly Chinese...
I also find that a lot of Caribbean’s and black Americans romanticise mixes , they never pay attention or find any joy in their African lineage , they could be 98% African and still talk and that 2% of whatever the mix is , than what they actually are. They also LOVE to claim Native American lineage , a great example is that lady telling her mother who disputed it as she claimed her own mother is Taino.
Some Indian & black mixes phenotypically favour native Americans in the Caribbean , this doesn’t mean they have any in them. I have family members that could pass if you didn’t do a dna test.
I see this with a lot of DNA test videos. Most people focus on the fragments. Maybe it's because they don't expect to have certain ancestry in their family.
I recently did my ancestry and I’m 82% African (mostly Nigerian) and 18% European. I’m celebrating my African heritage. Looking for a T-shirt that says Nigerian Queen. I’m proud of my people.
What you said about Black Americans romanticizing mixes is SOO true. I just got my DNA results back yesterday and shared them with my aunt, who relishes in the assumption that we have French ancestry (because the surname "Fuqua" is very much present in our tree, and many of our relatives are lighter-skinned). Turns out, we have 0% French lol. The 37% Nigerian, 21% Ghanaian et al, and 10% Angolan/Congolese didn't faze her. But the moment I mention the
It's a form of self hate. I see it all the time in Caribbean people of African descent. They don't realize that Africa was\is Eden and the dome from an ancient people. A lot of trauma and hurt still exists.
we don't romanticize mixes we just honor them and don't neglect them to say we are just african if that at all. Yall seriously have no clue who yall are basing it solely off of DNA test that aren't even true and misrepresenting/mislabeling identity. The mother in this video literally said her mother's lineage is Carib/Taino and the genealogists says that she may be wrong in assuming the percentage should reflect higher in the test. huh? That's oral history the shit genealogists thrive off of if it's available and he just dismisses it to agree with a deceptive test. Smh 🤦🏾♂️
I’m African American and my dna test said I’m 95% African and 5% European and I have yet to see ANY African American with that high of African dna.
That's super unusual.
I read somewhere that Oprah Winfrey was 100% African but I’m not sure thats true. I’m 82% African which is probably more typical.
@AnayaLator_221 Are you Gullah?
Would you do a competition for people who haven't done their family tree and then do a reaction video with them? Could be interesting, especially if other channels aren't doing it.
just found your channel, Love it!
If I find out I’m more than 10% European, I’m going to cry. 😩 No tea no shade.
I have a black American friend who told me that he was always told that they had an American Indian ancestor--until his grandmother, before she died, told him that she had a white grandmother. That is besides any white slaveowning ancestors are taken into account.
I'm every nation so this is interesting when people take the test. My neighbor turned out to be kin to me, Baptiste and St Jean families sold their own and one of those was the Legree family. It wasn't hard to trace just sad to us, but it was cool to find out we was kin to each other. My Mom had babysat for them before we even knew we was kin.
I love your channel. I have learned so much about my family recently, during the pandemic. I did 23andme ancestry DNA along with census records and discovered so much. I have become obsessed! I found scandals, family we didn't know, just so much interesting things.
I enjoyed your reaction and explanations.
This is so random but I love that your eyelashes are red 🌻🖤
Questlove’s episode was so interesting it could have been a movie 🎥
In my opinion, Questlove's episode was definitely one of the best FYR episodes of all time! LL Cool J's is pretty close behind it though.
I like your videos about DNA results, your content is very interesting !
Another thing to keep in mind about the woman saying the native American percentage is wrong. Quanah Parker's mother was white. She was captured by the tribe. Quanah Parker ended up being the Chief. Native Americans weren't just a DNA line. They were more of a culture. They, just like all other humans mixed and wared with each other as well as outside races all the time.
I want to do one of these genealogy tests because my known ancestry is really boring (English as hell. Not even Irish or Scottish) and I’m curious if there is anything else in there :’)
7:10 I agree, Buzzfeed videos are almost all like that. Crap.
You have truly inspired me!
Hey man. I really appreciate what you do with these videos in helping people to interpret these tests from the many companies competing these days. I'm an American whose family has been in North Carolina for generations. We always knew that the majority of our family history was from England, especially my paternal line, but nobody around us seemed to know where. When I lived briefly in the south of England in 1983, I asked someone who happened to be from Manchester if they knew anyone by the surname Lomax. He told me that he did and that he was certain that it was a Manchester family. In 2008, I had my y chromosome traced through Oxford Ancestors. There was only one other man with the Lomax surname from that database who had tested with Oxford. I wasn't able for years to find out who he was or where he was from, therefore still not having any leads on our paternal family origins in Britain. I began in earnest to travel to Manchester for the following decade every year to visit the area north of Manchester near Bury where the Lomax families originated. I went every year on the hope and optimism that I was visiting my Ancestor's ancestral land in Manchester. In 2017, I coincidentally found the daughter of the other Lomax man on my y chromosome list whom I shared my y chromosome signature with. She told me that she and her father ( the other Lomax man on our y list,..)was indeed from Stockport, Manchester. That showed me very glaringly that our North Carolina family was directly descended from the Manchester Lomaxes and that my pilgrimage trips to the UK to find our ancestral land was not in vain.. I still am having difficulty assimilating that. It blows me away! So,... I know first hand the power and treasure of these DNA tests. They are powerful tools for self realization. Keep up these videos and continue to help everyone understand the gems within their own families. They are touchstones for our identities and they potentially give all people the power to trace their family histories. Oxford Ancestors is now no longer in business, but I will be forever grateful for them.. John Lomax
I recently found your channel and have been enjoying watching your content. I have a question. What is best way to find records about businesses or properties your ancestors owned? I am trying to find the name of a store and the physical address, my ancestors owned in the 1800's.
For something in-depth like that you will usually need to do more groundwork. Look into what records are available for that town and you may be able to find different registration records. If you know the type of store you might also be able to find directories for people in that specific business. You can also check newspapers, especially if you think they may have run ads. It will really all depend on the location of the store and what record sets are available for businesses in that area. Best of luck!
❤️❤️❤️sometimes people, like myself, did the DNA test, and wants to track my genealogy but the dna site requires a subscription that I can’t afford right now. It won’t allow me to answer or message anyone. I do, have my genealogy on other sites like family tree and Ancestry.
Me as well..
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The young lady with Trinidadian mother sounds like a typical colorist Caribbean person, who struggles to accept the African in them. From the beginning, she is almost saying she hopes to have a high percentage of European background, saying it in a funny backhanded way. So many Caribbean people have a deep and somewhat hidden shame of the African in them.
Their videos show why Buzzfeed cannot be trusted for anything they print.
"Can I NOTE how little European I am" as if its proof of her goodness...
God forbid someone be grateful that their not so distant relative wasn't the victim of sexual assault when they were held as a slave.
Oh NO! It's clearly a conspiracy of an extremely popular website to hurt your feelings in particular.
@@michellemccrakken6490 exactly my thought
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Firstly, not every black person was a slave. Secondly, not every action of sex between a European and a black person automatically means rape. It's exactly your way of thinking that keeps hate in the world.
@@BubbleWrappedBear I try to say this. Even further, not every sexual experience between slave, and slave master was rape.
Well, I've seen many European people react negatively when their DNA results reveal African ancestry, so I wouldn't be too surprised. History has caused a lot of conscious and unconscious antagonism and acrimony.
idk what you expected from a 5 minute buzzfeed video lol
I was just thinking, what does he expect from Buzzfeed. It could be a whole 30 mins but it's still Buzzfeed. Lol
Taino where largely wiped out by Conquistadors (and deceases that they imported), the surviving Taino largely mixed with Europeans and Africans few hundreds years back...
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I'm 76% african 22% European 2% native american. 100% ados/black american
Wow! Your breakdown is almost exactly the same as mine! 76% African/ 24% Euro. 100% ADOS as well.
@@VAswang are you from Virginia too? either way really cool
Hey similar 75 african and 25 percent european mainly irish welsh and scottish strangely enough
I’m also ADOS and my break down was 95% west African and 5% European. I was NOT expecting the my African part to be this high and I love it.
@@anayalator_221 wow.. Which country has the highest percentage?
I wish they would've used the company African Ancestry. That company helps Black people find their ancestral tribes and not just a general location.
Only works through the mother/matrilineally though.
@@VAswang As a Black American, knowing something about my ancestors before they were enslaved is better than not knowing anything.
People can also up-load their results to GED match and get a better breakdown of their African ancestry.
I liked when you gave a quick explaination about how the percentages work, for instance which generation may have been related to a specific ethnicity and if they were half of somewhere rather than "full", presenting the 13% -(relating ti the women saying she had native american in her. It would be good to do a vid if you haven't already, what the percentages mean in terms of how much of an ethnicity is in your DNA.
It's really annoying when you can't get the most important information because it's 3 or 4 frames long.
It amazing how disconnected most americans are from history. Its sad.carib and tainos are 2 different native groups that actually competed and fought each other.
Yea idk she said that, technically the Carib did sometimes steal Tiano women as their brides so they probabbly became partially taino by blood over time, still distinct culturally tho. Also no way she had a relative as close as a grandparent who was full blooded carib or taino, the intermixing and disease wiped out all pure blooded natives in the carribean hundreds of years ago, some people may have held onto tribal ties longer but they were still mixed ethnically by then. I think the confusion comes from the 1 drop rule and blood quantem as well since it makes relatives think they are full blood when in reality they are only classified that as such because of the deffinition of the time not actual DNA. Plenty of people who are tribal affiliated in the US today are less than half native american by blood, they use different metrics to assign tribal affiliation rather than blood quantem alone.
@@vianjelos there are still pure blood Caribs in Dominica 🇩🇲 also in parts of South America.
You can tell when she said "im almost completely black, thats so cool" shes lying. She doesn't want to be black. Shes just putting up a front.
She damn sure don't wanna be white.idiot.
Hey if they want to find relatives in my family tree I’m game to be filmed. I think the Finding Your Roots videos are so amazing.
Speaking of family trees, you might ant to check out Danny Dyer's episode on "Who Do You Think You Are?". They lay out a long family tree towards the end.
Do you know who are is also a great program! Ancestry is really interesting and should be covered as much as the genealogy.
Yeah, that's a really interesting show. They did DNA testing for Blair Underwood when he hit a roadblock in his family tree and actually found a match in Africa, so he was able to travel to Africa to learn more about the people at least one of his ancestors was descended from.
And on another episode with a different celebrity, I had to rewind and pause on her family tree because it reached a point that actually matched my own family tree, and I wanted to cross reference it to be sure. Turns out we had three separate lines of common ancestors, including the family they chose to focus on in the episode! So that definitely helped me to fill out my own family tree much further back.
@@sadfaery Wow that would be cool. Being second generation on both sides, that will never happen to me. I do want to take one someday, my maternal grandparents were both from Norway. My dad's origins were sketchily mentioned once by my mother leaving more questions than answers. Am I 1/2 Germany(my name is), a real European mix (her weird story) or possible from a Jewish background, because that would fit the information best!
I was surprised by the Chinese, Russian, and Middle Eastern I have. It’s very small but the fact is, we are all related
You are Amazing!
The oldest Y chromosome was found in America. A man was tested in South Carolina. He was found to have haplogroup A00 which rewrote the Y chromosome tree. His name was Albert Perry. His Y chromosome was traced back to Cameroon, to the Mbo people.
Please, never say "slave ancestry". They were human beings, of African origin who were ENSLAVED. You mean their African ancestry. Thanks.
I appreciate your commentary. One thing to note, you should try not to use the term slave as it dehumanizes our ancestors and minimizes their personhood. Consider using the term enslaved people as it more accurately describes the circumstances that were imposed upon them.
Nice vid, for future ones set the playback speed slower so you can pause on those percentage breakdowns.👍
I agree the family tree is interesting. I worked on mine years and years ago when Ancestry first started and records were free. My paternal grandpa was French Canadian and I had searched that side back all the way to 1649 when they came to Canada, and that ancestor married a "fille de la roi" - a girl from Paris sponsored by the king of France to marry a colonist. From there I looked into that and it was very interesting. I like to research the towns and places on my family tree too. I even found the grave of my first ancestor in the US (came around 1860s)- just on the otherside of the cemetery my grandparents and great grandparents are buried.
Just out of curiosity, if you don't mind telling, what is the surname of your French Canadian ancestor? I have one that came across the border about the same time.
They speak about being European like it's a sickness..one of many reasons buzzfeed is trash.
It's not being European it's the history behind knowing that there was a lot of rape to get that DNA...
@@yes2hvn That's a common misconception. Common, but not always the case.
@@reiserkeiser misconception... Clutching pearls.. yeah cause sometimes it was consensual to have a somewhat better life.... Called placage.... Super unfortunate and still demeaning and I digress 💜💛
@@reiserkeiser it's not a "common misconception" you fucking idiot. It's ugly history. No one said it was always the case but for the most part it is. Stop trying to rewrite the facts
It is a sickness, why would they be proud of having European ancestry? It’s dark history
The man carries the seed so if I was going to do a DNA test I would do my father's side of the family little more accurate
That's not how it works. It the Mitochondrial DNA that carries the important markers, and that is only passed from the maternal.
dna-explained.com/mitochondrial-dna/
you receive 50% of your dna from both sides.
@Tryone You need a biology refresher course ASAP! Lol Do you really think that you only got genetic material from your father? Never known anyone with 2 "Y" chromosomes.
This stuff is absolutely fascinating.
I laugh as you laugh about having that "Secret person" in your family. Apparently mine is my Paternal Great Grandmother, who no one will speak! :) I'm gonna have to spit in a tube for answers, because I have looked EVERY where! :)
Mine is a paternal great great grandfather but it’s not a secret. We all know about it. DNA has proven it.
No one should be a “secret” person ..thank God for that person..because YOU exist .
@@lindacollins6939 In today’s thinking -yes. But we have to look at the eras and culture of the times of the “ secret “ and what life was like .
Love watching them down play their European heritage....lol
@BlazinGlory00 No, it's from our female ancestors being trafficked and assaulted, which is worse. Those of us who have European heritage through marriage and honorable relationships normally acknowledge it. I have both.
White people down play having African ancestry so does Middle Easterns.
@@sparklesp9304 exactly I have many ignorant people telling me the Mexicans have European ancestry through rape but when I told them my European ancestors didn’t arrive into Mexico until after the Conquista and they actually married the woman and have legitimate children with them they get mad because they look through the eyes of USA history which is not the same as Mexico because we never had any laws prohibiting mix marriages .
You would too if it was from rape
Caitlin saying she's "super Black" when she's 14.3% Native American and 13% European (and only 71.8% Sub-Saharan African). Neither one of those are insignificant amounts.
Yeah I thought that was an odd thing to say.
@@Bringon-dw8dx Yeah, super cringe.
I agree super black would be in the high 90's.
Agreed but I wouldn’t say “and only 71% Sub-Saharan African” as you said either. That’s significant
I’m ADOS and my break down was 95% west African and 5% European. I was NOT expecting the my African part to be that high so I am super black lol
I inherited 18 % German.My dad was 40%. My Son inherited None of it. At least none showed on his DNA.
18% should be enough for your son to get.
They are beautiful and healthy. This is what parents hope and pray for when they are having a child. Congratulations!