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My Ancestry update gave me 1% Egyptian. Which, when you consider the fact that I'm a Jamaican who teaches and performs Egyptian Dance...... That's really trippy! I strongly suspected it because on 23 my uncle has North African and my cousin has Coptic specifically. So even though my dad and I didn't get the marker, at least on 23, I felt it had to be there. Myheritage, which was the least accurate for my European and African gave me North African. Ancestry also gave me Pilipino, which I knew from 23. I feel like you have to take several companies to get a fuller picture.
@@chrisventura1881 Think Ancestry is the best for that. They also have access to a lot of records. I was really surprised at some of the documents they were able to find, but you have to pay extra for that level of service.
@TRUTHTEACHER2007 yeah doesn't seem too accurate. Only way would be if the whole world did it too pool all the DNA together. Im not interested in DNA breakdown. But I am interested in my family tree. I'm not sure my ancestors beyond Great Grands. I never met them just know their names. I'd love to learn more about the people who came before me.✌🏼
Hi Danielle, I have been watching for a while now. You are the reason I did my DNA test with Ancestry. Now I am at a loss my mother side doesn’t know their history and my father side I have not idea because my grandmother died when I was 19 and my father died when I was 15 years old. Now I get these 15 ancestral regions and I don’t know where to start on both sides of my family. My grandmother is a live on my mom side but she doesn’t want to help at all. She keep says we are better off not knowing which of course I want to know what’s you are hiding grandmother. Thank you for your videos.
... It's amazing how much stuff many of our families hid in our family trees regardless of our race/class.If your family has been in 🇺🇸 for a bunch of generations, it's hard to tell what all you may unearth from the roots of your family tree.
My Dad's family was mixed over 200 years including Indian & Black slave. The side of the family that was "white" didn't acknowledge the darker mixed cousins. There was a "falling out" related to inheritance pre WW1. There was an aunt that denied any connection our side of the family. I am afraid those relations may be lost forever. There are cousins on the "Res" in OK that don't acknowledge the "White" because they were sent away to school. So sad!!
This was a great video that shows the depths you go to correlate the information you’re receiving from various testing services, historical information, family history, etc. You’re definitely doing great work to properly interpret the data. BTW, compliments on your intro modifications. Shorter intros, with that music background, is a nice touch!
A really good book is Louisiana and the Gulf South Frontier, 1500-1821 by F. Todd Smith. I learned so much that I had no clue that I was ignorant about. The gulf coast was originally colonized by the Spanish and French who had different ways of doing things than the English. It covers a lot of the history of the different Indigenous groups and their interactions with the colonizers. They got caught in the politics of Europe and the Europeans manipulating the Indigenous rivalries. At different times, the colonists were not supported by their governments and had to fend for themselves. So many different groups settled in Louisiana like Germans and French refugees from Haiti. I had heard that New Orleans was a Caribbean city, not culturally part of the US and now I understand what that means. It also goes into the Kings Road and the ties between Nacogdoches and Natchitoches. A really thorough deep dive into the region.
Love your hair! I think it's good to research the communities and know what was going on during the time when our ancestors were alive. I think it could also help us to break through some of our brickwalls.
Thank you for this new post, Danielle. I have had an Ancestry DNA account for years, the most recent update until the newest one was September 2019. The Ancestry DNA update that I just received had a substantial change over all previous updates. In the past my largest match was Great Britain & Northwestern Europe followed by Germain heritage. This new update reversed that and made Germain my largest match by far. It was followed by Great Britain and Northwestern Europe. The new update also added several new location matches in smaller percentages.
I’ve found the Journeys (formerly Communities) on Ancestry to be pretty good. It accurately listed many that I knew about and some I need to look further into.
It’s great to see your channel growing… especially as one of the early riders to your adventure. With that said, if you’re so deeply ‘Louisiana’, we’re probably cousins 😂🙂↔️ - we are all related somehow down here. Keep up God’s work…pray all is well.
I don’t know if this will help but I do know that the men who started Natchitoches, La. and Nacogdoches, Tx. We’re Twin Brothers. Love what you’re doing! Keep Digging! ♥️
Great video. I just subscribed. I'm African American and have a DNA mix of Northern European and Sub-Saharan African. I did Ancestry's DNA test several years back and have been through many updates. The European and African overall mix hasn't changed, but the area matches have. From having little Nigerian and Scottish to those now being the larger regions for me. The Journey or Communities didn’t change much this last update. I've shared my Ancestry results with other sites and have taken other tests. They are all pretty much the same on European and African mix, and the area matches are close.
No worries, your hair is lovely! I was exstatic to see the new communities, it helped confirm some theories I have on my mom's side (Sephardic is now a category!). The Irish results made me laugh, b/c like you I had almost none but crazy amounts of Scottish (inc my dad, where I get it from). I will say for Ulster, a lot of people have Scottish descent because of the Plantation of Ulster years. It blew my mind b/c it's a sad history but explains why we have Scots-Irish in US and why it's hard to narrow down DNA when it comes to Scots and Irish (on top of the Celts dna).
My dad's side of the family move to Maryland USA from Central England in 1800's and married Black women (my great great Do I throw another great in there?" ). I have a photo of him in his British Uniform. I can only trace my mom's family back to Oklahoma where her great grandmother (Cherokee) married her great great grandfather (an escaped slave and former Civil war Buffalo soldier at ft. Sill ). And he also fought with US Grant from The battle of the Wilderness to Appomattox. Its fortunate he lived to over 100 years old , else we would not have his History.
@1:12 you got that hair that changes with the seasons, with that dark brown, black and copper hair, you can style it naturally, ain't nothing wrong with it, lol. During the summer, part of my hair can get bleached into copper, and I get a copper tone tan when I work out in the field. The sun dictates, so I roll with it, haha.
Just got to the end of this video and made my cup of tea to drink with you. I am enjoying your enthusiasm and the relaxing chat style videos you are making. I look forward to hearing more about your Louisiana research since that is where we overlap somewhat in our heritage. Thanks again for all you do!
My update from ancestry puts me with Spain and Portugal at 84 percent and my community is in the Canary Islands. My parents who have never took the test and are deceased also have communities that comes under journey by parents and my mother’s community is in northern Spain, Azores as well as Ireland and what is interesting about Ireland is that my great grandmother was of English descent, but yet my mother’s community is in Ireland. My father’s community is also interesting because it is Ashkenazi Jews in Eastern Europe as well as Louisiana French settlers and French settlers of Mississippi, New Orleans, Quebec, New York and Vermont. I truly believe that I am Spanish, French and English, but mostly Spanish and I hope to one day hire a Genealogist to help me find my paper trail and my real heritage.
Canadian French were called Acadians if they came from modern day Nova Scotia. There are distinct French speaking communities in Canada based on New France colonies. France battled Britain and lost a battle on the Plains of Abraham in Quebec in 1759. French who refused to be British subjects ended up in Louisiana as it was French territory. Acadians were forcibly removed. Other less war related French Canadian migration post 1800 is present in Maine, Vermont, Massachusetts.
I know I’m late but thank you for letting me know about the updates. I’m part East African and Danish now lol. However it’s weird it like magically appeared 4% Denmark out of nowhere. It’s new to it added to my European dna. which is crazy for them just now to discover this 0 to 4% I wonder what changed. The East African doesn’t surprise me my second highest group on Ancestry is Bantu. What did surprise me was Yoruba land. It’s never linked me to an African ethnic group besides the Bantu. I wonder how they did it what new data did they get. It’s crazy how these things change over time (Dna results). I can see why you need other research in collaboration with these results. I’ve done alot of research but it seems I still have so much more to do. Thank you again 💫
My wife followed her DNA test to a small town near Belfast, Northern Ireland. Now in our 60's. Her grandfather immigrated here just after working on the Titanic, at only 17. Due to religious persecution. Leaving a wife and daughter behind with family. His wife soon passed and the daughter went on to have 14 children. All but one still alive. They're all still live in the same area. And all showed up at the pub in town we had stopped at with only a name. Within 1hr all 13 showed up wanting to hear about their grandfather that fled to America. They ranged from 63, to late 80's. All had large families of kids and grandkids. We stayed for 2 weeks. I helped worked the ranch they live on. It took a week to understand their accents. But some of the best times Ive ever had. I spent time in 32 countries. This trip was the best.
The Puerto Rican connection could be through shared ancestors from the Canary islands? I once went through some old New Orleans parish records and Puerto Rican families were certainly present there.
Early Creole/African American and French may be from post-Haiti Revolution migrations. Since before Louisiana area was a state it was part of France. And French slave holders had plantations in what would become part of the US. After the Haitian revolution there was an additional large migrations of free Black people from Haiti as well as French with enslaved Africans Africans.
love the continued couch conversations. these conversations are helping me heal from the circle of secrets. i have found THREE marriage records of my grandparents due perhaps to her being "colored" and him being Irish. one Catholic Registry, one civil registry, and then a LATER civil court record??? i have watched a RUclips vid on why 25% of our DNA is NOT always our grandmother~ but i don't really understand it....yet.
I checked out the new ancestry journey update and I was quite pleased with it. It showed I am descended from Louisiana Creoles . I have been intrigued about this part of my ancestry as Creoles are beautiful people.
There were multiple changes on my DNA with the new dump of data on Ancestry. I knew I had Dutch from my surname and the paper trail. My ancester founded New Amsterdam (now New York City). But it didn’t show up before. I assumed it was included in the Northwestern Europe category. But my 20% Swedish disappeared and turned into Finland and The Netherlands. My Irish is now split to include Iceland. My percentage of French more than doubled. My Southern Bantu changed to Yorubaland (which I'd never heard of) and Camaroon. My daughter didn't get any of the new stuff from me. It is very interesting to see how the gene lottery works. I apparently gave her most DNA from my mother and not very much from my dad. My first cousins used to share the same Southern Bantu with me, but now theirs changed to something else and it's not even the same as each other. My aunt went from decending from 3 tribes in Africa to 6. This tells me my African ancestors were here for multiple generations mixing up the blood lines before passing. It appears from cousin matches that there was passing in both my grandmother and grandfather's families. I can't tell yet whether this will make it easier or harder to track them down!
Hey Daniele, I got something to say. I read an history book on Attila the Hun and I found out Germans, French, etc have large Hunnic dna. Do a video on that, please? I think it would be fun! I am Cajun from Louisiana. ⚜️ nice to meet you! ❤
Interesting. All these DNA companies have different databases in comparison. The genetic grouping updates just keep appearing. I haven't heard Creoles of Color in a long time.
It is interesting that Ancestry DNA regions show that we can share a connection to others that we would have not thought we are connected to. For example, although a majority of my ancestors, 64%, came from Europe, 26% of them came from indigenous Americas Mexico and though I don't identify as Mexican as I am a descendant of a tribe from Southern California, my region includes Southern California, Southern Arizona, Sonora, Mexico, and Baja California, Mexico. In addition, I got 2% Indigenous Americas Yucatan Peninsula plus 3% Indigenous Americas North. So clearly the Natives of the American Southwest and the Natives of Mexico are related. I look like a total white boy and while I am white, primarily from Germanic Europe, the British Isles, and some from Southern Europe, I also have a substantial amount of ancestry from people of color. I knew from family history that am part Native American, but the Ancestry test surprised at me as I also have 3% Sub-Saharan African blood and 2% from Northern Africa which means I am part black and Arab too. More and more I am seeing that Human Beings are connected. So what race am I? Human! ONE RACE, THE HUMAN RACE, BE GOOD TO EACH OTHER!
Your hair is beautiful. I understand the hair color thing. Happened to me, before a photo shoot, once. I washed it so many times. It actually worked out great. Relax and enjoy.❤
Very interesting content. I truly enjoy watching. It's pretty interesting even among siblings with the same parents, traits that show. Genetics is extremely complicated.
I also had a super specific community that was a really small radius in Austria/Hungary that my dad and granduncle still have but for some reason they took it away. It is so accurate to my tree, matches, and immediate family have it so I don’t get that logic but hopefully I get re attached to it. Another thing about ancestry communities is they are heavily impacted by your matches, so you may get communities if you have a lot of cousins from that community even if you don’t necessarily connect to it with your direct ancestors.
I have Munster Ireland as well, most of my ancestry from Ireland comes from the southwest corner of the island (County Kerry specifically, do I know there's more than just that county in that region). They gave me about six specific areas within Munster, most of which I'm pretty sure encompass where my grandfather's ancestors are from. A lot of Irish immigrants came from that area, I think Cork is included in there as well and there were a lot of Irish immigrants that came from county Cork. I also went to Ireland in 2016 so I'm somewhat familiar with the area. Super beautiful place by the way, completely recommend visiting!
Danielle, you are Gorgeous. You should write a book. Thank you for your hard work. Great video! There are so many Blacks that passed for white. It comes out sometimes as we age. I work in a assisted living see many. 😊
Great video, the italian is very strong. In the future, you should do a video on the louisiana spanish and the Choctaw apache tribe which is state recognized, a fascinating rabbit hole.
Start at St. Martinsville, Louisiana....memorial wall. It's in a museum. The creole museum is next door. I'm one step ahead of you in this as I am next door in Texas.
Munster is a large area of Ireland. My grandmother's house is there, right on the Ring of Kerry in a town called Sneem. It can be a tough area to research names from as there were huge clans of certain names. Sullivan for example is a huge name out there and it can almost impossible to trace a certain ancestor. Fortunately, my grandmother was born there and we knew where her house was, and even then I got lost trying to find it as the road has no name.
My grandma was fully Irish, so my dad is half-Irish and also Latino. Ulster is Northern Ireland and predominately Protestant. Munster is Southern Island and was one of the Gaelic Kingdoms. Southern Ireland is predominately Catholic and makes up the Republic of Ireland. Limerick became a significant Viking settlement. There's Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland that makes up Ireland. My direct Irish history is the Republic of Ireland. Yeah, we all have histories of communities. LIke Yoruba is a different Nigerian Community from the Igbo. All the best on your journey.
Tip from me - pushing 60, lightly graying in areas -use Purple shampoo. It's usually meant for blonds, but it blends the gray in if you have darker hair.
Danielle , since your mother`s family was from south Louisiana , have you ever researched the Knights of the White Camelia ?? The Knights were founded in south Louisiana by Jean Maximilien Alcibiades Derneville De Blanc ( a long name ! ) in 1867. I wonder if any of your ancestors had any problems from The Knights ??
Hello my NewYork sister ❤️ I’ve been watching without commenting and I do apologize 😳 One wish that I would have for you is to experience your hair on the brown side of life. I see the beautiful curls and I would love for you to do traditional box braids or platts as we used to call them. Try an African Braiding shop, Love ya❤
That’s the scotch-Irish, they came over in the early 1600’s, they are Irish and Scottish. They are known to be in the Appalachian mountains but they are in other northern states too. My grandmother was Scotch-Irish her family was from northern, NY.
That's interesting, my adopted sister did Ancestry and found out she had French settlers of Quebec as ancestral community too. That would be so bonkers if you guys were cousins!
We have the same hair struggles.. I feel you so much on trying to keep it one color. I don't like to dye my hair... but I also don't like the contrast when the season starts to change bc the copper-ish color starts looking dull in contrast to the dark brown coming in. 🤦🏽♀️
my paternal gr grandparents and their parents I’ve confirmed lived in Castleblany Ireland (mid 1800s - last one of my direct family left by 1921) which is near the border with & almost became part of Northern Ireland. Northern Ireland still remains part of the UK today. I found a letter signed by my great grandmothers sister supporting and requesting the county be left out of the new Irish free state as they are loyal to Britain. I’m 1% Irish according to my dna test & I literally JUST started learning about Ulster Ireland yesterday. Lots of issues going on there in the 1920s 1930s. Forged in Ulster has some good videos.
The French Canadians migrated to Louisiana (Arcadians or Cajuns!). Your Irish ancestry and your ability to show direct links to specific people born in Ireland makes you eligible to apply for Irish citizenship/passport! Do it 😎
My update seemed more accurate AND more mystifying than previous ones. I'm still 2/3 to 3/4 Irish (Connaught and Ulster) on both paternal and maternal sides, which I know to be the case from research. They finally added in the "Germanic Europe" that I always knew had to be there as I know I have some ancestors from Bavaria on my mother's side. So far so good, but the fun and the mystery were in the trace elements. They always had given me 1% Cyprus, which was completely mystifying. This time they refined it to 1% Eastern Mediterranean, Southern Italian. There was also 1% Denmark, down from 9%, which made sense, and 1% Wales. The Ancestry results purport or aim to, at least, show people where their ancestors were living a thousand years ago. What could possibly connect Denmark, England or Wales, and Southern Italy? So I'm thinking Normans? They were in all those areas. In genealogy, each new question that gets answered seems to raise more!
There were Normans in Sicily and Southern Italy. Borders have moved in Europe, parts of Denmark are now Germany, it can be difficult to know where to draw the line.
I would like to recommend DNAGentics if you are interested in diving deeper into your global ancestry communities. DNAGentics can explore possible communities that a particular ancestor who you share a history with might be related to you.
Prior to colonization, Ireland was divided into 5 Kingdoms which now essentially serve as provinces, you having Ulster and Munster is interesting because they are the northernmost and southernmost provinces... Ulster tends to be more of a Scots/Cumbrian and Norse mixed Irish because of where it is in relation to historical geography, known for the Red Hand O'Neil, the Troubles, and all sorts of wild history. Steeped in interfaith conflict between Catholic and Protestant, even moreso than other Irish provinces which is thought to be a lot of why Northern Ireland is essentially evenly split between Loyalists and Irish Unitarians... the most common reasons for Irish migration were to escape the concentrated interfaith violence or to escape English colonialism. (in the early days only to be met stateside with having cabbage and potato thrown at them off the boat and not being allowed in many public places due to segregation being applied to them)
this is what I was hoping someone could explain to me! I cant wait to piece it together. My great great grandpa had "north ireland" as his birthplace when he came to the US. Not sure about his wife. My family is/was Catholic
@@nytn I don't know when he came over, but the generation and religion would suggest there is a good chance he did so to escape sectarian violence, the troubles were in full swing by 1920, and Catholic Independence supporters were being quite literally hunted down by Protestant Loyalist Paramilitaries.
Love all the information! I hope to learn much more about Ireland. My Great Grandmother on my mom's side came from Cloontuskert, Roscommon, Ireland during the beginningof the 1900s. I have never been but I used Google maps to drive around the village haha
@@timeforchange3786 County Roscommon is in Connacht, on the western coast, another of the 5 kingdoms, in myth Roscommon is said to be the seat of the legendary Queen Méibh... My family is largely Ulster Irish and Scottish, and I got really into decolonizing, learning Gaelic language and culture, and the history... it really is interesting with no shortage of great stories and mysteries. I just love learning about any and all cultures, 100% xenophile, but obviously it's more personal when it's tied to the blood in one's veins.
England annexed Ireland about 700 years ago but tensions started to really flare up after England broke from Rome. Ulster became friendly ground to anti-Protestant revolutionaries (and assassins) and as such became difficult for England to control. England’s solution was to supplant the native Irish population in Ulster with mostly lowland Scottish and English Protestant planters. Now outnumbered, the native Catholic Irish lost more agency. This status became systematically formalized through the rise of the Anglo-Irish aristocracy and its attendant governmental and ecclesiastical institutions, all of which the Irish resented. I find the picture more complicated than how 19th c Irish republicans framed the established Church’s role but I do agree that Westminster’s handling of the famine was foolish and led directly to the civil war in the 20th c.
@NYTN: No, you did expect becouse it is exactly the ancestors that I predicted several videos ago. In any case, you should know that in North Africa there were Romans, so whites, Carthaginians, whites too, Suebi, Alans and Vandals that Visigoths expelled from Spain, that is, Germanic tribes and also in the USA, especially in the east or those who arrived. By Ellis Island they have a lot of mixture with Jews. I repeat that creole is not a mixture of races, it is a word that comes from the Spanish "criollo" and they were the white Spaniards who were born outside the metropolis, the mestizos, it is usually applied to a mixture with Indians in Spanish and mulattos mixed with blacks. It is evident that for a time some of your ancestors were part of the Spanish Empire because those Indians they are telling you about disappeared with the English and the Usacs, instead they were part of Spanish communities. Another part of your family was Irish and Nigerian, which was a British colony but at that time they did not have slaves, perhaps it was the one who bought land in Louisiana?
Munster was one of the four major divisions of Ireland (mostly southwest). Munster has a high Celtic Irish population, being west of the so-called Pale of Settlement where "Englishry of the Pale" had settled between century 13 and century 16. Ulster was in the north, and was the place where James I of England aka James VI of Scotland (the "King James" of "King James Bible" fame) had taken land from Celtic Irish locals who had supported "Red Hugh O'Neill, the Earl of Ulster, in his rebellion against the English during Elizabeth I, and given it to Lowland Scottish Protestants (who became the source of the "Scotch-Irish" and tried their hand at killing Celtic Irish Catholics as a dress rehearsal for killing Native Americans in century 18 and c. 19).
My family is interesting to me partly because they are mainly Scots and Ulster, but Catholic, and pro independence in their respective countries, so I always feel a stigma, but being they were working class Catholics and Jacobites that were put into indentured servitude and brought over here on one branch, and came over trying to escape the Loyalist paramilitaries on another the story is different from what I would guess is the normal "Scots-Irish' American story.
Before World War 2 , at Saint Patrick`s Cathedral in New York City , the ITALIANS had to use the basement of the Cathedral for their masses , because the IRISH would not allow Italians to use the first floor !!
@@Percept2024 Irish are a mixed bag when it comes to that stuff, especially Irish-Americans, Fredrick Douglas wrote that as an escaped slave the Irish would either be very helpful in a sense of solidarity, or they would pretend to be helpful only to turn them in for a bounty, so it was easier to just not trust them... Bernadette Devlin also said that Irish-Americans were disappointing to her because they were all bigots, and the people she really felt kinship with were the Black and Latino people of New York City who knew what oppression was really like, she was given the key to the city and gave it to the Black Panthers.
@@UilleamMacLoganach Also , when they tried to integrate the schools in Boston in the 1970`s , the anger and hatred toward Blacks from the Irish was tremendous.
@@Percept2024 Italians didn't have a great track record when it came to Black folks and integration, either, Italian-Americans are the main people who want to preserve Columbus day and celebrate him, despite his ills and the way he dehumanized the natives... it's sad to me how formerly oppressed groups find it so easy to contribute to the oppression of others when really we should be even more compassionate toward it. I think a lot of people in general gain some backward self-satisfaction by feeling like they are above others.
My original dna results were 87 percent Irish and 13 percent Scottish. With this update they gave me 7 percent Scottish and 6 percent english. My mother got 16 percent Scottish rest irish. Happy enough with that.
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4? Usually people’s ancestry is more detailed than that. I’m European and African and mine is very detailed with the nationalities like Nigeria, Senegal, Benin and Togo, etc
my only "ancestral journeys" on Ancestry are on my mother's side, whereas I used to have the same communities on my father's side that he does, but now they have disappeared for me but not for him🤷♂
I’ve just said we are all mutts these days. I don’t mean that in any sort of derogatory way. I say it because I think too many people these days run around as if they are “pure” or something (whatever that means. I will say however that each marker from each community represents an individual in time that contributed to the genetic makeup that makes you who/what you are. An individual with a story. From another culture with another story. And a history with its own story. And if their story didn’t happen, you wouldn’t be you. I was hoping to connect with you in a phone conversation. I messaged you. I don’t want to be a pest so I will not bring it up again. I think (and yes, I could be wrong) that you would enjoy the conversation. And based on your videos, I am interested in your opinion. You definitely seem like a very impassioned and thoughtful person so that is my motivation to have that conversation
Oh thank you! I definitely missed that message. I really appreciate your perspective on identity-it’s true, we’re each made up of countless stories, woven together in a way that makes us beautifully complex and interconnected. Just to be open with you, I've had to be mindful about privacy due to past experiences with people trying to track me down! I’m happy to keep the conversation going here if you’d like, though-I really value engaging with people who bring curiosity and insight to these topics. Or over on Patreon, Im able to direct message with folks! Thanks again for understanding, and I’m looking forward to hearing more of your thoughts!
@@nytn : I may comment here if I see a video that I want to offer something on but the conversation I was trying to have is not one I want to attempt here. I messaged you again since you missed my other message. Like I said, don’t want to be a pest so up to you. Either way I definitely understand.
In the days of old, people didn't move very far, they married people nearby in the same village or the next village, so over generations the people tend to look like each other. That is how ethnic groups and races form, by restricted breeding, the way you breed pure breed dogs like Great Danes or Chows. It doesn't mean we are pure of an ethnic group or race, it just means we look like each other and share a lot of dna.
Wow could the Canada French communities be Cajuns who migrated to Louisiana territory? I find the communities interesting in the direction my ancestors may have went or come from. I only have mid Atlantic and southeastern African American groups.
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Hi Danielle, Thank you for your channel and great videos. I have taken ethnicity tests from 23andMe, Ancestry, MyHeritage, and Family Tree. The all have given me different results and all have missed my French and Filipino ancestry. I know where everyone of my ancestors came from down to the village level. Here are some examples of goofy results, the Asian results are either Siberia or Central Asia. My maternal haplogroup is M7b3a which is from ...wait for it...the Philippines. My sister in-law was born in France to French parents in a village that her family has lived in for centuries. What do her Ancestry results say she is (she was looking to see if she hade Jewish ancestry)? English! What's my point? You have to take the results with a grain of salt. One more thing, DNA tests are illegal in France so the testing companies are getting zero reults from there. Thanks, and keep up the good work. Cheers, Joe
Cousin Dani👋 it’s me. Hope ur well. I wanted to tell u that music and intro on the couch with coffee. 🤌 it was noticed and it was good! So proud to call you cousin
The maternal haplogroups are also passed from mother to son, not just to daughters. The maternal haplogroup is from the mitochondria DNA, which is the food source for all of your cells. It's not part of the X-chromosome that is also passed from a mother to all of her children. As a note, FTDNA Family Finder is rolling out the high-level haplogroups to people who test there directly and they will add the haplogroups to people who have transferred their DNA, but those who transferred their DNA will be the last people to get that assignment.
The Acadians (French speaking Catholics) were forcefully removed from Nova Scotia Canada in 1755. The resettled in Louisiana. There were also many who resettled in ME, NH, VT, and MA too. I heard about it through descendants living in New England. Many many many maintained their French language throughout their lives through the generations to this day.
The African ethnic groups only appear for Nigeria, Cameroon, and Mali. I didn't receive ethnic groups for the generic North Africa, Senegal, Ghana/Ivory Coast, the generic Western Bantu, etc. Still I have more than 40 ethnic group matches. Quite interesting because each ethnic group had a landing page with demographics, a brief bio, and 3 videos.
Nacogdoches, Texas to Natchitoches, Texas ;isn't this sort of the area where the Redbones are from ? It is an aeea that is " like a bridge" between the Louisana Creoles and Mexican -American and Mexicans from Southern Texas/ Northern Mexico .
Well there can be two about the Southwestern Quebec settlers :it can be in the Arcadian ( Cajun) DNA or French settlers who came down the Mississippi who traded furs and others goods all the way down to New Orleans,Southern Mississippi , and Southern Alabama .If you want to learn more about this maybe see if you can get documents or papers of tarders in Louisians down the Mississippi some where French Quebecois others were half French /half Native : the sons of French men with Native women .
Acadians are primarily the French people who moved down to Louisiana from Quebec when France lost Quebec to the English, best guess is that this where his Quebec settlers link.
Pro tip: When using a semi permanent hair color, always use a shade or two lighter than your natural hair! Once you go salt and pepper, this will give you beautiful highlights, because it won't lighten the dark hairs, but it will give a complementary, dimensional color to the gray hairs. Next time, try medium brown or even medium auburn - that would go nicely with your natural coppery undertones!
Right now, at the current moment in time, you are the most alone you will ever be. The further you go back in time, the more ancestors you have. The further you go forward in time, the more people you will be an ancestor to. It's an hourglass shape. ⌛⌛⏳⏳ I was born in Nacogdoches, but my communities are not from here. The communities of my DNA are in name only, I can't actually go there.
I can recommend a few! I saw in another comment your family is from Louisiana. Contact my cousin Alex Lee (Alex Genealogy) on facebook. He's a genealogist with Louisiana heritage, too. He has a FB group that's amazing. Tell him I sent you!
I always heard the Acadians were Huguenots who came to Canada and were deported or pushed out to the point they were ethnically cleansed tho a lot mixed with Natives and today are the Cajuns of Louisiana.
Most shampoos and conditioners take color dye right out a lot faster than a month and a half. I guess the main ingredient to look for is sulphates. Sounds like everyone got dramatic changes to their dna results. Mine were mostly reinterpretations. These testing kits follow humans over the past couple hundred years and what have we been doing more than ever before, moving around.
No, neither Ancestry nor 23andMe accept uploads from other companies. Do you still have the raw DNA data file that you uploaded to GEDmatch? If so, you can upload it to MyHeritage and FTDNA. You cannot download your raw DNA data file from GEDmatch, but since you had to have a copy on your computer in order to upload it to GEDmatch, do you still have a copy? Another tip. Be sure to save any raw DNA data that you download. That is the primary source for any analysis.
My Irish ancestors left because the king of England was trying to tax them. And they were ship merchants, do they got on one of their ships and came to American. You need the book Traced by Dr Nathanal Jeanson.
The reason i asked is because Trinidad has an interesting history and connection to the people in the south of the US and come of the Creols. After the Hatian revolution some of the people who left went to luisiana and some made their way down the island chain till they ended up in Trinidad. Trinidad also has a group of people who we call the "Merikins". They were the enslaved people who faught for the Brits in the war of 1812. The Brits later settled 200 people in Trinidad.
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My Ancestry update gave me 1% Egyptian. Which, when you consider the fact that I'm a Jamaican who teaches and performs Egyptian Dance...... That's really trippy! I strongly suspected it because on 23 my uncle has North African and my cousin has Coptic specifically. So even though my dad and I didn't get the marker, at least on 23, I felt it had to be there. Myheritage, which was the least accurate for my European and African gave me North African. Ancestry also gave me Pilipino, which I knew from 23. I feel like you have to take several companies to get a fuller picture.
Curious what companies help you with your family tree?
@@chrisventura1881 Think Ancestry is the best for that. They also have access to a lot of records. I was really surprised at some of the documents they were able to find, but you have to pay extra for that level of service.
@TRUTHTEACHER2007 yeah doesn't seem too accurate. Only way would be if the whole world did it too pool all the DNA together. Im not interested in DNA breakdown. But I am interested in my family tree. I'm not sure my ancestors beyond Great Grands. I never met them just know their names. I'd love to learn more about the people who came before me.✌🏼
The hair looks great.
thank you:)
So does the biker shorts
" @cedricharris ", YES , I didn`t want to be the first guy to say it , but Danielle has beautiful legs !!
@@Percept2024 oh that's her name ☺
She's married people.
Hi Danielle, I have been watching for a while now. You are the reason I did my DNA test with Ancestry. Now I am at a loss my mother side doesn’t know their history and my father side I have not idea because my grandmother died when I was 19 and my father died when I was 15 years old. Now I get these 15 ancestral regions and I don’t know where to start on both sides of my family. My grandmother is a live on my mom side but she doesn’t want to help at all. She keep says we are better off not knowing which of course I want to know what’s you are hiding grandmother. Thank you for your videos.
... It's amazing how much stuff many of our families hid in our family trees regardless of our race/class.If your family has been in 🇺🇸 for a bunch of generations, it's hard to tell what all you may unearth from the roots of your family tree.
My Dad's family was mixed over 200 years including Indian & Black slave. The side of the family that was "white" didn't
acknowledge the darker mixed cousins. There was a "falling out" related to inheritance pre WW1. There was an aunt that denied any connection our side of the family. I am afraid those relations may be lost forever.
There are cousins on the "Res" in OK that don't acknowledge the "White" because they were sent away to school. So sad!!
@@doylecoleI'm sorry about the chaos because of race.
Pick a line and take it back.
This was a great video that shows the depths you go to correlate the information you’re receiving from various testing services, historical information, family history, etc. You’re definitely doing great work to properly interpret the data.
BTW, compliments on your intro modifications. Shorter intros, with that music background, is a nice touch!
A really good book is Louisiana and the Gulf South Frontier, 1500-1821 by F. Todd Smith. I learned so much that I had no clue that I was ignorant about. The gulf coast was originally colonized by the Spanish and French who had different ways of doing things than the English. It covers a lot of the history of the different Indigenous groups and their interactions with the colonizers. They got caught in the politics of Europe and the Europeans manipulating the Indigenous rivalries. At different times, the colonists were not supported by their governments and had to fend for themselves. So many different groups settled in Louisiana like Germans and French refugees from Haiti. I had heard that New Orleans was a Caribbean city, not culturally part of the US and now I understand what that means. It also goes into the Kings Road and the ties between Nacogdoches and Natchitoches. A really thorough deep dive into the region.
Yes! It’s crazy how Native Americans suffered under the English and still survived!
Love your hair! I think it's good to research the communities and know what was going on during the time when our ancestors were alive. I think it could also help us to break through some of our brickwalls.
...& help us build bridges😊.
OMG,Your hair looks absolutely beautiful along with the rest of you.🥰🌺
Thank you for this new post, Danielle. I have had an Ancestry DNA account for years, the most recent update until the newest one was September 2019.
The Ancestry DNA update that I just received had a substantial change over all previous updates. In the past my largest match was Great Britain & Northwestern Europe followed by Germain heritage.
This new update reversed that and made Germain my largest match by far. It was followed by Great Britain and Northwestern Europe.
The new update also added several new location matches in smaller percentages.
I’ve found the Journeys (formerly Communities) on Ancestry to be pretty good. It accurately listed many that I knew about and some I need to look further into.
Yeah, they missed my one shroud of Turin gene🪜😆
It’s great to see your channel growing… especially as one of the early riders to your adventure. With that said, if you’re so deeply ‘Louisiana’, we’re probably cousins 😂🙂↔️ - we are all related somehow down here. Keep up God’s work…pray all is well.
I don’t know if this will help but I do know that the men who started Natchitoches, La. and Nacogdoches, Tx. We’re Twin Brothers. Love what you’re doing! Keep Digging! ♥️
Great video. I just subscribed. I'm African American and have a DNA mix of Northern European and Sub-Saharan African. I did Ancestry's DNA test several years back and have been through many updates. The European and African overall mix hasn't changed, but the area matches have. From having little Nigerian and Scottish to those now being the larger regions for me. The Journey or Communities didn’t change much this last update. I've shared my Ancestry results with other sites and have taken other tests. They are all pretty much the same on European and African mix, and the area matches are close.
No worries, your hair is lovely! I was exstatic to see the new communities, it helped confirm some theories I have on my mom's side (Sephardic is now a category!). The Irish results made me laugh, b/c like you I had almost none but crazy amounts of Scottish (inc my dad, where I get it from). I will say for Ulster, a lot of people have Scottish descent because of the Plantation of Ulster years. It blew my mind b/c it's a sad history but explains why we have Scots-Irish in US and why it's hard to narrow down DNA when it comes to Scots and Irish (on top of the Celts dna).
Thanks for the tip. I now need to go read up on the Plantation of Ulster.
I love your videos and your hair looks great. To say that these are interesting would be an understatement. Keep 'em coming and I'll keep watching. 👍🏾
My dad's side of the family move to Maryland USA from Central England in 1800's and married Black women (my great great Do I throw another great in there?" ). I have a photo of him in his British Uniform.
I can only trace my mom's family back to Oklahoma where her great grandmother (Cherokee) married her great great grandfather (an escaped slave and former Civil war Buffalo soldier at ft. Sill ). And he also fought with US Grant from The battle of the Wilderness to Appomattox. Its fortunate he lived to over 100 years old , else we would not have his History.
Wow, you gotta share more of that! What important parts of American history that often doesn’t get mentioned!
Sounds very interesting!
This is awesome!!! Very cool!
A good colorist is priceless. I love the conditioner in the dye box though. It really tames my nappy hair.
the conditioner IS AMAZING. Im so glad you said that. I would buy the dye just for the tiny conditioner tube
You are glowing Danielle! Blessings to you and your family 🙏🏽
@1:12 you got that hair that changes with the seasons, with that dark brown, black and copper hair, you can style it naturally, ain't nothing wrong with it, lol. During the summer, part of my hair can get bleached into copper, and I get a copper tone tan when I work out in the field. The sun dictates, so I roll with it, haha.
Just got to the end of this video and made my cup of tea to drink with you. I am enjoying your enthusiasm and the relaxing chat style videos you are making. I look forward to hearing more about your Louisiana research since that is where we overlap somewhat in our heritage. Thanks again for all you do!
My update from ancestry puts me with Spain and Portugal at 84 percent and my community is in the Canary Islands. My parents who have never took the test and are deceased also have communities that comes under journey by parents and my mother’s community is in northern Spain, Azores as well as Ireland and what is interesting about Ireland is that my great grandmother was of English descent, but yet my mother’s community is in Ireland. My father’s community is also interesting because it is Ashkenazi Jews in Eastern Europe as well as Louisiana French settlers and French settlers of Mississippi, New Orleans, Quebec, New York and Vermont. I truly believe that I am Spanish, French and English, but mostly Spanish and I hope to one day hire a Genealogist to help me find my paper trail and my real heritage.
Canadian French were called Acadians if they came from modern day Nova Scotia. There are distinct French speaking communities in Canada based on New France colonies. France battled Britain and lost a battle on the Plains of Abraham in Quebec in 1759. French who refused to be British subjects ended up in Louisiana as it was French territory. Acadians were forcibly removed. Other less war related French Canadian migration post 1800 is present in Maine, Vermont, Massachusetts.
Interesting, thanks for the history.
French Canadians also settled in Rhode Island.
You have given me calmness in approaching my heritage.
I know I’m late but thank you for letting me know about the updates. I’m part East African and Danish now lol. However it’s weird it like magically appeared 4% Denmark out of nowhere. It’s new to it added to my European dna. which is crazy for them just now to discover this 0 to 4% I wonder what changed.
The East African doesn’t surprise me my second highest group on Ancestry is Bantu. What did surprise me was Yoruba land. It’s never linked me to an African ethnic group besides the Bantu. I wonder how they did it what new data did they get.
It’s crazy how these things change over time (Dna results). I can see why you need other research in collaboration with these results. I’ve done alot of research but it seems I still have so much more to do. Thank you again 💫
My wife followed her DNA test to a small town near Belfast, Northern Ireland. Now in our 60's. Her grandfather immigrated here just after working on the Titanic, at only 17. Due to religious persecution. Leaving a wife and daughter behind with family. His wife soon passed and the daughter went on to have 14 children. All but one still alive. They're all still live in the same area. And all showed up at the pub in town we had stopped at with only a name. Within 1hr all 13 showed up wanting to hear about their grandfather that fled to America. They ranged from 63, to late 80's. All had large families of kids and grandkids. We stayed for 2 weeks. I helped worked the ranch they live on. It took a week to understand their accents. But some of the best times Ive ever had. I spent time in 32 countries. This trip was the best.
The Puerto Rican connection could be through shared ancestors from the Canary islands? I once went through some old New Orleans parish records and Puerto Rican families were certainly present there.
Keep up the great work.
A wonderful mix. Be proud of them.
Early Creole/African American and French may be from post-Haiti Revolution migrations. Since before Louisiana area was a state it was part of France. And French slave holders had plantations in what would become part of the US. After the Haitian revolution there was an additional large migrations of free Black people from Haiti as well as French with enslaved Africans Africans.
love the continued couch conversations. these conversations are helping me heal from the circle of secrets. i have found THREE marriage records of my grandparents due perhaps to her being "colored" and him being Irish. one Catholic Registry, one civil registry, and then a LATER civil court record??? i have watched a RUclips vid on why 25% of our DNA is NOT always our grandmother~ but i don't really understand it....yet.
I checked out the new ancestry journey update and I was quite pleased with it. It showed I am descended from Louisiana Creoles . I have been intrigued about this part of my ancestry as Creoles are beautiful people.
There were multiple changes on my DNA with the new dump of data on Ancestry. I knew I had Dutch from my surname and the paper trail. My ancester founded New Amsterdam (now New York City). But it didn’t show up before. I assumed it was included in the Northwestern Europe category. But my 20% Swedish disappeared and turned into Finland and The Netherlands. My Irish is now split to include Iceland. My percentage of French more than doubled. My Southern Bantu changed to Yorubaland (which I'd never heard of) and Camaroon. My daughter didn't get any of the new stuff from me. It is very interesting to see how the gene lottery works. I apparently gave her most DNA from my mother and not very much from my dad. My first cousins used to share the same Southern Bantu with me, but now theirs changed to something else and it's not even the same as each other. My aunt went from decending from 3 tribes in Africa to 6. This tells me my African ancestors were here for multiple generations mixing up the blood lines before passing. It appears from cousin matches that there was passing in both my grandmother and grandfather's families. I can't tell yet whether this will make it easier or harder to track them down!
Great information! Love the detail. I might have to take another test; I would love to uncover more detailed information. Thanks.
Your hair color looks great!
Ulster Plantations : Scott-Irish part of Ireland where many people from Scotland settled. Many people in Appalachia have Scotts -Irish ancestry
Hey Daniele, I got something to say. I read an history book on Attila the Hun and I found out Germans, French, etc have large Hunnic dna. Do a video on that, please? I think it would be fun! I am Cajun from Louisiana. ⚜️ nice to meet you! ❤
Interesting. All these DNA companies have different databases in comparison. The genetic grouping updates just keep appearing. I haven't heard Creoles of Color in a long time.
It is interesting that Ancestry DNA regions show that we can share a connection to others that we would have not thought we are connected to. For example, although a majority of my ancestors, 64%, came from Europe, 26% of them came from indigenous Americas Mexico and though I don't identify as Mexican as I am a descendant of a tribe from Southern California, my region includes Southern California, Southern Arizona, Sonora, Mexico, and Baja California, Mexico. In addition, I got 2% Indigenous Americas Yucatan Peninsula plus 3% Indigenous Americas North. So clearly the Natives of the American Southwest and the Natives of Mexico are related.
I look like a total white boy and while I am white, primarily from Germanic Europe, the British Isles, and some from Southern Europe, I also have a substantial amount of ancestry from people of color. I knew from family history that am part Native American, but the Ancestry test surprised at me as I also have 3% Sub-Saharan African blood and 2% from Northern Africa which means I am part black and Arab too. More and more I am seeing that Human Beings are connected. So what race am I? Human!
ONE RACE, THE HUMAN RACE, BE GOOD TO EACH OTHER!
Your hair is beautiful. I understand the hair color thing. Happened to me, before a photo shoot, once.
I washed it so many times. It actually worked out great.
Relax and enjoy.❤
I just love your videos. Communities sound neat.
Very interesting content. I truly enjoy watching. It's pretty interesting even among siblings with the same parents, traits that show.
Genetics is extremely complicated.
I also had a super specific community that was a really small radius in Austria/Hungary that my dad and granduncle still have but for some reason they took it away. It is so accurate to my tree, matches, and immediate family have it so I don’t get that logic but hopefully I get re attached to it.
Another thing about ancestry communities is they are heavily impacted by your matches, so you may get communities if you have a lot of cousins from that community even if you don’t necessarily connect to it with your direct ancestors.
I have Munster Ireland as well, most of my ancestry from Ireland comes from the southwest corner of the island (County Kerry specifically, do I know there's more than just that county in that region). They gave me about six specific areas within Munster, most of which I'm pretty sure encompass where my grandfather's ancestors are from. A lot of Irish immigrants came from that area, I think Cork is included in there as well and there were a lot of Irish immigrants that came from county Cork. I also went to Ireland in 2016 so I'm somewhat familiar with the area. Super beautiful place by the way, completely recommend visiting!
Makes you wonder what was going on in Munster that made them want to leave.
It cut off while you were still talking. It stop at you saying, “Maybe by…” I played it back twice. Would love to support your book!
Oh my gosh! What the heck happened?! Hahah. I uploaded this to YT with an ending that is not there 😅😅
Hey Danielle, kind of going through some of the same things with my family heritage from Louisiana.
Danielle, you are Gorgeous.
You should write a book.
Thank you for your hard work.
Great video!
There are so many Blacks that passed for white. It comes out sometimes as we age. I work in a assisted living see many.
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Great video, the italian is very strong. In the future, you should do a video on the louisiana spanish and the Choctaw apache tribe which is state recognized, a fascinating rabbit hole.
Start at St. Martinsville, Louisiana....memorial wall. It's in a museum. The creole museum is next door. I'm one step ahead of you in this as I am next door in Texas.
Enjoyed! As usual 😇
Appreciate you watching!
@nytn Thanks, looking forward to more content.
@@nytn can you read my comment? I think you might find it interesting.
Munster is a large area of Ireland. My grandmother's house is there, right on the Ring of Kerry in a town called Sneem. It can be a tough area to research names from as there were huge clans of certain names. Sullivan for example is a huge name out there and it can almost impossible to trace a certain ancestor. Fortunately, my grandmother was born there and we knew where her house was, and even then I got lost trying to find it as the road has no name.
My grandma was fully Irish, so my dad is half-Irish and also Latino. Ulster is Northern Ireland and predominately Protestant. Munster is Southern Island and was one of the Gaelic Kingdoms. Southern Ireland is predominately Catholic and makes up the Republic of Ireland. Limerick became a significant Viking settlement. There's Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland that makes up Ireland. My direct Irish history is the Republic of Ireland. Yeah, we all have histories of communities. LIke Yoruba is a different Nigerian Community from the Igbo. All the best on your journey.
Tip from me - pushing 60, lightly graying in areas -use Purple shampoo. It's usually meant for blonds, but it blends the gray in if you have darker hair.
Danielle , since your mother`s family was from south Louisiana , have you ever researched the Knights of the White Camelia ?? The Knights were founded in south Louisiana by Jean Maximilien Alcibiades Derneville De Blanc ( a long name ! ) in 1867. I wonder if any of your ancestors had any problems from The Knights ??
We have some ethnic overlap, and my similarly colored hair turns copper on the ends in summer as well.
Hello my NewYork sister ❤️ I’ve been watching without commenting and I do apologize 😳 One wish that I would have for you is to experience your hair on the brown side of life. I see the beautiful curls and I would love for you to do traditional box braids or platts as we used to call them. Try an African Braiding shop, Love ya❤
Your natural hair is beautiful.
That’s the scotch-Irish, they came over in the early 1600’s, they are Irish and Scottish. They are known to be in the Appalachian mountains but they are in other northern states too. My grandmother was Scotch-Irish her family was from northern, NY.
Some of them sort the DNA by who you are and others sort by your relationship to the nation. That's why it can change
That's interesting, my adopted sister did Ancestry and found out she had French settlers of Quebec as ancestral community too. That would be so bonkers if you guys were cousins!
We have the same hair struggles.. I feel you so much on trying to keep it one color. I don't like to dye my hair... but I also don't like the contrast when the season starts to change bc the copper-ish color starts looking dull in contrast to the dark brown coming in. 🤦🏽♀️
Im so glad you understand. It looks like dyed hair and it's just from the sunshine! LOL
@nytn 🎯
I can’t wait to see the Nacogdoches to Natchitoches. My family settled in and around Nacogdoches while it was still Mexico.
Potenza... Interesting. I've been to Potenza once. In the archeological museum there are kept rather interesting female grave goods.
my paternal gr grandparents and their parents I’ve confirmed lived in Castleblany Ireland (mid 1800s - last one of my direct family left by 1921) which is near the border with & almost became part of Northern Ireland. Northern Ireland still remains part of the UK today. I found a letter signed by my great grandmothers sister supporting and requesting the county be left out of the new Irish free state as they are loyal to Britain. I’m 1% Irish according to my dna test & I literally JUST started learning about Ulster Ireland yesterday. Lots of issues going on there in the 1920s 1930s. Forged in Ulster has some good videos.
Hi my Nigerian sister. My dad was Nigerian and my mom from Jalisco in Mexico. You literally look like my younger sister
The French Canadians migrated to Louisiana (Arcadians or Cajuns!).
Your Irish ancestry and your ability to show direct links to specific people born in Ireland makes you eligible to apply for Irish citizenship/passport! Do it 😎
My update seemed more accurate AND more mystifying than previous ones. I'm still 2/3 to 3/4 Irish (Connaught and Ulster) on both paternal and maternal sides, which I know to be the case from research. They finally added in the "Germanic Europe" that I always knew had to be there as I know I have some ancestors from Bavaria on my mother's side. So far so good, but the fun and the mystery were in the trace elements. They always had given me 1% Cyprus, which was completely mystifying. This time they refined it to 1% Eastern Mediterranean, Southern Italian. There was also 1% Denmark, down from 9%, which made sense, and 1% Wales. The Ancestry results purport or aim to, at least, show people where their ancestors were living a thousand years ago. What could possibly connect Denmark, England or Wales, and Southern Italy? So I'm thinking Normans? They were in all those areas. In genealogy, each new question that gets answered seems to raise more!
There were Normans in Sicily and Southern Italy. Borders have moved in Europe, parts of Denmark are now Germany, it can be difficult to know where to draw the line.
We share the Quebec community, and also the Ulster community. Maybe we're related!
I would like to recommend DNAGentics if you are interested in diving deeper into your global ancestry communities. DNAGentics can explore possible communities that a particular ancestor who you share a history with might be related to you.
Prior to colonization, Ireland was divided into 5 Kingdoms which now essentially serve as provinces, you having Ulster and Munster is interesting because they are the northernmost and southernmost provinces... Ulster tends to be more of a Scots/Cumbrian and Norse mixed Irish because of where it is in relation to historical geography, known for the Red Hand O'Neil, the Troubles, and all sorts of wild history. Steeped in interfaith conflict between Catholic and Protestant, even moreso than other Irish provinces which is thought to be a lot of why Northern Ireland is essentially evenly split between Loyalists and Irish Unitarians... the most common reasons for Irish migration were to escape the concentrated interfaith violence or to escape English colonialism. (in the early days only to be met stateside with having cabbage and potato thrown at them off the boat and not being allowed in many public places due to segregation being applied to them)
this is what I was hoping someone could explain to me! I cant wait to piece it together.
My great great grandpa had "north ireland" as his birthplace when he came to the US. Not sure about his wife. My family is/was Catholic
@@nytn I don't know when he came over, but the generation and religion would suggest there is a good chance he did so to escape sectarian violence, the troubles were in full swing by 1920, and Catholic Independence supporters were being quite literally hunted down by Protestant Loyalist Paramilitaries.
Love all the information! I hope to learn much more about Ireland. My Great Grandmother on my mom's side came from Cloontuskert, Roscommon, Ireland during the beginningof the 1900s. I have never been but I used Google maps to drive around the village haha
@@timeforchange3786 County Roscommon is in Connacht, on the western coast, another of the 5 kingdoms, in myth Roscommon is said to be the seat of the legendary Queen Méibh... My family is largely Ulster Irish and Scottish, and I got really into decolonizing, learning Gaelic language and culture, and the history... it really is interesting with no shortage of great stories and mysteries. I just love learning about any and all cultures, 100% xenophile, but obviously it's more personal when it's tied to the blood in one's veins.
England annexed Ireland about 700 years ago but tensions started to really flare up after England broke from Rome. Ulster became friendly ground to anti-Protestant revolutionaries (and assassins) and as such became difficult for England to control. England’s solution was to supplant the native Irish population in Ulster with mostly lowland Scottish and English Protestant planters. Now outnumbered, the native Catholic Irish lost more agency. This status became systematically formalized through the rise of the Anglo-Irish aristocracy and its attendant governmental and ecclesiastical institutions, all of which the Irish resented. I find the picture more complicated than how 19th c Irish republicans framed the established Church’s role but I do agree that Westminster’s handling of the famine was foolish and led directly to the civil war in the 20th c.
Good morning neighbor lady, from Copperhill Tn. 😊😊
good morning!
@NYTN: No, you did expect becouse it is exactly the ancestors that I predicted several videos ago. In any case, you should know that in North Africa there were Romans, so whites, Carthaginians, whites too, Suebi, Alans and Vandals that Visigoths expelled from Spain, that is, Germanic tribes and also in the USA, especially in the east or those who arrived. By Ellis Island they have a lot of mixture with Jews.
I repeat that creole is not a mixture of races, it is a word that comes from the Spanish "criollo" and they were the white Spaniards who were born outside the metropolis, the mestizos, it is usually applied to a mixture with Indians in Spanish and mulattos mixed with blacks.
It is evident that for a time some of your ancestors were part of the Spanish Empire because those Indians they are telling you about disappeared with the English and the Usacs, instead they were part of Spanish communities.
Another part of your family was Irish and Nigerian, which was a British colony but at that time they did not have slaves, perhaps it was the one who bought land in Louisiana?
Munster was one of the four major divisions of Ireland (mostly southwest). Munster has a high Celtic Irish population, being west of the so-called Pale of Settlement where "Englishry of the Pale" had settled between century 13 and century 16. Ulster was in the north, and was the place where James I of England aka James VI of Scotland (the "King James" of "King James Bible" fame) had taken land from Celtic Irish locals who had supported "Red Hugh O'Neill, the Earl of Ulster, in his rebellion against the English during Elizabeth I, and given it to Lowland Scottish Protestants (who became the source of the "Scotch-Irish" and tried their hand at killing Celtic Irish Catholics as a dress rehearsal for killing Native Americans in century 18 and c. 19).
My family is interesting to me partly because they are mainly Scots and Ulster, but Catholic, and pro independence in their respective countries, so I always feel a stigma, but being they were working class Catholics and Jacobites that were put into indentured servitude and brought over here on one branch, and came over trying to escape the Loyalist paramilitaries on another the story is different from what I would guess is the normal "Scots-Irish' American story.
Before World War 2 , at Saint Patrick`s Cathedral in New York City , the ITALIANS had to use the basement of the Cathedral for their masses , because the IRISH would not allow Italians to use the first floor !!
@@Percept2024 Irish are a mixed bag when it comes to that stuff, especially Irish-Americans, Fredrick Douglas wrote that as an escaped slave the Irish would either be very helpful in a sense of solidarity, or they would pretend to be helpful only to turn them in for a bounty, so it was easier to just not trust them... Bernadette Devlin also said that Irish-Americans were disappointing to her because they were all bigots, and the people she really felt kinship with were the Black and Latino people of New York City who knew what oppression was really like, she was given the key to the city and gave it to the Black Panthers.
@@UilleamMacLoganach Also , when they tried to integrate the schools in Boston in the 1970`s , the anger and hatred toward Blacks from the Irish was tremendous.
@@Percept2024 Italians didn't have a great track record when it came to Black folks and integration, either, Italian-Americans are the main people who want to preserve Columbus day and celebrate him, despite his ills and the way he dehumanized the natives... it's sad to me how formerly oppressed groups find it so easy to contribute to the oppression of others when really we should be even more compassionate toward it. I think a lot of people in general gain some backward self-satisfaction by feeling like they are above others.
My original dna results were 87 percent Irish and 13 percent Scottish. With this update they gave me 7 percent Scottish and 6 percent english. My mother got 16 percent Scottish rest irish. Happy enough with that.
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I am 40% English, 50% West African (4 nationalities) , 10% American Indian (mom's side) . The DNA test I took was cheap, not too specific.
4? Usually people’s ancestry is more detailed than that. I’m European and African and mine is very detailed with the nationalities like Nigeria, Senegal, Benin and Togo, etc
my only "ancestral journeys" on Ancestry are on my mother's side, whereas I used to have the same communities on my father's side that he does, but now they have disappeared for me but not for him🤷♂
I’ve just said we are all mutts these days. I don’t mean that in any sort of derogatory way. I say it because I think too many people these days run around as if they are “pure” or something (whatever that means. I will say however that each marker from each community represents an individual in time that contributed to the genetic makeup that makes you who/what you are. An individual with a story. From another culture with another story. And a history with its own story. And if their story didn’t happen, you wouldn’t be you.
I was hoping to connect with you in a phone conversation. I messaged you. I don’t want to be a pest so I will not bring it up again. I think (and yes, I could be wrong) that you would enjoy the conversation. And based on your videos, I am interested in your opinion. You definitely seem like a very impassioned and thoughtful person so that is my motivation to have that conversation
Oh thank you! I definitely missed that message. I really appreciate your perspective on identity-it’s true, we’re each made up of countless stories, woven together in a way that makes us beautifully complex and interconnected.
Just to be open with you, I've had to be mindful about privacy due to past experiences with people trying to track me down!
I’m happy to keep the conversation going here if you’d like, though-I really value engaging with people who bring curiosity and insight to these topics. Or over on Patreon, Im able to direct message with folks! Thanks again for understanding, and I’m looking forward to hearing more of your thoughts!
@@nytn : I may comment here if I see a video that I want to offer something on but the conversation I was trying to have is not one I want to attempt here. I messaged you again since you missed my other message. Like I said, don’t want to be a pest so up to you. Either way I definitely understand.
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In the days of old, people didn't move very far, they married people nearby in the same village or the next village, so over generations the people tend to look like each other. That is how ethnic groups and races form, by restricted breeding, the way you breed pure breed dogs like Great Danes or Chows. It doesn't mean we are pure of an ethnic group or race, it just means we look like each other and share a lot of dna.
Wow could the Canada French communities be Cajuns who migrated to Louisiana territory? I find the communities interesting in the direction my ancestors may have went or come from. I only have mid Atlantic and southeastern African American groups.
Hi Danielle, Thank you for your channel and great videos. I have taken ethnicity tests from 23andMe, Ancestry, MyHeritage, and Family Tree. The all have given me different results and all have missed my French and Filipino ancestry. I know where everyone of my ancestors came from down to the village level. Here are some examples of goofy results, the Asian results are either Siberia or Central Asia. My maternal haplogroup is M7b3a which is from ...wait for it...the Philippines. My sister in-law was born in France to French parents in a village that her family has lived in for centuries. What do her Ancestry results say she is (she was looking to see if she hade Jewish ancestry)? English! What's my point? You have to take the results with a grain of salt. One more thing, DNA tests are illegal in France so the testing companies are getting zero reults from there. Thanks, and keep up the good work. Cheers, Joe
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The maternal haplogroups are also passed from mother to son, not just to daughters. The maternal haplogroup is from the mitochondria DNA, which is the food source for all of your cells. It's not part of the X-chromosome that is also passed from a mother to all of her children.
As a note, FTDNA Family Finder is rolling out the high-level haplogroups to people who test there directly and they will add the haplogroups to people who have transferred their DNA, but those who transferred their DNA will be the last people to get that assignment.
Ulster Irish tounges, Donegal Irish • Ulster Gaelic
Genealogy heads up; Romero[Ramirez].
I've also got east central Louisiana Acadian French settlers
And southern Louisiana French settlers
The Acadians (French speaking Catholics) were forcefully removed from Nova Scotia Canada in 1755. The resettled in Louisiana. There were also many who resettled in ME, NH, VT, and MA too. I heard about it through descendants living in New England. Many many many maintained their French language throughout their lives through the generations to this day.
Have you heard Acadian French? It is more of a creole.
My nephew has the Mongolian spot!
The African ethnic groups only appear for Nigeria, Cameroon, and Mali. I didn't receive ethnic groups for the generic North Africa, Senegal, Ghana/Ivory Coast, the generic Western Bantu, etc. Still I have more than 40 ethnic group matches. Quite interesting because each ethnic group had a landing page with demographics, a brief bio, and 3 videos.
Nacogdoches, Texas to Natchitoches, Texas ;isn't this sort of the area where the Redbones are from ? It is an aeea that is " like a bridge" between the Louisana Creoles and Mexican -American and Mexicans from Southern Texas/ Northern Mexico .
yes! My next video is on that this Friday! :)
Well there can be two about the Southwestern Quebec settlers :it can be in the Arcadian ( Cajun) DNA or French settlers who came down the Mississippi who traded furs and others goods all the way down to New Orleans,Southern Mississippi , and Southern Alabama .If you want to learn more about this maybe see if you can get documents or papers of tarders in Louisians down the Mississippi some where French Quebecois others were half French /half Native : the sons of French men with Native women .
Acadians are primarily the French people who moved down to Louisiana from Quebec when France lost Quebec to the English, best guess is that this where his Quebec settlers link.
Quebec is still overwhelmingly French Canadian.
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Right now, at the current moment in time, you are the most alone you will ever be. The further you go back in time, the more ancestors you have. The further you go forward in time, the more people you will be an ancestor to. It's an hourglass shape. ⌛⌛⏳⏳ I was born in Nacogdoches, but my communities are not from here. The communities of my DNA are in name only, I can't actually go there.
Do you have a few genealogist for hire that help people with their family trees?
I can recommend a few! I saw in another comment your family is from Louisiana. Contact my cousin Alex Lee (Alex Genealogy) on facebook. He's a genealogist with Louisiana heritage, too. He has a FB group that's amazing. Tell him I sent you!
@@nytn I will. Thank you. 😊 ❤️
Romero is not an Italian surname at all, but originated in Spain and in fact, out of all of Latin America, it's extremely common in Puerto Rico.
Im married and my husband's grandmother is from PR :)
@@nytn so your husband is Puerto Rican??
@@cajuncultureking he is American, but PR, Mexican and English heritage
@ nice. Question, can you make a video comparing the English to Spanish colonialism??
That’s a great idea !
Amy Johnson Crow said the ancestry algorithm changed a little bit
It's made no effect on me as I am 100% man.
What is your kit number of Gedmatch? You may be a cousin to my husband who is Cajun.
I always heard the Acadians were Huguenots who came to Canada and were deported or pushed out to the point they were ethnically cleansed tho a lot mixed with Natives and today are the Cajuns of Louisiana.
Maybe, but Huguenots are Protestant, I would think Acadians are R.C. I think most Huguenots went to Britain.
Most shampoos and conditioners take color dye right out a lot faster than a month and a half. I guess the main ingredient to look for is sulphates. Sounds like everyone got dramatic changes to their dna results. Mine were mostly reinterpretations. These testing kits follow humans over the past couple hundred years and what have we been doing more than ever before, moving around.
No, neither Ancestry nor 23andMe accept uploads from other companies.
Do you still have the raw DNA data file that you uploaded to GEDmatch? If so, you can upload it to MyHeritage and FTDNA.
You cannot download your raw DNA data file from GEDmatch, but since you had to have a copy on your computer in order to upload it to GEDmatch, do you still have a copy?
Another tip. Be sure to save any raw DNA data that you download. That is the primary source for any analysis.
this is good, Im going to see what I have..
hi I think Ulster is Protestant or Scots Irish
They are both, but a lot of the native Irish, the Gaels, still lived there.
My Irish ancestors left because the king of England was trying to tax them. And they were ship merchants, do they got on one of their ships and came to American.
You need the book Traced by Dr Nathanal Jeanson.
Hold up....did you say from Trinidad? so like did they come from or migrate to Trinidad?
The reason i asked is because Trinidad has an interesting history and connection to the people in the south of the US and come of the Creols. After the Hatian revolution some of the people who left went to luisiana and some made their way down the island chain till they ended up in Trinidad. Trinidad also has a group of people who we call the "Merikins". They were the enslaved people who faught for the Brits in the war of 1812. The Brits later settled 200 people in Trinidad.
Possibly one ancestor. The others came over from west Africa across the middle passage
I have never heard of this! I am going to save it for my research on that line. thank you so much