I READ MY RESULTS AT 4:46 Okay, so since I was a little unsatisfied with my results, I used Gedmatch and found out I am a mixture of Bengali, Gujarati and South Indian (56%) and Balochi (32%) (Native to Afghanistan, Iran, and Pakistan) with smaller percentages in North Eastern Europe, East Asia, Melanesia, and the Mediterranean. So basically my guess was approximately right, btw this was through the HarappaWorld calculator. I also tried Wegene and it said that I am 62% Sindhi and 18% Bengali
Zoroastrianistic Zoro Caucasian wasn’t shown on mine, it just said my two biggest percentages were Indian and Balochi. Is there another calculator on GedMatch that I could confirm because HarrappaWorld was the only one that broke down exactly what ethnicity in that region. Also when I checked Dodecad, Caucasian/Gedrosia showed 30%
Harappa World calculator is the one i'm talking about it usually tells you percentage breakdown for more than just south indian and baloch, also give Genecove a shot.
You are probably a mix of all over India, north to south. So you are a desi. All south Asians are largely a mix of 2 ancient populations in different proportions and share a common culture.
I think everyone from Guyana can agree they’re so many different variations of Guyanese people....Indo, African, Light, Dark, Mixed....But we all love our pepperpot !
I love being black & am so proud to be. At the same time I feel that it’s just a Caribbean thing that we identify with being Carribbean/West Indian before race. I feel more connected to someone from Trinidad or any Caribbean island regardless of their race.
I am of Indo-Guyanese background and I completely agree with you. There is that West Indian/Caribbean connection we have that isn't there with other cultures. It just feels comfortable and natural around other West Indians...so much so, that we can even resort to banter and tease each other haha.
I met an older Guyanese man in the grocery store today in Baltimore and he said he went home to visit and didn't want to come back to America. I don't blame him Guyana is Beautiful!! ♥️
@Mustafa Alam india was always called Bharat( vedas) and Indica by greeks which was later changed to India when British invaded. So better don't suggest me to read or what with your sack of knowledge about history or madeup history .
your ancestors had to leave India for serving the nation but u guys will always remained in heart of India... U and your ancestors had beared many difficulties but u fought back and making us proud🙏🏼🙏🏼🇮🇳🇮🇳
I have similar difficulty explaining my ethnicity! I am Indo-Fijian, born in New Zealand. My dad's side of the family came from Bihar, and my mum's from South India and other unknown parts of India. But this is several generations removed, as my ancestors arrived as indentured labourers in Fiji. I always wonder whether I have ancestral links in places like the Carribean! One day I'll try this test out!
Girls of all layers of colour beautiful in their very own way...im tired of all this comparative idea.We have way serious issue going on,animals exploitations and their agony..no one wants to be a voice of it?
I'm mad excited to see my results as well. I'm also Indo-Guyanese, so it should be pretty interesting, I've been wanting to know this information for so long.
Indians tend to share some common genes with Melanisians and sometimes Polynesians. I think it's because the original migrations out of Africa continued East After settling India.
@@Celeste8808 I saw a movie or documentary about Polynesia , and one guy wrote as a reply to comment that they believe they come from the Americas , I am native from the Americas and I want to learn about that connection
Girl girl girl!! I'm also Indo Guyanese but I was born in the states. So much of what you said is literally my life. It takes me forever to explain to someone what I am... after I got my ancestry DNA results back I found out I am 82% South Asia, 10% east Asia, 5% Melanesia, and 3% Polynesian... we might be related 😂. When I heard you say bacchus and the way you were talking about it was crazy bc on my moms side, my great grandfather was a bacchus (idk how to spell it) and then somehow their name changed to sakur.. it's so confusing. But your video was so relatable hahaha!
South Asia is a geographical area, there have been various groups and countries, there was a Hindu civilisation that was in the north west of that area, later at it's greatest extent Asoka's Empire covered a lot of the area that is modern India, there was the Mughal Empire that covered Afghanistan, what is now Pakistan & most of what is now India. The origins of the states of Pakistan, Bangladesh & India are mainly out of British India, when the European Empires arrived there were various countries with various types of governments, much as there had been in Europe, there was a very fiercely fought war before Punjab was incorporated into British India in Victorian era, Ceylon/Sri Lanka was separated off in 1930s, Pakistan originated as a concept in 1920s derived from a combination of names of historic states and using the Urdu for pure, Pakistan was formed at partition and at that time included most of what been East Bengal (Bengal had been split in the late Victorian era into West & East), various princely states had to choose between India and Pakistan who carved up many historic states such as Punjab, Kashmir and Bengal; Pakistan also had bits of historic states that had been mostly part of Afghanistan or Persia. In 1961 India seized Goa (Southernmost Indian state) from Portugal, then in 1971 East Pakistan got independence from Pakistan as Bangladesh with assistance of Indian forces. The People's Republic of China has seized some parts of Kashmir from India, mostly uninhabited areas, some villages, still disputed borders, PRC & Pakistan have agreed borders, still disputed borders between India & Pakistan. Oddly partition has resulted in lots of small areas of Indian territory in Bangladesh and lots of small areas of Bangladeshi territory in West Bengal due to decisions of princely states at time of partition, the 2 countries are planning to swap the areas due to problems people living in those areas jave accessing public services and problems collecting taxes off them as they have been living in an area cut off from their own country and surrounded by an entirely different country, mainly rural areas.
lakia moore pakistan and india are modern political nationalities. the people are the same more or less genetically on both sides of the border, at least as far as the the north west of the subcontinent goes. that being said however south asia is a diverse place generally speaking...
It hurts that we cannot trace back more especially because our names have been changed. It brings back the underlying mysteries and traumas of the past. I also felt the similar experience as you described....(also tested)...but it lacks information we are searching. At least it is one step of the way. As you mentioned in your video, there are broad mixtures of regions and countries that were transported to Guyana and other parts of the Caribbean. A docu-series should be made and whatever records that are in these countries should be online and restored immediately to trace roots.
Woww I agree with you for white people they are soo in dept but for brown people it only says Asia south like helloo there's like mad countries in South Asia we're not all the same people smh
That's because they don't break it down. India is very diverse. Upload your results to GedMatch and use the HarappaWorld calculator. This will break down where in India your from. :) x
Elijah, yes but its more the principle, Indians pay Ancestry DNA just as much, south asian results CAN be broken down pretty easily, they need to sort it out.
Sai M. She knows 😩😩🤪 tu pagal, her point was it’s usually associated with the culture and she hasn’t grown up culturally desi because she’s Guyanese. There are white girls in England that are more culturally desi then her, acha?
It's pretty cool to see DNA relatives as well. I have them in Trinidad, India, Guyana, and other parts of the world, even though the relationship is very very small , 4th and 5th cousins.
To be accurate, there is no typical 'Indian' look. Indian is a natianality and comprises a mix of peoples, including African, Asian and European-looking types.
We were taken as indentured servants from India , Bihar , Uttar Pradesh & Madras by the British in the 19th century but we don’t like to identify with India because we are Indo Caribbean, Indo Guyanese & Indo Trinidadian
I’m Guyanese and when people ask me what are you ? Are you Indian I just say yes lol I don’t feel like explaining, my fathers mother is from Grenada and my grandfather is from Guyana and my mom is full guyanese 😩 but big up to my West Indians 🤪
I was born in America. I was always told I was African American. I knew little to no information on my mother's father side. So I found out that my grandfather's mother was born in Calcutta and him father in Guyana.... I'm so lost. What am I? What is my grandfather's nationality? What religion do you celebrate? What's the culture? Will I be accepted because I'm from America? I want to educate my family. I finally belong somewhere and have a culture of my very own.
Iesha W also be aware that indians from india dont like people of african origin. And racism is rampant there. Indians are traditionally hindu or sikh. They were brought to the caribbean as indentured labourers after the slave trade but were treated just as bad. Basically they were tricked into going to the Caribbean to work and were never allowed to go back home to india. So indians in the Caribbean dont know where in india their ancestors came from. Just like afro people in the diaspora.
You'll find Trinidadiansomething of Indian descent still call themselves Indians, proudly. You just explain yes I'm of Indian descent, I/my parents/whoever are from Trinidad. It's not that complicated!
Sweetheart, this is perfect. First of all, I love your authenticity and how you do your videos. You’re not fake. And that’s awesome! I am Indo Canadian. My parents were both born in Punjab in India, but my dad was very much raised in Canada since he was a very little boy. And because of that, there is a lot of your experience that I don’t understand from a first-hand perspective. But, you help me to be able to relate to wear you are coming from, when you say that you don’t necessarily consider yourself Desi, four instance. There’s a lot shorter distance in time since my ancestors actually came from South Asia, and when your ancestors actually came from South Asia. My ancestors were looking for a better life, but were never part of the indentured labour system. In other words, the history is very different. On the other hand, we share something very deep, and that is our South Asian routes. And that’s a really cool thing! I’ve got a friend from Trinidad who says that she has been able to learn more through oral history about her Indian ancestry, than the genetic testing was able to tell her. For instance, she was able to find some native American Trinidadian and Chinese and south Indian ancestry in particular, and she was able to sort of have a better idea of who her south Indian ancestors had been, and who the north Indian ancestors had been. Most of that had to do with her talking to her relatives one by one. I’ve recently become very interested in the earlier diaspore Eric communities from South Asia, including your own, and including people who went to places like Mauritius and Fiji and South Africa and Kenya. Part of it for me, is that I’m trying to work out my own cultural and familial baggage as a survivor of abuse. Another part of it is related to the first part, and has to do with me doing my own process of decolonization. And that may not be how it is for you. Or it might have something in common with your desires to find out as well. I don’t know. For each of us, it’s going to be different. The reasons are all different. But one Very cool thing is that you are clearly a Guyanese person, I totally understand what you mean when you say that, because I say that I’m a Canadian woman with Indian ancestry. I’ll bet even there, our experiences in histories in Canada and Guyana, are very different. But I can see how proud you are of your Guyanese heritage and roots. And that’s very cool! This video just means a lot to me right now, and I want to thank U for being genuine and real and telling all of us this, because I for one needed to see this video. Tammi Jatti
Dear If I may.. Its not Bakks..Its actually Bacchus. As you are from Guyana ,your ancestors were freedom fighter from the state of Bihar and UP. Most of those people were either Pandits or Kshatriyas ( Kshatriyas ..Rajput ,Jatt ,Guzzars etc).The Last name Bacchas is for all of those chandravanshi who were born from Maharishi Bacchus. Further more Khan is not a last name. Its part of name Changez Khan and people who converted to Islam took this as their last namre even though Changez Khan was not a muslim. He was of Shaman religion and adopted Budhism in his life. Hope this help. Even your facial features are from the state of UP and Bihar. Hope this helps. Har Har Mahadev Jai Hind
I am from South India and my results are almost similar to yours. Most of the Indians have East Asia and Melanesia and polynasia. I think these tests are based on DNA few thousand years ago.
Which DNA ancestry company did you use? I have heard that with a lot of people of Indian extraction that a lot of DNA companies can’t pick up the variation of ancestries in India, so they will just typically say 100% South Asian.
@@csowm5je thank you. Probably proves they are not all 100% accurate if they can change like that. Which company picked up your mixed ancestry (ie other than stating you are South Asian)?
Genisy gaming well its seems someone didn’t pass high school 🤔Guyana is not a race! It’s a nationality and I’m black and my mom father was half Portuguese but why am I sitting here defending myself who to someone don’t know the difference between race and nationality 🙃
The NatGeo DNA test is much more in depth for people of South Asian origin. The results are not as vague as Ancestry. However, Ancestry IS good to connect with any distant genetic relatives. NatGeo is the oldest genome project (10+ years) and they have the largest data pool, which is why they're able to give you detailed results (such as which specific country in South Asia, and the actual region of that country, the migratory parth of your ancestors, etc). Ancestry and 23andMe are much newer projects, so it's understandable why they do not have a large enough data pool of Asian genes to compare you to. :-) I did the NatGeo test and was happy with my results and data provided. I do want to try Ancestry to connect to distant relatives. P.S. I don't work for NatGeo, I'm trained in Anthropology and studied human genetics and migration lol.
thank you for uploading your results!! there aren't many indo-guyanese results on youtube. can't wait to find out my results:) and also agree, they should make it more in depth for south asian countries
Hi Saarah, I am an Indo Guyanese and everything that you spoke about in your video is exactly how I have felt for the last 30 years. I wanted to take the DNA test but have reservations of giving the government my DNA, maybe that's me not trusting the government that much and as a fellow Guyanese I am sure you can understand my feelings. I thought your video was informative and I wish they would focus more on our DNA strains so that we may have some form of understanding about our heritage and history. I was born in Georgetown and move to New York like most Guyanese and now live in Atlanta and have not been home in 30 years. I just celebrated my 43rd birthday and my heart is longing to see where I am from so I can better understand who I am. I hope you make more videos that help people like you and I to better understand who we are. Once again thank you for your video !!!
Jaxson Davis72 Actually the Dravidian peoples of South India were quite dark. She is actually quite light skinned for a south indian. Her lighter skin is most likely due to the East Asian component.
Toxic She is not light skinned, but she is not as dark as the average south indian. Also, the ones you mentioned Punjab, Kashmir etc. are heavily mixed with Greek, hence the white skin and other features.
I am Grenadian, I was born there but I grew up in Guyana for years so that’s where I connect, sometimes I forget I’m Grenadian. I consider myself mixed because I don’t really know my background, my mom is Amerindian mixed with white and black and Indian and my dad don’t know too much, so I hope when I take this test, I’m mostly Native American
I am in India & I have a Sindhi-Hindu friend from Gujarat and she looks EXACTLY like you! She's almost your twin sister! I am from the Indian state of Bihar, didn't take the ancestor DNA test but talked to the old people in my family and found out that both of my mother's and father's side of families came to Bihar like around 100 years back from northern parts of Uttar Pradesh. Before moving to Uttar Pradesh, they were living "somewhere more north"!
I am Melanesian which is Aboriginal Australian, we are kind of lumped with PNG because they don't have enough DNA really from Indigenous Australians to identify that separately. I have a big percentage of European which was not a surprise but I found when I imported my raw DNA into DNA Land that I had 1.7% Kalash which I had to google and found some interesting info, they are Dardic indigenous people residing in the Chitral District of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. They speak the Kalasha language, from the Dardic family of the Indo-Aryan branch. They are considered unique among the peoples of Pakistan and are apparently protected by law after many were murdered by the Muslims who set up shop there. My mum did hers and she also had Kalash DNA as well as a percentage of Indus Valley from Pakistan which I did not get. This made sense to me as we had always passed down in our family history that we had Afghanistan in us, I presume we though it was Afghanistan because they had come over to Australia as camel riders so my ancestor who was Kalash would have fit right in with our people as they practice Animism which is a very similar belief system to ours. I would try DNA land to upload your raw date it might get more specific with the South Asia DNA.
Thanks for sharing this! I'm also Indo-Guyanese and my moms maiden name is Khan so I've always been interested to find out what my ancestry is since I could only imagine that it would be a wide variety of south Asian and West Asian countries
Hello there, I am from India ... btw Baksh sounds more similar to Bakshi which is a bengali surname, watch movie. (Byomkesh Bakshi great indian suspence movie) To be honest I have heard country Guyana for the first time, the first video I saw I could relate that you look so similar to Indian and then I dig down and I saw, actually majority of the population is of Indian decent great.
Don't get caught up in geographical divisions . . . Genghis Khan was Mongolian and Pakistan is a geographical boarder which was once part of greater South Asia. People divide themselves in many ways and political and geographical differences depend on wars, conquests, migrations of people's etc. Ancestry has more to do with a scientific viewpoint of one's genetics. Colonization took you to Guyana. Pakistan became a country after partition, which was part of Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent. One is not equal to their geographical identity. There is so much more to human origins and its evolution.
I think you having Polynesian & Melanesian ancestry is quite common due to the British colonisation from India. I'm actually FIjian Indian and I also have Guyanese ancestry too😄
I been watching these 23 and me videos from different Guyanese people lately cause I’m curious to see what mine would look like! My family is Afro Guyanese but we also have a mix of Chinese, native and Indian in our ancestry. I always thought it was so cool how many races Guyana has, definitely wanna visit one day
Hello, good results, friend. I'm from Argentina,🇦🇷⚽️ South America. I also took the DNA test. It came out for me. 💯 south american🌎 I am proud of my origins😊👋
Tahiti Baksh You mush be joking right ? There are dozens of actors in India with Khan surname please check that out. Literally Indian and Pakistani Muslims have almost the same surnames especially if they’re Hindustani speaking ( Hindi / Urdu ) I am an Indian too.
I'm Brazilian and I can relate to not explaining that I'm mostly native (Tupinamba) then black and Portuguese. So unless they can relate I'm Just Brazilian. Thanks for video.
I def wanna take one of these, I’m half Guyanese and half Sri Lankan but they’re both countries with so many ethnic groups so I just go by those nationalities 😩
As I know both my great grandfather and great, great grandfather came from West Punjab. They moved from West Punjab to Benares then to Calcutta and after spending 3 years there had finally made it to set sail for the distant shores of then British Guiana having arrived in 1893. My great grandfather was 18 when he arrived with two other siblings, his father and mother. I would like to trace my roots back in India. Where do I start from? Please tell.
I am from west punjab, now in Pakistan, then it was part of India, which got divided in 1947. Can you tell, some thing about which part of west punjab. It is a big area, might be bigger than Guyana.
@@afifurrehman7895 ...thank you brother for reaching out... unfortunately, no one of my cha-chas or powahs know that information but from what I am gleaning this place has to be somewhere in today's Pakistan. Can a person's name tell the village he/she's from? My great, great grandfather name was Mosaheb Lakkhu, his wife Miriam. Any way forward with this, my brother? Thanks.
@@tickedoffsheikh8587 OK, I shall try. Though it difficult by just names, to find out from a big area. It is just like search a small straw from The Atlantic ocean without any clue of space. However there is a clue, in India, mostly tne name of the caste is the name of village, and most people write this with their name. Makhu is a village of Rawalpindi District in West Punjab, where people still have name with suffix Lakhu. This place is 230 km away from me. I shall try to find out a person from that place.
U speak good English, U look more Indian but i know ur south Indian can be Tamil, Malayalee or Telungu. Anyway ur a mix so nothing wrong..Pakistani is also a Indian Orgin.
This is so helpful because I look very mixed but I was just told I'm Guyanese which probably traces back to India. I know people from guyana come from all over, so I really want to know where my ancestry is from. However, this helped me know how in depth these tests go with caribbean countries.
Ancestry dna is a complete anti climax and let down, they love breaking down north west European ancestry (which is impossible to break down) South Asians on the other hand have a defined 5000 year old caste system even today you can use tools and get a breakdown on who is dalit, brahmin from North east, Bengali etc. with someone from France they havent the foggiest, ancestry dna is bollocks.
Me and my mom were talking about our ancestry today. My parents are Indo Trinidadian. My dad doesn't know much about his ancestry but he is dark skin and his family is dark skin but I think his cousin and another side of his family was light skin. My dad just thinks that his ancestry from a long time ago is Indian. My dad also has curly/wavy hair, long nose and dark skin but his family is Hindu I believe. I don't know too much about his family. My mom comes from a culturally Muslim, and Christian background and she is like light brown skin tone. I talked to her and she said that her grandfather was fair skin and had blue eyes and tall and his mother was from Kashmir and had fair skin and blue eyes. I also believe she said that her great grandfather was from a town called Salem in Tamil Nadu and he was dark skinned. She also said that his wife had very long hair fair skin and blue eyes. She also said that we might not be pure Indian. I also remember my uncle who is my moms cousin said that his grandmother knew how to read and write Urdu. Most of my mom's cousins are also Muslim and tall. I also watched a video talking about how the Persians mixed with the Indians. Every time anyone asks me where I'm from or what's my culture I say Indo Caribbean. In high school the desi people used to mistake me for Latino, Puerto Rican, Indian, Pakistani or Bengali. I also have a cousin on my dad's side that resembles young Shah Rukh Khan so that's cool.
I come from a Pakistani family but we are ethnically Bihari and I take a lot of pride in both. But when my friends found out where bihar is they started calling me indian. I live in America so im trying to hold onto the culture
Prior to 1947, there was no Pakistan or Bangladesh, it was all India. So Indians, Pakistanis and Bangladeshis, for the majority of people are the same/mostly related. Also going back further, ancient India also consisted of present day Afghanistan. Ancient India's borders also included Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar (Burma). Who knows Ancient India's borders may have stretched deeper into other parts like Indonesia as well.
Spending 1 hour explaining what we are is 100% true! Sometimes longer when someone still asks "So you're not Hispanic? You don't speak Spanish? Are you sure?" 🤣 I'm waiting for my Ancestry results and I'm excited to see what it says.
I took the 23andMe test and I had a good general knowledge of most of my family's lineage for both sides but some of my results surprised. I have a 92% African ancestry mostly West African but including North and East Africa, ARABIA. My European ancestry had noticeable British and Irish ancestry and they listed Iberian, Balkan, Scandinavian, Finish, German, French, and broadly Eastern European. My Asian percentage is what really caught me off guard: Native American, East Asian, South Asian, Melanesia: Fiji, Korea, Mongolia, Taiwan etc. It's all very confusing to be Guyanese and I laughed out loud reading my ancestry because my mom's family is so dark I can't like visually see these mixtures unless they come right from my dad's side. It's funny though my sister's report had her at a higher African percentage than me, but she didn't have most of the Asian traces I did. I wish I had taken my mother's DNA before she passed but I'll try to convince my Dad to do it and see why my report is like Global cook up. More people from those regions have to take the test so they can make clearer reports. One day I'll be famous enough to be on "Who Do You Think You Are?" and have a whole team focused on tracking my ancestors and who they were.
Ancestry is not good for Asian people , it lumps thousands of ethnic gaps into 1.5billion pool but if you are in europe it goes down to a few million in for instance Wales....a little Ancestry racism?
Hinduism has survived in the Caribbean and has thrived. Many a Indians are not aware of this history but because of the internet today, many are now becoming aware. It's funny how cricket has been the spark that ignited this enquiry.
One of my ancestors in Guyana had the last name Khan and he came from a region near Afghanistan which is now in Pakistan but the rest of our family has roots in India specifically near UP and Bihar, in fact even until my grandmother’s time they used to speak the language now known as Bhojpuri
Hi there , nice insight . I'm from South Africa of Indian origin can't speak any Indian language and I'm proudly South African. South Africa has the highest population of Indians outside of India not sure if this is true anymore. Originally Indians came as indentured labourers to work on the sugar cane plantations.
*If you ever had blood transfusions, do you think it alters the results? Love the vid, keep up the great work and not wasn't long at all! Try the 23andme test too if you can.* 💙🍺🍻🍺
My results were about the same! Thought I'd get 95% Asia south lol but it was like 85. My dad insists we have middle eastern in us but not a bit of that came up on the test. Were Muslim so I guess he thought that had something to do with it but that's a history lesson worth looking into. I'm always mistaken for bengali!
*Melanesian* and *East Asian* DNA are very common in South Asians :) Your results are quiet typical. so since you are Indo-Guyanese , without any other mixtures like African, native American etc, which means you are basically ethnically and purely South Asian but just of Guyanese nationality. 😹❤️
Saarah, You do look like a beautiful Gujrati young lady but it really doesn't matter. Whichever part of the world your ancestors were originated doesn't matter, what does, it's where YOU were born. You're a lovely Guyanese young lady and be proud of yourself! I love the way you've spoken, God bless you my dear🙏🙏🙏🙏
Sorry to break it to you but no Gujaratis came to Guyana/Trinidad/Suriname, this is crazy unless her parents weren't indentured laborers. It was only Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Bengal, and a few Punjabis/South Indians. I also checked the records.
Saarah I sincerely applaud you, your video, your curiosity and most of all your perspective. I was also born in Guyana, so was my dad and his dad. I like how you differentiated some terminologies that some guyanese people of east indian decent like "desi"- and even "indo-guyanese" I think its kinda implying some sort of subtle disclaimer don't know what that means to be honest. What beats me is that 400 yrs after the whole world found out Columbus didnt find a way to India, but ended up in the caribbean and the americas, we still call the native peoples "indians" and 3 generations after I am also labeled "indian". I was raised in a christian house hold by two beautiful coolie people(I am actually more comfortable being labeled "coolie" rather than "indian") I dont know their language, nor their culture, nor their religeon and even the tasty so called indian dishes we kno about is nothing close to what indian people cook, and I was born in a country half ways around the globe from "india". That said, I really liked how you drew the line, correct me if I am wrong. I believe Indians are only people from the "indian sub-continent". ie pakistan, india and bangladesh. If you ask a pakistani if he's indian he will wanna fight with you declaring that he's not indian (even tho we all know india give birth to pakistan). Its quite interesting to see soo many people here curious about their ancestry. If we were to be colonized by aliens we will all be labeled "earthlings". At the end of the day people judge an individual by what they see and their(the viewer's) level of intelligence, I do believe that none of all the above matters but for us all to be good citizens of this beautiful planet we all call HOME. Love our fellow men and women, treat them with respect and dignity, regardless of how they choose to behave or respond to our love. I am and will always be 110% guyanese nothing else :) :).
Why? In light of history, it seems we need to be a lot more careful with third parties collecting and storing our DNA. Plus, it seems most people are improperly interpreting the results.
In India your surname Baksh is most common in the state of Uttar Pradesh. Most Indians who went to Guyana were from Bengal, Oudh (now Uttar Pradesh) and Bihar. So I think your ancestors are probably from east or central part of Uttar Pradesh.
GUYANESE AND INDIAN ARE NATIONALITIES , WE ARE DESI. GUYANESE IN NEW YORK CITY LIVE IN TWO AREAS , THE BLACKS LIVE IN BROOKLYN AND DESI LIVE IN QUEENS , RICHMOND HILL IS THE LARGEST INDO GUYANESE COMMUNITY.
My mom is from Suriname and I recently found she was part Indian because her maternal grandfather's biological father was not the man who raised him, a White Dutchman or "Boeroe" as they are known, but an Indian labourer from Georgetown named "Lookman or Luckman" who was born there in the 1880s and temporarily lived in Suriname in the 1910's when my great grandfather was born. Now I know why people always thought she was Indian when she was growing up instead of Javanese, her primary ancestry. Although I suppose some full Javanese can look Indian due to the historical presence Indians had on the island centuries back
Lol wow im 1/2 Indo Trini and people mistake me for Pakistani or Afghani alot and like u i dnt really identify myself as Desi no disrespect 2 my Desi ancestors i just identify more as being Trini ( im also Puerto rican so i identify with both)
Kool results. Melanesian dna isnt caribbean and not common in the caribbean it is very common amongst the peoples of papua new guinea and the australian aborigines etc who will score the highest and also found in south asian people especially gujaratis and sri lankans who will all have melanesian dna. Its not common amongst people of african decent. We need to see more indo caribbean results. My friend is a bacchus from st Vincent originally the family is from india but they dont know where.....due to indian slavery to the caribbean. Also remember pakistan has only existed since 1947 it was all india with many tribes......check out any south asian dna online all the pakistan dna shows up origins in india.
If shes south indian in ancestry, it would make sense as well. The Chola dynasty spanned all the way to quite a large region of Oceania, which is where the melanesians are located-> intermixing may have occurred.
Zoch Buppet lol dna tests only go back 500 years the rest of the information is just speculation and guess work. Who was around to tell you that lol people migrate all the time to find new lands and mixed that’s not ancient that’s recent more recent than you think.
So you as saying because there is no DNA to match, that means there is no way to figure out where groups of humans were and what routes they took to end up where they are? Well everything is speculation because there s no cameras to record anything right
I READ MY RESULTS AT 4:46
Okay, so since I was a little unsatisfied with my results, I used Gedmatch and found out I am a mixture of Bengali, Gujarati and South Indian (56%) and Balochi (32%) (Native to Afghanistan, Iran, and Pakistan) with smaller percentages in North Eastern Europe, East Asia, Melanesia, and the Mediterranean. So basically my guess was approximately right, btw this was through the HarappaWorld calculator. I also tried Wegene and it said that I am 62% Sindhi and 18% Bengali
It's still hard to confirm any Afghan ancestry as South Indians will score 32% too, what did you score with caucasian and NE European?
Zoroastrianistic Zoro Caucasian wasn’t shown on mine, it just said my two biggest percentages were Indian and Balochi. Is there another calculator on GedMatch that I could confirm because HarrappaWorld was the only one that broke down exactly what ethnicity in that region. Also when I checked Dodecad, Caucasian/Gedrosia showed 30%
Harappa World calculator is the one i'm talking about it usually tells you percentage breakdown for more than just south indian and baloch, also give Genecove a shot.
Have you tried the gedmatch 'one to many match' to see if you have any south asian relatives?
You are probably a mix of all over India, north to south. So you are a desi. All south Asians are largely a mix of 2 ancient populations in different proportions and share a common culture.
I think everyone from Guyana can agree they’re so many different variations of Guyanese people....Indo, African, Light, Dark, Mixed....But we all love our pepperpot !
❤👌🏽
Sylvia Charles I hate pepper pot 🥴
Tee Gee samee 💀
@@annuhbelll Pepper pot is bomb wth wrong with u
I don't ear meat no more but that pepper pot is the best.
I love being black & am so proud to be. At the same time I feel that it’s just a Caribbean thing that we identify with being Carribbean/West Indian before race. I feel more connected to someone from Trinidad or any Caribbean island regardless of their race.
I am of Indo-Guyanese background and I completely agree with you. There is that West Indian/Caribbean connection we have that isn't there with other cultures. It just feels comfortable and natural around other West Indians...so much so, that we can even resort to banter and tease each other haha.
I can relate to your comment. I am Indo-Guyanese but find WIs more of a welcoming and trusting character.
even connected to latin American islands 👀?
What's so special about being black
@@badlad2001 nothing
I met an older Guyanese man in the grocery store today in Baltimore and he said he went home to visit and didn't want to come back to America. I don't blame him Guyana is Beautiful!! ♥️
Pakistan and Indian were once the same country. They were separated in 1947 because of religion.
@Mustafa Alam ohh really? But they were bhartiye right
Gratitude teach
@Mustafa Alam india was always called Bharat( vedas) and Indica by greeks which was later changed to India when British invaded. So better don't suggest me to read or what with your sack of knowledge about history or madeup history .
@Mustafa Alam oh really ? I think you are not able to understand serene English i guess , so called 'ENGLISH MEN' .
@Mustafa Alam i saw you deleted your comment lol , your ass is on fire probably.
your ancestors had to leave India for serving the nation but u guys will always remained in heart of India... U and your ancestors had beared many difficulties but u fought back and making us proud🙏🏼🙏🏼🇮🇳🇮🇳
I have similar difficulty explaining my ethnicity! I am Indo-Fijian, born in New Zealand. My dad's side of the family came from Bihar, and my mum's from South India and other unknown parts of India. But this is several generations removed, as my ancestors arrived as indentured labourers in Fiji. I always wonder whether I have ancestral links in places like the Carribean! One day I'll try this test out!
Guyanese girls be so pretty
Sylvia Charles how does that work? Did you listen to anything she said?
@@epfizerdoolittleajl2165 lol
So is the men
Girls of all layers of colour beautiful in their very own way...im tired of all this comparative idea.We have way serious issue going on,animals exploitations and their agony..no one wants to be a voice of it?
Sara Muniandy Sara Muniandy what does that have to do with me saying that i think these particular girls are beautiful? doesn’t mean others aren’t.
I'm mad excited to see my results as well. I'm also Indo-Guyanese, so it should be pretty interesting, I've been wanting to know this information for so long.
Indians tend to share some common genes with Melanisians and sometimes Polynesians. I think it's because the original migrations out of Africa continued East After settling India.
They seem to over-estimate this hugely on Ancestry DNA, no other platform seems to do so.
Some ppl believe that Melanisians & Polynesians are signs of being Native American or indigenous people.
@@Celeste8808 I saw a movie or documentary about Polynesia , and one guy wrote as a reply to comment that they believe they come from the Americas , I am native from the Americas and I want to learn about that connection
The British sent thousands of indentured Indian servants to and from Fiji. Almost 40% of Fiji's population is Indian.
Yes it is
Girl girl girl!! I'm also Indo Guyanese but I was born in the states. So much of what you said is literally my life. It takes me forever to explain to someone what I am... after I got my ancestry DNA results back I found out I am 82% South Asia, 10% east Asia, 5% Melanesia, and 3% Polynesian... we might be related 😂. When I heard you say bacchus and the way you were talking about it was crazy bc on my moms side, my great grandfather was a bacchus (idk how to spell it) and then somehow their name changed to sakur.. it's so confusing. But your video was so relatable hahaha!
Bachus n sarkar are Bengali names
Wasn’t Pakistan and India one country at first. I don’t feel like that would be a stretch for people to believe you are Pakistani
Yes but Pakistan is diverse, not all of them are descendants of Indians but you are right, I just thought I would have gotten Indian a lot more lol
lakia moore remember that there are many different ethnicities in India. Ahha. I’m Punjabi x
Baksh is Muslim name and was my great grandfathers name. most likely Punjab area now in Pakistan & India... interesting stuff.
South Asia is a geographical area, there have been various groups and countries, there was a Hindu civilisation that was in the north west of that area, later at it's greatest extent Asoka's Empire covered a lot of the area that is modern India, there was the Mughal Empire that covered Afghanistan, what is now Pakistan & most of what is now India.
The origins of the states of Pakistan, Bangladesh & India are mainly out of British India, when the European Empires arrived there were various countries with various types of governments, much as there had been in Europe, there was a very fiercely fought war before Punjab was incorporated into British India in Victorian era, Ceylon/Sri Lanka was separated off in 1930s, Pakistan originated as a concept in 1920s derived from a combination of names of historic states and using the Urdu for pure, Pakistan was formed at partition and at that time included most of what been East Bengal (Bengal had been split in the late Victorian era into West & East), various princely states had to choose between India and Pakistan who carved up many historic states such as Punjab, Kashmir and Bengal; Pakistan also had bits of historic states that had been mostly part of Afghanistan or Persia.
In 1961 India seized Goa (Southernmost Indian state) from Portugal, then in 1971 East Pakistan got independence from Pakistan as Bangladesh with assistance of Indian forces.
The People's Republic of China has seized some parts of Kashmir from India, mostly uninhabited areas, some villages, still disputed borders, PRC & Pakistan have agreed borders, still disputed borders between India & Pakistan.
Oddly partition has resulted in lots of small areas of Indian territory in Bangladesh and lots of small areas of Bangladeshi territory in West Bengal due to decisions of princely states at time of partition, the 2 countries are planning to swap the areas due to problems people living in those areas jave accessing public services and problems collecting taxes off them as they have been living in an area cut off from their own country and surrounded by an entirely different country, mainly rural areas.
lakia moore
pakistan and india are modern political nationalities. the people are the same more or less genetically on both sides of the border, at least as far as the the north west of the subcontinent goes. that being said however south asia is a diverse place generally speaking...
I'm GUYANESE 🇬🇾🇬🇾🇬🇾🇬🇾🇬🇾🇬🇾🇬🇾
It hurts that we cannot trace back more especially because our names have been changed. It brings back the underlying mysteries and traumas of the past. I also felt the similar experience as you described....(also tested)...but it lacks information we are searching. At least it is one step of the way. As you mentioned in your video, there are broad mixtures of regions and countries that were transported to Guyana and other parts of the Caribbean. A docu-series should be made and whatever records that are in these countries should be online and restored immediately to trace roots.
Woww I agree with you for white people they are soo in dept but for brown people it only says Asia south like helloo there's like mad countries in South Asia we're not all the same people smh
Oaishe exactly! There’s different ethnicities inside South Asia like damn 🤦🏽♀️
That's because they don't break it down. India is very diverse. Upload your results to GedMatch and use the HarappaWorld calculator. This will break down where in India your from. :) x
Saarah Baksh Also the other calculators on GedMatch will tell you where your Asia East is from. :) I wrote another comment not sure if you saw it :)
Thank you! I did it and I pinned the comment on this video, actually found out I'm just a little over half Indian :)
Elijah, yes but its more the principle, Indians pay Ancestry DNA just as much, south asian results CAN be broken down pretty easily, they need to sort it out.
Desi is anyone of South Asian Decent (Pakistani, Indian, Bangladeshi)
Sai M.
Nepali, Sri Lankan
Sai M. She knows 😩😩🤪 tu pagal, her point was it’s usually associated with the culture and she hasn’t grown up culturally desi because she’s Guyanese. There are white girls in England that are more culturally desi then her, acha?
Anyone who practice indian culture. Just like most mauritian hindus
Not_A_Gamer please start the debate on Sri Lanka then I really want to know.
Vik Vik I agree!
I'm guyanese Indian, my 23and me comes up as 97 percent south asian, 2% west african and 1% europeaon
It's pretty cool to see DNA relatives as well. I have them in Trinidad, India, Guyana, and other parts of the world, even though the relationship is very very small , 4th and 5th cousins.
higherregion how do u find out where ur from
you gotta take the dna test , 23andme service
higherregion is it free ?
She is lookin super indian!! Just the accent is guyanese!
To be accurate, there is no typical 'Indian' look. Indian is a natianality and comprises a mix of peoples, including African, Asian and European-looking types.
Anthony Rodney our indian subcontinent has various varieties..They r not mixed but separated...As they hv different physical & facial features!!
she is indan, Guyanese indian that is
We were taken as indentured servants from India , Bihar , Uttar Pradesh & Madras by the British in the 19th century but we don’t like to identify with India because we are Indo Caribbean, Indo Guyanese & Indo Trinidadian
Guyana to India
when people meet me and I say I am from Guyana they don't know what part of the world is that. And you have to explain to them it's very annoying.
I Live in northest of Brazil, and i Just heard about English guyana a few time ago. I would like to visit This country.
@Rational PoC dafuq?
@Rational PoC So where are you from then? Out of curiosity....
You are a princess!! Beautiful a lot... greetings from Brazil (Southeast)
@Rational PoC you must think your white
In Fiji we have people with names like Baksh, Khan, Hussein. Our ancesters came from Utar Prades ,Bihar India.
jayant lal Khan is central Asian though. Hussein is Arabic.
I thought people from Fiji came out of Africa.
I had a friend called P Singh
@@RetroBasementGamingAnime No they not black like the darkest night
Im half fijian and half guyanese lol. Both my ancestory is from Notth India uttar pardesh
I’m Guyanese and when people ask me what are you ? Are you Indian I just say yes lol I don’t feel like explaining, my fathers mother is from Grenada and my grandfather is from Guyana and my mom is full guyanese 😩 but big up to my West Indians 🤪
Your name is like an Indian name.
Your beautiful
You look chinese....
MELLO JELLO who
@@shanealarcon7928 kisha khan., at her eyes
I'm also Guyanese half Indian and half black
I was born in America. I was always told I was African American. I knew little to no information on my mother's father side. So I found out that my grandfather's mother was born in Calcutta and him father in Guyana.... I'm so lost. What am I? What is my grandfather's nationality? What religion do you celebrate? What's the culture? Will I be accepted because I'm from America? I want to educate my family. I finally belong somewhere and have a culture of my very own.
Half african lol theres no black land
Thank you so much
Tahnn Ju: "Half african lol theres no black land."
You're right about that.
Iesha W also be aware that indians from india dont like people of african origin. And racism is rampant there. Indians are traditionally hindu or sikh. They were brought to the caribbean as indentured labourers after the slave trade but were treated just as bad. Basically they were tricked into going to the Caribbean to work and were never allowed to go back home to india. So indians in the Caribbean dont know where in india their ancestors came from. Just like afro people in the diaspora.
I enjoyed ur vlog, I am indo-guyanese myself and i did the DNA test, my test too hit on the same area, mine is 95.5% South Asian and 4.5% Japanese.
I am Indian from the West Indies and I refer to myself as Indian. Never anything else. If people ask, I will then tell them my country of origin.
But your country of Origin is India?!?!
You'll find Trinidadiansomething of Indian descent still call themselves Indians, proudly. You just explain yes I'm of Indian descent, I/my parents/whoever are from Trinidad. It's not that complicated!
Tell dem seh yuh 1/2 dahl puri, 1/4 channa and 1/4 palaouri!
TRUTHTEACHER2007 I think I’m made up of mostly pepperpot, curry and dhal puri 😂
🤣😂
😂😂
You ah one funny boy
Hey dhal puri in guyana too? Well it's there in mauritius too😆
Sweetheart, this is perfect. First of all, I love your authenticity and how you do your videos. You’re not fake. And that’s awesome!
I am Indo Canadian. My parents were both born in Punjab in India, but my dad was very much raised in Canada since he was a very little boy. And because of that, there is a lot of your experience that I don’t understand from a first-hand perspective. But, you help me to be able to relate to wear you are coming from, when you say that you don’t necessarily consider yourself Desi, four instance. There’s a lot shorter distance in time since my ancestors actually came from South Asia, and when your ancestors actually came from South Asia. My ancestors were looking for a better life, but were never part of the indentured labour system. In other words, the history is very different.
On the other hand, we share something very deep, and that is our South Asian routes. And that’s a really cool thing!
I’ve got a friend from Trinidad who says that she has been able to learn more through oral history about her Indian ancestry, than the genetic testing was able to tell her. For instance, she was able to find some native American Trinidadian and Chinese and south Indian ancestry in particular, and she was able to sort of have a better idea of who her south Indian ancestors had been, and who the north Indian ancestors had been. Most of that had to do with her talking to her relatives one by one.
I’ve recently become very interested in the earlier diaspore Eric communities from South Asia, including your own, and including people who went to places like Mauritius and Fiji and South Africa and Kenya. Part of it for me, is that I’m trying to work out my own cultural and familial baggage as a survivor of abuse. Another part of it is related to the first part, and has to do with me doing my own process of decolonization. And that may not be how it is for you. Or it might have something in common with your desires to find out as well. I don’t know. For each of us, it’s going to be different. The reasons are all different. But one
Very cool thing is that you are clearly a Guyanese person, I totally understand what you mean when you say that, because I say that I’m a Canadian woman with Indian ancestry. I’ll bet even there, our experiences in histories in Canada and Guyana, are very different. But I can see how proud you are of your Guyanese heritage and roots. And that’s very cool!
This video just means a lot to me right now, and I want to thank U for being genuine and real and telling all of us this, because I for one needed to see this video.
Tammi Jatti
Tammi I am from India.Are you of sikh religion? Reply me please.
Dear If I may..
Its not Bakks..Its actually Bacchus. As you are from Guyana ,your ancestors were freedom fighter from the state of Bihar and UP. Most of those people were either Pandits or Kshatriyas ( Kshatriyas ..Rajput ,Jatt ,Guzzars etc).The Last name Bacchas is for all of those chandravanshi who were born from Maharishi Bacchus.
Further more Khan is not a last name. Its part of name Changez Khan and people who converted to Islam took this as their last namre even though Changez Khan was not a muslim. He was of Shaman religion and adopted Budhism in his life.
Hope this help. Even your facial features are from the state of UP and Bihar.
Hope this helps.
Har Har Mahadev
Jai Hind
Ek Rana wow 😮 good going 🏃♀️
You are right. The british could not spell the names correctly during colonial rule. (@ child birth registration)
Ek Rana Christian bacchuz
Jai Hind. What can you tell me about the last names "Jaipaul and Beirsingh?"
I am from South India and my results are almost similar to yours. Most of the Indians have East Asia and Melanesia and polynasia. I think these tests are based on DNA few thousand years ago.
Which DNA ancestry company did you use? I have heard that with a lot of people of Indian extraction that a lot of DNA companies can’t pick up the variation of ancestries in India, so they will just typically say 100% South Asian.
@@michellea9857 It changed over the years. Now it says 100% South Asian. 23 and Me and Ancestry
@@csowm5je thank you. Probably proves they are not all 100% accurate if they can change like that. Which company picked up your mixed ancestry (ie other than stating you are South Asian)?
@@michellea9857 I think at that time they didn't have many samples from East. Right now, both states I am 98-100% South Asian.
Cool your Guyanese i am half Guyanese my family is from Georgetown we my grandpa was half Portuguese
Genisy gaming well its seems someone didn’t pass high school 🤔Guyana is not a race! It’s a nationality and I’m black and my mom father was half Portuguese but why am I sitting here defending myself who to someone don’t know the difference between race and nationality 🙃
Derrick Lucas ok indian dude...
How can you be half of a nationality?
Bretman's Biggest fan I was wondering that myself.
Craig Post What kinda ignorant post is this?? 😂 There is such a thing as a person with mixed ancestry.
Hi girl we all re indian ancestors and
We moved when india was called Hindustan as a whole continental
We are indo fijian in Fiji
The NatGeo DNA test is much more in depth for people of South Asian origin. The results are not as vague as Ancestry. However, Ancestry IS good to connect with any distant genetic relatives. NatGeo is the oldest genome project (10+ years) and they have the largest data pool, which is why they're able to give you detailed results (such as which specific country in South Asia, and the actual region of that country, the migratory parth of your ancestors, etc). Ancestry and 23andMe are much newer projects, so it's understandable why they do not have a large enough data pool of Asian genes to compare you to. :-) I did the NatGeo test and was happy with my results and data provided. I do want to try Ancestry to connect to distant relatives.
P.S. I don't work for NatGeo, I'm trained in Anthropology and studied human genetics and migration lol.
Great info. Thank you.
thank you for uploading your results!! there aren't many indo-guyanese results on youtube. can't wait to find out my results:) and also agree, they should make it more in depth for south asian countries
Well the bakhash in Saudi Arabia are really from Indian origins and they’re known
Hi Saarah, I am an Indo Guyanese and everything that you spoke about in your video is exactly how I have felt for the last 30 years. I wanted to take the DNA test but have reservations of giving the government my DNA, maybe that's me not trusting the government that much and as a fellow Guyanese I am sure you can understand my feelings. I thought your video was informative and I wish they would focus more on our DNA strains so that we may have some form of understanding about our heritage and history. I was born in Georgetown and move to New York like most Guyanese and now live in Atlanta and have not been home in 30 years. I just celebrated my 43rd birthday and my heart is longing to see where I am from so I can better understand who I am. I hope you make more videos that help people like you and I to better understand who we are. Once again thank you for your video !!!
Guyanese🇬🇾❤️🙏😘.. as long as you can make the “roti round” we good..😝😂..
tell me where can i do this???
I like how you did this,all that 1% this and 19 % that trying to explain yourself to people is crazy. However, you are 100% beautiful.
Melanesia is common in south indians that DNA is what makes them darker.
Lol it's veryyy common in all South Asians. However, it's higher in people from eastern and southern part of India and Sri Lanka.
3egjq2 exactly
Jaxson Davis72 Actually the Dravidian peoples of South India were quite dark. She is actually quite light skinned for a south indian. Her lighter skin is most likely due to the East Asian component.
If she is light skin then you guys will call people of Punjab,Haryana,Himachal,Uttarakhand,Jammu Kashmir White People!
Toxic She is not light skinned, but she is not as dark as the average south indian. Also, the ones you mentioned Punjab, Kashmir etc. are heavily mixed with Greek, hence the white skin and other features.
I am Grenadian, I was born there but I grew up in Guyana for years so that’s where I connect, sometimes I forget I’m Grenadian. I consider myself mixed because I don’t really know my background, my mom is Amerindian mixed with white and black and Indian and my dad don’t know too much, so I hope when I take this test, I’m mostly Native American
Giiiirl im waiting for my results and I’ve been a subscriber since day one and seen how much you progressed
I am in India & I have a Sindhi-Hindu friend from Gujarat and she looks EXACTLY like you! She's almost your twin sister! I am from the Indian state of Bihar, didn't take the ancestor DNA test but talked to the old people in my family and found out that both of my mother's and father's side of families came to Bihar like around 100 years back from northern parts of Uttar Pradesh. Before moving to Uttar Pradesh, they were living "somewhere more north"!
I am Melanesian which is Aboriginal Australian, we are kind of lumped with PNG because they don't have enough DNA really from Indigenous Australians to identify that separately. I have a big percentage of European which was not a surprise but I found when I imported my raw DNA into DNA Land that I had 1.7% Kalash which I had to google and found some interesting info, they are Dardic indigenous people residing in the Chitral District of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. They speak the Kalasha language, from the Dardic family of the Indo-Aryan branch. They are considered unique among the peoples of Pakistan and are apparently protected by law after many were murdered by the Muslims who set up shop there. My mum did hers and she also had Kalash DNA as well as a percentage of Indus Valley from Pakistan which I did not get. This made sense to me as we had always passed down in our family history that we had Afghanistan in us, I presume we though it was Afghanistan because they had come over to Australia as camel riders so my ancestor who was Kalash would have fit right in with our people as they practice Animism which is a very similar belief system to ours. I would try DNA land to upload your raw date it might get more specific with the South Asia DNA.
Kalash, are basically Greek People that comes with Alexander the great & settled in Chitral , Pakistan....
They are pure white people........
Thanks for sharing this! I'm also Indo-Guyanese and my moms maiden name is Khan so I've always been interested to find out what my ancestry is since I could only imagine that it would be a wide variety of south Asian and West Asian countries
Hello there, I am from India ... btw Baksh sounds more similar to Bakshi which is a bengali surname, watch movie. (Byomkesh Bakshi great indian suspence movie) To be honest I have heard country Guyana for the first time, the first video I saw I could relate that you look so similar to Indian and then I dig down and I saw, actually majority of the population is of Indian decent great.
I love Guyanese with Indian features. They're adorable. 💕
Don't get caught up in geographical divisions . . . Genghis Khan was Mongolian and Pakistan is a geographical boarder which was once part of greater South Asia. People divide themselves in many ways and political and geographical differences depend on wars, conquests, migrations of people's etc. Ancestry has more to do with a scientific viewpoint of one's genetics. Colonization took you to Guyana. Pakistan became a country after partition, which was part of Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent. One is not equal to their geographical identity. There is so much more to human origins and its evolution.
wise advice
I agree.
I think you having Polynesian & Melanesian ancestry is quite common due to the British colonisation from India. I'm actually FIjian Indian and I also have Guyanese ancestry too😄
I been watching these 23 and me videos from different Guyanese people lately cause I’m curious to see what mine would look like! My family is Afro Guyanese but we also have a mix of Chinese, native and Indian in our ancestry. I always thought it was so cool how many races Guyana has, definitely wanna visit one day
Hello, good results, friend. I'm from Argentina,🇦🇷⚽️ South America. I also took the DNA test. It came out for me.
💯 south american🌎
I am proud of my origins😊👋
You look super South Indian...you look like you could be my sister/one of my cousins. I'm from Kerala
I'm Indian my second home Guyana
Because i love Guyana & Jamaica
I proud of India 🇮🇳
I'm from uttar Pradesh
No im staying india my mother land
Khan and Baksh both family name are very common among North Indian Muslims although it can be anywhere in the Indian sub-continent.
M Talukdar but I never knew any ppl from india have this nane
Tahiti Baksh You mush be joking right ? There are dozens of actors in India with Khan surname please check that out.
Literally Indian and Pakistani Muslims have almost the same surnames especially if they’re Hindustani speaking ( Hindi / Urdu )
I am an Indian too.
M Talukdar They are pathan surnames ..
I'm Brazilian and I can relate to not explaining that I'm mostly native (Tupinamba) then black and Portuguese. So unless they can relate I'm Just Brazilian. Thanks for video.
I def wanna take one of these, I’m half Guyanese and half Sri Lankan but they’re both countries with so many ethnic groups so I just go by those nationalities 😩
As I know both my great grandfather and great, great grandfather came from West Punjab. They moved from West Punjab to Benares then to Calcutta and after spending 3 years there had finally made it to set sail for the distant shores of then British Guiana having arrived in 1893. My great grandfather was 18 when he arrived with two other siblings, his father and mother. I would like to trace my roots back in India. Where do I start from? Please tell.
I am from west punjab, now in Pakistan, then it was part of India, which got divided in 1947. Can you tell, some thing about which part of west punjab. It is a big area, might be bigger than Guyana.
@@afifurrehman7895 ...thank you brother for reaching out... unfortunately, no one of my cha-chas or powahs know that information but from what I am gleaning this place has to be somewhere in today's Pakistan. Can a person's name tell the village he/she's from? My great, great grandfather name was Mosaheb Lakkhu, his wife Miriam. Any way forward with this, my brother? Thanks.
@@tickedoffsheikh8587 OK, I shall try. Though it difficult by just names, to find out from a big area. It is just like search a small straw from The Atlantic ocean without any clue of space. However there is a clue, in India, mostly tne name of the caste is the name of village, and most people write this with their name. Makhu is a village of Rawalpindi District in West Punjab, where people still have name with suffix Lakhu. This place is 230 km away from me. I shall try to find out a person from that place.
@@afifurrehman7895 ... again all thanks to you my brother... can't wait to meet my roots. Thank you.
U speak good English, U look more Indian but i know ur south Indian can be Tamil, Malayalee or Telungu. Anyway ur a mix so nothing wrong..Pakistani is also a Indian Orgin.
Mustafa Alam he said “Indian origin” which is correct
Telugu is so isolated community. It mostly be tamils or malayalam people.
This is so helpful because I look very mixed but I was just told I'm Guyanese which probably traces back to India. I know people from guyana come from all over, so I really want to know where my ancestry is from. However, this helped me know how in depth these tests go with caribbean countries.
Ancestry dna is a complete anti climax and let down, they love breaking down north west European ancestry (which is impossible to break down) South Asians on the other hand have a defined 5000 year old caste system even today you can use tools and get a breakdown on who is dalit, brahmin from North east, Bengali etc. with someone from France they havent the foggiest, ancestry dna is bollocks.
Me and my mom were talking about our ancestry today. My parents are Indo Trinidadian. My dad doesn't know much about his ancestry but he is dark skin and his family is dark skin but I think his cousin and another side of his family was light skin. My dad just thinks that his ancestry from a long time ago is Indian. My dad also has curly/wavy hair, long nose and dark skin but his family is Hindu I believe. I don't know too much about his family. My mom comes from a culturally Muslim, and Christian background and she is like light brown skin tone. I talked to her and she said that her grandfather was fair skin and had blue eyes and tall and his mother was from Kashmir and had fair skin and blue eyes. I also believe she said that her great grandfather was from a town called Salem in Tamil Nadu and he was dark skinned. She also said that his wife had very long hair fair skin and blue eyes. She also said that we might not be pure Indian. I also remember my uncle who is my moms cousin said that his grandmother knew how to read and write Urdu. Most of my mom's cousins are also Muslim and tall. I also watched a video talking about how the Persians mixed with the Indians. Every time anyone asks me where I'm from or what's my culture I say Indo Caribbean. In high school the desi people used to mistake me for Latino, Puerto Rican, Indian, Pakistani or Bengali. I also have a cousin on my dad's side that resembles young Shah Rukh Khan so that's cool.
Im from Guyana too and I just did a DNA test its so cool!
Make a video and tell us your results
I come from a Pakistani family but we are ethnically Bihari and I take a lot of pride in both. But when my friends found out where bihar is they started calling me indian. I live in America so im trying to hold onto the culture
Mujahir?
I'm originally from Bihar (Indian) never lived there tho
You completely look like an indian girl,by facial features 😍 .Seriously!!coming from an indian girl itself
Yes....bc we are descendants of Indians.....🙄
Prior to 1947, there was no Pakistan or Bangladesh, it was all India. So Indians, Pakistanis and Bangladeshis, for the majority of people are the same/mostly related. Also going back further, ancient India also consisted of present day Afghanistan. Ancient India's borders also included Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar (Burma). Who knows Ancient India's borders may have stretched deeper into other parts like Indonesia as well.
Your voice is so soothing & you’re so beautiful.
where are you from . i can ask something
I love this! Guyana for life!! We are one nation.
My granddad is from Georgetown, Guyana, his surname is Paul
Spending 1 hour explaining what we are is 100% true! Sometimes longer when someone still asks "So you're not Hispanic? You don't speak Spanish? Are you sure?" 🤣
I'm waiting for my Ancestry results and I'm excited to see what it says.
I also did the test and I’m Trini. Results were the same 🇹🇹
My grandfather name is Ramsahai :)
I love your videos keep up the good work
I'm Guyanese and I've been wanting to take this test for a while. Cause I'm afro Guyanese and but people always say I'm mixed race.
Caresse Gordon upload a video when you do it!
I took the 23andMe test and I had a good general knowledge of most of my family's lineage for both sides but some of my results surprised. I have a 92% African ancestry mostly West African but including North and East Africa, ARABIA. My European ancestry had noticeable British and Irish ancestry and they listed Iberian, Balkan, Scandinavian, Finish, German, French, and broadly Eastern European. My Asian percentage is what really caught me off guard: Native American, East Asian, South Asian, Melanesia: Fiji, Korea, Mongolia, Taiwan etc. It's all very confusing to be Guyanese and I laughed out loud reading my ancestry because my mom's family is so dark I can't like visually see these mixtures unless they come right from my dad's side. It's funny though my sister's report had her at a higher African percentage than me, but she didn't have most of the Asian traces I did. I wish I had taken my mother's DNA before she passed but I'll try to convince my Dad to do it and see why my report is like Global cook up. More people from those regions have to take the test so they can make clearer reports. One day I'll be famous enough to be on "Who Do You Think You Are?" and have a whole team focused on tracking my ancestors and who they were.
Ancestry is not good for Asian people , it lumps thousands of ethnic gaps into 1.5billion pool but if you are in europe it goes down to a few million in for instance Wales....a little Ancestry racism?
The tests by themselves, without more info, are not very helpful. I would look at it as entertainment rather than scientific.
Hinduism has survived in the Caribbean and has thrived. Many a Indians are not aware of this history but because of the internet today, many are now becoming aware. It's funny how cricket has been the spark that ignited this enquiry.
I'm Indo Guyanese! 🙌
One of my ancestors in Guyana had the last name Khan and he came from a region near Afghanistan which is now in Pakistan but the rest of our family has roots in India specifically near UP and Bihar, in fact even until my grandmother’s time they used to speak the language now known as Bhojpuri
Hi there , nice insight . I'm from South Africa of Indian origin can't speak any Indian language and I'm proudly South African. South Africa has the highest population of Indians outside of India not sure if this is true anymore. Originally Indians came as indentured labourers to work on the sugar cane plantations.
Indian migration to the Caribbean is a lot older, going back to 1838
Venesh Pillay
From your surname, you could be Malayali or Kannada.
Majestic Isle Interesting always thought it was Tamil, Google slaves of Malabar. These were the first Indian brought to South Africa as early as 1750.
Venesh Pillay ,your surname is found in Kerala and tamilnadu...pillai(nair caste in Kerala)..pillai(vellala caste) in tamilnadu..
deep blue thank you .
*If you ever had blood transfusions, do you think it alters the results? Love the vid, keep up the great work and not wasn't long at all! Try the 23andme test too if you can.* 💙🍺🍻🍺
Blood has nothing to do with your dna
This testing is mouth swab
My results were about the same! Thought I'd get 95% Asia south lol but it was like 85. My dad insists we have middle eastern in us but not a bit of that came up on the test. Were Muslim so I guess he thought that had something to do with it but that's a history lesson worth looking into. I'm always mistaken for bengali!
Very interesting! Anyway, Guyana is an amazing young nation full all diversity in every aspect (ethnic, natural, cultural and so on). 💐
*Melanesian* and *East Asian* DNA are very common in South Asians :)
Your results are quiet typical.
so since you are Indo-Guyanese , without any other mixtures like African, native American etc, which means you are basically ethnically and purely South Asian but just of Guyanese nationality. 😹❤️
All South Asians get some East Asian, and usually Melanesian as well. Melanesian people's ancestors once lived in South Asia where they left their dna
Saarah,
You do look like a beautiful Gujrati young lady but it really doesn't matter. Whichever part of the world your ancestors were originated doesn't matter, what does, it's where YOU were born. You're a lovely Guyanese young lady and be proud of yourself! I love the way you've spoken, God bless you my dear🙏🙏🙏🙏
Sorry to break it to you but no Gujaratis came to Guyana/Trinidad/Suriname, this is crazy unless her parents weren't indentured laborers. It was only Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Bengal, and a few Punjabis/South Indians. I also checked the records.
Saarah you are gorgeous. I like your glasses. I’m guyanese too. I’m 62% African descent, 30% Indian descent, 5% European 3% Asian descent(Chinese)
gujrati, bengalis r languages , originated from sanskrit, linguistic, not ethnicities
ROHIT ADHATRAO Exactly .They are ethno -linguistic groups .not ethnic groups m
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Steph Powell hi
indian is also ethnicity as well as nationality, no different ethnic groups there
Saarah I sincerely applaud you, your video, your curiosity and most of all your perspective. I was also born in Guyana, so was my dad and his dad. I like how you differentiated some terminologies that some guyanese people of east indian decent like "desi"- and even "indo-guyanese" I think its kinda implying some sort of subtle disclaimer don't know what that means to be honest. What beats me is that 400 yrs after the whole world found out Columbus didnt find a way to India, but ended up in the caribbean and the americas, we still call the native peoples "indians" and 3 generations after I am also labeled "indian". I was raised in a christian house hold by two beautiful coolie people(I am actually more comfortable being labeled "coolie" rather than "indian") I dont know their language, nor their culture, nor their religeon and even the tasty so called indian dishes we kno about is nothing close to what indian people cook, and I was born in a country half ways around the globe from "india". That said, I really liked how you drew the line, correct me if I am wrong. I believe Indians are only people from the "indian sub-continent". ie pakistan, india and bangladesh. If you ask a pakistani if he's indian he will wanna fight with you declaring that he's not indian (even tho we all know india give birth to pakistan). Its quite interesting to see soo many people here curious about their ancestry. If we were to be colonized by aliens we will all be labeled "earthlings". At the end of the day people judge an individual by what they see and their(the viewer's) level of intelligence, I do believe that none of all the above matters but for us all to be good citizens of this beautiful planet we all call HOME. Love our fellow men and women, treat them with respect and dignity, regardless of how they choose to behave or respond to our love. I am and will always be 110% guyanese nothing else :) :).
Hello sir - I absolutely love everything you've chosen to state in your comment. Thank you fellow lovely human! :)
Wow, thanks for sharing. Which DNA communities did they put you in?
I'm not sure, I didn't see that on my results or the homepage
Haven’t finished the video, but love your personality. Subscribed 😁
Great to see WEst Indians/Caribbean people doing this.
Why? In light of history, it seems we need to be a lot more careful with third parties collecting and storing our DNA. Plus, it seems most people are improperly interpreting the results.
Baksh surname originates from Mangalore in karnataka india even some parts of Kerala also... I had a neighbour with the same family
In India your surname Baksh is most common in the state of Uttar Pradesh.
Most Indians who went to Guyana were from Bengal, Oudh (now Uttar Pradesh) and Bihar.
So I think your ancestors are probably from east or central part of Uttar Pradesh.
GUYANESE AND INDIAN ARE NATIONALITIES , WE ARE DESI. GUYANESE IN NEW YORK CITY LIVE IN TWO AREAS , THE BLACKS LIVE IN BROOKLYN AND DESI LIVE IN QUEENS , RICHMOND HILL IS THE LARGEST INDO GUYANESE COMMUNITY.
Where can I take this test? I'm Guyanese too and a proud one. Indian and Portuguese,,😁
My mom is from Suriname and I recently found she was part Indian because her maternal grandfather's biological father was not the man who raised him, a White Dutchman or "Boeroe" as they are known, but an Indian labourer from Georgetown named "Lookman or Luckman" who was born there in the 1880s and temporarily lived in Suriname in the 1910's when my great grandfather was born. Now I know why people always thought she was Indian when she was growing up instead of Javanese, her primary ancestry. Although I suppose some full Javanese can look Indian due to the historical presence Indians had on the island centuries back
It's not lookman or luckman it's actually Laxman or Lakshman means brother of lord Sri Ram.
@@parthasarathibehera5109Oh wow!
Hey! if your are an Indian then proud of it.
Exactly
So interesting!! Loved your video ☺
Hey, I just come here. After watching your all 3 videos of DNA test.
You are Good.
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Lol wow im 1/2 Indo Trini and people mistake me for Pakistani or Afghani alot and like u i dnt really identify myself as Desi no disrespect 2 my Desi ancestors i just identify more as being Trini ( im also Puerto rican so i identify with both)
You was so interesting I watched the whole thing and subscribed to your channel.
liltookeyloot hi
Kool results. Melanesian dna isnt caribbean and not common in the caribbean it is very common amongst the peoples of papua new guinea and the australian aborigines etc who will score the highest and also found in south asian people especially gujaratis and sri lankans who will all have melanesian dna. Its not common amongst people of african decent. We need to see more indo caribbean results. My friend is a bacchus from st Vincent originally the family is from india but they dont know where.....due to indian slavery to the caribbean. Also remember pakistan has only existed since 1947 it was all india with many tribes......check out any south asian dna online all the pakistan dna shows up origins in india.
If shes south indian in ancestry, it would make sense as well. The Chola dynasty spanned all the way to quite a large region of Oceania, which is where the melanesians are located-> intermixing may have occurred.
No the DNA is ANCIENT 40-60,000 years ago
Sathish Ravi true through the Dravidians who are related to the papuans and aboriginal people of Australia and there is a visible resemblance too.
Zoch Buppet lol dna tests only go back 500 years the rest of the information is just speculation and guess work. Who was around to tell you that lol people migrate all the time to find new lands and mixed that’s not ancient that’s recent more recent than you think.
So you as saying because there is no DNA to match, that means there is no way to figure out where groups of humans were and what routes they took to end up where they are?
Well everything is speculation because there s no cameras to record anything right
I was never to curious of my ancestry but it's good to know..nice video take care.