It is! It compliments her face shape and is oh so pretty! I wanna rock one, but I'm afraid someone might come at me with cultural appropriation. But man, I just think it's beautiful and represents an awesome culture.
BLAqend Blooms But people also romanticize the African thing too. So proud of their African roots but don't acknowledge that some of these people betrayed their ancestors. Not only was slavery an established institution in West Africa before European traders arrived, but Africans were also involved in a trans-Saharan trade in slaves along these routes. African rulers and merchants were thus able to tap into pre-existing methods and networks of enslavement to supply European demand for slaves. Enslavement was most often a byproduct of local warfare, kidnapping, or the manipulation of religious and judicial institutions. Military, political, and religious authority within West Africa determined who controlled access to the Atlantic slave trade. And some African elites, such as those in the Dahomey and Ashanti empires, took advantage of this control and used it to their profit by enslaving and selling other Africans to European traders.
I know alot of black people i seen on here will say confidently with conviction that it was rape that caused there european dna on there results , and you can say its a pretty high percentage probably 95-99% that the European dna was from rape, but then there is a small percentage mabey that it could of been consentual with a black man and white woman or vice versa you just never know honestly
Cool! I am igbo and we Africans vary in skin color and physical traits. Also, realize that percentages can be skewed because you only receive 50 % DNA from each parent. This means that a sibling or other relative's results can differ substantially.
hannah60000 I am totally shocked to hear such a reply from a African. Africa is a continent made up of many countries, and what the OP said was true about the variety of skin colors and physical traits in Africa. I am not talking about people like white South Africans who came from a European country, or mixed people, either.
We are all mixed!! People need to stop trying to place themselves into a black box or an Asian box or brown box, etc. It sounds like the segregation of the Democrat party.
@@carold.fields1484 I know my history very well, you obviously dont. Do your research from real sources to learn the truth about the democrat party. I used to be a democrat until I learned the true history of the democrat party. Its disgusting. Which party voted in the first 5 black politicians? Learn your history.
Been looking forward to this for ages 😂 I love genealogy and such. It's so fascinating. And it's cool to know why you started using the intro ^^ hope you're enjoying being back in the US, with your family. Also with the Irish, it's possible your ancestors were Irish but they were descended from English or Scottish who came to Ireland.
i love how open minded you were going into this! its so nice to see someone not constantly complain when it comes to these results- i see so many people do these and then complain they're not what they thought despite immigration & sadly slavery being a major factor in why your dna comes out certain ways!
Melody on the Move Melody, Creole is not a race, it's a lineage and culture (by lineage it just means you descend from colonial Louisiana settlers, regardless of race) I'm from Louisiana and there are white Creoles and black Creoles. White Creoles are only European and are French and Spanish and black Creoles are the black and French type you describe (sometimes they also have Spanish and Amerind also). Didn't know if you knew.
Louisiana Creoles have African, French, Spanish, and/or Native American. For Louisiana Creoles who are curious that why many of them have more “Great Britain” than “Europe West” is because “Great Britain” shows up on many French peoples’ DNA results
Think about when Slavery ended. 1865. So from the time of the end of slavery, there has been interracial relationships since then. 152 yrs since the end of Slavery that there have existed Interracial relationships. Not everyone is the product of slavery. I wish people would stop assuming that their DNA ONLY comes from slavery.
XFiles 4EverEver You seem to forget the fact that all black Americans have some European admixture, so if multiple biracial people and multiple people with significant European ancestry who all identify as black keep mixing with each other that means they'll still be a significant amount of European ancestry in them. I'm only 19% European, but that's a significant amount when taking in account the last time I had a European ancestor which was about 1850 something.
XFiles 4EverEver Its not a choice if the institution was set up where the dynamics of the relationship is escaping poverty and marrying someone white. Love might have been apart of it ....but it was not a healthy love . Also when slavery was abolished it still continued many yrs after. Hence 400 yrs jim crow etc. Please dont spread false ideology. Like it was actually a choice. Your explanation is a bit skewed. Regardless of love developing...the psychological, physical and spirtual abuse created broken individuals. We have come a long way and still have a long way to go.
XFiles 4EverEver Great explanation and thank you!This was the case with my great grandparents. Not everyone was raped. Real love did manifest between some, although rare. It was not all forced mingling/breeding
@@MelodyAlisa Upload your raw dna data results to 23& me for FREE. It will give you maternal haplogroups which will tell you your maternal ancient lineage. 23& me is more accurate too.
@@caseypierre-louis6725 Yes but it's not Sub-Saharan Africa but Northern African. The Moroccans do not have a trace of Sub-Saharan DNA in them. They have Berber DNA hence they are not black.
@@WeatherMondacicci that’s not true, Moroccans normally have 5 to 10% West African in them because of the West African slaves taken to Morocco but I have anywhere from 11 to 67% West African and 21 to 28% North African because my father is a black Moroccan from the Gnawa people who were slaves brought to Morocco from West Africa
I have only south African dna African wise. I was surprised because people keep saying Afro Americans would have west African dna...well not me. Were all black at the end of the day.
Did you know that, white settlers in South Africa took slaves from Western/Central countries to work the fields in SA? The 'original' peoples of SA are the 'Khoisan' people. But because of the influx of slaves from other parts of the African continent, there is a huge population of peoples from Bantu language groups, from Western/Central Africa. So it's not impossible for you to share a lot of DNA with peoples from Bantu people in SA. The passing on of genes isn't absolute. Some genes don't get passed down to you, simply because we all have SO many ancestors! I have seen people with deep dark skin doing the test and seeing like over 30% european and when they look at their genealogy they only see black people in their families and hardly any whites! But that's just because every black person with that trace amount of european, passed it on to the next generation but not every individual will get the same amount of a certain type of DNA. It's a bit of pot luck. The test is really effective for matching living people with eachother. The ancestry thing is a 'gimmick' it gives you an approximation of where some of your ancestors might have come from, based on their database of collected DNA. Which is veeeery little and not significant. all ancestry companies are obligated to put up a disclaimer that the test determines yiur ancestry with less than 1% accuracy. The results say very little about you but, it is still fun to see where a portion of your genes might have come from and how these genes migrated throughout history. That same information you can also get from history books. But the test is fun and interesting for many other reasons: I saw a vid of Mayim Bialik and she did this walkthrough of how her genes travelled from 180.000 years ago, east Africa to present day America. The tests are for fun: they don't determine who you are or where you came from.
Other than west central Africa slaves were brought over to the west from Mozambique in small numbers. But the Bantu who populate South Africa also populate central Africa where majority slaves came from Congo/Angola area.
31% is too high to come from slavery. That means that you're mom was likely 60%+ European and one of her parents was full blown European. This means that you have a full blooded European ancestor born well after 1900. So it's quite possible that it was a love story after all.
Thank you for saying this. I spoke with a geneticist and she told me the same thing. People whose ancestors come from a master slave relationship have less than 12.5% European in them today if they married only people of color. Slavery ended in 1865 over a 154 years ago! That is six or seven generations ago or one's great-great-great-grandmother! For people born after 1940 and have more than 15% European in them, this means that the mix is more or less in one's immediate family (parent or grandparent). Gens do not divide into equal parts: 50%, 25%, 12.5% and 6.25, etc. They are somewhat off with a person of biracial descent being 54% European and 46% African/Black. African Americans have the problem where a person who is 25% W/75%B marries someone who is 12.5%W/87.50B! This combination can have multiple outcomes. Do this over several generations, then you can indeed get a 33/67 split like the one above. People should also be aware that the category of North African is in principle it's own racial group, but is often put with Africa as to not cause confusion. In my case I got a 20% W/77B/3% Other split. I was told by the geneticist that with such a large percentage that my grandmother was most likely white and my mother biracial. I am 53 years old, my biological mother was 16 when she had me, placing my grandmother's birth shortly after WWI! WWI is 50 years after slavery. Thus, my question to my biological nanna is what was she doing at the Cotton Club or during the roaring 20s! For millennials, you are eight times more likely to be a product of an interracial union which was not one of rape. Over the last 60 years, there has been a ten fold increase of interracial children being born! As much as people want to be made at white folks for raping enslaved black women, this idea is starting to be misleading as black men are eight times more likely to marry across the color line as black women. The better question should be is, "Nanna what were did you come from and who was great-grandma?!"
@@deannajoseph708 If you were73% African, this would leave 27% European. The result would be that your GRANDMOTHER OR GRANDFATHER would be white or your parents bother had a racial mixture of at least 25% or more! That is your great grandparent was white, making him or her born at the end of WWI or WWII--not the Civil War! This means it is time to let these slave narratives go and ask ourselves what our grandparents and great-grandparents were actually doing!
OMG I was literally thinking about everything you said when you said you already know! I was like... she should just put a little pop-up to let people know in case they don't because I read those confused comments, too. Haha! Awesomeness.
I’m half Irish. The Irish never owned slaves. They were mainly from Great Britain. When the Irish immigrated to America the British were none to happy. We did not have to go through the horrible things your ancestors went through, however they treated our ancestors as a diease. I really happy that you are happy with your results.
Hi, you are a pretty lady! Lovely personality, too. What is your Southeastern Bantu %? That is where the Ethiopian will get picked on AncestryDNA. Melanesia is a Polynesian country. Could be Native American mix who knows? (Asians and Native Americans are closely related). I'm blasian. Biracial. African American/Creole on my father's side. Asian (Taiwanese) on my mother's side. On 23andMe test I get 27% African (pretty much all West African) 21 % European (mainly French, Iberian/Spanish) 2% Native American 48.5% Southeast Asian 1.5% East Asian (Chinese). Loved your video!
Thats so cool! As far as I know, I'm Cameroonian and Nigerian . My mum is Cameroonian and my dad is Nigerian! I'm gonna do this test when I'm older! I'm interested in my ancestry 😍😍
I did it through Ancestry too! So cool You should get your dad a DNA test for his birthday or Christmas! Through Ancestry or 23andme! So he can learn more about himself since yours and his will be different.
Pacific Islanders do have SE Asian ancestry and there's African in there too. Ethiopia is East African and it borders the Indian Ocean. You are a beautiful mix!
Hi thanks for sharing your results. Ancestry DNA just released another update for 2019 a few weeks ago. You might want to check for changes to your ethnicity and ethnicity estimates. Would love to see an updated video! :)
I LOVE your attitude about your white ancestor. That chapter in history reeks to high heaven and I can honestly say one of the best things in the history of the U.S. was that the Civil War completely broke my slave-owning ancestors, but it's in the past and there's nothing any of us can do about it now.
Lolll you seemed surprise that you were from the West part of Africa. Thats where the Africans were taken during the transatlantic slave trade. East Africa was not apart of that especially Ethiopia. Unless you're directly East African, dont expect black Americans or blacks from latin America or the caribbean to be east african lmaoooo. But cool results, nice personality!
uuh you come from Togo, where I come from too hihi. I so wish I could do one of these tests myself but as of rn I don't have the necessary money yet, but eventually I'll come down to it. And oh btw it was super great that you explained where you were cause lately there were definitely some times where I was like… ehmmm no, I actually don't already know haha .. Take care girl :* :*
@Ewarton Charlton People often cite the British as the major slave owners and slave transporters. This is a long way from the truth. The MAJOR slave transporters were the Portuguese who took them to Brazil. The slave trade to Brazil lasted considerably longer than the slave trade to the Americas. Slaves takn to North America were a comparatively small percentage, with far far more going to South and Central America and the West Indies. The Dutch and Spanish were also involved in the slave trade. It also needs to be understood that the saves were not CAPTURED by gangs of Europeans. . They were captured by other Africans, then imprisoned near the harbours, on the west coast of Africa, and sold to the European traders.
Also, many Irish political prisoners were enslaved in the 1600s, so it is very possible that your story is much richer in detail than you can even imagine. I wish were could see our lineages played out in fast forward. This is so fascinating.
I am white,I am Asian I am mixed, I am atheist, I am religious,I am bad,I am good, I am extra + ordinary and still part of this world! actually I am a simple human being who likes to travel and wants to experience the beauty of mother nature but I get tired sometimes!!!!being a mixed kid is really not a good experience for me!!I hate it when people say I should stay loyal to my mom's culture sometimes my dad's culture but hey people why can't I be a part of the WORLD CULTURE ????
Minori ruba I have never walked in your shoes, but I would say, you have the ability to view the world from two different perspectives and that is a good thing. Do not allow small-minded people on your journey. If they cannot appreciate and embrace all the variety in your unique journey, rescind their visa. They can book a different trip. Life is too short.
Annyeonghaseyo, Melody! What is that dope little jingle that plays whenever you say "...you aaaaalready know!" at the beginning of your videos? I must have it! :)
Hello Melody. I saw that you are partly descendant of someone coming from Cameroon/ Gabon and Congo. Being Gabonese, I am happy to hear about that. Hope that you could get more acurate details about your Bantu origins
My Great Great (I think its 2nd Great) Grandmother is black and married my Great Great Grandfather in WV and they had a bunch of children , there was love between BW and WM and marriage . Congratulations on your Ancestry Results ! My grandmother on my mom's side told me about it when I was a kids , she said people thought she (my GG Grandmother) was Indian , but she was black . This happened either during slavery or at the end of the Civil War ,and they moved to KY . Merry Christmas !
The Khoi-San people of Southern Africa have Asia features, rather Asian have Khoi-San features based on the “out of Africa” theory. So one can have features that are common in Asia and not have Asian ancestry, as those features though prevalent in some Asia countries, are not exclusive to those populations. No feature is exclusive to any ethnic group, some features however are common and/or rare to certain groups, Melody Alisa.
Khoi-San are considered to be similar to the earliest humans. Yes, they have high check bones and somewhat "Asian" eyes. Mandela was partly Khoi-San, you can see it photos.
That knowledge about your Irish great-grandpa chilled me to the bone, honestly. :( Also, I LOVE your eye shape, your eyeliner always slays! I'm gonna do this DNA thing with my mum soon, and it'll be interesting to see each percentage of my whiteness lol!
I've always been skeptical about the ancestry database. idkw. but I am. you can also do your family history through genealogy. I have a client that studies genealogy and traced her family lineage all the way to Europe.
y scott You're right to be sceptical. The database is not a direct representation of your actual genetic ancestry more like which populations carry those genes today and have submitted their info to the database. East Africa is a perfect example as the northern regions have gone through an almost 50% population replacement within the last 28,000 years and thus if your ancestry test pulls up east African your actual ancestry may well be from the middle east.
@@greeny202ab You are missing other research aspects. And they don't claim to be 100% so there is a margin of error. I bet you wouldn't have a problem with a paternity test! 😂 That aside, this gives people(ESPECIALLY descendants of slaves) the ability to find their identities and that is empowering and liberating. That is MASSIVE. And it's MUCH more reliable than a family's guesses, assumptions, or memories. The history of the slave was obviously wiped out, so the trail is very short for most African Americans for instance. Science is OBJECTIVE so, I would place more confidence in it.
@@rogerwilliams4742 You misunderstand. If you get an African DNA result of 100% Cameroon that does not mean your ancestors originate in Cameroon, it just means that in their database TODAY 100% of their samples carry your same markers. Or on other words you come from a population that lives in Cameroon today.
I liked your results, ours was quite similar. What I found interesting was that I too was hoping I was East Asian because I have hooded eyes and they get smaller when I smile too; got West Asian instead.
I love this so much. Thank you for sharing your results, as well as the background of those results We truly are walking melting pots. Though I have a pretty good stab that I'm of European descent, I really don't know much about my ancestors from either sides. We suspect my great great grandmother may have been a Jew who fled and survived the Holocaust. It'd be really interesting doing this for myself...
I love this as a tool to see that everyone is honestly the same. There is no homogenous ethnic group out there and it's a beautiful thing! I think what people may fail to recognize though is that in cases of like, Africa or SE Asia, these nations mentioned would be more for the relative location because your tie to that region may not have existed as a nation at all yet! And my only hope is that people don't start using this as "oh but my DNA test said I'm 2% asian so I'm not racist and I can therefore represent asian culture."
Those eyes you have don't only exist in Asia (though mostly) but they also often appear in Africa, particularly Khoisan people. They actually also appear in Europe (particularly northern Europe) and variants of 'Asian' eyes also in Western Europe. It's just that East-Asian people with eyes like that are more seen in the media so people associate those eyes with Asians. By the way, Irish and British people are very mixed with each other too (they're like, right next to each other) so the majority of your 'Irish' is probably your British.
@Babatundeh Oluwafemi Olajenti You don't have to look black to be black, and their is no percentage that determines who is black or not either. I'm Dominican and I'm actually 83% African and I consider myself just Hispanic not Black.
Now you have got me all excited!! I will do my DNA TEST next month August! you are so silly but a lot of fun. I am very happy for you thank you for sharing the news I am a new subscriber and just happened to find you
I'm interested in getting mine now because I've always assumed West African because my mom and dad's parents are both from Jamaica. I don't know which countries exactly so it would be fun to find out. Great video Melody!
Both of my parents were born and raised in Jamaica. I have been told there are some mixtures in the lineage but who knows? If I ever have children, I will do this.
Have your parents do the dna as it will reveal even more! And grandparents if they are alive! Cuz your parents have twice what you have and grandparents have Four times what you have! Do it!
Take a 23andMe test, too. My Asian or Native American didn't show up on Ancestry, either. I did get West Asian, mine was Caucasus, buy my mom got Asia Central, and West Asian, on Ancestry. Then, on 23andMe, I got Southeast and East Asian. I was just like you, because I thought I would have some too, because of my features. I think the Asian is related to the fact that my mom shows up about 14% Eastern European, Slavic, Balkan, Finnish, and Siberian, on GEDMatch and DNA.Land. I got Finnish, Eastern, and Balkan. So, the Asian is related to that and the Native American. On my dad's side... I'm half West Indian, though. Lol.
Ethiopia was not involved in the transatlantic slave trade so u won't see it from that side. If u have that genetic pool it might be do to some pre-Atlantic slave trade events in the African continent
Yes, European ancestry in African Americans is usually a sad story. However, colonials did have white slaves as well. Enslaved Irish people are a perfect example, and this is why many African Americans have Irish ancestry. In fact, there have even been mixed Irish and African communities speaking Irish.
Just a friendly reminder that not all European nations/people had anything to do with black slavery and that many African nations did take and sell black slaves even before the European nations that used colonialism came. So some black people slaved other black people and some white people did not benefit or enslaved any black people. Also, white people enslaved other white people and sold them to black people and to near east, before colonialism. Example Russian and Vikings took Finnish people as slaves and sold them near east. During that time Muslims paid good money for slaves that had blond hair and blue eyes.
Arabs and other Muslims were enslaving Europeans at one time. Excerpt: The Barbary slave trade refers to the slave markets that were lucrative and vast on the Barbary Coast of North Africa, which included the Ottoman provinces of Algeria, Tunisia and Tripolitania and the independent sultanate of Morocco, between the 16th and middle of the 18th century. The Ottoman provinces in North Africa were nominally under Ottoman suzerainty, but in reality they were mostly autonomous. The North African slave markets were part of the Arab slave trade. The Barbary Coast Perpetrated largely on Europeans, and within in-land routes to indigenous European inhabitants. These peoples were systematically preyed upon and turned into slaves, acquired by Barbary pirates during slave raids on ships and by raids on coastal towns from Italy to the Netherlands, as far north as Iceland and in the eastern shores of the Mediterranean. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbary_slave_trade
Don't read too much into British vs Irish from Ancestry.com as telling you where an ancestor was born. It is quite unreliable trying to divide them. 23&me do not give them separately, and just give 'British Isles'. People have been migrating between the two main islands for thousands of years, and in large numbers for the last several centuries.
I’m curious, this looks like you gave us the overview but do the results get more specific than saying Ghana, or Nigeria etc? Because the time that your ancestors would have been in those regions, those countries didn’t exist. Then deeper than that, to use the example of Nigeria, there’s a difference between being Hausa, Igbo or Yoruba, culturally but also these groups look different. Also, one final question, someone told me that when you use these DNA services that the company actually keeps your DNA profile on record, indefinitely, do you know if that’s true?
Also 'British' is not really a group. They just generalise it. English people are Germanic whilst Scots and Welsh are Celtic, more closely related to Irish
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Also, "slanted" eyes are actually an African trait. A few tribes that you've named have the same facial feature!
Yeah that's true! East Asians and some African tribes both developed the slanted eye trait separately, which I think is so cool! :)
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Thanks for sharing that . I had no clue. cool
You are talking about the san people.
I'm Nigerian and my eyes are very slanted lol, along with many other Africans -_- We as a continent and extremely genetically diverse.
my mom and my niece have eyes like that too and we're also nigerian lol
I think that the government should pay for African Americans to get their DNA tested tbh
I support this! I think it's really important that we have an idea of where we come from.
I think AA should have free access to whatever records that have their family history. We should have that for free.
THRASH METAL May God bless you 😊
And also give us our 40 acres and a mule. I'm going to name my mule "Astro".
Me Too!
Your wrap is LIFE.
thank you girlll! my friend just put me on, I'm super late to the party but oh so happy to join.
It is! It compliments her face shape and is oh so pretty! I wanna rock one, but I'm afraid someone might come at me with cultural appropriation. But man, I just think it's beautiful and represents an awesome culture.
Don't wrap your life up.!!!🤣🤣🤣😃
loving the honesty about the European heritage. Too many ppl like to be unrealistic and romanticize everything.
im confused. are those questions rhetoric or for me? or are you just expanding on my comment.
GloriousMissy I'm trying to get others and you think in a way you may have never before. So the comment is not just for you.
Kaylem Kerr oooh okay. because i was going to tell you that i already knew that which is why i made my original post lol.
BLAqend Blooms
But people also romanticize the African thing too. So proud of their African roots but don't acknowledge that some of these people betrayed their ancestors. Not only was slavery an established institution in West Africa before European traders arrived, but Africans were also involved in a trans-Saharan trade in slaves along these routes. African rulers and merchants were thus able to tap into pre-existing methods and networks of enslavement to supply European demand for slaves. Enslavement was most often a byproduct of local warfare, kidnapping, or the manipulation of religious and judicial institutions. Military, political, and religious authority within West Africa determined who controlled access to the Atlantic slave trade. And some African elites, such as those in the Dahomey and Ashanti empires, took advantage of this control and used it to their profit by enslaving and selling other Africans to European traders.
I know alot of black people i seen on here will say confidently with conviction that it was rape that caused there european dna on there results , and you can say its a pretty high percentage probably 95-99% that the European dna was from rape, but then there is a small percentage mabey that it could of been consentual with a black man and white woman or vice versa you just never know honestly
Cool! I am igbo and we Africans vary in skin color and physical traits. Also, realize that percentages can be skewed because you only receive 50 % DNA from each parent. This means that a sibling or other relative's results can differ substantially.
hannah60000 I am totally shocked to hear such a reply from a African. Africa is a continent made up of many countries, and what the OP said was true about the variety of skin colors and physical traits in Africa. I am not talking about people like white South Africans who came from a European country, or mixed people, either.
I'm Congolese ( from the Congo). You're very pretty Mel.
Oi am the Congo man.🤣🤣🤣
Hahaha i'm congolese too but from the other congo
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We are all mixed!! People need to stop trying to place themselves into a black box or an Asian box or brown box, etc. It sounds like the segregation of the Democrat party.
You lost me when you went political.
@@carold.fields1484 I know my history very well, you obviously dont. Do your research from real sources to learn the truth about the democrat party. I used to be a democrat until I learned the true history of the democrat party. Its disgusting. Which party voted in the first 5 black politicians? Learn your history.
@@rogerwilliams4742 I was referring to the segregationist history and current segregationist behavior of the democrat party.
Been looking forward to this for ages 😂 I love genealogy and such. It's so fascinating.
And it's cool to know why you started using the intro ^^ hope you're enjoying being back in the US, with your family.
Also with the Irish, it's possible your ancestors were Irish but they were descended from English or Scottish who came to Ireland.
i love how open minded you were going into this! its so nice to see someone not constantly complain when it comes to these results- i see so many people do these and then complain they're not what they thought despite immigration & sadly slavery being a major factor in why your dna comes out certain ways!
Loved your hair in those throwback pictures!!
I would always wonder where she was when she'd say you already know. I'm like.... I have no clue.
lol! glad I could clear it up 😊
Melody on the Move Melody, Creole is not a race, it's a lineage and culture (by lineage it just means you descend from colonial Louisiana settlers, regardless of race) I'm from Louisiana and there are white Creoles and black Creoles. White Creoles are only European and are French and Spanish and black Creoles are the black and French type you describe (sometimes they also have Spanish and Amerind also). Didn't know if you knew.
BioLife , "MY sentiments, EXACTLY!" 😂😂 😉🗣GLAD SHE CLEARED it UP! 😉😎
Louisiana Creoles have African, French, Spanish, and/or Native American.
For Louisiana Creoles who are curious that why many of them have more “Great Britain” than “Europe West” is because “Great Britain” shows up on many French peoples’ DNA results
Think about when Slavery ended. 1865. So from the time of the end of slavery, there has been interracial relationships since then. 152 yrs since the end of Slavery that there have existed Interracial relationships. Not everyone is the product of slavery. I wish people would stop assuming that their DNA ONLY comes from slavery.
She stated that the slave owner had 12 children with her ancestor. How is that assuming? Help me understand your view point.
XFiles 4EverEver shut up.
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You seem to forget the fact that all black Americans have some European admixture, so if multiple biracial people and multiple people with significant European ancestry who all identify as black keep mixing with each other that means they'll still be a significant amount of European ancestry in them. I'm only 19% European, but that's a significant amount when taking in account the last time I had a European ancestor which was about 1850 something.
XFiles 4EverEver Its not a choice if the institution was set up where the dynamics of the relationship is escaping poverty and marrying someone white. Love might have been apart of it ....but it was not a healthy love . Also when slavery was abolished it still continued many yrs after. Hence 400 yrs jim crow etc. Please dont spread false ideology. Like it was actually a choice. Your explanation is a bit skewed. Regardless of love developing...the psychological, physical and spirtual abuse created broken individuals. We have come a long way and still have a long way to go.
XFiles 4EverEver Great explanation and thank you!This was the case with my great grandparents. Not everyone was raped. Real love did manifest between some, although rare. It was not all forced mingling/breeding
That facial expressions she made when checking her European background. I Died! 😂😂😂😂😂
I'm 97 percent European! :D
+Aaa Aaa All slave owners; who had slaves; were very brutal to their slaves, meaning that there is no nice way to own a human!!
+Aaa Aaa Well, you must have been there!!!! 👎
Aaa Aaa obviously shes not talking about the people trying to save slaves shes talking about the ones that were cruel and brutal!
+Aaa Aaa Health care and an education! Are you kidding me? Stop sugar coating slavery!! It was wrong on all aspects of human bondage! I'm done!!! 👎
All adds up to a lovely Melody!
aw thank you!
@@MelodyAlisa Upload your raw dna data results to 23& me for FREE.
It will give you maternal haplogroups which will tell you your maternal ancient lineage.
23& me is more accurate too.
THE SQUINTED EYES THING...Asians get that from us Africans not the other way around, so you probably have heritage of the San people
@@ilovesoup17 Morocco is in Africa.
@@caseypierre-louis6725 Yes but it's not Sub-Saharan Africa but Northern African. The Moroccans do not have a trace of Sub-Saharan DNA in them. They have Berber DNA hence they are not black.
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@@WeatherMondacicci that’s not true, Moroccans normally have 5 to 10% West African in them because of the West African slaves taken to Morocco but I have anywhere from 11 to 67% West African and 21 to 28% North African because my father is a black Moroccan from the Gnawa people who were slaves brought to Morocco from West Africa
I have only south African dna African wise. I was surprised because people keep saying Afro Americans would have west African dna...well not me.
Were all black at the end of the day.
Did you know that, white settlers in South Africa took slaves from Western/Central countries to work the fields in SA? The 'original' peoples of SA are the 'Khoisan' people. But because of the influx of slaves from other parts of the African continent, there is a huge population of peoples from Bantu language groups, from Western/Central Africa. So it's not impossible for you to share a lot of DNA with peoples from Bantu people in SA. The passing on of genes isn't absolute. Some genes don't get passed down to you, simply because we all have SO many ancestors! I have seen people with deep dark skin doing the test and seeing like over 30% european and when they look at their genealogy they only see black people in their families and hardly any whites! But that's just because every black person with that trace amount of european, passed it on to the next generation but not every individual will get the same amount of a certain type of DNA. It's a bit of pot luck. The test is really effective for matching living people with eachother. The ancestry thing is a 'gimmick' it gives you an approximation of where some of your ancestors might have come from, based on their database of collected DNA. Which is veeeery little and not significant. all ancestry companies are obligated to put up a disclaimer that the test determines yiur ancestry with less than 1% accuracy. The results say very little about you but, it is still fun to see where a portion of your genes might have come from and how these genes migrated throughout history. That same information you can also get from history books. But the test is fun and interesting for many other reasons: I saw a vid of Mayim Bialik and she did this walkthrough of how her genes travelled from 180.000 years ago, east Africa to present day America. The tests are for fun: they don't determine who you are or where you came from.
Other than west central Africa slaves were brought over to the west from
Mozambique in small numbers. But the Bantu who populate South Africa also populate central Africa where majority slaves came from Congo/Angola area.
31% is too high to come from slavery. That means that you're mom was likely 60%+ European and one of her parents was full blown European. This means that you have a full blooded European ancestor born well after 1900. So it's quite possible that it was a love story after all.
Wow you know her family and life story ???
black americans are usually around 73% african ssa so that's almost average
Not true my mom is about 32 percent and we are related to many slave owners on one family line.
Thank you for saying this. I spoke with a geneticist and she told me the same thing. People whose ancestors come from a master slave relationship have less than 12.5% European in them today if they married only people of color. Slavery ended in 1865 over a 154 years ago! That is six or seven generations ago or one's great-great-great-grandmother! For people born after 1940 and have more than 15% European in them, this means that the mix is more or less in one's immediate family (parent or grandparent). Gens do not divide into equal parts: 50%, 25%, 12.5% and 6.25, etc. They are somewhat off with a person of biracial descent being 54% European and 46% African/Black. African Americans have the problem where a person who is 25% W/75%B marries someone who is 12.5%W/87.50B! This combination can have multiple outcomes. Do this over several generations, then you can indeed get a 33/67 split like the one above. People should also be aware that the category of North African is in principle it's own racial group, but is often put with Africa as to not cause confusion. In my case I got a 20% W/77B/3% Other split. I was told by the geneticist that with such a large percentage that my grandmother was most likely white and my mother biracial. I am 53 years old, my biological mother was 16 when she had me, placing my grandmother's birth shortly after WWI! WWI is 50 years after slavery. Thus, my question to my biological nanna is what was she doing at the Cotton Club or during the roaring 20s! For millennials, you are eight times more likely to be a product of an interracial union which was not one of rape. Over the last 60 years, there has been a ten fold increase of interracial children being born! As much as people want to be made at white folks for raping enslaved black women, this idea is starting to be misleading as black men are eight times more likely to marry across the color line as black women. The better question should be is, "Nanna what were did you come from and who was great-grandma?!"
@@deannajoseph708 If you were73% African, this would leave 27% European. The result would be that your GRANDMOTHER OR GRANDFATHER would be white or your parents bother had a racial mixture of at least 25% or more! That is your great grandparent was white, making him or her born at the end of WWI or WWII--not the Civil War! This means it is time to let these slave narratives go and ask ourselves what our grandparents and great-grandparents were actually doing!
OMG I was literally thinking about everything you said when you said you already know! I was like... she should just put a little pop-up to let people know in case they don't because I read those confused comments, too. Haha! Awesomeness.
Congo is in Central Africa and Cameroon is west-central! So you're mostly Central African.
I’m half Irish. The Irish never owned slaves. They were mainly from Great Britain. When the Irish immigrated to America the British were none to happy. We did not have to go through the horrible things your ancestors went through, however they treated our ancestors as a diease. I really happy that you are happy with your results.
I love the zest, detail AND beautiful delivery...keep-keepN-on!!
Why thank you popsicle!
You have a wonderful personality no matter what your DNA is!
I've always wanted to do this. I didn't realize that it was so inexpensive. Do you think they can ship to China?
Hi, you are a pretty lady! Lovely personality, too.
What is your Southeastern Bantu %? That is where the Ethiopian will get picked on AncestryDNA.
Melanesia is a Polynesian country. Could be Native American mix who knows? (Asians and Native Americans are closely related).
I'm blasian. Biracial.
African American/Creole on my father's side. Asian (Taiwanese) on my mother's side.
On 23andMe test I get
27% African (pretty much all West African)
21 % European (mainly French, Iberian/Spanish)
2% Native American
48.5% Southeast Asian
1.5% East Asian (Chinese).
Loved your video!
LOL I just love the face you made when you said Europe
Thats so cool! As far as I know, I'm Cameroonian and Nigerian . My mum is Cameroonian and my dad is Nigerian! I'm gonna do this test when I'm older! I'm interested in my ancestry 😍😍
I absolutely love your laugh!!!! It's so contagious and honestly makes my day!
Before the results begin. I’d assume:
65-75% African
25-35% European
Maybe 0-5% Native American
I did it through Ancestry too! So cool
You should get your dad a DNA test for his birthday or Christmas! Through Ancestry or 23andme! So he can learn more about himself since yours and his will be different.
Interesting video! #earlysquad
heyyyyy from Paris 💕💕 dont change your intro !! hahaha
Pacific Islanders do have SE Asian ancestry and there's African in there too. Ethiopia is East African and it borders the Indian Ocean. You are a beautiful mix!
Irish ancestry does not just cover Ireland if u care to know about that side do some research about those islands genetic pool
Juana Castillo Yes because my grandfather Irish but when I took the DNA test he stated I was Scandinavia
I’m a white American and it said I’m 98.5% European :)
Awesome results! Random, but I love the paint color in your room :-) I have my results posted on my channel too!
Hi thanks for sharing your results. Ancestry DNA just released another update for 2019 a few weeks ago. You might want to check for changes to your ethnicity and ethnicity estimates. Would love to see an updated video! :)
Omg you're from Ghanaaaaaaaa. Hello fam❤🇬🇭🇬🇭😁 I was just waiting to hear Ghana the whole time😂 hope you visit some time
AYYE my Cameroonian sister! Welcome!
I LOVE your attitude about your white ancestor. That chapter in history reeks to high heaven and I can honestly say one of the best things in the history of the U.S. was that the Civil War completely broke my slave-owning ancestors, but it's in the past and there's nothing any of us can do about it now.
Lolll you seemed surprise that you were from the West part of Africa. Thats where the Africans were taken during the transatlantic slave trade. East Africa was not apart of that especially Ethiopia. Unless you're directly East African, dont expect black Americans or blacks from latin America or the caribbean to be east african lmaoooo. But cool results, nice personality!
Bethany M EXACTLY!!!!! the people think they can clame us so much....
You act like there's such a fucking difference between East and West African 😂💯
MonIIs Yosef and no one wants to claim anyone that can't even spell "claim". So get over yourself 💯
Yeah. But I won't be surprised if she had some East African in her.
The Planet Saturn I am African American. What an ignorant comment to make. Yes, there are cultural and language differences, for one.
uuh you come from Togo, where I come from too hihi. I so wish I could do one of these tests myself but as of rn I don't have the necessary money yet, but eventually I'll come down to it. And oh btw it was super great that you explained where you were cause lately there were definitely some times where I was like… ehmmm no, I actually don't already know haha .. Take care girl :* :*
The "Irish" slave owner might have been British gentry living in Ireland?
@Ewarton Charlton BRAZIL HAD THE FIRST AFRICAN SLAVES SOLD BY AFRICANS.
@Ewarton Charlton
People often cite the British as the major slave owners and slave transporters.
This is a long way from the truth.
The MAJOR slave transporters were the Portuguese who took them to Brazil.
The slave trade to Brazil lasted considerably longer than the slave trade to the Americas.
Slaves takn to North America were a comparatively small percentage, with far far more going to South and Central America and the West Indies.
The Dutch and Spanish were also involved in the slave trade.
It also needs to be understood that the saves were not CAPTURED by gangs of Europeans. .
They were captured by other Africans, then imprisoned near the harbours, on the west coast of Africa, and sold to the European traders.
I've been contemplating getting a DNA test for a while now. P.S. I like your choice of music!
Great video! Thanks for sharing them with us.
I AMMM FROMMM KENYAAAA GANG GANG WHEN I FIRST SAW I THOUGHT YOU WERE FROM KENYA
Blessed 101 She looks more Namibian or South African.
I've always want to do this with my husband! So cool! Thanks so much for sharing. :)
Also, many Irish political prisoners were enslaved in the 1600s, so it is very possible that your story is much richer in detail than you can even imagine. I wish were could see our lineages played out in fast forward. This is so fascinating.
I am white,I am Asian I am mixed, I am atheist, I am religious,I am bad,I am good, I am extra + ordinary and still part of this world!
actually I am a simple human being who likes to travel and wants to experience the beauty of mother nature but I get tired sometimes!!!!being a mixed kid is really not a good experience for me!!I hate it when people say I should stay loyal to my mom's culture sometimes my dad's culture
but hey people why can't I be a part of the WORLD CULTURE ????
Minori ruba I have never walked in your shoes, but I would say, you have the ability to view the world from two different perspectives and that is a good thing. Do not allow small-minded people on your journey. If they cannot appreciate and embrace all the variety in your unique journey, rescind their visa. They can book a different trip. Life is too short.
i love the "extra + ordinary" hahaha
You can be who you choose to be....own it, live it and let the haters choke on it. Happy travels to you..
I think if you learned our history, Mixed history, you would feel more connected. You need to research and also connect with other mixed people.
Annyeonghaseyo, Melody! What is that dope little jingle that plays whenever you say "...you aaaaalready know!" at the beginning of your videos? I must have it! :)
It's from Childish Gambino's song 'The Palisades'
Thank you!
gotdam that's one pretty woman......
Hello Melody. I saw that you are partly descendant of someone coming from Cameroon/ Gabon and Congo. Being Gabonese, I am happy to hear about that. Hope that you could get more acurate details about your Bantu origins
My Great Great (I think its 2nd Great) Grandmother is black and married my Great Great Grandfather in WV and they had a bunch of children , there was love between BW and WM and marriage . Congratulations on your Ancestry Results ! My grandmother on my mom's side told me about it when I was a kids , she said people thought she (my GG Grandmother) was Indian , but she was black . This happened either during slavery or at the end of the Civil War ,and they moved to KY . Merry Christmas !
The Khoi-San people of Southern Africa have Asia features, rather Asian have Khoi-San features based on the “out of Africa” theory. So one can have features that are common in Asia and not have Asian ancestry, as those features though prevalent in some Asia countries, are not exclusive to those populations. No feature is exclusive to any ethnic group, some features however are common and/or rare to certain groups, Melody Alisa.
Khoi-San are considered to be similar to the earliest humans. Yes, they have high check bones and somewhat "Asian" eyes. Mandela was partly Khoi-San, you can see it photos.
That knowledge about your Irish great-grandpa chilled me to the bone, honestly. :( Also, I LOVE your eye shape, your eyeliner always slays! I'm gonna do this DNA thing with my mum soon, and it'll be interesting to see each percentage of my whiteness lol!
Andd I always already know where you're coming to me live from cos I never miss a video since I first subscribed
Thanks for sharing your results.
I've always been skeptical about the ancestry database. idkw. but I am. you can also do your family history through genealogy. I have a client that studies genealogy and traced her family lineage all the way to Europe.
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You're right to be sceptical. The database is not a direct representation of your actual genetic ancestry more like which populations carry those genes today and have submitted their info to the database. East Africa is a perfect example as the northern regions have gone through an almost 50% population replacement within the last 28,000 years and thus if your ancestry test pulls up east African your actual ancestry may well be from the middle east.
Can she trace mine back to Africa?
@@greeny202ab You are missing other research aspects. And they don't claim to be 100% so there is a margin of error. I bet you wouldn't have a problem with a paternity test! 😂 That aside, this gives people(ESPECIALLY descendants of slaves) the ability to find their identities and that is empowering and liberating. That is MASSIVE. And it's MUCH more reliable than a family's guesses, assumptions, or memories. The history of the slave was obviously wiped out, so the trail is very short for most African Americans for instance. Science is OBJECTIVE so, I would place more confidence in it.
@@rogerwilliams4742 You misunderstand. If you get an African DNA result of 100% Cameroon that does not mean your ancestors originate in Cameroon, it just means that in their database TODAY 100% of their samples carry your same markers.
Or on other words you come from a population that lives in Cameroon today.
I LIKE HOW THE MUSIC STOPS THEN RESTARTS LOL!
When she said Namibian I was like yay😁
I know this video is old, but can you please tell me the name of the back ground music because it is the BOMB!
what an interesting video!!!!!! love this
I think it's perfectly fine to get a new tag line. We grow. Things change. Maybe, '...you guessed it...' instead of 'you already know'.
I liked your results, ours was quite similar. What I found interesting was that I too was hoping I was East Asian because I have hooded eyes and they get smaller when I smile too; got West Asian instead.
I think 64% Europe, 34% Africa and 2% Asian
Hey ❤️❤️❤️ Do happy for you !!FYI My mom looks asian without even smiling and is lighter than you abd is 100% Cameroonian love 😘😘
I love this so much. Thank you for sharing your results, as well as the background of those results We truly are walking melting pots. Though I have a pretty good stab that I'm of European descent, I really don't know much about my ancestors from either sides. We suspect my great great grandmother may have been a Jew who fled and survived the Holocaust. It'd be really interesting doing this for myself...
I love this as a tool to see that everyone is honestly the same. There is no homogenous ethnic group out there and it's a beautiful thing! I think what people may fail to recognize though is that in cases of like, Africa or SE Asia, these nations mentioned would be more for the relative location because your tie to that region may not have existed as a nation at all yet! And my only hope is that people don't start using this as "oh but my DNA test said I'm 2% asian so I'm not racist and I can therefore represent asian culture."
Those eyes you have don't only exist in Asia (though mostly) but they also often appear in Africa, particularly Khoisan people. They actually also appear in Europe (particularly northern Europe) and variants of 'Asian' eyes also in Western Europe. It's just that East-Asian people with eyes like that are more seen in the media so people associate those eyes with Asians.
By the way, Irish and British people are very mixed with each other too (they're like, right next to each other) so the majority of your 'Irish' is probably your British.
Why do you identify with your African-American heritage than European heritage? Also what percentage do you consider African-American/Black?
@Babatundeh Oluwafemi Olajenti You don't have to look black to be black, and their is no percentage that determines who is black or not either. I'm Dominican and I'm actually 83% African and I consider myself just Hispanic not Black.
Hello from Nigeria! ❤
I figured you'd have a bit of Nigeria in you.
henrietta akubue it's such s big country lol
Now you have got me all excited!! I will do my DNA TEST next month August! you are so silly but a lot of fun. I am very happy for you thank you for sharing the news I am a new subscriber and just happened to find you
Very neat mix! I so wanna do this too one of these days lol!
I'm interested in getting mine now because I've always assumed West African because my mom and dad's parents are both from Jamaica. I don't know which countries exactly so it would be fun to find out. Great video Melody!
Just a beautiful light
Both of my parents were born and raised in Jamaica. I have been told there are some mixtures in the lineage but who knows? If I ever have children, I will do this.
I like your intro-it needs to stay the way it is!
You have to remember alot of the so called "Irish/British-Americans" were mixed themselves before and after settling in America...
I am 14% Melanesia also. That was my only surprise.
What is your haplogroup?
Neat! I want to find out what my ethnic groups are!
Have your parents do the dna as it will reveal even more! And grandparents if they are alive! Cuz your parents have twice what you have and grandparents have Four times what you have! Do it!
wow my dad was adopted too!! i did 23 and me instead though btw i love your content you're a gorgeous and woke young woman!!
Take a 23andMe test, too. My Asian or Native American didn't show up on Ancestry, either. I did get West Asian, mine was Caucasus, buy my mom got Asia Central, and West Asian, on Ancestry. Then, on 23andMe, I got Southeast and East Asian. I was just like you, because I thought I would have some too, because of my features. I think the Asian is related to the fact that my mom shows up about 14% Eastern European, Slavic, Balkan, Finnish, and Siberian, on GEDMatch and DNA.Land. I got Finnish, Eastern, and Balkan. So, the Asian is related to that and the Native American. On my dad's side... I'm half West Indian, though. Lol.
Hey melody, did you need to present documents, like family records for the test?
Nope, you just sent in your saliva (DNA)!
cool, God bless
I'm 100% African Nigerian especially but born in Ivory coast and reside in the US
I just did one of these!! ❤️❤️❤️
love ur videos would like to specially mention ur makeup ,it looks natural and good would love if u could do video on makeup tips
I wish I could one day I will have the $$ to do it.
TheJazzie6 they do specials for like 20 to 50% off. Ya just got to watch for em.
how much you spend on hair care and products you can afford it ,it's just not a priority
The might take e.b.t !
Ethiopia was not involved in the transatlantic slave trade so u won't see it from that side. If u have that genetic pool it might be do to some pre-Atlantic slave trade events in the African continent
youre so happy i love it
Yes, European ancestry in African Americans is usually a sad story. However, colonials did have white slaves as well. Enslaved Irish people are a perfect example, and this is why many African Americans have Irish ancestry. In fact, there have even been mixed Irish and African communities speaking Irish.
Don't be so sure there wasn't a lot of love from your European side. Everyone is different - look at the love you have.
Are you teaching in Florida? What is the difference from America and Korea?
Just a friendly reminder that not all European nations/people had anything to do with black slavery and that many African nations did take and sell black slaves even before the European nations that used colonialism came. So some black people slaved other black people and some white people did not benefit or enslaved any black people. Also, white people enslaved other white people and sold them to black people and to near east, before colonialism. Example Russian and Vikings took Finnish people as slaves and sold them near east. During that time Muslims paid good money for slaves that had blond hair and blue eyes.
Arabs and other Muslims were enslaving Europeans at one time.
Excerpt:
The Barbary slave trade refers to the slave markets that were lucrative and vast on the Barbary Coast of North Africa, which included the Ottoman provinces of Algeria, Tunisia and Tripolitania and the independent sultanate of Morocco, between the 16th and middle of the 18th century. The Ottoman provinces in North Africa were nominally under Ottoman suzerainty, but in reality they were mostly autonomous. The North African slave markets were part of the Arab slave trade.
The Barbary Coast
Perpetrated largely on Europeans, and within in-land routes to indigenous European inhabitants. These peoples were systematically preyed upon and turned into slaves, acquired by Barbary pirates during slave raids on ships and by raids on coastal towns from Italy to the Netherlands, as far north as Iceland and in the eastern shores of the Mediterranean.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbary_slave_trade
Don't read too much into British vs Irish from Ancestry.com as telling you where an ancestor was born. It is quite unreliable trying to divide them. 23&me do not give them separately, and just give 'British Isles'. People have been migrating between the two main islands for thousands of years, and in large numbers for the last several centuries.
I’m curious, this looks like you gave us the overview but do the results get more specific than saying Ghana, or Nigeria etc? Because the time that your ancestors would have been in those regions, those countries didn’t exist. Then deeper than that, to use the example of Nigeria, there’s a difference between being Hausa, Igbo or Yoruba, culturally but also these groups look different. Also, one final question, someone told me that when you use these DNA services that the company actually keeps your DNA profile on record, indefinitely, do you know if that’s true?
Mel I believe there are sites you can put your info into to get more details
Love the vid
Irish and Britain is the same. Ethiopians are mixed with Arabian or North African so you still maybe that too.
Irish and British is NOT the same. Not ethnically and not culturally. Entire wars have been fought over this fact. Good Lord.
Also 'British' is not really a group. They just generalise it. English people are Germanic whilst Scots and Welsh are Celtic, more closely related to Irish
You were in Korea for two years, how awesome. How old are you.
Are you serious about your ugly profile pic lol
Its nice to see something who is excited about their African heritage. l wonder which one is better between ancestry.com and my heritage or 23 and me?