So amazing that you were able to find cousins in Africa that could tell you your tribes! As an African American whose ancestors were brought over starting in the 1600’s, finding which tribes we were from, or cousins over there, would be a dream! I also have indigenous American ancestry, but that has been easier to find since my family is still active in their indigenous communities.
Alistair You should upload your DNA file to LivingDNA and check out there results. Currently Ancestry and 23andMe have 14 to 20 regional descriptions for African ancestry while LivingDNA has 62. And rather than say “Nigerian” LivingDNA will use ethnic or tribe descriptions like Yoruba or Wolof.
LivingDNA has the regions, but they don't have enough African samples to give an accurate breakdown. Just like 23&me, they almost always label Black people in the diaspora as Nigerian, when most aren't. It's not reliable.
@@alistiarvlog The Igbo (Nigerian) and Akan (Ghana) were by far the largest group taken from Africa to Jamaica. You could through your Igbo relatives in Nigeria get to know the specific town your ancestors hailed from.
I’m 75% black and 25% Arab and I look like a dark skinned Arab guy because the only Arab in my body is my entire face (my mom looks 100% Arab even though she’s bi racial)
No do it because it helps make their database references more accurate for people who are mixed, because they can compare them to your pure 100% indian. Meaning it can't hurt, plus you never know if you find something unexpected in there also
@@Antpaok I agree with you. Rajesh should do it because you never know. One of my daughter X boyfriend who thought he was 100% Indian and he too was born in India - he did his 23andMe and his results was 99% Indian and 1% European with his Y-Haplo Group (Paternal line) was Jewish - the J- Group. That is the Priestly line of the Ashkenazi Jewish people. He was shock!!
Very jamaican…the Miskitos are often zambos a mixture of African and indigenous people and they used teach this but I guess the school system has other things to teach
Ghanaian is being pronounced wrong. The right pronunciation is Ghaneh ian. Also, we need to know who your DNA matches are. Did you get any matches from the US, Latin America and other Caribbean countries? Those are pertinent information that should be shared with your viewers. If you have DNA matches from the US, there could be a possibility that they are Americans, not Jamaican immigrants, in which case you might have a different family member that was shipped to the US directly from Africa.
I will not disclose my matches on here for privacy reasons but what I’ll do is to tell you that majority of my relatives went through the Panama Canal in America thus, I have a large Marjory of relatives in America. I have DNA relatives in the following areas from highest to lowest: United States of America, Jamaica, United Kingdom, Canada, Panama, Haiti, Germany, Puerto Rico, Columbia, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, Grenada, Ireland, Bahamas, Cuba, Dominican Republic, India, Nigeria, St. Lucia and Burkino Faso. If you know about the Jamaican history a large majority of Jamaican were exported to New York around 1925 to work that’s why I have a large majority of family members in the states (459) to be exact. Others could have prolly went to other islands or brought directly to America and ended up in the different states due to the Trans Atlantic slave trade.
@@alistiarvlog Thanks for your quick response. It will be very interesting to know if your matches in the Americas started from Africa instead of Jamaica. That is really the point I was trying to make. That will be a shocker if you had any DNA matches that did not originate from Jamaica which means that your Jamaican slave ancestors had another African sibling that was also African slave descendant. You also said you had ancestors from Burkina Faso and Nigeria. If it is true, that's game over. An African American with a RUclips channel Jamila Ngozi found a 4th or 5th Nigerian cousin and had since visited her ancestral village in Nigeria (Igboland)
@@alistiarvlog And all those DNA matches from Latin America, did their journey to where they currently are in Latin America start from Jamaica or Africa?
@@nwachinemere7759 I mean most African American/ Afro Jamaican ancestry started from West Africa. A lot of Nigerians from the Igbo tribe was taken to Jamaica and some from Ghana from the Ashanti tribe and that’s a fact. I got in touch with some of my Nigerian relatives and they are 100 % Nigerian of the Igbo tribe and they live in Agukwu Nri, Ȯra Anambra, Arondizuogu, Imo, Ndubuisi, Nwosu, Nigeria. Those are where their family originates from. So I guess I’m Igbo too.
So amazing that you were able to find cousins in Africa that could tell you your tribes! As an African American whose ancestors were brought over starting in the 1600’s, finding which tribes we were from, or cousins over there, would be a dream! I also have indigenous American ancestry, but that has been easier to find since my family is still active in their indigenous communities.
What an informative video. Thanks much for this video I’ve learnt a lot 👏🏾
Thank you appreciate it
Cool video💪
Thanks much bro
Alistair
You should upload your DNA file to LivingDNA and check out there results. Currently Ancestry and 23andMe have 14 to 20 regional descriptions for African ancestry while LivingDNA has 62.
And rather than say “Nigerian” LivingDNA will use ethnic or tribe descriptions like Yoruba or Wolof.
I have Nigerian relatives thats from the Igbo tribe so I think it’s safe to say I’m from that tribe too
@@alistiarvlog Here's their list for Africa
:
North Africa-
Algeria
Copt
Egypt
Libya
Mozabite
Northern Morocco
Southern Morocco
Tunisia
Western Sahara
Zenata
West African Niger-Congo
-Ajamat
Akan
Bambara
Benin
Esan
Fula
Igbo
Ivory Coast-Ghana
Kassena
Mandinka
Manjak
Mende
Mossi
Serer
Soninke
Wolof
Yòrúba
Central-West African Niger-Congo
-Bamum
Cameroon Bantu
Semi-Bantu
Tikar
East African Niger-Congo
-Achonyi
Giriama
Kauma-Kambe
Kenya Bantu
Luhya
Malawi Bantu
Somali
Wasambaa
Zigula
East African Nilo-Saharan
-Anuak-South Sudanese
Dinka-Nuer-Shilluk
Gemar-Messiria-Zaghawa
Gumuz
Maasai
Nuba
East African Afro-Asiatic
-Amhara-Tigray
Batahin
Beni-Amer
Blacksmith Ari
Cultivator Ari
Hadendoa
North Sudan
Oromo
Qafár
Welayta
Central African Hunter-Gatherers-
Bayaka
Hadza-Sandawe
Mbuti
Southern African Khoisan-
Damara
Hai||om
Ju|'hoansi
Karretjie
Khwe
Southern African Niger-Congo-
amaXhosa
Kleurlinge
Kwangali
Mbukushu
Ovambo
Sotho-Tswana
Southeastern Bantu
Southwestern Bantu
@@DanSolo871 thank you
LivingDNA has the regions, but they don't have enough African samples to give an accurate breakdown. Just like 23&me, they almost always label Black people in the diaspora as Nigerian, when most aren't. It's not reliable.
@@alistiarvlog The Igbo (Nigerian) and Akan (Ghana) were by far the largest group taken from Africa to Jamaica. You could through your Igbo relatives in Nigeria get to know the specific town your ancestors hailed from.
I’m 75% black and 25% Arab and I look like a dark skinned Arab guy because the only Arab in my body is my entire face (my mom looks 100% Arab even though she’s bi racial)
Nice results. Thanks for sharing
very interesting vlog and very well explained
Thanks much
I am 100% Indian🇮🇳 and idk if I should even spend money on Ancestry or 23andMe because I know It will come up as 100% Indian on results
I definitely understand. If you were born and raised in India 🇮🇳 I wouldn’t recommend you doing the test at all.
No do it because it helps make their database references more accurate for people who are mixed, because they can compare them to your pure 100% indian. Meaning it can't hurt, plus you never know if you find something unexpected in there also
@@Antpaok I agree with you. Rajesh should do it because you never know. One of my daughter X boyfriend who thought he was 100% Indian and he too was born in India - he did his 23andMe and his results was 99% Indian and 1% European with his Y-Haplo Group (Paternal line) was Jewish - the J- Group. That is the Priestly line of the Ashkenazi Jewish people. He was shock!!
Most Indians like people from Sub-Saharan AFrica are 100 percent from what I've watched on RUclips.
@@celeste5607 You might as well say 99% is 100% though.
awesome !!
Very jamaican…the Miskitos are often zambos a mixture of African and indigenous people and they used teach this but I guess the school system has other things to teach
Ikr. That’s so true
Welcome home 🏡 (Nigeria) Nigeria 🇳🇬 👏
Thank you 🇳🇬❤️
Interesting!👍
😊
Just Curious, what is your Haplogroups?
Paternal Haplogroup is E-m263.2 and Maternal Haplogroup is L2C.
Cool video
Thank you
@@alistiarvlog You welcome.
Im 1/8th Nicaraguan and have 1% Mali and 1% Senegal as well as 5% indigenous Central America. Very interesting.
Wow. I’m 4 % Mail and 1% Indigenous Central America and I was born and raised in Jamaica 🇯🇲 it’s very interesting indeed.
Ghanaian is being pronounced wrong. The right pronunciation is Ghaneh ian. Also, we need to know who your DNA matches are. Did you get any matches from the US, Latin America and other Caribbean countries? Those are pertinent information that should be shared with your viewers. If you have DNA matches from the US, there could be a possibility that they are Americans, not Jamaican immigrants, in which case you might have a different family member that was shipped to the US directly from Africa.
I will not disclose my matches on here for privacy reasons but what I’ll do is to tell you that majority of my relatives went through the Panama Canal in America thus, I have a large Marjory of relatives in America. I have DNA relatives in the following areas from highest to lowest: United States of America, Jamaica, United Kingdom, Canada, Panama, Haiti, Germany, Puerto Rico, Columbia, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, Grenada, Ireland, Bahamas, Cuba, Dominican Republic, India, Nigeria, St. Lucia and Burkino Faso. If you know about the Jamaican history a large majority of Jamaican were exported to New York around 1925 to work that’s why I have a large majority of family members in the states (459) to be exact. Others could have prolly went to other islands or brought directly to America and ended up in the different states due to the Trans Atlantic slave trade.
@@alistiarvlog
Thanks for your quick response. It will be very interesting to know if your matches in the Americas started from Africa instead of Jamaica. That is really the point I was trying to make. That will be a shocker if you had any DNA matches that did not originate from Jamaica which means that your Jamaican slave ancestors had another African sibling that was also African slave descendant. You also said you had ancestors from Burkina Faso and Nigeria. If it is true, that's game over. An African American with a RUclips channel Jamila Ngozi found a 4th or 5th Nigerian cousin and had since visited her ancestral village in Nigeria (Igboland)
@@alistiarvlog
And all those DNA matches from Latin America, did their journey to where they currently are in Latin America start from Jamaica or Africa?
@@nwachinemere7759 I mean most African American/ Afro Jamaican ancestry started from West Africa. A lot of Nigerians from the Igbo tribe was taken to Jamaica and some from Ghana from the Ashanti tribe and that’s a fact. I got in touch with some of my Nigerian relatives and they are 100 % Nigerian of the Igbo tribe and they live in Agukwu Nri, Ȯra Anambra, Arondizuogu, Imo, Ndubuisi, Nwosu, Nigeria. Those are where their family originates from. So I guess I’m Igbo too.
@@nwachinemere7759 it started from Jamaica because Jamaica had indigenous people on the island and they mixed with the Afro Jamaicans on the island
Where did you get this test done?
23andMe kit from Amazon