I have been working on my genealogy search for 30 years, and I had traced my ancestors here in America to the late 1690’s. I have taken three DNA test and I am 93% African, 6 % Scandinavian and 1% Native American. I traced my maternal like to present day Sierra Leone and I share 99.8% DNA with the Mende people.

@blkindians7974

Ай бұрын

Did you have any African matches as family members?

@maryambrahim82

Ай бұрын

❤❤

@millionairemaine8901

Ай бұрын

@@japhya0378 Maybe this person wants...more knowledge. You can respect Black American accomplishments here and still want to know what came before. It's okay.

@coolandhip_7596

Ай бұрын

@@japhya0378 personally, I don't fall into the same demographics as the poster, but while I do have a great interest in my family history in America I do also find it interesting to know about where they came from before that. It's beyond fascinating to think about the lives my ancestors may have lived. To see that I had a particular ancestor immigrate from England in the early 18th century, and to think about the world he came from, and to look at records of the names of his ancestors as far I can go is something so special. I imagine that isn't quite the same when you get to places where records like that weren't kept at all, but to see where your ancestors came from is something special. If the poster above would just see her ancestors from this side of the Atlantic, then there's part of the story left blank prematurely.

@guruuvy

Ай бұрын

We’re probably related! My family is from Sierra Leone and my paternal Grandmother was Mende!

I did the MTDNA full sequence test from FTDNA and confirmed that my maternal line comes from the Akan people in Ghana. The test is more expensive but it was totally worthy.

@whoahna8438

Ай бұрын

78%African with Native American maternal lineage and European paternal lineage

@Historian212

Ай бұрын

Just remember that with mtDNA, you’re talking about an original ancestor who lived many thousands of years ago, but only on one ancestral line out of thousands.

@KAH-7

Ай бұрын

Not necessarily the person could be anyone from a parent to a far distant foreparent. That's how Mt and Y DNA operates.

@sr2291

Ай бұрын

Do you have any matches?

@paulacopeland8360

Ай бұрын

My mother and I have Native American and Asian dna.

I am a US slave descendent with 83% African heritage 50% of which is Nigerian. The rest is mostly East African and North African. I also have 10% western European (Scandanavia, Spain and Portugal) and the rest (about 7%) is Levantine, particularly Egypt and Yemen.

@TurnFromWickedness

Ай бұрын

Your DNA tells a story. The Portugal and Spain DNA is because your ancestors escaped to Spain from North Africa from Muslim persecution. Upon arriving in Spain, they were pressured but would not convert to Catholicism and were expelled during the Spanish Inquisition. They fled to Portugal where your ancestors were treated worse by the Portuguese King than the Spanish King. He made slaves of your ancestors. The Portuguese Expulsion then expelled your ancestors to Portuguese settlements in West Africa (Sao Tome and Nigeria). Spain and Portugal were also the first nations to start the transatlantic slave trade and for much of the 16th century had a monopoly on the slave trade. You are of the tribe of Israel. There is a large amount of documentation to prove all of this.

@KentPetersonmoney

Ай бұрын

It's rare for African Americans to have east and north African but i have seen it show up in some of their results online. I'm guessing maybe some east Africans or north Africans might have been traveling through west Africa when the slave trade was going on and got caught up in the slave trafficking.

@lawrenceandrews4367

Ай бұрын

​@KentPetersonmoney lol what 😂😂😂😂😂😂

@isaiahmwereru8833

16 күн бұрын

That’s false East African coastal ports were mainly controled by Arabs how tf were we slaves by the British or French😂?

I appreciate him not sugar coating that African women were raped.

Im 40%Oklahoma;20%Tennessee;%15Mississippi;25%Indiana.

@kkristian8350

Ай бұрын

And what else ❓❓❓❓❓

@franklinkettle6853

Ай бұрын

Mutt

@brokendad2222

24 күн бұрын

Seems to be common I have wondered if some of the migration was due to the civil war. Our family migration goes something like Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri then Oklahoma.

When it comes Liberia people need to understand the history of that country, which was founded in1821 by free Black Americans who was formally enslaved. With that in mind the results coming up as being from the area that makes of Liberia today could be from people who are descendants from people who came from the USA.

One of the things that helped me with my African American genealogical roots was to use the Ethnicity Estimates to insert the most popular surnames in those countries. In doing so I found many cousins their tribal affiliation. I found majority Igbo cousins on my father's side, and was able find the state and village of origin from those discussions. My mother's side was mostly from Sierra Leone and the tribes varied. I also found a Ghana and Kenyan cousin. I believe the reason Kenya shows up in the Ethnicity Estimates so much is because the Lou tribe of Kenya has an oral history of migrating from Eastern Nigeria which is the home of the Igbo people. Most Igbos that take a DNA test always have Kenyan ancestry. I think that accounts for how it is found in many African Americans.

@ElStands

Ай бұрын

I'm curious, how would inserting surnames help? We don't know our original surnames and even if we learn the most popular ones in a region of the Continent, how would those connect to us?

These test put you where they want you be

@FNJ720

Ай бұрын

Exactly what I said

@Grimloxz

Ай бұрын

Where do they want you to be?

@limonesycafe8898

Ай бұрын

And you know that based off of what? Apart from that, they can’t put you anywhere. The test tell you places some of your ancestors hailed from.

@JamesJames-qj6nn

Ай бұрын

Results are narrative based

All black people did not arrive in America by slavery. There were explorers. There were tribes that came here and lived before slavery. There were also free people that traveled and lived in America. All black Americans were not slaves. I'm positive that African people have been traveling to the Americas for years way before slavery. That's why their genes would be here. Which is also why a lot of African American people may show show genealogy pointing to Africa because those were the Africans that came during the slave trade. Some Africans did come during the slave trade but the other slaves were black people that already lived in America.

@sayitloudblcknproud

Ай бұрын

But the Blacks who were already here before the slaves arrived were still Africans. The fact that there were Black explorers that settled here makes a ton of sense. What I don’t understand is understand is people saying we are indigenous Native Americans. That wouldn’t be correct. Native Americans are the folks with brown skin and long black hair that’s bone straight.

@jasonclay9946

4 күн бұрын

The Black were those Indians. Racial Integrity Act 1924 changed us from Indian to Colored.

@user-ch4kp9qc3b

Күн бұрын

The only thing with your theory is that, they never found any African dna, until after the slave trade. If I were you I would have done a better research, and stop reading African fables

@user-ch4kp9qc3b

Күн бұрын

⁠AFRICANS AND, NATIVES DO NOT LOOK ALIKE, stop lying

May I add. Black Americans do have a pretty good idea where we come from before slavery. We are broadly West African. "Nigeria" and "Ghana" are not ethnicities. Those countries didn't exist until relatively recently. You can get past the "brick wall" by finding ancestors born before 1870 who are named in the 1870 US Census. I was able to trace my family back to before the Revolution, combining census records with family lore.

@CCSKeo

Ай бұрын

im traced back to 1724 easy

@EyeOfTheWatcher

Ай бұрын

Also, state census are good records to look at depending on the state because some states did list some black people because they was either land owners, free, lived in a free black community, or connect to union military.

@vjjunlimited

Ай бұрын

Let's not forget about the indigenous black people reclassified as African or negro. Columbus noted people that looked African when he arrived.

@elnitaedwards4550

Ай бұрын

I tested with my heritage. Kenya was not in my results

@Shade_223

Ай бұрын

Igbo Alan and other Bantu tribes

I'm African American & I took 4 different tests (Ancestry, 23&Me, African Ancestry, & My Living DNA). I'm 62% West African & 8% Congolese & Angolan, both Ancestry & 23&Me are relatively the same. African Ancestry traced my maternal line to the Bubi people of Equatorial Guinea, with some ancestry from the Tikar, Huasa, & Fulani of Cameroon. My Living DNA gave me the ethnic groups I have ancestry from not just the regions, East African Ancestry showed up on this test, being the Luhya people from Kenya. I have 28% European ancestry, 1% Native American ancestry, & 0.7% Chinese ancestry.

MyHeritage is remarkably bad at African admixtures. They don't have any population groups south of Congo, for example. In my experience as a Brazilian person, we often get a mixture between Nigerian and Kenyan, to represent both West and East African, but, as other companies shows, we often have Angolan and Mozambican DNA that is misread by MyHeritage. I heard that, at Roots Tech, they announced a big update in their calculator in the summer of 2024, so it's coming. I cannot wait to see how it will affect my results!

@sheppeyescapee

Ай бұрын

So true. My mum's African ancestry is from her Mauritian father and is mostly Mozambican and Malagasy, MyHeritage puts her African as mostly Nigerian. Ancestry and 23andme puts her African as mostly Southern East African/Southern Bantu.

@CarribeanCJ

Ай бұрын

They’re bad at all ethnicities unless it’s mena Jewish diaspora

@ProfessionalGenealogistReacts

Ай бұрын

Seems likely that the next admixture estimations for MH will be coming out in June. I'm looking forward to seeing the changes!

@sheppeyescapee

Ай бұрын

@@ProfessionalGenealogistReacts I'm definitely looking forward to seeing the changes. If the map they showed at rootstech is accurate, it looks like they are significantly improving their African regions.

@hasanicarter5543

Ай бұрын

@@ProfessionalGenealogistReacts yes but they said the update would be only for Europe.

In my observations, My Heritage tends to assign most Black Americans a substantial amount of Kenyan DNA and it's almost always the third largest Sub-Saharan African percentage. Because Kenya is in East Africa, I was surprised at first until I watched more and more My Heritage videos. I would not be surprised if the Kenyan DNA is significantly overestimated. I don't trust those results. By the way, My Heritage also assigned a large chunk of Kenyan DNA to me and like so many other Black Americans who take the test, it was my third largest Sub-Saharan African percentage. Kenyan has appeared on my DNA map from other companies, but in smaller percentages.

@user-ch4kp9qc3b

3 күн бұрын

If you African, what makes a difference

I done over 6 test and My Heritage I believe I was the only one who gave me Kenyan DNA 5.7%

I'd say most Aframs fall between 75-85% African, 15-25% European, 1-3% Southeast Asian/Native American.

I’m African American with 53% African 46%caucasian 1%native American

@skeletalforce9673

Ай бұрын

do you have a white parent? Thats a very high caucasian reading

42% Nigerian, 18% Sierra Leonean, 5% Maasai (southern Kenya). In Europe 29% Scandinavian, 3% Italian, 2% Finnish, 2% Ashkenazi Jewish

@katchikali9573

Ай бұрын

It would be great if these companies get enough reference panels that identify ethnicities and not nationalities with modern day names. Nigeria has many ethnic groups. Yoruba, Igbo, Calabari or all 3. Likely if you are African American.

@Itzpapalotl.

Ай бұрын

I think it’s interesting that so many people including myself get Ashkenazi to. I’ve done some genealogy and it’s actually SEPHARDIC Jew. Somehow that never shows on these tests.

@Shade_223

Ай бұрын

Is your dad or mom white?

The salient point about pre-1870 records is that if enslaved people were counted at all, they were only listed by gender, sometimes with age - but only rarely by first name, and they had no surnames. Free people of color were listed with names, the same as whites, with color listed differently.

@johnwebb2442

Ай бұрын

True.

I like learning new things. I'm so glad I found this channel.

I don't go by any of these tests. When you plug the raw DNA from one to another, they all have different results.

@Justafox305

Ай бұрын

Ancestry lists everyone as Cameroon and 23 & me lists Angola and Congo but when the person clicks on Cameroon, it will say Angola and Congo .

@sdseals2076

Ай бұрын

@@Justafox305 I will recheck mine.

@limonesycafe8898

Ай бұрын

That is because they all have different reference populations. 🙄

There is a reason why they won't pinpoint the European Country with accuracy. (Escaping lawsuits)

Native Americans' ancestors journeyed from Asia to the Americas. Asia/China comes up in DNA tests for Indigenous American ancestry.

@Itzpapalotl.

Ай бұрын

That is not true. My indigenous to the Americas is significantly high on 23 and me. On a completely separate category I have east Asian at 3%. Things are always being updated and more people are taking the test for better accuracy.

@CCSKeo

Ай бұрын

asia/china does not come up for indigenous ancestry

@brawndothethirstmutilator9848

Ай бұрын

@CCSKeo, It does for companies that don’t have an accurate and large enough database of Indigenous American DNA.

@anisraelitewholovesotandnt7799

Ай бұрын

@@brawndothethirstmutilator9848 yes that much is right because if you read other things they say you are correct very much in alignment with your reasoning well put sir/ma'am whomever I'm addressing.

@anisraelitewholovesotandnt7799

Ай бұрын

@@CCSKeo they are correct though you go on other videos yes Indigenous shows Asian so thats no lie.

My family is from the Caribbean. My brother was tested on 3 sites. My heritage gave 8% Kenyan ...we felt it was wrong as the other dna companies made no connection with Kenyan and also the paper trail has no connection

Yes... I'm African American and on MyHeritage I have 8.5% Kenyan which does not show up on AncestryDNA; however, on 23andme I have 12.8% Congolese & Southern East Africa which seems very broad. There is a break down of this region (Angolan & Congolese - 11.2%, Southern East African - 0.3%, Broadly Congolese & Southern East African - 1.3%). I definitely would not make any travel plans based on MyHeritageDNA estimates.

I often wonder what society was like before the "one drop rule". I would love to see someone do a documentary on that subject because if we didn't have the "one drop rule" people in society would self identify totally different.

@hwgray

Ай бұрын

"people in society would self identify totally different." But the only one that mattered would still be white vs. non-white.

The enslaved humans were very much recorded. They were considered property. And valuable “property” is inventoried.

MyHeritage gives Kenyan and Nigerian to everyone, the only ethnicities they have in africa are, West Africa, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Kenya, Central Africa (but only northern central africa), Masaii, Somali, Ethiopian Jewish, North Africa, nothing more southern than that.

@isaiahmwereru8833

16 күн бұрын

Kenya was never apart of the slave trade if anything the British freed us from the Arabs 😂😂

MyHeritage has "Inuit" and "Mesoamerican and Andean" as ethnicities, but the second one is specially misleading, because any non-Inuit Native American is classified as "Mesoamerican and Andean" - even if they're Iroquois from New England or Tupi-Guarani from NE Brazil.

@Runningwolf432

Ай бұрын

Mine too

@vlosa2439

Ай бұрын

why do so many african americans have andean ??????

@hummingbirdofgumption3263

Ай бұрын

Mine list's me as 1.3% Meso-American at the conservative level. The problem is that I'm all European and there's no evidence my family. If so, it would be way less than 1.3 %, more like 0.3% or nothing. I believe it's a misread of Mongolian which we do have DNA proof by Y dna because one line is SE European (Golden Horde invasions).

@brawndothethirstmutilator9848

Ай бұрын

That’s very misleading. 23andMe has a much better database for Indigenous American populations. They can identify several specific regions and if they don’t find pretty clear signals for those regions they just give a non specific classification that covers the whole of the Americas. Much better way to interpret results for people imo. Their “recent American ancestry” subcategory is also excellent for people of Latin American origin. It can identify signals common to specific regions of Brazil, Central America, the Caribbean, and even Gulf Creoles.

We had a story in my family that my great grandfather was Irish. It was proven when I did the DNA that I had 15% European with Irish being the 12%. So I would love to truly participate in St. Patrick's day but.......

It’s Finnish. The map corresponds to Finland. MyHeritage have a Finnish category, and a separate Scandinavian category.

@simbahunter8894

Ай бұрын

I have Swedish friends who are quite adamant that Finns are not Scandinavian. They are actually quite racist in the terms they use to reject them. The Finnish language has no connection to Scandinavian languages. Its closest relative is Hungarian. However over the years, many people of Swedish or Russian descent have migrated to Finland, so "true" Finns are not so easy to identify by DNA.

@l.ahlgren7752

Ай бұрын

@@simbahunter8894 All Finns are Nordic, all Scandinavians are Nordic, but not all Nordic peoples are Scandinavian. It's like "Slavic" vs. "Balkan" peoples. There is some overlap, but "Scandinavian" is mostly related to language & culture up there - i.e. Sweden/Norway/Denmark - that's Scandinavian. Throw in Finland, Iceland, & the Faroe Islands, then that's "Nordic". (Don't ask me about Slavic vs. Balkan, I'm googling that now. lol)

I'm African American and here are my MyHeritage results (I took an ancestrydna kit and 23andMe as well): AFRICAN: Nigerian 37.5%, West African 19.3%, Sierra Leonean 11.7%, Kenyan 8.2% EUROPE: Scandinavian 7.8%, East European 5.3%, Finnish 4.4%, Italian 3.7%, Balkan 1.1% ASIA: Japanese and Korean 1.0% My family's from Florida, N. & S. Carolina, and Georgia mostly.

@brawndothethirstmutilator9848

Ай бұрын

Based on what I’ve read about their population samples, and statistical probability from the African diaspora in the New World, I would bet that your Kenyan reading is actually Angolan/Congolese, and your East Asian reading is actually Indigenous American.

@blkindians7974

Ай бұрын

have you found any family members in africa thru your matches?

@JamesBrooks-hj3dz

Ай бұрын

​@blkindians7974 prob not because most of us not even from Africa as so called AAs

@truw1600

Ай бұрын

The Damn DNA test Is fake as hell . Quit misleading people

@truw1600

Ай бұрын

@@JamesBrooks-hj3dzthese They have Black Americans Fooled with this DNA test shit. The only thing a DNA test can show you is who your mom an dad is .

I suspect that Kenyan reading is in actuality Congo and Angola DNA. There are Bantu tribes in Kenya

I did my heritage DNA 39.8% Nigerian, 19.7% West African, 12.3% Kenyan, Maasai4.0% , East European 24.2% .I am still researching so it's a start

@truw1600

Ай бұрын

DNA TEST are Fake Asf . I’ve took two different DNA testing kits and it literally gave me two different results 🤔 how does that work ?

I did 23andme and then I uploaded the same results to MyHeritage and got some different results, including 1.5% Korean/Japanese in MyHeritage that was not there in 23andme. In 23and me, that was listed as Indigenous and Filipino/Austronesian.

The African Americans who had a daughter with the ginger hair found out that the father had a grandfather? On the father side who was Russian to their surprise.

My parents are from the Carribean. My brick wall is around 1833.

I'm African American, raised im an African american family and adopted. Did an ancestryDNA test and came back as 62% European, 37% African and 1% native american. 54% of my European DNA comes from Ireland, specifically Leinster. Had 2 matches from a guy and a girl that suggested a half sibling relationship. Theyre from dublin.

These DNA tests go back 7 generations, which means at least 254 ancestors. You have some of their DNA from each of them. Of course, a human has more than 254 ancestors, we have millions of ancestors who lived thousands of years ago. Unfortunately, their ethnicities can no longer be traced, automosal DNA tests only show a small portion of your ethnicities and often it is not accurate. It is important to test as many family members as possible, especially the elderly, and do your own ancestry research. By the way, a small percentage of DNA ethnicity can be very important, I have read that a small percentage may come from distant ancestors

You are reasonably well acquainted with the ancestry testing. KZread’s algorithm brought this video to the top because 1) I watch a fair amount of ancestry videos. 2) I love travel and have viewed this couple’s travel videos. 3) I have seen one other video that you produced. I have watched this couple travel in Europe and Africa. At which point they did the test in relation to traveling to Africa, I don’t know. I have thoroughly enjoyed their travels and responses to the countries they are traveling in. They are curious about their ancestry test perhaps even with the intention of considering the next travel video. It may not be your intention to highlight other’s KZread success, but it bothered me that you never gave recognition to who they are. That you questioned their desire to travel abroad shows a peculiar lack of appreciation for their work. The only thing I did see naming them was the announcement of whose results we were about to see. Does KZread restrict you? In my limited travel stateside or in Europe, there are places that I resonate with and find truly fascinating. Is there harm in traveling to pursue a soul search? The reveal of people’s heritage search is very intriguing. Keep it up. Our greater awareness will hopefully expose us to healing our communities. We have all been hurt by dominating leaders or misunderstandings among local communities. This is already a long ‘rant’, but, I have Scottish and Irish heritage. The interactions in the U.K that lead to migration to this continent were grueling. The hostilities between those nations and people groups are haunting. Oh, and I did appreciate you returning to comment on consensual relationships not just ‘by force’. Relationships which would not have been acceptable at the time are grievous. I was born in 1955. I’m ‘old’. But, my parents never taught us about racism. It was there, of course. In the late 60’s I cried to know how cruel all races were towards one another, both throughout history and currently.

Myheritage labels Indigenous as Chinese/Asian for some folks. I’m 14% on 23andMe and none and like 3% on my heritage

@Runningwolf432

Ай бұрын

Yes I'm supposed to have 1.5% Inuit

@deirdremelvin5921

Ай бұрын

Around 67% of the ancestry of Native Americans is derived from East Asia. while c. 33% is derived from an Ancient North Eurasian

My results were: African - Nigeria 36.4, West African 18.2, North African 7.1, Kenyan 5.7, Sierra Leonean 3.6, Somali 1.3, Central Africa 1.0. European - Irish, Scottish, and Welch 22.2, Finnish 3.2, East European 1.3.

17:21 She did get Finnish ancestry, so it still is possible that she does have a Polish ancestor.

I got both My Heritage and Ancestry. My ethnicity is almost similar but, on MH it also shows 1% Mesoamerican, and 1% Philippines/ Indonesia. But, both say W. Africa, Congo, N. Africa, England & NW Europe, Irish, Scottish, and Wales.

There was migration westward to central Africa. This is why Kenya Luhya people get in the mix.

I am a darkskin Black American. MyHeritage DNA results: 67% African, 30% European and 3% South Asian(India).The African part 53%Nigerian, 9% Kenyan and 5% African trace regions.My great great Grandfather was a European of Scottish descent by the name of a Eaton Pugh Govan.He was a slaveowner and a rapist.

African Americans and Africans in the Diaspora can find out what part of Africa they come from by taking AFRICAN ANCESTRY TEST it is the BEST test I took. Now I’m communicating with my TRIBAL FAMILY from the Motherland and the ones here in America and around the Diaspora

@ProfessionalGenealogistReacts

Ай бұрын

I would not recommend African Ancestry DNA. They do Y-DNA and Mt-DNA tests, but only testing a very small amount of markers which are not sufficient enough to give reliable results. Shannon Christmas, a very well-respected and experienced genetic genealogist, wrote a great article a few years back explaining the issues with this company - throughthetreesblog.tumblr.com/post/182318109607/just-say-no-african-ancestrys-dna-tests

@KAH-7

Ай бұрын

They have EXCELLENT results for anyone who has Sub Saharan MT and or Y DNA!?

@lorriet2922

Ай бұрын

@@KAH-7 Their results are hit or missed. More likely missed. Most people do not understand the science of DNA. He is correct when he said that they do not test enough markers or alleles? (Spelling) for anywhere near the amounts needed for a half decent result. I questioned and contacted them about how many markers did they test and they never gave an answer. They evaded my question countless times. Another KZreadr saw my remarks and told me that they used about 8 markers and that they need to test at least at the minimum 12 markers to give any where near a decent result.

@LibertarianGal

19 күн бұрын

@@lorriet2922 They only test 13 markers. Not accurate at all. And you cannot assign ethnicity through Y and MTDNA. People in the same tribe could have different haplogroups.

@LibertarianGal

19 күн бұрын

@@KAH-7 Their technology is outdated and not accurate.

I do wonder how My Heritage does their add mixture? I have a really hard time with my family tree, I’ve deleted and rebuilt so many times and was really hoping that a dna test would help me a little and with My Heritage being the cheapest option as well as the platform I preferred to use I went with it. Now my family lore says we’re Irish, Scottish, French, German, and Cherokee, and only the Irish and Scottish showed up and what all came up correlates to other peoples trees and the reason I kept deleting and redoing. My Granddaddy knew his Cherokee Grandmother AND we have the family sauerkraut recipe and we know the original spelling of the family name and all the other trees NEVER take that into consideration when adding people to the tree.

So Great Grampa Polish guy’s Dna could have been not 100% Polish and it just didn’t come down the line. I agree the matches will tell more than ethnicity results.

@ProfessionalGenealogistReacts

Ай бұрын

Very true, which is why I say that it doesn't disprove anything.

There’s a KZreadr that is mainly Scandinavian but they have a 1/2 Chinese grandparent. She has a fraternal twin who did a DNA test with her. The sister had some Chinese DNA BUT the KZreadr did NOT. With him I bet the grandparent was Asian and not native. Then some one was just like “you’re native “ 😂

4:36 Before going further, and after many episodes of Finding Your Roots, I'll put my money on his grandmother's alleged indigenous roots being based on the "high cheek bones and straight hair" trope 🙄... 25:12 Yup. Not a trace of indigenous (Native American) ancestry.

@user-cp3gr9lx3s

Ай бұрын

You do know that Columbus described indigenous people as having African features right. You do know that he enslaved thousands of indigenous people and took them to west Africa as well and looked no different then the Africans. lol do your research, indigenous peoples still came in a color variation.

@EyeOfTheWatcher

Ай бұрын

that is what one line of my family said except for my great grandmother who said we did not have any Native American in us. It turns out my great grandmother was right, as it turns out the characteristics that ,y family mention came from a white woman who had a relationship with a black man around 1700s (as there some isolated free black communities in the area my family was from).

@Devilsqueen123

Ай бұрын

Because it’s normally European that the usually are mixed with.

@briarelyse5136

Ай бұрын

If the Chinese/South east asian estimate is true that's possibly where that story came from.

@Ronsquaremy

Ай бұрын

Yup..Like Larry David was told by George Lopez he had almost 40% Indigenous, but that turned out to be a huge lie. He looked so shocked when Henry told him he was European. Wasn't a surprise to me lol.

My heritage DNA is: 57.0% Nigerian. 11.9% Sierra Leonean. 10.8% Kenyan. 6.5% W. Africa. 1.5% Central Africa. 0.8% N. Africa. 5.1% Irish, Scottish & Welch. 2.3% Greek & South Italian. 3.1% Mesoamerican & Andean. 1.3% Inuit. Additional genetic groups are: Mexico (Zacatecas & Jalisco)

@blkindians7974

Ай бұрын

Did you find family members in Africa or have any matches?

I think to track down White ancestry of these black person in America is kinda easy because of family names and registries, its not like it was 1000 years ago...most of these ancestry can be trace back just a few hundred years and the archive have many documents on that especially if they live in certain plantation.

Lmao I noticed my comment was ignored I guessed you think we're separate species 😂😂😂

You're back at it⁉

I am a full on African from the Bété ethnicity and I have a Red head Uncle. He is related to my Father from his mother's side. His kids are also Black and Red headed with a yellow/orange tone to their Blackness and I also have a random skin that behaves Red ish. My lower body is full Carrot Black and on my legs even when I shave I still have visible follicules... like a red head! Then my face is darker more regular Black. Of course I've hated it my whole life. But are you saying that only White people can be Red heads? Because I have red heads in my African Family. Does that mean they were necessarily mixed with something White? 😂

@sdarling6518

Ай бұрын

I do think it's interesting that the genealogist didn't bring up the obvious. Humans have way more in common genetically/biologically than we don't. Many features we use to define one group or another don't hold water scientifically.

Mitochondrial Adam!. Believed to either be the first man, or the first group of ancestoral men from which of all living males came from today!. Y-Chromosome Adam is believed to have originated from have 160,000 and 300,000 years from Cameroon 🇨🇲!.

Is it possible that the Polish ancestor came from Poland but was ethnically/genetically something else e.g. German. As for me MyHeritage gave me 11.7% Kenyan and 2.9% Maasai. I am not African American but my family history does include individuals (African and Indigenous) coming from the North American mainland.

@ianbeddowes5362

Ай бұрын

I thought that too. Poles have a mixed heritage. Many have German heritage, Baltic, Ashkenazi Jewish or Tartar depending on which part of Poland they come from.

@ProfessionalGenealogistReacts

Ай бұрын

Definitely a possibility! Part of the difficulty with trying to use the admixtures to determine anything, so much nuance in history and how people defined themselves, so there hundreds of possibilities. A similar example for Asian results was Fred Armisen discovering his grandfather wasn't Japanese but had actually been Korean, but assumed a Japanese identity.

I'm having trouble posting, so here's my third try. My results from MyHeritage: Nigerian 35.8%, Sierra Leone 25%, Kenya 15.3%; North and West Europe 9.4%, Iberian 5.7%, Italian 4.1%; Inuit 2.2%, South Asian 1.3%, Meso-American and Andean 1.2%. Very little of this accords with what I know of my family ancestry. Even wilder, Family Tree DNA gave me 8% Finnish, a big chunk of ancestry for a family with no identifiable Finnish family members. However I did find that Finns have a similar ancestry to Native Americans through Siberians. I had a Native American great grandfather. If you combine the "Finnish" with the Meso-American and the Inuit, you get the percentage one would expect for a great grandparent.

@Itzpapalotl.

Ай бұрын

Why would you need to combine them? My DNA tests is abundantly clear the percentage of native American ancestry without combining other elements.

@brawndothethirstmutilator9848

Ай бұрын

Yeah, this suggests their samples for identifying “Kenyan” and “Inuit” are probably off. There’s likely some other African signal getting miscategorized as Kenyan and some Indigenous North American signal getting mislabeled as Unuit and Andean.

Blood is blood. Stop with the fractions. If that percentage 10% that person makes you part of them

MyHeritage is supposed to be updating their EE's this month (June 2024), but I hope it's not like their last supposed "update" (which was more like a down grade). Also, MH is designed to work in sync with the genetic groups.

I have tested with Ancestry DNA, 23 and me, and Familytree DNA both autosomal and Mtdna. I have also found 100% African cousins in Nigeria and Ghana. I'd love to do more but finding those African DNA cousins gives proof of where my ancestors once walked.

I thought I was just Black (Caribbean) but according to MyAncestry I descend from people from Nigeria (42,3%), Sierra Leone (30,7%), Kenia (14,4%), Scandinavia (6,2%), Greece and Southern Italy (3,2%) the Balkan (2,1%), and Southern Asia: 1,1% 🤣🤣

The Kenyan DNA is probably Fulani or Hausa tribes which are West African tribes that migrated to West Africa from the Nile Valley, from Egypt to Kenya, Cushitic people. The Chinese DNA is usually Native American..

I wonder as a Puerto Rican with African ancestry, if I could ever have a DNA 🧬 match to some distant relative in Africa? Or is it almost impossible because people in Africa just aren’t submitting their DNA samples to the DNA database?

He is embarrassed, I wonder how many times this guy came up telling us about he’s native descendants from Mexico.

Years before I tested with 23andme in 2013 I (99.8% European) traced my rumored native American ancestor, her name, her Virginia colonist husband's name and all their children including the daughter I descend from. 23andme switches back and forth between Chinese and Japanese for my genes from my indigenous Cherokee ancestor born in the mid 1700s in North Carolina.

@Itzpapalotl.

Ай бұрын

My 23andMe actually says indigenous of the Americas though. Theres a separate category for Asian.

My highest percentage of African descent is Kenyan at 11.3.

I think the area highlighted along the top of North America for MyHeritage is Inuit with the one from South America going up to Central America to the Southern US is Native American. I have a trace result of Inuit despite no evidence for it from anywhere and being of fully European ancestry (a lot of English, Irish, and Scottish). I think the Finland area that I think is in their Other regions is called Baltic. MH says I have about 5% Baltic and 25% Scandinavian which I think are really Irish/Scottish which is why when I see MyHeritage reactions, unless they are of Jewish or Eastern European descent I'm very skeptical. I hope things get better after the upcoming update, surely it must!!!

@l.ahlgren7752

Ай бұрын

Vikings settled in Ireland & Scotland, so DNA coming from those countries could present as 'Scandinavian' since it goes back.

I have taken tests with 23andMe, Ancestry, My Living DNA, and African Ancestry with all of them being very similar results. Based on the My Heritage results presented in this video, I would not take that test. It's evident that their admixture results for African Americans have major inaccuracies.

He didn’t say full indigenous, he said his grandmother was half indigenous.

The 1890 census missing and few inner branches are my biggest brick wall.It seems some of my ancestors on inner branches probably have not tested.

Now that I think about it MyHeritage said my Kenyan is 11.7%

MyHeritage commonly gives East African percentages that are false. I think they're picking up on DNA from the Bantu migration, but they most likely have a very small data base from Africa. There were slaves taken from Mozambique, but those went primarily to Brazil. They're better at detecting Jewish, Middle Eastern and North African ancestry.

@anisraelitewholovesotandnt7799

Ай бұрын

ah thats interesting I heard of something to an extent of them being connected to Sephardi.

@anisraelitewholovesotandnt7799

Ай бұрын

might link up with the Jamaicans and how they too link up in that the Sephardi lineage bubble.

@anisraelitewholovesotandnt7799

Ай бұрын

I'm a Hebrew Israelite but I have no issues with identifying with Africa its much to discover though just sorting through notes.

@anisraelitewholovesotandnt7799

Ай бұрын

say are you familiar of the African royals in Spain and Portugal like Yahia...?

@anisraelitewholovesotandnt7799

Ай бұрын

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahia_Ben_Rabbi

I don't think my heritage can read Central and West Central Africa or even South East African results outside of just saying Kenya because most of the Kenyan results are probably countries like Cameroon, Central African Republic, Gabon and Congo, Angola, Mozambique. What the My heritage test is probably picking up is the shared DNA between West and East Africans as a result of migration. Ancestry and 23 and me have a somewhat better breakdown. Ancestry breaks it down as the region of West Central Africa and 23 and me breaks it down into two countries Angola and the Congo. As a result of migration its probably still hard to determine. The best test to break down African Ancestry outside of those two companies is still African Ancestry. I've seen a better breakdown on YourDNAPortal that could help compare the result of Ancestry and 23 and Me that would give better answers.

It seems on my heritage everyone gets pretty much the same results

So unless you hav recent Native American ancestry, roughly within the last five generations, if any of those genes were even passed on to you recently, you wont be able to tell if you have Native American ancestry through a standard box DNA test...?

@ProfessionalGenealogistReacts

Ай бұрын

Sort of, but it also goes both ways. You could have really distant Native American ancestry and inherit the DNA - what some genetic genealogists call a Sticky Segment. DNA recombination is just random and it is part of the difficulty of these tests showing you your 'true ancestry', as many people hope it will show. Although, if you have Native American ancestry and it doesn't show through your ethnicity admixture estimates, it is possible to also prove it through your DNA matches with the paper-trail.

We know it was a paper genocide and $5 Indians.

My heritage vs 23andme MyHeritage results Somali 84.9% Middle East 5.3% North Africa 4.5% West Africa 4.3% Japanese Korea 1% 23andme Results Somali 100% Y-Dna: E-M78, E-V32 Mtdna: L0a1 Ethnically Somali for many generations my tribe Karanle also who live in Somalia and North East Ethiopia. Ethiopia and Kenya are not mentioned in MyHeritage even though Somalis live there for more than 2 millennia. 23andme is more accurate by far.

China, those pirates got around!

Why is Nigeria separated from West Africa on these tests?

Nigeria is in west Africa so how did they separate the two?

@lorriet2922

Ай бұрын

On my heritage the west Africa is mostly pointing to places on the Atlantic coast like Senegal, Mauritania, Guinea, Cape Verde, and the Gambia.

I took 2 tests and they both came back with my African DNA being 94.5% with 4% European and 1.5% Native American. The real question is how Levantine is the Ashkenazi population is compared to the Palestinians? Also what the average percentage of the Ashkenazi population DNA that is indistinguishable from non Jewish European DNA?

@ProfessionalGenealogistReacts

Ай бұрын

Not sure why that would be "The real question" in a video aimed at discussing African American ancestry, although I know a lot of people love to 'ask' this real question as some sort of a political tool to further their own agenda. But if you want actual data from an actual geneticist who has been doing this for years, here is an article from Razib Khan - www.razibkhan.com/p/more-than-kin-less-than-kind-jews / and a video interview with Razib - kzread.info/dash/bejne/o5qFmqihZNrHhag.html

I have 42% European and my father isn't white.

Well we're not and all of us are mutations of the original African

The East African reading has to do with the links to ancient Egypt. Some Igbo groups (now settled in Nigeria) tells the story they they left ancient Egypt and migrated into many areas and Nigeria. My friend also got East African readings but it was from Burundi. Kenya does show up a lot for many American Americans. There is more to African American history than what you were taught.

the term african american is extremely cringe, the database for indigenous dna is small to non existing the markers you do find dont come from sample regions in the US but mostly from canada or the meso america region, so this is why dna testing for indigenous ancestry doesnt reflect in most Black Americans however there are extremely large sample regions in specific areas of africa that always shows up so the percentages that are reflected are region biased and not correct.

@anisraelitewholovesotandnt7799

Ай бұрын

and thats fine not all Natives regardless if they live in Canada or US not all are Indigenous.

Hi My Heritage seems to be off with some of their results. I had 11.6% Kenyan and 2.2% Somali ! They also had me being 14% Balkan 4.3% Italian and Greek. I have taken 23&Me, Ancestry and the Gedmatch as well. I'm 80% Sub-Saharan African. My maternal haplogroup is I1a1, which according to 23&Me is originated in Middle East and then spread to Northwest Europe! Dad took the all the tests as well as mom. My Dad had R-M417 for his paternal haplogroup which is East Europe/ West Asia. I have a tree on Ancestry and from one of my European-American cousins the line goes back to 1600's in England. I have also on my mom side free people of color included in NJ and Maryland that owned land. Also on both sides of the family , I was able to find that two ancestors severed in the Civil war listed in the Colored troops. Also my cousin gave me a picture of my enslaved 3rd great -grandmother who was born in 1845! As usual, I enjoy your channel!

i have 13.4 kenyan from my heritage test as well but i found my test to be very accurate after some study and through African ancestry i am bubi from bioko island from equitorial guinea through my mothers line. i have 2 percent chinese and vietnamese as well and its funny because my mom looks like she came from vietnam in some of her pictures even though shes african american

I think he said that he had some relatives from Mississippi and on finding your roots. Doctor gates had another guess who had East Asian ancestry. And the theory is that around the early 1900s that they had imported some Chinese workers to do some projects in Mississippi and that that is possible where the admixture came from....

Ive done my DNA 🧬 w/Ancestry and Im 95% West African (50% Akan) and I was able to locate my Great Grandfather x5 (1765) I even have land Grants my Ancestors purchased in Wilkes County North Carolina

Only thing I don't understand is what is Nigerian? What is North and West European? What do these titles mean? How is this genealogy? I'm not being sarcastic. This is just the way I talk. This is a real question.

Native Americans are closely genetically related to East Asians which is Koreans and Chinese. So , there could be fact of what his grandmother told him if he has Asian in his test.

@deirdremelvin5921

Ай бұрын

I'm black and My great-grandmother was Native American. My mom tested and she got 1.3% East Asian. I got 05% East Asian. My 3rd cousin got 3.6% INative American and .07% East Asian.

@truw1600

Ай бұрын

@@deirdremelvin5921DNA TEST Isn’t a valid source to tell you where your from . They’ll literally give random results

17:32 I know a family who was originally Polish then they moved to Ireland then America. So they have Irish culture but are originally Polish. Oreos move around and alt culture different from their genetic ancestry

MyHeritage often gives people trace Finnish ancestry for some reason. It's probably a misread unless it's the highest of her other ancestries.

@CarribeanCJ

Ай бұрын

My heritage is notoriously garbage lmao

@karmagal78

Ай бұрын

MH gave me low percentages of Finnish, Italian and AJ, none of which I have found anything to confirm on my tree. I have also done Ancestry and my dad has done Ancestry and 23andme, which I have found are both representative on my tree.

@Hismana-oi4yx

Ай бұрын

Throw all in the trash. Yall still falling for this scam.

@Dragoon77

Ай бұрын

Not only trace, MH gave me 12% finnish when I don't have any matches from there. They are the best when it comes to analyzing matches though

talking wayyy too much

My DNA results is split in half and much of it is Indian (Native American)

His Chinese could be from Chinese in Louisiana. Distant cousin said her Chinese in that state.

That is just finnish it is showing for te first lady up there. Very interesting, would be interesting to hear if they really have finnish or just trace amounts. It is not that common. Shout out from Finland o/

It's so ridiculous how people will say black Americans don't know where they're from and then ask them where they're from and they tell you directly. That is so hilarious. My mom is from here. My dad is from here. When you ask somebody from another country the same question they will do the same thing they're going to say. Well my mom is from here and my dad is from here. Why is it different for African American person is what I'm trying to understand.

@ms.branch1207

Ай бұрын

How come nobody ever asks people from other countries besides America to go into their ancestry? Why is it that only African American people are asked well? Where did your great-great-great-great-great-grandmother come from? I'm just making an observation that this doesn't happen with any other group of people. I think it's because they want to discredit people to steal the land and the culture just steal the their life.

@hyphyhijabi

20 күн бұрын

imagine a chinese person in america. both of their parents are from america. their grandparents are from america. their grandparents are also born and raised in america. that doesn’t mean they aren’t still genetically chinese. black is a color not an ethnicity. black was a title given to separate us. whether afro american, afro latino, afro caribbean, etc we are africans

How African are African-American DNA results? Let's just say most of us don't get confused for white Europeans, even though my results from 2 companies showed up 23 percent Swedish :)