African Ancestry vs Ancestry.com | Pros & Cons (MY EXPERIENCE!) 

When she said "ancestry has been around forever" (~25 years) it made me feel so old!! 😵 and I'm only 26 😅 I love the perspective of time and how people perceive it

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I watched Finding Your Roots and they were able to trace one of the people (he was a black actor) back to the first person that came over from Africa on the slave ship. He had a name. That has never happened before or since on the show. That was huge! Obviously, this is so rare and as I said...they have never been able to get that kind of information from anyone else.

I really feel you on your comments, I would like to know some of the same things about my past history. I don't know if you have heard the autobiography of Alex Haley, but his story of, "Finding his Roots" is powerful. If you are able to get Ancestry's DNA test done, i feel it would be a good start to finding the information you desire. Blessings and peace

Interested in knowing did you take the test yet. I find most people with the same story as you, are able to trace back to Africa, to the city, and to the tribe with research!!! Thanks

Yass cameroon here as well!!!! 🙌🏾

@MrThuglife404 yes we come from multiple tribes, however, there are ways to trace a small part of your DNA, isolate it and trace it back to a modern day country. According to our family history, Cameroon lines up with where my mother's ancestors come from. From Benin to Congo 88% approximately of my DNA comes from that region, I have little European DNA, approximately 5%British, 1% Native American and the rest African. Cameroon is my ancestral home in Africa, as well as Nigeria. I have spent time and money researching my family history and our origin, and I can say confidently that I'm proudly Cameroonian 🇨🇲🇨🇲🇨🇲🇨🇲🇨🇲🇨🇲🇨🇲🇨🇲

@MrThuglife404 so if I don't come from Cameroon, where do you believe I come from? Surely can't be the US!

That’s exactly what I wanted to know. She sounds like she wants to be confused 🤣🤣🤣 Tell me what tribe my mamas mamas mamas mamas mama came from !!!

@@damonwren3587 take a test and find out

Doesn’t mean nothing

Mtdna is shared between so many ethnic groups. They’re just guessing. No way narrow down mtdna to one ethnic group in Africa. Fake test !

@@swifstart_7777 Where's your proof?

@@PeppaSauceQn Even with African Ancestry it does not always come back with one tribe. I took African Ancestry it came back with two tribes. So you are dead wrong. Some come back with two or three or more. Every black person in America does not have the same story. Stop placing black people in one box to fit all. You are looking for a certain narrative to fit what's in your mind and that's wrong.

@@PeppaSauceQn what lab was it? I would like to get a test

I agree, it is weird there seems to be some bias in Ancestry's data(having a larger Nigerian dataset). My grandfather is from Kenya and before my results were a large percentage Southeastern Bantu (makes sense for Kenyans) but now the largest part of my results say Nigerian.

@@AnyoneCanBeACritic Right and I know for a fact just by looking at my appearance I have North Africa/Arab heritage. 0 percent came back. Henry Louis Gates as of today are helping celebrities discover their ancestry. I feel like I could trust him more vs Ancestry.com or 23andme. I do know that I have a large chunk of African.

In 2019 I had Benin/Togo that was my large amount. Now my large amount is Nigeria smh

Where can we see you and your sister's reveals/results ? Provide proof so that the people can beware.

@artistNexile dont be 2 fast in your conclusions

How do u know which one is false ?

if you've done Afrikan Ancestry, i'd love to know your reflections.

You said that you Nigerian side is from your fathers, correct? When taking African Ancestry if you are a woman you can only take the maternal test which is your mothers family line. If you want to know the exact tribe for your Nigerian side you will need a male from your fathers side ( Father, brother, uncle ) to take the paternal test for you.

African Ancestry gives you the tribe you are from that’s it. If you are from more than one tribe I have seen from other videos that they will list them. I did ancestry first then I wanted to know the tribe. (waiting on results) If you do your father side it “might” come up European because of the slave trade. If you do your mother’s side you will get an African result unless you are European.

@@browniegay9130 that’s fascinating. I felt really good about the ancestry dna test. It was more fitting for my pockets at the time. But I will definitely invest in the near future for the African ancestry. My only question is. . . When you say dads side and moms side how do I test for both? Isn’t it one swab? Or do you mean test my actual parents?

@@DreuanF There are two different tests. Both tests have 4 swabs in each one. Patriclan for the male and matriclan for the female and male. They are $299 each. Only the female can take the matriclan but the male can take both. So you have to decide which one you want to take but whichever one it’s for your whole family on your mothers or father’s side. It’s cheaper if everyone pitch in since the results are for everyone. One person use all four swabs.

@@browniegay9130 thank you so much for this information! This is great I will definitely look into this.

Yes some countries will gfive citizzenship based on DNA, but be careful who you give your DNA to

@@OmoNyame hi,Omo;sorry for not texting back sooner.My experience with 23andme was great.thanks for asking.

Look closer at your Spain and Portugal results. That is where that bullshit comes in with African Ancestry. There was a lot going in that region genetically. I looked up my actual genetic code and it is a few steps away from the Cohen gene. That is a lot more significant than just a general ass "Spain and Portugal". I want to do my mitochondrial DNA test but IDK about African Ancestry. I asked for my raw data and they just ignored me.

Some sources have indicated that real Judeans from Israel were in Spain and Portugal before and during Trans Atlantic Slave (War) Trade. Not sure what samples they are using for your results or what it really means in that regard but fyi.

They’re probably talking about the Moors who settled in Spain/Portugal they were one country time ago. However, the Moors empire failed after the Catholics from Rome if I’m remembering correctly came in took over. The moors migrated from empires such as Malian, or Hausaland, etc...

What were your results

Why are the two companys using same lab

Ancestry dot com sells your information. That's why they are so much cheaper. They make their income through selling information. African Ancestry does not sell your information. They even mention in their informational package that not only do they not sell your info, they destroy your results after you have received them so that if another company were to buy them out, there will be no old information to sell.

This is what I’ve been concerned about and why I haven’t done any of the tests...

Its should, as they update their resources and dna sizes, they get more info

I disagree. My sister and I took a dna test from 23andMe, and our results matched up. African Ancestry gave me different results.

@@davonbenson4361 African ancestry isn’t supposed to give you the same results they’re supposed to give you a tribe through your mother mothers mothers line or fathers fathers fathers but 23andme gives you different states of different countries in different places and tests people differently to make matches African ancestry isn’t for that

Your sister is going to get only her mother’s tribe when taking the maternal test because she is a woman. If you took a paternal test you will get your fathers side only

@@OmoNyame how many tribes did ancestry directly identify for you? When I took ancestry they gave me zero tribes just regions but that was like 6 years ago. Maybe they have improved their system. Like you said it depends on what we are looking for. I just feel like if you know the root..then everyone attached to it is of some relation to you. That's kinda the whole point of tribes. I didn't mean to offend you.

Omo Nyame You recieved one tribe because Africanancestry tells you what your maternal line or paternal line was before your lineage started getting mixed with Europeans and non blacks. That’s that 500-2000 years Africanancestry says they can go far back to. The many tribes you’re expecting started off with slavery when many Afrikan tribes mixed with each other. Some people do get 2 or 3 tribes which means that before slavery and before artificial borders, that side of their family had mixed with those tribes as Afrikans migrated around Afrika way black then. So Djola from Guinea Bissau was what your maternal line was before slavery mixing with other Afrikan tribes began to happen.

Omo Nyame oh ok cool

Ancestry isn't as effective as Africanancestry. Ancestry only has 1,300 samples in their database while Africanancestry has over 33,000. And since Ancestry doesn't have as much African samples, they tend to fabricate their results if they're not sure. Many people have proven ancestry to be inaccurate.

Southern parts of Nigeriz tribes like fulani and hausa people look east African

@@OmoNyame the issue I have with my results is they don't seem accurate. 23andme told me I had Native American. Ancestry told me I had West Asian on the first test. I don't look East Asian at all. 23andme told me I had East Asian ancestry. Most Asian people have small eyes and high cheek bones. If u saw a picture of me my eyes are large. I basically look mostly African with European heritage. Both of my parents were born in Louisiana.

Icouldnever Hausas and Fulanis live in northern Nigeria not the southern part of Nigeria. The most mixed looking Nigerians live in the north more closer to Arab invasion.

@@thenobleone-3384 looks dnt always tell your story... dna does.

@Angela H Yes she should have started with African ancestry.com and then done the rest of the research on her own.

I think one day the capabilities will be realized to look at more parts of our genome.

@@indigophoenixskies1030 true. Dr. Kittles of African ancestry said the L1 markers for africans had been over looked in the genetic markers. They had been using eupeoan markers for world referencesin all other DNA genetic tests

L1 markers for Africa?

@@chimakalu41 that's bogus tho

hasani carter What makes AfroRoot different from Africanancestry which is a much older and much popular company?... Besides the fact that AfroRoot charges less?

Honey Adeniyi #BlackOwnedDNACompanies The two black owned Ancestry tracing DNA companies. One ( www.AfroRootsDNA.com ) is an autosomal DNA based company, similar to AncestryDNA. Except they don’t yet match you to active relatives, who took their test, because they are new and don’t have the database of customers for that, yet. But they do take the regional and subregional breakdowns of your total Ancestry, a step further than Ancestry and 23andme. Not only does AfroRootsDNA provide a continental, regional, and subregional breakdown of your total Ancestry, but they also test your DNA directly against every person, belonging to each particular tribal and ethnic group, in their DNA reference panel. They then tell you how much of your DNA matched those particular group of people, who identified with being from the same tribe. So, if 23% of your DNA segments🧬 matched the people, in their reference set, who identified as Yoruba, from Ibadan Nigeria 🇳🇬 ; and 15% of your DNA matched the people, specifically, who identified as Mandingo, from Gambia 🇬🇲; and if .01% of your ancestry matched the BaKongo tribe, that’s what they’ll report; and if 15% of your DNA matched to Indigenous Americans, here, in the Americas... then that’s what they will report. Autosomal DNA test analyzes the DNA across all of your family tree branches, accounting for all of your ancestors. Not just one ancestor, on one branch, of your family tree. It’s black owned. Black managed. Black Ran. It’s a shared partnership, between Africans on the continent; and Africans (i.e African Americans Etc) in the Diaspora. Kenyans software developers developed the actual Mobile Platform/App. You will also be able to upload you raw DNA, from other Autosomal DNA companies, you have previously tested with, and have AfroRootsDNA’s labs run their analysis. They also will continually be adding more services and features, over time. The CEO, is Mark Bishop The company is Brooklyn New York Based. It’s FUBU. The cost is $180, for the AfroRootsDNA kit. www.AfroRootsDNA.com This is their commercial: m.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-cKMUYgIR-FE.html ……………………………………………………………………………………………………… The second black owned ancestry tracing company is www.AfricanAncestry.com. They test your MtDNA; and your Y-DNA against every African that they’ve collected MtDNA and Y-DNA from, in their database, and tell you the ethnic groups of the Africans, you matched, and their scientist confidence, in the reliability of your results. Many times you will match to multiple people, from multiple tribes. And it will be difficult to for them to differentiate which tribe your MtDNA and or Y-DNA comes from, in that case. And they will give you all the tribes, in their database, that you match. Sometimes your MtDNA and Y-DNA will come back Native American. Or European. Or Asian etc... and that’s okay. MtDNA and YDNA only accounts for ONE ANCESTOR. Out of atleast 1024 collective Ancestors, going back to your 7th -8th great grandparents. Their test is $300 per test. The CEO and President (founders of the company) are Dr. Rick Kittles (Geneticist); and Gina Paige (MBA) I hope this helps.

PERFECT! THANK YOU.

devinkk you’re welcome

Good info

@@OmoNyame no problem. That is great. Jola of guinea bissau cool. Now you already know the matrilineal lineage of your African ancestors. You have already narrowed it down. Or identity on the African continent is by the ethnic groups so the research can be focussed on Djola. You are just researching the American part of your history as well for fun? From your other videos I got that Afro centric sense about you so I thought you would only be intrested in the direct African lineage.

@@chimakalu41 That is what I was thinking myself. The actaul Tribe in Africa from where your mother comes from is much more impressive. Wanting to know about what states the slaves were is not exciting.. But knowing the actual tribe that yoour ancestors were from before being enslaved is much more exciting to me..

@@theaviationist.5719 exactly. Yes

@@chimakalu41 It's like she just wanted general information.. She wants to be from as many countries and from asmany States as possible. It's like someone asking you "Where are from?" Then you answer "I am from America". That is not impresive to me.. But if you answer, I am from the USA, North Carolina, then name the City, Town, and then your actual family home. That is what AfricanAncestry does. It tell you; You are from African, Western African Gives you the specific African country. Then gives you the exact Tribe your DNA matches with in that particular country. But then you complain that they did not tell you how many States your family tree might have settled throughout..

@@theaviationist.5719 she has all info now though

@@OmoNyame 7 weeks?

Anyone can take the African ancestry test. But if you’re only 1% Black then it will lead you back to Europe and they won’t be able to go into detail about it.

@@thatguykev856 so cameroon and congo to bantu peoples isnt detailed enough for 1%. You have to be the biggest idiot around. Suck to be a hater huh.

@@jonbertocchi173 😂 hating on what? Your 1% 😂 that probably came from non consensual sex. I told you the truth 🤷🏾‍♂️ I meant detailed about your European ancestry because African ancestry’s database isn’t that large outside of Africa.

Zieynaba Dem It won’t be the same as Africanancestry since Africanancestry tells you what your mother’s lineage was before slavery and the mixing with other Afrikan tribes during slavery. 10 generations ago, AAs were no longer slaves. And even if they were, they were a mixture of several Afrikan tribes already. So unless they’re gonna tell you what tribes your Ancestry was mixed with 10 generations ago, it’s gonna be inaccurate. I personally don’t trust white owned DNA companies cuz they’re known to be innacurate. They care more about collecting & saving your DNA than actually giving their customers accurate DNA results. They only have 1,300 ethnicity samples of DNA around the globe. And if Afrika has way more than 1,300 tribes, how accurate are these results they’re giving to black people? Not to mention, their results changes at least once a year which causes confusion.

Honey Adeniyi I mean you already took the ancestry.com test so they going based on that, and the mixing of african “ethnicities” start on the continent. African ancestry only gives you the ancestry of one of your grandparents not all of them. They have a larger database imo. I’m african and to me it was pretty accurate

Im say that it goes back up to 10 generations..

Zieynaba Dem Actually I’ve never taken Ancestry.com test or any dna test for that matter. If you’re a Continental Afrikan, and you just want to know what else is in you besides your country/tribe, then Ancestry and my heritage dna will be better. But if you’re Afrikan American, afro latino or Caribbean, Afrikanancestry.com is better because their aim is to tell you what your lineage started off as. As an Afrikan you may not like that it only tests one branch but it’s very beneficial for afrodiasporans to know what they started off as before slavery. But I understand your POV. Like, what’s the point of taken a test to tell you what you already know unless you just want to check its validity as a Continental Afrikan who already knows their tribe. Those that were already a mixture of tribes before slavery are those that get 2,3 tribes in their results. Africanancestry has a much larger database than Ancestry DNA and 23&me. People’s results from AncestryDNA changes like once a year as they gather more dna. I have a friend whose ancestrydna results changed 9 months after he got his results and the percentages changed too. That just goes to show that ancestrydna isn’t even sure the first time and isn’t that accurate.