if you're 17% then this means one of your grandparents was full Taino or 3 quarters, Puerto Ricans need to rewrite their history on Tainos because they clearly weren't wiped out 500 years like they teach us in schools, You should so this DNA test on some of the older people like a grandma or grandpa who looks more indigenous
Soto N interesting. Yes I agree that history needs to be updated. It's sad that history gets to be written by the colonizers and that makes for a lot of innacuracies.
Cool! I'm Puerto Rican also and I have my DNA results: 23% Scandinavian, 5% Baltic,17% Iberian% , 13% Eastern Mediterranean, 12% Middle Eastern, 20% Native American, 10 % Sub-Saharan African.
E E I ll be glad to, I am puertorrican who happen to be married to mexican woman, she along have 58% native , I have 15% native, can you imagine the native DNA in my children
@@JmeJim in Puerto Rico there are full blooded tainos. If you look at the Chevere Family they are 99% taino. Plus you can be 50% native american in Puerto Rico as puertoricans are not only taino but also a mix of some other neighboring peoples who are also Native American.
Por supuesto que eres española, claro que sí! Los puertoriqueños ahí llevando el español a nivel internacional. Gracias por vuestra labor en América y un abrazo fuerte desde Madrid.
Ancestry keeps updating their results. Did your results change dramatically? I have noticed they are improving, but they still have a long way to go pinpointing Spanish ethnicity.
Hi there! I love your video. I am also from Puerto Rico. I saw your video and it inspired me to do my own. I am waiting on my results and just shot a video myself! So we will see what my spit says.
We the tainos are still here. They didn't get the job right or completed. Tainos are not Indians. Tainos are native. Big difference. Indians are from India. To be an Indian is not the same to be native. We are native.
I did my DNA test this year on Ancestry and 23&Me. Full disclosure: I'm also from Puerto Rico. Father's side is from Aibonito/Barranquitas and and my Mother's side of the family hails from Aguadilla/Isabela. But I have researched my family tree and have found out I have ancestors who were born and lived all over the island as well as Spain and also enslaved people. Ancestry gave me 25% Spain, 23% Indigenous American, 22% Portugal, 8% England and Northwestern Europe, 5% Jewish Peoples of Europe, 4% Basque, 3% Senegal, 3% Ireland, 2% Cameroon, Congo and Western Bantu Peoples, 1% Ivory Coast and Ghana, 1% Benin and Togo, 1% Nigeria. 1% Northern Africa, 1% Southern Italy and less than 1% Indigenous Cuba. Your results must have evolved as you must have gotten many updates since this video.
It truly is nice to see a Latina very proud of all her heritage! Don't listen to the people who want you to be all white so badly. It shows you have a diverse background and thats something to be proud of. Indians are not Caucasian they have lineage from Aryans but they are darker than most black people I've seen. So, be proud of the very thing that makes us Boricua, which is the world!
I think that she has as much right to identify with the lineage she feels closest to in the same way that Afro Americans identify with the lineage they feel closest to despite being mixed.
Te puedo decir que tienes casi el mismo porcentaje de iberia que yo. Soy un 44% y eso que soy española de generaciones y generaciones. Además tengo un 37% de irlanda y islas británicas. No es tan raro. Muchos españoles comparten con GB y irlanda. También con Italia, Francia y centro Europa. La parte escandinava te puede venir de la parte vikinga. Los vikingos invadieron parte de iberia ;)
Just_Me yo estoy hablando de España. De la genética española. Hay mucha gente española que tiene de ingles o irlandés. Yo tengo prácticamente la mitad de irlandesa que de española. Esto se entiende porque soy celta. La gente de España es celtíbera si eres del norte eres celta a secas y compartes con Irlanda y Gales la mayoría de los genes.
Just_Me es más no se si lo sabes pero en Galicia, Asturias y Cantabria se toca la gaita instrumento que compartimos con Escocia. Imagínate la vinculación.saludos!
si muy cierto ya de por si los europeos estan mezclados entre ellos celta, vikingos, iberios, anglos....mi parte espanola es de islas canarias supongo que tambien tengo guanche!
I've noticed that Puerto Ricans have higher European DNA than say Mexicans but tend to look darker and more ethnic. That's probably because their 2nd biggest portion is usually africa while the Mexicans is Native, and the latter is lighter/softer complexions so gives an overall more european look.
CJ Carrión Acevedo I know what is pale. I live in Europe. Thank you. Puerto Rican is a nationality. Anybody born in PR is practically Puerto Rican/american. That does not define your ancestry. So you will never only be seen as Puerto rican.
BiG PaPI8 Censuses from the 1950s have not included ethnicity and it is difficult to quantify Afro-Puerto Ricans as a percentage of the population. Estimates range from 22 per cent to 65 per cent. Afro-Puerto Ricans were among the first non-indigenous people to arrive on the shores of Puerto Rico and can therefore look back to a more that 500-year presence however long enduring prejudices still affect their lives. An understanding of how the Afro-Puerto Rican presence is perceived can be gathered from the treatment meted out to illegal Dominican migrants. Puerto Ricans tend to represent Dominicans as being darker-skinned than themselves, and emphasize their African influenced facial features and hair texture. In Puerto Rico Dominicans often experience the intense stigmatization, stereotyping, prejudice, discrimination, and exclusion to which all people of African origin are subjected in that country. minorityrights.org/minorities/afro-puerto-ricans/
Wow nice results. I have a Puerto Rican friend and she looks like a white girl with brunette hair, pale skin and she has freckles in her face. But she's very attractive and fit. Her DNA results came back 5% African and 10% Native. The rest was 85% European with 40% being Iberian, 20% Irish, 15% Great Britain and 10% Scandinavian. She wasn't surprised or upset to have very low African. But hey that's what she is.
According to Liane Jensen, member of the Association of Professional Genealogists: “DNA tests are not 100% accurate. Some high-level points about DNA testing: Ethnicity estimates are pretty good to the continent level. Estimates from the major companies for the same person can vary widely. We inherit DNA from a subset, not all of our ancestors. The estimates will change as more data is gathered. DNA testing is more valuable as a tool to connect to relatives than to get an estimate of ethnicity.” In case it is helpful, a short article about interpreting ethnicity estimates: genealogymom.wordpr...
Quick history lesson, most people in Puerto Rico are descendants of European immigrants. In other words, most Puerto Ricans are WHITES. It is not diversity what make anybody special!!! So stop with that gigantic LIE! There is not much diversity in Japan!!! And Japanese culture is special! There is very little diversity in many countries, whites, blacks countries....You are mixed, so talk about yourself!!! But don’t think you know more than the people in PR!!! The vast majority of people in PR said very loud and clear in the last census, they are white!!! Not a myth, just a reality!
Your results are so similar with my mom almost identical, She is really Moroveña also. My results are really different than even most Boricuas' results I have seen: 16% African (11%Senegal,North African,Nigeria, Ivory Coast/Ghana) 16% Native American 33%Italy/Greece 22%Ireland 9%Iberian Peninsula(So weird!) 1% Middle East 1%Melanesian
Sorry to disappoint you but Latino includes Asian Latinos, Mestizo Latinos, Native American Latinos, unmixed black Latinos and unmixed European Latinos as well. You are imagining that the three way mixed mixed Latinos in the Caribbean represent everyone in Latin America. They don't. They don't even represent everyone in the Caribbean.
You are so diverse ! Your ancestors basically came from everywhere. I like seeing those kind of results. I am not as diverse as you (28% Southeast Asian, 21% East Middle East/Africa North, 21% West African and East Central African, 24% West Europe and Southeast Europe, 2% Ashkenazi, 1% South Central Asia, 2% Oceania, 1% South Central Africa and 2% West Middle East.)I took a dna test with a different company, Family Tree DNA, the results are less precise, I wish I could do Ancestry to have more specific regions, especially for my European and Subsaharan African ancestry, but they don't ship to my country.
The South Asian comes from most likely Gypsies that also lived in Spain. My grandmother's side is mosty from Ponce P.R and all the sisters look Spanish Gypsy, and my grandma did have some south asian
Ahmed Gypsy King Adam That's so interesting that you say that. My paternal grandmother has always told me we have Gypsy ancestry and that side of my family is also from Ponce. Could we be related or is that common?
I think i found you if you have Rivera on there as your name. If so you are indeed related to me from my grandmother which has most family from Ponce (:
Great results, at first glance I could tell your Native American. And I agree, your the first 🇵🇷 I have seen with Asia south ancestry.. Thanks for sharing.. on my test results I had pacific island.. country was Melanesia.. that was a surprise for me..
Adry River .. yes thank you.. I didn't know anything of Melanesia prior to my testing.. after my results I looked into Melanesians history.. Interesting indeed.. Proud to carry some of that history with in me..
17% is not a lot and it is less than a 5th. usually Puerto ricans have 3% to 9% and it is usually lower then African ancestry. If you want more African in you all you need to do is get an Afro Puerto rican boyfriend or husband or Dominican or African or even Caribbean because the history of the Caribbean the Taino were wiped out which they were. Only a small percentage of Taino ancestry remains in Puerto rico genetic makeup and it is from the maternal side. Most Puerto ricans have more African DNA from 25% upward to 100%. It is not like Mexico where their are more then 30 Million full indigenous Native Amerindian people and most Mexicans have 40% to 100% Amerindian ancestry.
Hola chula, I did mine also and got a crazy big mix too.... In total I’m 74% Europeans, the largest being from Italy at 33%.... Then everything drops off too, Great Britain 8%, Ireland 7%, Spain 7% and other areas such as France and Russia but don’t remember what %..... then I got 16% from Africa which WOW blew my mind!! I was happily shocked !! ... 5%senegal, 5%North Africa, 3%benin,3% Nigeria!!!! I’m also 7% native which also made me very happy as I wasn’t expecting any!!! I’m 2% European Jewish & lastly I think if I remembered correctly Jajaja is 3% middle eastern !!! Sooooo wepaaaaaa que mezclaaaaa verdad :)
Natural Style I may look south Asian for the style of clothing I’m wearing , it’s called a shawar khameez... super pretty and cumfy !!! And nope not a troll ... but I am proud of my mixed heritage
17% Taino es bien alto. Hazle el examen a tu familiar con mas edad a ver que resultados consigues. Definitavemente se ven los rasgos indigenas en tu imagen. Yo tengo 12% Taino lo cual es tipico en PR.
Very mixed person covers practically everywhere! I think it`s a rare to have a person with Northern and Southern European, Native American, Southern Asian, Pacific Islander, African, Scandinavian, British, Western European, Middle East, Ashkenazi Jewish..wow! Southern European is normally Portugal and Spain or Italy and Greece. You got all four!!!
Very similar to mine. I'm from Mexico. Just that I got more middle eastern than African but we have similar DNA. My mom is pretty Iberian European and my dad is pretty mestizo.
I am 100% boricua as well and got on ancestry 73% Europe, 17% Native American, 9% African and 1% Middle East, with a total of 16 regions among these territories. My mom got 18% and my dad 14% Native American. We are definitely more mixed than just spanish, african and native american, and I am so proud the Taino lives in us.
I like your video and I also came up 1% Asian.My son wanted to know where it came from . Asian is about the very same as Native American which did not show up on my DNA. My grandmother and my sisters I used to go to Alabama to visit the reservation To see my great grandmother to still live on the reservation.
Well am Puerto Rican I was think like you 50%spain and %50 taino but for my surprise am not am %50 European 25%polineysian and also have 3% Jewish, 1% Italian and -1 British some kind crazy stuff and yes now I just tried to my parent do the test to! ☺️
Most Anglo Americans and Afro Americans think that the only immigrants to Puerto Rico were Spaniards and West Sub-Saharan Africans. So they will probably think you are lying.
Puerto Ricans aren't mixed because of the new world, but rather that Spain had already for centuries Celts, Scandinavians, Phoenicians, Carthaginians, Romans, Greeks, Jews, Noth Africans, among so many others. A new world addition would be Native American.
Native Iberians do score a lot of Italy/Greece and some Great Britain (among others) so you should really see your Europe score (+ West Asia + Africa North) as your total Spaniard ancestry, so around 72%+ Spaniard. The very small % are usually what is called "noise", especially if they don't make any sense historically (here Pacific Islander for instance). The 2% Indian needs to be investigated though.
Johannes Hügel no need to be rude- would you care to explain why the majority people of Puerto Rico have Italian/Greek and other European DNA, besides IBerian, without having any significant migration from any of those countries. The vast majority of european migration to PR was from Spain. So do the math, what that tells you?
MAELOB Migrations to Puerto Rico came from many of the neighboring colonies. French colonies, Mexico, British Colonies, Dutch etc. I had no idea of all the different ethnicities in PR until my DNA results did not make any sense to me. I had to start reading history that is not taught in school. Puerto Rico has been a melting pot since even before its colonozation. Even the Taino were a result of three major migrations a mixed people who became one. It is in essence what makes the Caribbean so awesome. A Mixture of everything
Gracias por el vídeo y por tú tiempo.. tengo tiempo también buscando en mi árbol genealógico y también llegue a los padres de mi bisabuela. Son de España y también me gustaría hacer el Ancestry DNA.solo por conocer un poco más. Fun fact también tengo el cuadro que tienes detrás lol en mi sala
Melanesians are people that look African but are more genetically before Polynesian. They may have made to the Americas first and were replaced by the influx of the American Indian people coming out of Russia or the Bering Strait.
I think that the india part might indicate gypsy ancestry, since Spain, especially the south has a lot of Roma-Spanish dependent populations. Flamenco, Fandagos De Huelva, Sevillanas, Bulerias etc are all inspired by gitanos where Andalucia is the main haven for this music and culture. There is also a town called Paterna De Rivera in Cadiz region. My surname is Rivera Molina so it gets interesting to know that.
All your peoples were explorers and we're searching. They traveled a lot. I find that to be interesting. Do you feel the need to travel? Im pr and I move a lot.
Hi Anthony. I have a lot of videos that explain a lot of things on how to get started and other tips to Puerto Rican geneolgy on my channel. Have you started your tree yet?
Adriana Rivera I have some information but only from my mother’s side. She can only tell me up to her great grandparents on her paternal side. My biological father is Portuguese. I never met him. I was raised in foster care most of my childhood (age 7-17). I do know that I was born in Ponce. Where could I possibly start. It’s all overwhelming. Thank you kindly.
Great that you're proud of your african heritage even with only 10% ! Africa is the future. You seem to be a very down to earth human being. Take care 😉
Also the Spanish put Europeans in Puerto Rico except the Jews in la Española today is Dominican Republic. So English is never going to beat Spanish in the whole Americas in North Americas their ancestry is Asian and Mexican. check this out: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-aV26MUJKruo.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-aV26MUJKruo.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-kF_Y-5RujDk.html
Spain saved Italy from the Ottoman Empire. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Castelnuovo en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Lepanto The Battle of Pavia (1525) marked the beginning of Spanish dominance in Italy. Spain's claims to Naples and Sicily in southern Italy dated back to the 15th century, but had been marred by rival claims until the mid-16th century. While Venice, the Papal States, Este, and Savoy retained their independence, the rest of the Italian Peninsula either became part of the Spanish Empire or looked to it for protection. There would be no Italian revolts against Spanish rule until 1647. The death of the Ottoman emperor Suleiman the Magnificent in 1566 and the naval victory over the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Lepanto in 1571 gave Spain a claim to be the greatest power not just in Europe but also in the world. The Spanish Empire comprised territories and colonies of the Spanish Monarch in the Americas, Asia (Philippines), Europe and some territories in Africa and Oceania.
La Parte que te sale de Africa teniendo en cuenta tu apellido "Rivera" Es muy posible que se refiera a que tienes ascendentes isleños Canarios, como mucha gente en tu país. Estos test no especifican mucho en ese sentido. Saludos desde Gran Canaria. 🇮🇨😉🇵🇷
the percentages of "Italian / Greek" correspond to the period of the Roman Empire in Hispania (-219 to 476); the Scandinavian (Germanic in general), corresponds to the Germanic invasions of Hispania in the fifth century ... That is why all this genetic inheritance together with the Iberian indigenous people constitute Spanish blood and it refers to Spanish ancestors in all safety ... I am Spanish and I have 14% of Scandinavian ... I do not have anything of Moor nor Arab like 75% of the Spaniards ... then the remaining 25% can have a low percentage no greater than 10% ...
If you are born in a country that speaks spanish (once you see the iberian result) you descendents were from spain not portugal point blank. And the other thing spanish colony's were excellent at book keeping and writing journals you are making false assumptions please research before you make statements thank you.
Hello Adriana! I came across your video while looking for dna results videos like yours. Come to find out, we are 4-6 cousins. You resemble another cousin I/we have in common. My mother's side of the family are from Ciales and Manati. :)
Tony Lazania Hi Omg I am from Morovis and have Pagan also. In seaeching for my tree There is Pagan all over... early 1800s Pagan Colon, Torres Pagan, Pagan Torres, Rosario Pagan Most my side were in Barahona, Morovis, and some branches ended up in other Barrios.
Good Evening Ms. Adry River please if you permit me to make a respectful , polite comment if it's ok with you. This is your page, your presentation, your story and I don't mean to intrude or presume but I have to make a small comment in response to Mr. Chris and his reference to the Puerto Rican lady who looks white. From a physical anthropologists perspective this lady with 85% European, 10% Native American and 5% African genetic content is point of fact a Caucasian white woman due to her overwhelming 85% European component (very, very little mixture there) very likely of the Proper or Atlanto-Mediterranean physical type typical in Spain and the Canary Islands and the predominant Caucasian phenotype in the white populations of Cuba and Puerto Rico. The population of Puerto Rico is a uni ethnic but mixed-multiracial population composed of three distinct morphological groups according to the census - whites, mulattos-mestizos and blacks. Whites actually constitute the majority of the population on the island of Puerto Rico(not the U.S Puerto Ricans though) as well as Cuba being Cuba the one with the strongest European component of all the Caribbean islands due to the fact that in Latin American it was the country that received after Argentina the most Spanish immigrants. The notion exists that the only two countries to receive real European immigration in the Americas were the US and Canada and this is not correct. The US and Canada have mostly whites of the Nordic Central European racial types whites while through Latin America whites are more of the Southern Mediterranean racial type, that is the difference. Nonetheless as you said Ms. River, yes we do have a strong admixture in our genetic make up of Afro-iberian-taino elements. Ms. River you are really more within the physiological spectrum of a mestiza due to your physical traits and genetic composition. Please forgive me Ms. Adry if I am intrusive or overwhelming and thank you. With much respect from the sister island of Cuba.
According to Liane Jensen, member of the Association of Professional Genealogists: “DNA tests are not 100% accurate. Some high-level points about DNA testing: Ethnicity estimates are pretty good to the continent level. Estimates from the major companies for the same person can vary widely. We inherit DNA from a subset, not all of our ancestors. The estimates will change as more data is gathered. DNA testing is more valuable as a tool to connect to relatives than to get an estimate of ethnicity.” In case it is helpful, a short article about interpreting ethnicity estimates: genealogymom.wordpr...
Quick history lesson, most people in Puerto Rico are descendants of European immigrants. In other words, most Puerto Ricans are WHITES. It is not diversity what make anybody special!!! So stop with that gigantic LIE! There is not much diversity in Japan!!! And Japanese culture is special! There is very little diversity in many countries, whites, blacks countries....You are mixed, so talk about yourself!!! But don’t think you know more than the people in PR!!! The vast majority of people in PR said very loud and clear in the last census, they are white!!! Not a myth, just a reality!
@@mbrower3304 Actually, genius, if most people in PR say they are white, is because they are! They are the only ones that know their own history, heritage and family trees! It is not you or your delusional ideas abut race!!!
I saw a video the guy from PR had Asia India. People from India are from Pakistan. Middle Eastern people got around. Southern Italians are mixed with Middle Eastern to. Their beautiful people.
La parte de Italia. Que tenemos muchos latinos en especial sudamericanos no es directamente por espanoles. La conquista fue dada por el inperio espanol. Del cual formaban parte. Italicos. Que defendieron en batallas en al imperio tanto en europa. Como en la conquista americana. Muchos soldados del imperio espanol fueron italicos i no ibericos
23k views Nice results/ my ancestry DNA results are European 66%/ indigenous Americas 23%/ African 10%/ im 38 years old i was planning on staying single anyways but I'll take a chance with a tri-racial or European, indigenous & African of different percentages woman that's Puerto Rican descended, im DNA testing though to make sure lol
No olvidemos tambien que la peninsula Iberica fue invadida por Fenicios y Griegos mucho antes de la era cristiana. Los verdaderos autoctonos Ibericos fueron los Iberos y Celtas, despues llegaron los Romanos y por fin los arabes...que linda mixtura somos, no?. Un saludo de un Iberico desde Europa.
Quick history lesson, most people in Puerto Rico are descendants of European immigrants. In other words, most Puerto Ricans are WHITES. It is not diversity what make anybody special!!! So stop with that gigantic LIE! There is not much diversity in Japan!!! And Japanese culture is special! There is very little diversity in many countries, whites, blacks countries....You are mixed, so talk about yourself!!! But don’t think you know more than the people in PR!!! The vast majority of people in PR said very loud and clear in the last census, they are white!!! Not a myth, just a reality!
