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.
@@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.
@@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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 up Liberia today could be from people who are descendants from people who came from the USA.
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 I think the issue is it's not accurate. That though the majority of the slave trade occurs in west Africa why would many African Americans be from the eastern part of the continent
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.
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?
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.
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.
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!
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.
@@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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
You are reasonably well acquainted with the ancestry testing. RU-vid’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 RU-vid 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 RU-vid 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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Nigerian 36.5% Virginia and North Carolina Southern USA Sierra Leonean 9.3% West African 7.3% Central African 3.7% Kenyan 1.9% Maasai 1.6% Europe Iberian 18.4% East European 9.4% Scandinavian 7.5% English 2.7% Oceania Melanesian 0.9%(Kenyan is not listed on 23 and me or my Ancrestry site)
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.......
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.
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.
@@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.
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.
@@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)
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.
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? 😂
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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)
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.
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.
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 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?
There’s a RU-vidr 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 RU-vidr did NOT. With him I bet the grandparent was Asian and not native. Then some one was just like “you’re native “ 😂
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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 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 RU-vidr 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.
@@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.
I’m overall. 91% African and 8% European, 1% Native American based off of Ancestry DNA. I tested with Living DNA as well and I like how they broken down by tribes, they have me at 88.4% African and 11.6% European. I then tested with FamilyTreeDNA they have me at 90% African, 9% European. I also took a Y-DNA test on FamilyTreeDNA and my y haplogroup is European which was a huge surprise to me being a Black African American. I just took a test with 23andme and I’m just waiting for my results. Overall from my experience from these dna test I’m roughly between 88 to 91% African based on these test.
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.
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.
From Ancestry - Nigerian - 16%, Nigeria - East Central 3%, Cameroon Congo & Western Bantu - 14%, Ivorty Coast & Ghana - 13%, Mali - 9%, Benin & Togo 8%,Senegal 3%, England & northwestern Europe - 10%, Sweden & Denmark - 7%, Ireland -7%, Scotland 5%, Jewish 4%, Finland 1% My Dad is 48% black and both his parents are biracial. My mom is 82% African.
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?
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 - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-qfQ8Fh4waUE.html
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...?
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.
I saw a Finding Your Roots where the person was part Chinese from the Chinese workers brought to work in the south in the 1800s. Alternately, the Wayans's DNA shows Madagasgaer ancestry which is Indonesian....
Great video regarding the the genealogy of African Americans by the way! I happen to be both Afro Caribbean (maternal grandparents 🇧🇸 and paternal grandfather 🇧🇸/🇭🇹 ) and African American (paternal grandmother 🇺🇸) and did testing with Ancestry and 23andMe. Both results placed my ancestry at 97.2-98% Sub-Saharan African while 2.8% came back from England and Northwestern Europe (France and Germany) and 23andMe pinpoint my mtDNA and Y chromosome as L2a1f and E-M4451 both of which are African. I took African Ancestry MatriClan and PatriClan tests and I discovered that I share genetic ancestry with Tuareg and Fula people living in Mali 🇲🇱 and Guinea-Bissau 🇬🇼 today. I am open to the opportunity of doing FamilyTreeDNA mtDNA and Big Y (37-700) and see if they pinpoint them to those countries African Ancestry did or to another African country.
I’m an African American 29 years old from Delaware. I’ve taken 4 dna test (Ancestry,23&me,livingdna, myheritage) pretty much Ancestry says I’m 90% African & 10%European. 23&me says I’m 87.1%African 11.4% European. 0.7 Native American and I have roots in Trinidad &Tobago. That’s new to me. Livingdna says I’m 87.9 African and 12% European. Lastly, my heritage says I’m 85.9% African and 11.1% European & Asian 3.1. I just have to take African ancestry as the final test to take. I just don’t know which one is the most accurate.
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.
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!!!
What’s even worse about the records…where I live in Virginia, we are very close to the former capital of the confederate. Records were burned on a mass scale because of fear of retaliation from the Union against plantation owners. I currently live on land that was, at one time, a plantation were some of ancestors were born. I have no idea what ethnicity that are.. most I hit a brick wall on one of their sides. I’m about as European as you can get, but we’re talking about mixes back in the 1600s that could be in my family. I also have some suggestion that I may have some ties to melungeons on part of my paternal grandmothers side, including surnames and where they moved and when
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
There has only been one study that intentionally excluded people with African/Caribbean parents as well as people with white parents/grandparents, and it gives a result of 75% African. The average is higher in most studies because they assume that everyone's African ancestry in the U.S. dates back to slavery even though many people are second and third generation.
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..
Read the information on the box. It's " for entertainment purposes." Next, listen to geneticists. They will tell you there is no DNA that can estimate your ethnicity or your race because these are social constructs. People think race and ethnicity are the same. DNA changes over time (epigenetic changes). Google ethonogenesis, this is what happened to Black Americans, a group of people that became ETHNICALLY different. If you want to know who you are, do your genealogy. If you believe civilization started in Africa doesn't that make everyone african?
So far my sister can back 44% African but we have 2 black/African American parents! Although we share the same mom and dad, I want to see what my results will be.
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.
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% 🤣🤣
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
When we black "anericans" say we are indigenous, we are saying , yes the slave trade happened BUT we Black "americans" were here on these lands before the colonizers at least 5000 years before the colonizers arrival. I found my 3rd great grandfather living with his full blood native indian grand parents on the daws roll. I have less than 1% south american andes.
The average is distorted because people with African and Caribbean parents are counted as African American. This leads to an overestimate of African ancestry and doesn't give an accurate percentage for people descended from American slavery. I'm pointing this out because the topic at hand always draws a lot of attention from militant biracial and black people who feel insecure and express it by claiming that African Americans can't really be mixed.
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
Slavery was a legal business. Everything was recorded. The question is not was it recorded but did the records survive. I’m what you call an “African American” but what I call a Foundational Black American. I’ve been able to trace my family tree back to before the founding of the nation.
This is why I disagree on the DNA for indigenous not being as high in the African American community one a lot of indigenous cultures were wiped out so we don't have their DNA, 2 the American government only recognized certain indigenous cultures any others so once again we do not have a significant amount of indigenous DNA to make that determination and three in Virginia 40% of the indigenous population was reclassified as African and enslaved along with Africans is so therefore African-Americans do have a lot of indigenous blood within the it's just not recognized
