I REACT: Italian American 23andMe Results 

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We care Professor . Your Great-grandmother just shed a tear through your eyes. Not tears of pain. TEARS OF JOY. I said some time ago that YOU ARE your ancestors. Don’t you see . She can’t tell her story, but you are doing it for her. She can’t cry, but you cry for her. You’re the vessel to give her peace. Roll with it Professor.

Imposter syndrome is the first thing most of us often feel when we piece together our family trees and roots. But know two things: you are no fraud and you are not alone (the thousands of ancestors before you, they got your back)

I am always so touched when I watch your videos. I started watching you a while ago quite by accident when I was looking up something on ancestry on RU-vid, I was drawn in by the way that you explained things and the depth and the research that you did. Please try not to feel bad. You are not in anyway of fraud. Your life, your heritage, your information, is out there in a way and format, which most people would be frightened of. I for one applaud, your courage , you transparency and your sensitivity. ❤

Don't worry about being emotional. We are all descendants of survivors. They did what they did to survive and sometimes we just can't comprehend it.

A fraud is someone who pretends to be something they KNOW they are not. Erase the geographical names and it becomes easier to understand that we come from all over the world. What we biologically share is far more amazing than the few things that differentiate us. SIMPLY AMAZING !!! 😏😏😏

Italian and Native American are sometimes a front for mixed with black in the past.

Happy St Patrick’s Day!!! ☘️☘️☘️ From the Black Catholic that found out she’s 30% Irish a year ago. 😂😊😂

Your Great-grandmother saw enough lynchings that she KNEW she had to do everything possible to escape the perpetual FEAR she had to deal with. To her, being anything other than Black was a golden ticket to a better and safer life, period.

Happy Birthday. Don't feel like a fraud. You're not. The use of DNA for genealogy is an evolving field and your story is an evolving story. This has been a fascinating channel to watch. I do hope that you will continue. A few years ago, I read something (I don't remember where) about how it is important to distinguish between your job and your work. Your job is how you earn your money. Your work is what gives your life meaning, what your life's purpose is. I believe that this research is your work, your contribution to the world. Thank you and keep it up.

Hey Danielle, your work is incredibly important so don't think that it is all a waste because of someone's else's issue with race. Even within my African American family, there were many secrets that died with my grandparents and great grand parents. I didn't have the nerve to ask my grandmother on my father's side why her skin was so light and her hair so straight. Her husband, my grandfather was a very dark man from Austin TX. Then, my mom is dark like me but her sister looks like Marilyn Monroe. She didn't even know that my grandfather wasn't her father until she went and got her birth certificate for a passport. These were family secrets that nearly died with my grandmother. My cousins from Harrisburg and Philadelphia PA look like that have some native American blood in then from their facial features. I think there was a lot of shame that was better buried back then for obvious reasons. That's one positive in this day and age; liberation of the mind. Have a good day!

There is something spiritual in the way you speak truth. Blessings. Love it.

Hi! I remember that a few years ago I was researching racial mixtures in America and there was an interview with a family who was both Cajun AND Creole. And they said that the census in the 1800s used to have "mulatto" as a racial category. In fact, that is how my great great grandparents are listed on the census of that tie. But in the census in either 1910 or 1920, they dropped mulatto as a designation. According to this Cajun/Creole family, overnight their family was split. THe more white looking people started checking White and the darker sides became black. And that many families were split like this. But these guys said that most Cajuns had some black and most Creoles had white blood in them. I have not been able to find this article since, but I found it quite interesting.

Watching you work it out live, helps all of us. Tk you. Really dig this channel

I appreciate you. Today is my 23rd wedding anniversary. 🎉I think 💭 about my family history and their stories and track a lot of behaviors. There are many stories of trauma that are embedded there and that is why it’s hidden. There is so much shame involved, which you have discussed before. Happy St. Patty’s Day ☘️ and no, you’re not a fraud. You’re coming on board and learning every single day and sharing with everyone what you learn. It’s OJT. 😊 You got this!

Another great video...I just want to say you are super intelligent, caring, sensitive and beautiful...Your parents must be very proud, I know I would be

sista...I have been with your channel since the beginning. You a real one and I like seeing all the stones you pull to better understand the tapestry that is your family story. Me and my family have been on a similar path and we gotta keep putting these stories out there

Its about time we all accept who we are with no shame. Diversity makes us more interesting.

Once again, I am drawn into your story so beautifully told. Thank you for sharing this with us. Blessings and peace to you.

Finding out something you believed your whole life is not true can hit you to your core. Families kept quiet about the past for various reasons. After my Mom passed away, I learned why her father rarely talked about his family, other than his favorite sister and younger brother; his oldest brother had undiagnosed mental illness and had terrorized the family. This is certainly the reason Granddad left Ohio in the 1920s. A friend of mine had a different story; his father was Ojibwe, and had joined the Canadian Army during WWII to escape the poverty on the Reservation. When my friend moved to Toronto as a young man in the 1970s, his father said to tell people he was Italian, 'because it would make everything easier'. I have not done DNA yet, but while my mother's mother's family are documented as born in either "the German States" or Prussia in the 1800s, the family story is that these dark-haired, dark-eyed ancestors were Huguenots who escaped France in the 1500s. I have a suspicion they might actually have been Jewish.

It’s my first time watching one of your videos. I have have no idea of how much you know about the history of race in America or the current racial climate. In current day, it’s hard for Black people to be treated like human beings in every institution that exists in this country- the justice system, education, healthcare, etc. Your Black ancestors would have been treated with less respect back then than a blacks are treated with today. That dehumanization would have been on them anytime they stepped outside of their home and in their face daily. It is sad and hard to comprehend. People who have always been treated with dignity and respect often can’t imagine it. I wish you the best as you continue to unravel and process your family heritage.

Please don't feel like a fraud because you are most definitely not! I admire you for being brave enough to share your journey with the world. There will always be surprises as you dig into a mystery like family history especially in the USA, with our history of racial identity being woven into almost all of our culture. I stumbled upon your channel while i was trying to figure out how to start and you have provided so many insights and a wealth of information. Thank you for giving me some tools and sharing your experience. I'm sure your ancestors are watching and are proud of you!

This is extremely common in the south. I’m a pale redheaded man , you would never know I’m 6 percent African. My grandmother always told us we were Native American, I think she knew the truth because she always wore long sleeves and stayed out of the sun. So I dna tested my mom and she is 14 percent.

Thank you so much . Today’s my birthday and This video was a gift ! The work you do matters deeply . We are all on this journey together : these results goes to show how truly connected we all truly are!

As someone who has Italian/Sicilian heritage, Cabrini is a must watch. I know from my dad that Italians were treated terribly during the immigration during the late 1800s through early 1900s. It’s a wonderful and informative story. God bless you, my dear.

This is Joe Manganiello. Always thought he was Italian. Proud of his last name. Came out his grandfather was a part black/part Irish man whose grandmother had an affair with during the time she was married to a man with the last name Manganiello. He is also about 10% Sub-Saharan African and never knew.

I live in Australia,I work with a guy who is Greek and Italian. His mother is Italian Australian. He took a DNA test and it came out with a percentage Senegalese. He asked me how that could have happened ,I told him back in 1446 the Portuguese fought in War against Senegal,when they captured Senegalese troops and took them to the Mediterranean,that’s how the captives intermarried . Since his mother is Sicilian,it’s where many Senegalese warriors were taken by the Portuguese. It’s likely how his mother got Senegalese blood and it showed in his DNA test.

Thank you for sharing your experience and your journey. Thank you for helping others share their journey and struggles, as well. You are very inspirational. You are helping many others way more than you realize. Keep up the great work.

As a note, other channels that cover history are also getting flagged. One of the channels, called GeneaVlogger by Jarrett Ross, a genetic genealogist, mentioned that whenever he covers topics such as the Holocaust or other aspects of history, his videos are flagged for content. Keep up the good work. I find your videos very informative and interesting.

Thank you for everything you do. You have one of the most beautiful hearts on the internet.. truly. God bless you and your lineage. With love and respect. ✊🏾

I keep meaning to post some appreciation for your willingness to take so much push-back on these touchy topics, but I'm always on the wrong computer when I see your vids. I've been fighting these false identities, which have been pushed down my family's throat for generations, since the 1970s. In daily interactions I still run up against these issues and I'm continually reminded that most people aren't quite ready yet to have that much of their world view pulled out from under them. Here you are, chipping away at little bits here and there as they become known to you, very patiently, as if you're uncovering a fresco underneath a sewer. You are an agent of divinity. I was especially impressed by the last video about the thing in Virginia. This is very nice work. Thank you.

Another way to pass was to pretend to be Jewish. We are in my generation between 16% - 30% Ashkenazi Jew, depending on the test. I’m missing 1/4 of my family that passed. All of my grandmother’s siblings have disappeared. We did manage to find one, after his death, he became white and served in the army, he is buried in Arlington cemetery. My grandmother could have easily passed, as well as my father but they preferred to play it straight. Though I can remember driving through the south during segregation and my father leaving my mother and me in the car to hide and my white passing brother and father buying food for all of us.

What you're doing is noble; too many ppl take the culture and butcher it by learning our *glory not our story* smh. It's painful seeing ppl get the culture, butcher it by acting crazy and get away with it too. So keep doing your thing. Great video.

Hey Danielle, beautiful grief work on this post. We grieve because so much of a beautiful culture was lost or more aply stolen by the fearful and short-sighted holding unqualified power. Power to the peaceful. It's long overdue. ❤☮️🙏

Belated happy birthday, Danielle!! I think we ALL want to know who we are, where we came from and simply to learn stories about our ancestors. To not want to know or even be curious is being in denial. Sure, we watch finding your roots but who do you think you are is a similar version.

Even ONE ancestor in your lineage has such an impact on you.

I feel for you sis. I've been doing my family history stuff since i was about 17 years old and it's been long journey as I'm 49 now. The thing that keeps me going with all of this is that EVERY TIME I find a new person on that tree, I find a new story that is revealed. FOR ME, I've grown to realize that each person has a story that is never really told and in some instances, never known or shared but I'm finding it with the hopes of sharing and keeping it alive. I've watched so many history documentaries of other people that I have new personal connectin with but have been facinated with not realizing there are some stories in my own family that need to be told. Like my grandfather being WWII and being a chaplin in the ARMY but most importantly he was a blackman who served and had photos of all the black troops who segrated into their own divisions etc. i have photos of them playing baseball and communing together etc. That's his story.. I've come across others that have been confirmed by my mother etc. i've found long lost lines of my family that all across the country. I have people that my has never met or heard of who can cooberate stories that she has told me but they've never met. Be it bad or good sis, be encouraged as it's a journey. Hell I've found indirect relatives that came by way of SA which led to finding out about a cousin that was seemingly disowned by his own family but has a family of his own which I found from the other person that I found. It can get ugly but also can forge new relationships as well. Again be encouraged 🙏🏾

I agree that the extreme interest that Americans have with dna tests is because so many of us have several different ethnicities within our genetics! People who live in other countries such as Scotland, Poland, Japan, etc are probably not as surprised (generally speaking) and as obsessed with their dna results as folks from the USA are. But, in a sense, we have good reason to be. 😂👍

It is very courageous for anyone to go back and find out who your ancestors you really come from. Especially if you were born in North or South America.

Thanks for sharing. Keep telling your story and the story of ALL your ancestors and relatives.

The populations surrounding the Mediterranean have always been fluid. A family from Gibraltar could have started anywhere. Add in the seafaring nations of England, Spain, France, Italy, and Portugal, shake, stir well, and you have today.

I was adopted that’s why I wanted to know. I think it’s a privilege for ppl to have grown up knowing their ethnicity and families stories.

Thanks for your post. I see an interesting parallel between some of your comments and my situation. My family oral history on my paternal grandfather's side stated his parents came from Nashville, TN and that his grandmother was Cherokee. Turns out, my DNA shows 100% European.

Enjoyed watching. It’s definitely something else when you find out things while researching your ancestry. I’ve found out a lot that would rock my family’s world on one side if I shared the information.

Thank you for sharing your ancestry journey.

Anywhere in the world, humans mix. They always have. My uncle was from France - part German, with some Russian ancestry. My family is from northern Scandinavia - Swede, Norwegian, with Finn mixed in, possibly Sami, and way back some German/Danish. We are what we are. We have all survived and, hopefully, learned. We all cook good things, have stories, and make friends.

Another great and informative presentation from you! You have restored my faith in America's youth and America's future. You are a gift and a treasure to us all and we can't thank you enough for these posts!

I’m a mutt too. Mom’s side is from the mountains of West Virginia; lots of admixture in Appalachia (and remains so to this day). My cousins ARE the rainbow….an amazing blend of hair, skin, and eye colors. I’ve heard the stories of “passing” and relatives never being able to go back home. We all know of a great grandparent or cousin who left everything they knew to assume a new identity. I cannot imagine the fear and loneliness these souls endured. Sister, your story is the American story. It’s our collective story.❤❤

Thank you for your continued research and discussions on these matters. Racial identity and ancestral knowledge are complex issues that go far deeper than skin color and nationality. I know several people who look White but identify as Black. One of them was a green eyed redhead whose family were founding members of the Links, as well as, Jack and Jill of America Inc. Many, many people of color chose to "pass" in order to get out from under the oppression. Just as others had to shed their ethinc identities to assimilate into parts this country that wouldn't accept their differences. These stories are important and must be shared so that we're able to better understand ourselves and each other.

Another GREAT show Danielle. TY for your bravery!!! TY for keeping it real cuz!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Good evening one and all, from Copperhill Tn.

Melungeons have always claimed to be Portuguese for over 230 years of recorded history and long before that. Why? The greatest trading partners the English ever had were the Portuguese going back to 1200 AD by treaty and before then back to the Romans being in England. They principally traded in wine with England called Port. This was short for Portuguese Wine. While this trade did not occur in the Plymouth Colony, it certainly did in the Jamestown Colony. The colonies did not trade with Spain or Italy, but they did trade heavily with the Dutch. All these counties desired Jamestown's tobacco.

I understand why you are moved to tears, I am a Black British of Jamaican descent. I grew up believing that being a descendent of slaves we no longer spoke our original African languages, ie we spoke patois, then I discovered that within the Jamaican patois, we still used many African words which I was completely unaware of, I even tested these words on my African friend and he understood what I was saying, it felt like my soul had come home...☺

He's more Nigerian than Italian, my distant brodda 🇳🇬💪🏾

Its not uncommon for peoples of Mediterranean heritage to have North African DNA, particularly if of Sicilian ancestry. Historically, most of the North African DNA comes from the Arab Moorish occupation of Southern Europe from about 700 AD thru 1100 AD, and in Spain, until about the mid-1400s AD. In ancient times it would have come from Cartheginian conquests and invasions of the Roman Empire until Hannibal's defeat. If our educational system did a better job of educating students on ancient history people would be less hung up on skin color.

Colour me shocked, Italians like me have African, Jewish, Middle Eastern, Scandinavian, Nigerian, Sierra Leone and German blood. The crime here isn't us Mrs Romero , but the ruling Elite classes in Italy,, endless monarch's, convincing us we weren't Italian enough, so shame made us hide it. Shame was an anvil around our forebears necks. Shame. My grandad (Pasquale Giovanni) never forgave Italy for treating him so poorly, he left in 1948. And he never ever returned. Superlative episode and never despair, we all adore you. 😎🤣🥃

No need to feel that way. You are you be proud of that.

In the last month I have been searching the family tree. I recently found that my paternal great grandad had a brother. My great grandad died before I was born. He was born in the early 1870's and his brother who may have been a half brother was born in the early 1890's. My dad was really close to his grandad (my great grandad). My dad talked about him all the time and I never recall him ever saying that his grandad had any siblings. Anyway I found the sibling (Floyd) living with his father (my great great grandad). I could not find Floyd in the 1910 census but I did find out he got married in 1912 in Tennessee and he and his spouse moved to Chicago. As I searched I came across Floyd's death certificate. He died in Chicago in 1915 and they brought him back to Tennessee to be buried. That peeked my interest because I wanted to find out how he died in Chicago at age 24. Since we are African-American I need to get access to the Chicago Defender newspaper and see if there is anything in there about his death.

There is nothing fraudulent if one is seeking facts and connections that reveal the truth. Thank you for being the truth seeker that you are and for sharing the best version of yourself by contributing to the Human Imperative.

I love the PBS program 'Finding Your Roots' where Henry Louis Gates ( a Black Harvard professor) traces geniology following the paper trail, and the DNA trail. My sister was black as he is ("we have the same Father". I'm pointing up as I write this) :)

Yes we care about this, Because I DID have a house fire. about 20 years ago. And in no time at all relatives are getting things wrong. dates and who was who, who did what etc. We do have a family member that s trying to piece all the parts together. But being African American at some point the trail goes cold. So I've learned a lot and gotten a lot of hope from all your hard work. Thank You So Much.

To be creole is cultural not racial. Meaning it’s something you grow up being no matter your race. It means to be born in new louisiana

The genetic numbers are just a beginning though. These numbers just direct you to an area of the world where your ancestors probably originated. That does not tell you what they look like or their cultural and religious traditions.

Happy birthday 🎂 🥳 🎉 🎈 🎁 🎊 ❤

People are not as concerned about those details today as in the past. And this will continue, especially in a world where wealth and power are moving towards emerging nations.

Happy Belated Birthday 🎉

Thank you for your transparency, sharing your facts and showing your heart throughout your research. Much respect too you.

Growing up i always knew my ancestry and felt pretty jealous of people with more ambiguous families being able to learn more about it through modern dna tests/genealogy, but now I'm aware for a lot of people who thought they were one thing their whole life only to learn they are something totally different could cause severe identity issues. So i feel for them too

11.4% is equivalent to a great grandparent. It's not a small amount at all.

The derogatory name for Southern Italians were "Guineas" because they had West African roots, which is why there's a country called The Republic of Guinea in West Africa. My family's roots are from New Orleans and the Italian people were treated the exact same way as the black people. There are pictures of my Great Great Grandfather next to Italians that were almost the same complexion. There were many Creole people that simply said they were Italian or French, especially very fair skinned black women.

It's like Great Grandad Uncle Ruckus gave you your family history and passed it down to future generations 😢

You are NOT a fraud. Finding the TRUTH is emotional. I get emotional seeing photos of people I never knew.

Right!!! When you’ve been shielded from your family history, you really don’t know. It’s insulting to ask why we’re so “obsessed with our genealogy”!!! Bc as Americans, we want to know!!!

Do the AncestryDNA test, it's better for Italians and mixed people IMO and will give a good result in combination with 23andme

No one should have to hide their ancestry! Unfortunately, people tend to be small-minded and like to divide people up and put them into categories!

You aren't a fraud cariña! Don't feel that way! My dad used to always say he was the blackest black in America. When i thought about it it never made much sense to me. He was just Dad lol. But he looked like the typical richly tanned Cuban man with curly hair thay down South USA everyone would say he's black because he is a little too brown and his hair is too wooly to be considered Mexican by most people. We knew we had some Latino heritage and assumed to have that mix (Spanish, African and indigena). Both his parents considered themselves to be black from the South but his dad definitely looked 100% Cuban with that naturally silky conched wavy Spanish dark black hair. But he was a tad lighter than my Dad. Well he took the DNA test and he was almost 30% European heritage with Irish, Spanish, French, Latvian mix. He was a small percentage indigenous Colombian and Venezuela and a the rest was Nigerian, Cameroonian, Senegelese all west African. It was not shocking to us the mix but he was a very shocked that he was so....white! Lol he definitely looks like a person of color. I just kind of chuckle and smh but it is totally ok. The point is that you know your heritage and are proud of it regardless of the terrible things that may have happened surrounding it. You trying to honor your ancestry etc is a good thing. And even if something is there thay cant be honored you can still reject that but still respect and love yourself. (I had to do something similar because on my dad's mom's side there was a lot of rape and incest down her line. I had to process that and it was not fun.) God made you you and He thought your mix was the best combination to make you you! So be encouraged and God bless you!

Don't put too much weight on the ethnicity estimates of any DNA company. Estimates, by definition, cannot be precise. Originally, the ethnicity estimates were intended to tell where your ancestors lived 500 to 1000 years ago, before inter-continental travel. Since there are no living people that old, each of the DNA companies create reference panels of living users. They each have different databases and use different geographic areas. For example, 23andMe puts British & Irish together, but AncestryDNA tries to separate them. On AncestryDNA, they are expressed as a percent and are given a range. On 23andMe, you can change the confidence level from the default of 50% to, say, 95%, and the estimates will change.

As a person with admixture from 30 places/ethnicities it was fantastic to see that it was infact true that my family is very diverse. We have come together from everywhere, to be the end result of such a journey is an honor. Long story short, don't feel like a fraud...feel like an archeologists.

10:15 Oh WOW! I didn’t hear this part until my second time listening through! That EXACTLY describes my paternal grandmother (the one that told us she was adopted, Oh! And she changed her birthday too!) I remember when I was a child, she was very racist in her views, which I of course denounced when I was old enough to understand and to know better. I kind of wrote it off as her just being “a product of her generation and the time in which she was raised.” BUT THEN… when I found out about our family’s mixed heritage, I was TOTALLY CONFUSED! I kept thinking “HOW could she have been so racist, when she married into this “mixed-race” family in the 1920’s?? Her POV has been a COMPLETE MYSTERY for me! But now that you mentioned this at 10:15, I guess that that could explain things to a certain degree. WOW! These families of ours seem to have SO MUCH in common! And I’m certain that it’s impossible for us to understand NOW, what they were living through back THEN! I can’t even begin to imagine! We just have to extend a lot of grace to our ancestors and to give them credit for doing whatever they had to do to survive. 😢

I get it having discovered that my grandfather from Louisiana was part black and moved up north to “pass” to escape Jim Crow laws. He got his laws degree from Tulane like his father did (in 1887) so knew how laws were changing against mulattos from the grandfather clause to the one drop rule. The irony was that one of his black “drops” of 4 (about a quarter black) came from his grandmother on his mother’s side, who was governor in 1850-1853, a man name Joseph Walker whose wife was mulatto and whose mother was mulatto. In the case of Louisiana, going from seeing a mulatto descendant of a Senegalese slave marry a Patriot of the American Revolution in Louisiana, then to having a mixed race son become a white-creole but having to officially pass as white to be Governor, then having his grandson leave the state in 1915 because of ever tightening race laws shows a state going “backwards”, from freedom to force exile, seeing two descendants crossing the color line to survive. It’s not the “amount” of black American ancestry that surprised me or how I am really “mixed race” genetically, but the story it represents. It is how that portrait of the ‘official’ portrait/painting of the Governor my father grew up looking at with pride in Newark back in the 1930s and 40s was actually that man who hid his true identity like my father’s father who took that painting with him when leaving New Orleans. The pressure of shame, to denigrate mixed race people in the South, because one citizen’s blood is “contaminated,” is what makes American kind of unique and “race obsessed.” I wish it wasn’t obsessed and the “great replacement theory” about the fear of “white blood” getting mixed with other “races” would just go away. Thanks much again!

I'm an Italian woman and I absolutely love Black men

I remember your first dna reveal that you did years ago. As soon as I saw you, I immediately thought "I wonder how much African heritage she has?" Then you said something to the effect of "My grandmother has a significant amount of Indigenous ancestry," and I knew then that you were in for a shock. I still remember the look on your face when you saw the African ancestry. I had the same look when I first saw my Indonesian ancestry and Iranian, Iraqi, and Mesopotamian ancestry. I even have DNA relatives. lol Like, how did that even happen!? It just goes to show that our Louisiana Creole ancestries aren't always as simple as we think.

Why are WE (US) obsess over genealogy? Answers quite easy, this country was built based on race and class- you said it yourself in your Bacon’s Rebellion video

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We are a melting pot after all. A lot of children nowadays of mixed ancestry choose their African American ancestry and deny their European ancestry. And I am talking just 1st and second generation. Especially here in the south "passing" is still frowned upon. However I really had great hopes that accepting both would be our strength in adversity. How incredibly painful it must be for a grandchild to deny you or hide you regardless of ancestry. If we don't unite the division will hurt us all.

In terms of the DNA results I would recommend Gedmatch to see a more in depth view of the Continental percentages, but generally speaking though the ethnicities often change in these DNA results the continental percentages tend to have much consistency between updates. I would say that though a person should definitely take the continental percentages of any test with a grain of salt I would venture to guess that Ancestry and most Gedmatch calculators would place his overall Sub Saharan DNA at around ~10% not accounting for any margins of error.

You are not a fraud. Hold your head up. Also, different DNA companies get slightly different results, but 100% of the time they reveal we are all fully human. :)

There are FBAs who support your journey, as well. Our stories are intermeshed with similar lineage to yours.

Southern Italians, especially Sicilians are said to have African blood. I worked for an Italian family and they and their friends joked about it all the time.

My dear sister when I saw your video pop up I had to see because you look like we could be related, family… I’m Multi Race as well and blessed to be so. Both of my Grandparents on my Father side were from Louisiana looking at the census back in the early 1900s I found my grandparents names and they were listed as Creole, then later changed to Negro. Interesting found that Creoles were related to native Americans. I’m also 39% Sub African, maybe more because I also have Portuguese. More interesting facts that I have found was that in 1400’s there were black Portuguese Jew living there until the diaspora and many where sent to West Africa. Then on my search in West African there was a map that I saw where the “Kingdom of Judah”was clearly written then until colonialism. For those who have DNA from West Africa, you have a rich heritage within you. If you seek it out, you will find it. It’s been an enlightening experience 🕊️ Blessings to you dear sister 🙏🏼

The extent that families went to in order to hide their heritage was intense, and very sad. My own mother never met her grandmother who didn’t even live very far away, and was still alive when I was born, in order to keep things secret. So she honestly can’t tell me anything about the woman who gave us our mtDNA.

I told you Danielle looked Creole in one of the last videos. I thought it was obvious but some guy said she looked MENA.

I was shocked when I did my DNA! A lot was explained by the way my ancestors acted.

Sis don't cry. Your doing a great job, and many people appreciate watching, and partaking in your journey. All praises. Question though can you comment on who you truly feel like you identify with unapologetically. Perhaps you answered this, but if not I'm curious. Take care.

Viva Italia 🇮🇹

I felt the same way about the amount of Sephardic Jew I had. I had very little Spanish DNA. After looking into it I found out that Spain forced a lot of Sephardic Jews to convert to catholicism after driving out the Moores. A lot of the newly converted Sephardi traveled to the America's to escape the watchful eye of the inquisition. Eventually I would like to find a way to look into the catholic conversion records to see if anything lines up.

Johnny Cash shut up the racists by pointing out his wife was Sicilian..... she also had significant African ancestry beyond really pasing

Sending a big virtual hug

A very touching video among your videos. I'm always surprised how many people are still hung up on Ancestral DNA tests. They only contain a very small piece of the picture. According to my 23andme test that I'd done a few years ago, not only am I about 24% Europe (Quadroon, silly word) but somehow I've only become "Black" in the last 2 or 3 generations (Long explanation on that). Some DNA was (still) not able to be identified (?). I am well aware of my past "White" ancestors (German on both parents sides, as well as English on my mother's side), as well as my indigenous American ancestors (by all grandmothers!). I only identify with being "Black" (whatever that means) because that is the culture I grew up with and I am the most familiar. Especially, in American society, there is no social advantage of a black man claiming to be ¼ white. (LOL) Genealogy according to Civil Records and speaking with relatives is the BEST proof of one's heritage. Hands down! Keep making your videos! They are very educational and inspiring!

Through forensics of genetics and art we can link cultural roots. The Irish are among the first Human in western Europe. Their genes are linked to black African tribes and Persian civilization. The Irish stick dance, the colors and styles of their clothing and their hair. Today they're altered into something new but still greatly connected to their original origins.