She isn't African enough?! DNA Ancestry tests feat. It's Okay To Be Smart 

Fun fact: Dr. Joe wrote his own joke(s) for this episode complete with breaks for Evelyn & Azie to react. I guess science can actually be fun sometimes, who knew?!

I took the African Ancestry and 23andMe tests. Having some knowledge, any knowledge other than "we were slaves", was overwhelming! I literally cried reading my results.

Found the half-sister I didn't know I had through 23andme, and through her, my biological mother. No regrets! I love my new family. My sister and I are both only-children. Cracks me up.

"I'm 2% Jewish" "And 100% more interesting!" I am dying!

"Sign away your cloning rights" This may actually become an issue in the future, and not just a joke.

Actual African anthropologist who studies Neanderthals here. There is no evidence that we simply beat up the Neanderthals. They most probably were just out competed by our number and our wider range of tech. Sure there might have been some conflict but we are really trying to correct the narrative that we just kinda killed them off. Love both of you by the way and Azie, your African accent is on point. Had me rolling!

I took one and then searched for African born cousins. Turns out most of my cousins born in the motherland are Igbo while my wife’s African cousins are mostly Fulani. We even narrowed down regions where many our ancestors were from so it’s been a great experience for me.

That Henrietta Lacks shout out had me snapping for hours. Amazing

“We already know about Jeezus.” Lol!

"Oh, I actually am from New Jersey!" "I can tell..." 😂😂😂

“Plain old ordinary black” nothing ordinary about fighting centuries of slavery, fighting against segregation, and overcoming to the White House. DONT LET SOCIETY MAKE YOU THINK YOU ARE LESS THAN EXTRAORDINARY! Stay woke 👑.

Silly American:“Oh! Uh JAMBO!!” Village auntie : 🙄 Jambo 😒 😂😂😂😂😂😂

😂😂 African Auntie Evelyn's eye roll and the the subtle wiggle 😂😂😂😂

This was so very PBS...fun, informative, and quirky!! Good job, Internet cuz! 👍🏾😉

I LOVE THIS SHOW!!! THIS IS BLACK EXCELLENCE!

“You’re Finnish” “Yup all done” lmao you guys are great writers - enjoying the series and learning a ton. Y’all passing the fact checks too..

Awesome video ladies! Honestly growing up in America I’ve always known and told people I was “half black and my other half is Irish and French-canadian” and this answered the question sufficiently for everyone who’d ever asked until I was 29 and finally left the states and got to London. On my first day someone asked me my ethnicity and when I told them the same answered I’d given my whole life they said “ok but what is your black half tho” and my brain melted for a second. How no one (including myself) had never asked me this question kinda made me mad and then sad especially since the only answer I could give was “Slaves?” Lol but obviously I meant African American and I came to preferring this answer. as you stated evelyn, I’m most comfortable identifying as African American as we have got our own distinct culture here in the states. Honestly even if I came to find out what African country my roots come from I think that disconnect during slavery was so severe that those slaves really did mark a new ethnicity and began to create a new culture and that culture is one im very proud to be a part of today. So while I have considered doing one of these tests just out of sheer curiosity I feel confident and proud to identify my ethnicity as African American and I ultimately can’t bring myself to give the colonizers $100+ to tell me where their ancestors stole my ancestors from. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Thanks for the insight on this! ❤️

My mom found out her dad was mixed race after living 50 years as a “very tan” white person because the adoption agency listed her as white.

The humor is so efortless. Keep going!

Thanks to multiple members of my extended family taking DNA tests, a second/third cousin whowas given up for adoption and was looking for her blood relatives was able to reconnect and learn about her parents and possible siblings she never knew she had! It can have it's benefits

Evelyn from the Internets, you are BY FAR my favorite RU-vidr!!! I love this collaboration and the information presented in this video! Thank you for sharing this insight in such an in depth video!!!

In your African Excavation skit you did the condescending Anerican thing great. Very amusing. Honestly my favorite skit there. And I found the Information very spot on. Thank you. I'm a little bit happier.

I took a DNA test. I'm black and from Louisiana. and... nothing surprising happened. I got results from the ivory coast (where most slaves came from), and a little bit of European (because slave masters is nasty). And that was pretty much it. As a black American, there is such a dilution of the family tree from Africa to here. I wish I could know if the European DNA was by choice, or added to my family tree by force.

Hating hot weather. 😆😂 That's the main condition to being Scandinavian. Welcome to the family. 😅 And hot is above 25°C

My husband took a dna test and found his Half Sister and was able to find his bio Mom and Dad. My moms cousins did it too and found my aunts daughter that she had adopted out 26 years ago. For me it helped me open a deeper family history convo with my grandma.

Man I love your African accents in this video! The humor is great here. Thanks for the insightful work as well!

I'm conflicted on taking a DNA test. On the one hand, no thank you to companies using my DNA in some way I find ethically questionable (such as police using it for investigations that will perpetuate mass incarceration). But on the other, I'd like to know more about my family. Most of my family I know has passed away, so I don't have many people to turn to ask questions about our history. Some companies even provide data on possible genetic health markers. Since my family's medical history is mostly lost, I'd be interested to try and learn something through a DNA test.

I took a DNA test. It didn't really offer surprising ethnicity results, but I did find out the identity of my biological father and 4 sisters I didn't know I had. So, that's sumpin'...

love the shoutout to the powerhouse of the cell, lol!

Also, it was hard to not get distracted because both of y’all are glowing!!!!

“Then sign away your cloning rights and ability to process gluten” that SENT me 😩😂

African Ancestry is amazing 🙌🏿 I found out my Maternal Ancestry is the Fulani tribe from Guinea Bissau and Mende and Temne people from Sierra Leone 🇬🇼🇸🇱

I have to say - this is one of the best videos on commercial DNA tests I've ever seen.

I just adapted to my husband’s Gambian/Mandinka culture... cuz I ain’t selling my dna lol

I’m only slightly curious about my DNA but would not take an ancestry test because I don’t think most company’s care about their users privacy. I could never get that personal data back.😨

I took several DNA tests. I reviewed them on my RU-vid channel. I am over 90% African. I enjoyed this episode ladies and gent. 😊

OMG!! Azie I've loved you since the Ask a Slave series!!!! You two together?!?! Subbie fo LIFE!!!!!!

Did my DNA test some years ago with 23andme. Was fascinating. Didn"t find anything too surprising, although I did find out that I'm blood relatives with a childhood friend of mine and a neighbor of mine. That was pretty cool. Love this stuff. Great video ladies. :)

7:55 fun fact, the Ashanti ethic group is considered to be part of the Akan ethnic group in Ghana. This is because they were all one big ethnic group at one point in history but broke of because of war and food and all the other reasons why humans don't get along.

The joke from Joe about being related took me out!! This entire episode reminded me of one of my favorite and most confusing sections of an Africana studies class I took. This breakdown of DNA testing made it even less confusing, and made me feel smart because I remembered some things lol. Great job!!👏🏿

“Plain ole ordinary black” 😂😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂

I took the 23 & Me test to find out more about my health. It also killed the rumor in my family about having a native American ancestor. I love your channel and content! You ladies are talented!

Yes. I took the test, was amazingly surprised and it helped a lot for my ancestry tree. So far, in America I've found all my G parents from 1825 and up. I've been linked to cousins I never knew....proven to be my cousins!

"What are you talking about we already know about Jesus. " The funniest thing I seen all day

And they black owned!✊🏾

I've never taken a DNA test, but I did find an interesting tidbit going through the Indo-European language family tree. See, I am mixed (or as I like to put it, I'm half of a white person) and the white half of my family is Danish, so while looking through the Indo-European language chart for an entirely separate reason, I found Danish and found out it was a modern offshoot of Old Norse, which means I am not only half pastry, but I am also part viking and this could partially explain why I'm so fascinated with Norse mythology.

I think the technology behind DNA tests is really cool but I'm skittish about letting companies give out my genetic data without my knowledge. But then, I already have a pretty good idea of my ancestry. (Mostly French and Polish; I'm genetically predisposed to accordion music) I can absolutely see the appeal though, especially for people that don't really know what their ethnic heritage may be. This video does a really good job of covering both the cool things about ancestry testing and its limitations. Also, y'all are hilarious. "We already know about Jeeeeesus" XD

How did Azi find out that her mitochondrial DNA was Finnish? Hence not able to take the African Ancestry Test

I LOVE it's ok to be smart! I already loved both of you, so guess what I think about this vid... I FREAKIN LOVE IT!!

I took the test as a birthday present to myself via ancestrydna a few years back. It’s interesting to see how my results change as their research develops. It was also super helpful in telling me about each ethnic group’s history.

This is amazing! Evelyn you’ve done it again! This also confirms why I won’t don’t any of these tests. (I’m also half Nigerian so I think that’s enough ancestry for now 😉)

I came here from It's Okay To Be Smart and I am DYING of laughter. You girls are hilarious, keep it up!

I took a DNA test and it came back pretty much like I expected. A couple of surprises. Small percentages of European Jew and Greek. Everything else was pretty much what I had expected from my genealogy research. 18 months later I received an email from Ancestry "due to more people taking the test and therefore giving the company a larger database of DNA" they had changed my DNA report. Oh they changed the estimates alright!! Nearly everything was gone. African DNA- gone, Greek- gone, Swedish- gone, European Jew- gone, French- gone. I am now 97% English and 1.8% Scottish/Irish and 1.2% undetermined. Wasn't I mad! I understand that things can change but to go from 69% English and 31% other nationalities to 97% English just seemed strange. Especially since the first set of results were closer to what I knew from working on my genealogy and what I had learned from various family members.

The scary part of giving my spit, was being asked by ancestryDNA twice more for it. I was told the sample was corrupted. I politely sent a denial letter. They miraculously were able to give me my results based on the only sample sent. All I can say is read the fine print. Loved the video ladies!

Come through African auntie with the Leso 😂

I took a DNA test awhile back, and other than the fact that my Cherokee great-great-grandmother wasn't so Cherokee, nothing was a surprise. But I'm white, and my ancestors (Anglo-Saxons from England) got to retain their heritage when they came to America. So it was more of a curiosity to me than anything else.

"We already know about Jesus"!

I would love to do a DNA test but I am a low key conspiracy theories lol!

I'm African (Igbo) and the African women bit is accurate 😂😂😂

I did a DNA test and while I was obviously mostly European, I also had almost a whole percentage that was just "unaccounted for" I wasn't sure why they had "unassigned" DNA until I watched this video! Its interesting to find out HOW it was they got the baseline to compare with.

Love this channel, love the content, and love the knowledge you are imparting to me. “ To be young, gifted , and BLACK”...wonderful ladies!

This was fun to watch--looking forward to more :) I did African Ancestry and learned that my maternal DNA is of Sierra Leone. Sierra Leone has an interesting history--it was established for freed people (like Liberia). It does give a another piece to the puzzle, but there's still more to learn.

OMG!! I'm Samii too =D My ancestors were southern (forest) Samii mostly, with a touch of northern (Mountain) Samii, so exciting =DD

i don't know why youtube recommendations brought me here, but this is a very good channel.

Amazing episode! I love your skits so much!!! ❤

After 45 years of doing research on my family, I took the test. I am a mutt. I am a mix of African, European, Middle Eastern (Armenia), American indian and yes a bit of Neanderthal. It explains why my aunt looks full blooded indian (Sac tribe), My grandmother looks very light skinned African, my brother looks full on Black Irish, my first cousin looks like a blonde, blue eyed Norwegian and I look like a mix between all of it. Under it all, we are just us. Thank you for the brilliant channel!

I' m a Spaniard and I use you tube to improve my English listening skills , but I love theese ladies and how articulate and easy to follow and funny while they are talking about a lot of interesting subjects related to their culture and other stuff ( DNA testing searching for ancestry seems to be on trend everywere )

Fantastic video! The mitochondrial tidbit was INTERESTING! I loved the interplay between the scientists and the community they were wanting information from. It was perfect! Imperialism has and is harming people all over the world. I loved when one response was “Is science going to raise my children?” LOVED that! Reciprocity is important. What I don’t love is how there isn’t a lot of other DNA beyond European DNA information. It makes sense, given that we live in a white world, but it doesn’t make it ok. Very cool that there’s an African ancestry organization to compensate for some of the lack of information. I wish there were other databases that could fill in the gaps in other spaces, too, but maybe in time there will be. Thank you both for sharing this valuable information!

The homepage for African DNA doesn’t inspire me. Lol

This channel is my new obsession! You ladies are so fun to watch and have taught me so much! I love the way you present every issue in a casual conversational type way and go through the pros and cons. Thank you for being so awesome! ❤️

@SayItLoud Akan is a broad term for originally twi speaking communities/tribes. Ashanti people fall under that umbrella. I'm Ghanaian 🇬🇭 btw and I love you guys!💕

Did the test found a whole new father, heritage and family!! Now I need Black girl lessons...wanna help?? Love you guys! Keep up the great work!

I took a 23 and me test to find out where my ancestors come from but when it came back it gave me more questions than answers, so PS I'm a black woman with Creole and Native ancestry

My family did 23AndMe and Ancestry.Com to find out my grandfather's ethnicity (because he was silent about it) and SURPRISE... he and his family were a passing as white. They were born black in South Carolina and migrated North to Detroit and "became" white. Our black side of the family found us through the same sites as they were looking for their lost passing family members. It has been a beautiful reunion of families.

I took a DNA test and it mostly confirmed what I had been told about my ancestors. So much so that 90% of it came from a very specific region where I was told that we were from. The other 10% was nearby to the north and south. My ancestors didn't do a whole lot of migrating until they came to the USA.

Thank you so much for mentioning that cousin matches are an important tool. People always say "I want to know my heritage" but not their ancestry. But not only the DNA ethnicity test is a broad estimation but learning your ancestry tells you your heritage. If your great grandfather was an Irish shoemaker that came to the US then congrats your part Irish. And a big step for building a family tree is to find genetic cousins. If you have a gap in your tree your cousin can help you fill it with info and leads they have and if you have the common ancestor in your tree that DNA match to your cousin is just extra assurance that you are related to that common ancestor.

I was adopted so i would definitely get it to link myself to relatives

Being present when a man told his father the results of the ancestry test he took was a moment i'll never forget.

Eastern Europe is also not represented well. I am not sure my Asian husband would get an accurate measurement either. 23 and Me has me as part Nigerian as a guess.

I enjoyed the video! I did my dna testing from my heritage dna and found out that I’m Nigerian 💚

@ 4:30 student loan debt is a horror movie unscripted into a reality tv show

Thoroughly impressed with these ladies. Well spoken, articulate, entertaining, and gorgeous. Black Pride all the way!

"Take your spit cup and go back to Jersey".

Such well spoken intelligent beautiful ladies! Great information!

This channel is giving me life.... ❤️❤️❤️❤️

oh my god the African mom segment sent me. I love your show and I hope more people catch on to your channel

Now, selfishly I want PBS to have the Hispanic version of this. This was so informative .

I love these ladies. I will start showing some of these videos to my teen and preteen. I want them to understand more about their blackness/ Africaness.

I love you guys!! You are silly and educational in the best way!

Your skits are always funny ! I also find the info you present informative and they change my thoughts on things so I can be more culturally aware. Thank you for your great content!

You two have amazing chemistry and information. Keep it coming. But, nope not interested in "DNA: Who's Your Mother". Jokes aside, great information with great foresight/warnings.

This is quickly becoming one of my fave channels 😄 The script and skits are hilarious 🙌🏾

Ancestry.com needs to come out with "Kiss Me, I'm [insert %] Irish" pins & tshirts for St. Patrick's Days 😤

Great collaboration here!! I'm loving this channel more and more.

Took a DNA test to find out more about my caucasian ancestry. I was very surprised to see that I am over 30% Scandinavian!

You two ladies are so refreshing from what's on RU-vid. Thanks for the information.

“I’m from jersey” “I can tell” Haha I feel attacked 😂😂😂 good stuff ladies

My cousin found out she has two twin (half) sisters she didn’t know about. They learned it first actually since they didn’t have kin left, did the test, saw the matches and contacted us. We had a Welcome to the Family picnic this summer.

I took an ancestry test as part of a research study. There was one shocking thing! All my life, my mother has told me the story passed down in her family of Native American ancestry, but I thought it was bullcrap like most white people's "Indian great great great grandmother". But it turns out - it's totally real! It's made me start researching the native peoples of the region her family has lived in for hundreds of years. It blew my mind!

I’m Finnish, too. That is one thing that was on every test. I’m African American and Caribbean with very mixed DNA. My top two are a split between Nigerian and Ghanaian, but I have DNA from all over Africa.