I’ve been seeing minor percentages of East African/Southern East African show up on many African American tests and I was wondering if anybody has ever been able to find any relatives or any connection to Eastern Africa. Yes, I already know African Americans are typically West African.
I really like this tool. I can finally see all of the Africa I inherited from my grandparents and one set of great grandparents!! Im African American from South Carolina and all of my family is Gullah/Geechee!
My family is all Gullah Geechee. I have a 2nd great grandmother that was 100% Ghanaian.
Sorry had to reupload this :(. But this is my favorite tool with the premium package so far!!! I can tell which ancestry in Africa my grandparents had which has helped me narrow down which country comes from where etc.
This is probably my favorite tool from the premium package. So is the majority of my inheritance from my maternal grandfather? Im Gullah Geechee from South Carolina/Georgia.
Stay Together eats so fucking baddddd my god and I loveeee the message!!!
I FINALLY got the premium package! Very cool to see the genetic groups they found, but I thought my Ewe would be closer. I have a fully Ghanaian 2nd great grandmother.
Definitely seeing how different the categorizations are for the two companies. Love the specifics of LivingDNA.
Can anyone help decipher these for me? The big black dot is where my DNA lies among the different populations.
I would say this seems to add up pretty well-… thoughts?
Ok so Ive been doing my family tree for a few years now and have been seeing a few other people talk about this, but I have some interesting stuff I found. A few years ago, I found that some of my distant grandparents had these odd names that were pretty unusual. They were all born in the early 1800’s with some of their names being “Quash”, “Cuffie/Cuffy”, and “Affy” . After doing research, I found that these names were anglicized forms of the names “Kwesi/Kwasi”, “Koffi/ Kofi”, and “Affi / Afia”, which are from the Akan people of Ghana. I knew, even as an African American, that my maternal grandfather had heavy Ghanaian on his mothers side but I was not aware of the extent and the fact that names changed like that. I just thought I should post this because it might help someone reading this understand how some people retained these names from their cultures.
This is my dad and I’s results compared. You can see he has pretty good chunks of certain populations in Europe and I have 0%. Every single race or ethinicty your parents or grandparents have in their DNA is not going to be passed down to you.
Posting this again with his haplogroups! He has family mainly from Georgia, some South Carolina, Florida, and Caribbean Islands.
Ive posted this before but I want to talk about it again. Could the Andean be miscalculated Jomon?
Odd question but anyone who would know tell me.
Wanted to compare these two + added pics
The results are very give or take. The Indigenous on 23AndMe has to be linked to the Korean on Genomelink. My South Asian doesnt show up on 23AndMe, and my Malay doesnt come up on Genomelink. I think I have too much mixing going on😂
Is there anyone who has more information on the specified ethnic groups Genomelink gave me in the updated test? Anyone apart of these ethnic groups?
Is there anyone else who gets this in their results that could give a little bit more info?🥰
I just had the craziest interaction with this older Haitian couple. For reference, majority of my family is from Beaufort, South Carolina and Savannah, Georgia and have a Gullah-Geechee twang lol. Anyways, I asked them where they were from, and they said Haiti. The guy then asked me where I was from in Creole (I dont speak Haitian Creole) but I understood him 100%. I responded to him in English and they insisted I was Haitian but didnt want to accept it. 😭😭 It really is amazing that throughout all of these years two worlds of the African Diaspora can collide and understand each other.