Yeah my father was from Aruba and from him I have native south american DNA and african. People from the U.S often forget there is a whole South America where many plantations grew sugar and many African people were enslaved. And a lot of mixed "black" people come from there.
I found out that I have indigenous eastern south american dna not sure where that came from still waiting on my moms results to see if it was her side or my dads
Apparently Brazil had more slaves than the U.S. And there is a whole lot of Native Americans living outside of civilization mainly in Brazil , well that was the impression that I get.
Agree with the comments, Portuguese brought more slaves to Brazil than America even dreamed of. So you would have some Spanish, Portuguese, European (Britian, Ireland, Dutch, etc.) and yes they mixed with the indigenous people. You'd be surprised at who shows up in your DNA. It's like treasure hunting.
I did he DNA test and matched with a descendant of man who owned my family as slaves. He is a historian who mapped our tree all the way to a small town in Mississippi to our mutual ancestor
@@ibelieveitcauseiseentit9630 it's a joke but yes. If reparation ever become a thing. The government would pay it and how would they get the money to pay it .... Taxes.
That's crazy!!! 😱 That seems like that slave owner you DNA matched with, had his way with one of your ancestors. Not impossible, but I've heard a lot of stories from folks and their ancestors history. I'm sure the slave owners who were single and not married with kids did that horrible deed.
@@fusionsportdaily1650with one of my relatives that my dad found that was black was actually married into a white family back in the 1800's. There were plenty of black people that married white people. After looking into race and the presidential position, I've found that MOST of them were part black. And the "one drop" rule made them legally black. So Obama wasn't the first black president either. Also we've already had an LGBTQ president. One of my relatives James Buchanan was gay ( secretly) and was living with another of my relatives from the other side William King who was actually closer related to me. Kinda weird things you figure out doing ancestry! I have a few relatives that are related to me in two different ways. My favorite is my uncle/cuz. Although recently found out he murdered his first wife, but never got caught. I guess she was really mean, so everyone just ignored it?? Families were mainly from Missouri, Kansas and Alabama. Life is just funny!
@@fusionsportdaily1650 Ask yourself...WHY would the man need to force himself on the lady? Maybe he was handsome. Maybe it was good to find favor? Just saying... it is possible. Right?
You can use the ',' (comma) and '.' (period) keys on the keyboard to rewind and advance UA-cam videos frame by frame (you do need to pause the video first). Very useful when you want to see something that flashes by too quickly to catch by just pausing.
Thanks, Gustav! I tried this on my laptop and it worked! Before this tip, I used to just pause the video at rapid-fire speed until it got to the right frame, ugh!! 😩
Dna science proves race is a social construct yet people will racialize their dna test. And talk about "features" like some racist science like phenology from like over a 100 years ago. People will also nationalize their dna and say "im polish" but Polands borders have changed like over 50 times in the last 400 years
@@tecumseh821 You're right, but you have kind of written this out of context... But yeah, race is an outdated social construct, but ethnicity is not. And that nationality isn't rooted in biology, but in our heads should be clear. I don't really get why Americans still do race theory. Luckily, we got over it here after WWII because we saw the damage of this ideology.
Who owns these testing centers where millions are freely sending there DNA, how long are they gonna keep it.. People shouldnt forget Henrietta Lacks...
@@solar0wind but borders arent real too. It helps using them for geographic reasons tho but your family might be mainly from an area that encompasses modern day poland but as i stated, their borders have changed dozens of times over the last few centuries. Colonializing America and west indies is what created race or whiteness in general. Was never used before then and the Nazis got alot of their ideas from how the US treated indigenious and african peoples
There is that british show, "Who do You Think You Are" where celebs go and learn more about there family history. There was an episode where a black british celeb found out his ancestors owned slaves in Jamaica. Its a pretty interesting show and the revelation it brings
I’m surprised how many people don’t expect this. Many ethnicities have owned slaves- including black Africans and Caribbean’s with regards to the transatlantic slave trade. Money and power talks, we are all human and when the opportunity arises history has shown most people will take it
Why the condescending tone tho, that for the little sly comments. Why does it matter who owned slaves? Does it some how make it palatable? Also the Native Americans didn't use Slave Labor to build a America(which the forefathers copied from the Hiawatha's Federation of Native American State's before independence). Please more self aware unless you mean to offend. That way if people let you have it you won't be surprised.
Hey man! I really appreciate your professional input on this topic.Your input is invaluable here and serves as an important footnote to the Buzzfeed video. Being Caribbean of African descent (Jamaican) I resent watching videos like these because through lack of information, everyone always seems ignorant about their heritage. After taking my DNA test I realized there was ALOT more to uncover than I had initially thought lol
This idea of racial purity is totally funny here in Brazil, all Brazilians are a mixture of all ethnicities, I myself am a mixture of Portuguese with Japanese Indians and Africans
I'm quite sure not " all" brazillians (as you stated) are natives. In the course of hundreds of years, people have come and gone out of Brazil and have mixed with others a 100× over.
Family tree reactions would be cool, but does not always mean much for family history or genetics. My parents are Mormon so I have A LOT of our tree done on both sides, but weird things happen. My grandmother found out through rumor and genetic testing, when she was 80 years old, she was actually the neighbors daughter.... My family tree changed significantly at that point.
How do family tree reactions not mean much for family history? History isn't just about race. This tribalism kick so many are on is one of the least important aspects of one's heritage. Any two physically capable people, whatever their race is, can produce children. That's just about biology, not about accomplishments, failures, beliefs, interactions or the characters of the people one comes from.
It means literally nothing at all in my honest opinion. It doesn't change anything. If you go back far enough you'll notice that we're all related because we're the same species. So what people are saying is that only the last 300-400 years matter? That's ridiculous on so many levels. It's the worst sort of cherry picking you can imagine. Depending on where in the world you live and the documentation available you can go back quite far and see things that can never be unseen.
I am Jamaican. I did my DNA along with my brothers we share A paternal lineage with Ramesees III. Maternal Mitochondrial DNA is L1C1, 2,4, 6. 48% Nigerian !!!! 20% Senegambian, Liberian and Ghanaian. 12.3% British/Irish. 0.2% Iranian , Caucasian ,Mesopotamia. 0.3 % Native American and others... a few more but those are the more interesting bits for me. I can send to you if you’re interested.🤗
Hi, Very interesting mix indeed. In the 1700 century there was a migration from Europe to the "new world" by wealthy black Jewish & Muslims Convertors, also known as crypto Jews/Muslims, New Christians, Marranos/Maroons & Black Dutchs among other names. As Convertors they escaped persecution in Europe before emigrating to the Americas were they intermarriage with Free black indigenous native peoples. The convertors were not slaves in any way but merchants & skilled professionals in different fields. Trade was one of their specialties. In the Iberian Peninsula, Spain & Portugal, they were wealthy & powerful, but persecuted & forced to flee. So they went to France & The Netherlands before relocating to England & Ireland and eventually moving to the "new world". They were big plantation owners, sugar/cotton/tobacco, & slave traders of black indigenous native Americans, not Africans. Jamaica was just one of the islands were they settled down, had plantations & did business from. So interesting that you have such a mix in your DNA. =)
The Ramesees part might be connected to your Irish part. The Irish had stories of an Egyptian princess marrying into Irish royalty. DNA has now shown that the old legends were right and many Irish people do have connections to Ramesees. In which case you might be connected to Irish royalty as well.
No it is not Irish it's haplogroup E-P252 which is African. E- M96 is the main African male lineage which had two major descendants E1 and E2. Most African men are in E1. But I'm in E2 or E2b1 or E-M85. Most Irish are in R-M269 or R1b as are most West Europeans.
Puerto Rican Is not a ethnic group it is a nationality..There are white and afro puerto ricans not just the very mix looking Puerto Ricans...Its like that in all latin countries..The ppl that the media always show on tv in Latin America are very mix
That's pretty much every human out there since we're all related at some point, it's all about the size of the net you're casting. We're humans and should unify as that because conflicts arise from believing you're different than someone else, religions and politics. I hope one day we truly get along as a species or it will be our undoing.
@BrooklynBorn 83 I think he was trying to be funny (semantics). I think he was implying that it should be 75% Sub-Saharan African rather than 75% African American since the source of that DNA is Africa & not America. That's how I took it.
@@sassytheclassy_rose9778 Agreed. Really it’s an afrocentric subculture who wants to lump all of us together because of their own personal beliefs and biases. They leave no room for different perspectives and growth. Just the same old cookie cutter mindset that allegedly "represents" us which is false.
You are 50% from one parent and 50% from the other. However, you don't know what parts you get. If one of your parents is 100% Japanese, then you will be 50% Japanese. But if your other parent is 50% African and 50% European, you aren't getting 25% of each. It's theoretically possible that you could get be 50% Japanese and 50% African or you could be 50% European and 50% Japanese. You don't know how much African or European your gonna get from that parent.
Actually, it's not always 50-50. Most people do inherit more from one parent than another. This is a fact that was discovered as DNA testing has gotten better and better over the past 20 years.
I told my aunt, I had a large % of Norwegian. She said, “No. We are 100% German.” She forgot my mother’s DNA was included and no way my father was 100% German. I actually told her, “Well…one of those Vikings did a bang-bang on one of our ancestors!” BTW, I don’t think I’m better than anyone but I’m proud of my ancestry. I see too many negative reactions to Caucasians.
White people get a lot of 💩 from some people due to what some of your ancestors did. But no one alive today was around for that, coming from a black guy 😂
Circa 15:30, you were so right about the most frustrating part about including DNA testing in your family history/genealogy of an estimated 2nd-3rd cousin match who will not respond... the amount of clues that can be provided. Good video!
I would be interested in seeing you build a partial family tree for someone, and then compare and explain the results and where the dna traits come from as seen on one of these tests.
Lol this video was frustrating. I felt your frustration from the screen because I don't like it when they show it completely! I like analyzing it too! You still tried your best with what you got!
13:17 You can slowly move frame by frame by pausing it and then the comma key is one frame previous, and the period key is one frame next. Tap the key to get to what you want to see if it's there.
I'd like to challenge everyone who uses the term slave so broadly to change the terminology in regards to African American to be referred to as prisoners-of-war and descendants of prisoners of War. Because slave is a European term for the Slavic Nations who became prisoners of war and sold in the times of the Turkish Islamic expansion
You seem really passionate about your line of work. I gotta admit. It is pretty cool that we can analyze our DNA and know so much about ourselves. Science is wild. I'm glad I found this channel. It's fascinating
Check out Keenan Ivory Wayans ancestry and DNA results from his appearance on a episode of Finding your roots... It was one of the most interesting stories I ever heard about when it comes to ancestry and DNA testing results.
Also I love genetics and family history. I know that my great great grandmother was born enslaved and that my grandmother is named after her. I also know that because my great great grandfather was white. My brother has carried the recessive gene and my nephew was born with blue eyes that changed to green. Genetics are just amazing
I have a black American friend who told me that he was always told that they had an American Indian ancestor--until his grandmother, before she died, told him that she had a white grandmother. That is besides any white slaveowning ancestors are taken into account.
@@christophermilhas5005 I'd say Nebula. For the cheaper ones, CRI was mostly accurate based on me tracing my dads side to 1428. Nobody else came close, but CRI pegged the countries to a t for most recent dna and only of the cheaper popular tests that found my 3% Mongolian
I also agree I’d like to see more family tree being investigated in the videos. With my 14% European I had to know when did the last full European appear in my tree. Surprisingly I’ve gotten pretty far. Pretty cool.
Same here. I'm African-American and I have about 19% European, with significant British/Irish ancestry. According to 23andMe, my last full UK ancestor was at least a 3rd-great-grandparent. Very interesting stuff.
did you try multiple tests. Doing the research, i saw that some tests aren't great...as in they do extras that are uneeded, as well as only test from certain points..then take some of those points and assume more than get acccurate data..the last part I feel i mixed up, because I did the research about 3yrs ago. I just don't remember the fine details of what I found out, but it was enough for me to understand that certain tests aren't the best to get as accuarate as I would like. Some are better while others just can't compensate for the fact that..slaves were just separated and messed around with
I just received my CRgentics DNA results and I am African American I thought. Well, I am 59% Tuscany, Italian with Southern Slvac, Frankfurt, Germany, Lyon, France and British Isles. I am 35% Tribes of 3 different peoples that traveled with the Roman dating back to 500 A.D. to the British Isles. Amazing
I am not convinced of the accuracy of CRIGenetics tests. I just got mine back, too, and in addition to their regular testing, I also opted for the mtDNA test to see if they had more specificity than my previous tests, and it wasn't even the same haplogroup that I've received test results for from two other companies and that my mother's brother also had as his result (his test was done later and had more specificity than mine, hence my wanting to get re-tested to see if I would also get a more specific result). Plus it thought I had recent Sri Lankan/Tamil ancestry within the last few generations, and I have done enough genealogical research to be pretty darned certain that I do not have any Sri Lankan/Tamil ancestry at least going back to the 1600s or 1700s. It might be an issue of possibly some error in their reference populations, and that might get fixed later on if they update their results when their reference data is updated like Ancestry does, but that doesn't explain the different mtDNA haplogroup result I got compared to previous tests. So the jury is still out on them for me.
I hope these people see your video . I’m a Caribbean who has also done my dna test , I’m 80% west African and 20% British , which makes sense. However, so many people would swear on their last dollar that I have some form Of East Asian in me , mainly Chinese... I also find that a lot of Caribbean’s and black Americans romanticise mixes , they never pay attention or find any joy in their African lineage , they could be 98% African and still talk and that 2% of whatever the mix is , than what they actually are. They also LOVE to claim Native American lineage , a great example is that lady telling her mother who disputed it as she claimed her own mother is Taino. Some Indian & black mixes phenotypically favour native Americans in the Caribbean , this doesn’t mean they have any in them. I have family members that could pass if you didn’t do a dna test.
I see this with a lot of DNA test videos. Most people focus on the fragments. Maybe it's because they don't expect to have certain ancestry in their family.
I recently did my ancestry and I’m 82% African (mostly Nigerian) and 18% European. I’m celebrating my African heritage. Looking for a T-shirt that says Nigerian Queen. I’m proud of my people.
What you said about Black Americans romanticizing mixes is SOO true. I just got my DNA results back yesterday and shared them with my aunt, who relishes in the assumption that we have French ancestry (because the surname "Fuqua" is very much present in our tree, and many of our relatives are lighter-skinned). Turns out, we have 0% French lol. The 37% Nigerian, 21% Ghanaian et al, and 10% Angolan/Congolese didn't faze her. But the moment I mention the
It's a form of self hate. I see it all the time in Caribbean people of African descent. They don't realize that Africa was\is Eden and the dome from an ancient people. A lot of trauma and hurt still exists.
we don't romanticize mixes we just honor them and don't neglect them to say we are just african if that at all. Yall seriously have no clue who yall are basing it solely off of DNA test that aren't even true and misrepresenting/mislabeling identity. The mother in this video literally said her mother's lineage is Carib/Taino and the genealogists says that she may be wrong in assuming the percentage should reflect higher in the test. huh? That's oral history the shit genealogists thrive off of if it's available and he just dismisses it to agree with a deceptive test. Smh 🤦🏾♂️
Funny, I just realized my AncestryDNA results just updated again. Does everyone else’s change same time as well too? 🤔Not much changed for me but a bit of trace like 1% northern India. My largest never changes 49% Nigerian Love the vids
For the most part everybody's results are updated at the same time, although some updates they roll it out in waves to different customers. So you may get an update while others might not get the update for a few weeks.
On one update, I lost the North African dna but still have Iberian peninsula dna on 23&me but ancestry has me at 99.9% Western European and British Isles with .1% undetermined.
I'm from The Bahamas 🇧🇸 and my results are from all over the place, the majority from Africa I also have Irish, European, Scotland, and also Native American or Indigenous Indian. It was a great experience and I was not shocked to see European but how wide of a range it was, was kinda cool. But my daughter was a whole different story 😅😅 I love your channel and keep it up. 🖤🖤
So glad I found your channel! I have been on a genealogical quest for the last 10 years...so far I've found my fathers biological family bloodlines. Ive found out that my mothers father is not her father. Im still trying to figure out who my moms dad is. Ive found that one of my great grandfathers was involved in the 'Ndrangheta and had a "bar" in Chicago with his best friend. It's been an eye opening experience. Still not giving up on my maternal grandfather! I will find out who he is..the quest continues! Love your channel!!
Narrative. If it becomes normalized that majority of black americans are 1/4+ white that couldn't potentially effect the racial divide they are pushing.
Taino where largely wiped out by Conquistadors (and deceases that they imported), the surviving Taino largely mixed with Europeans and Africans few hundreds years back...
Most Afro-caribbeans and afro-latinos didn't lose their African culture it just evolved but many elements remain the same . Heavy African elements are very evident in Haiti ,Jamaica , Cuba , Colombia & Brazil . African Americans and Afro Canadians lost a lot of their African culture removed . Often in the past it was caribbeans who reinvigorated the Africaness in African American culture .
I’ve tried to explain that to some African Americans and they just don’t get it, the think the African American experience is universal to all African peoples.
Unlike Caribbeans, Black Americans were always a minority population in the United States, so naturally they'd lose more African culture. African Americans are American first...the best parts of American culture belong to them.
Hey Jarrett, if you click on the gear at the below right of the window, you can change the playback speed to really slow down the playback to stop it on the frame you want to see.
My father is Afro-Caribbean from British Antigua and my mom is Puerto Rican 😩I probably shouldn’t care about anything because it’ll be hard to really trace back
I'm adopted and I have no idea who or what ancestry I have...and it really makes not one whit of difference. What matters is HOW you treat people and how you are treated by others.
Another thing to keep in mind about the woman saying the native American percentage is wrong. Quanah Parker's mother was white. She was captured by the tribe. Quanah Parker ended up being the Chief. Native Americans weren't just a DNA line. They were more of a culture. They, just like all other humans mixed and wared with each other as well as outside races all the time.
My great grandmother was Yugoslavian gypsy and when I first did AncestryDNA it showed that I had Eastern European specifically from the region that would have been Yugoslavia, at 13%. It made perfect sense and then with their updates they do all the time, they took it away completely which was very upsetting. I have messaged them multiple times telling them it was correct to begin with and to put it back. I have had my DNA looked at elsewhere and that Eastern European shows up still. Why would they do this??
@meganh1603 First of all, if you were born in America, then you are not African American. You are America .If you were born in Africa, then you are African American.
I'm so glad you made some major points to this video. People assume that they are exactly 50% dna from each parent and so on, and it doesn't quite work that way. Nor with genetics and not with DNA testing. I've had slightly different results from different tests. I've done the genealogy, and I'm just under half Native American, but that was from a combination of relatives. In one test it said I wasn't Native at all (they just didn't have the samples off the majority of North American tribes to compare). In another test I was more European than my sister, but I have more of the physical Native American traits than she does. Of course Native American is a tricky one genealogicaly.
On the struggle of trying to see the shots of the break down of their DNA: when editing cuts too fast for you to read what you want to, slowing the playback speed makes it much easier to pause on the part you want.
Oh, man, that last observation about DNA matches that won't message you back or just basically used the site for a day or two and then never went back is so true - and so frustrating!
Pretty difficult to happen . Caribs and Tainos have being extinct over 300 years . There are anecdotes of certain small clusters until the late 1800's - early 1900's . Is very possible your great grandmother had something between 20 to 30 % Native - American DNA . This is if one of her grandparents were part of one of those anecdote groups . But is pretty common to find people from the Caribbean to have around 10% Native American DNA . It could be from either family tree. Lesser Antilles usually have Carib . Major Antilles tend to have Taino . ( Both groups were enemies . )
That's not true and even if they weren't around anymore the DNA would still lingers. Please stop telling people they don't exist just because some who does not know better said it
My ancestors where Spanish french and Italian but I have no idea of their genetics. It could be anything and I don't care. I see black people give it a great importance to being african descendent. I believe a person is the way they are. Point. It has nothing to do with race.
Also, given the movement of people throughout the centuries and the globalization in these last decades, immigration, wars, invasions, travels, everybody is mixed race, and you may have genes from some ancestor from far away.
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I've never done any DNA testing, but through my grandpa, I know a bit about my great grandfather. Apparently he was the eldest child of a poor Irish family and his family had worked hard so that they could save for him to become a priest. He hated the idea so much, that he ran away, immigrating to America. There, he worked paycheck to paycheck to support the family he made, succumbing to depression and alcoholism. His biggest regret was letting down the family that he left behind and the fact that he let his past affect his wife and children so much. I may not know a lot about my statistical ancestry, but I find stories like that to be much more impactful.
God forbid someone be grateful that their not so distant relative wasn't the victim of sexual assault when they were held as a slave. Oh NO! It's clearly a conspiracy of an extremely popular website to hurt your feelings in particular.
@@michellemccrakken6490 Firstly, not every black person was a slave. Secondly, not every action of sex between a European and a black person automatically means rape. It's exactly your way of thinking that keeps hate in the world.
Well, I've seen many European people react negatively when their DNA results reveal African ancestry, so I wouldn't be too surprised. History has caused a lot of conscious and unconscious antagonism and acrimony.
It would also be great for those of us that are adopted. I was adopted, did a DNA test and found my biological family, on both sides. It would still be great to be able to trace my heritage, my genealogy further.
A big section of the Caribbean isn't accurately identified because the indigenous peoples, from the lesser antilles especially, are often considered "extinct" and so the dna is marked weirdly. Barbados had little to no suviving indigenous population to intermix with. But St. Vincent and Trinidad, and Tobago have a very specific indigenous group that is weirdly isolated and only recently researched so it doesn't appear in ancestry tests. My family is also Carib on mom's side and Arawak on dad's mom's side and recent research shows that there was mixing with Africans and the indigenous population from the 1600s onwards so yeah, that's a good number of generations for the genetics to get muddied
I'm every nation so this is interesting when people take the test. My neighbor turned out to be kin to me, Baptiste and St Jean families sold their own and one of those was the Legree family. It wasn't hard to trace just sad to us, but it was cool to find out we was kin to each other. My Mom had babysat for them before we even knew we was kin.
I love these videos. I’ve done genealogical translation but hasten to tell people I am not a genealogist at this time. I just don’t know enough yet, but I can probably decipher your great grandmother’s handwritten German letters. :)
Most of us do not do family trees or genetic tracing, we have an oral history where older members of our families tell us about our ancestors. For those of us lucky to have them, we have photos.
I started watching shows like Who Do You Think You Are that look into the genealogy and personal history so the DNA is the new and exciting side of it for me still
Hey, you see a lot of videos that say surprising DNA test results but I've actually met someone who has taken the test and got the shock of her life. She's a Black lady with two Black parents. Her son started tracing their roots through research and then after a few years these test became available so he thought it would be a hoot to take it. When he took his it came back with 39% European (25% from England, Scotland, and Wales) which was strange because he couldn't find one European person but he figured that most of it came from his dad. (He's medium complexion on the lighter side) He then had his mom take the test and the mystery took a turn LOL. She found out she was 47% European. Keeping in mind she had two Black parents and no traceable White relative the biggest surprise came when she found out that out of all her European heritage between 39-42% (I can't remember the exact number, sorry) was from English, Scotland and Wales. I've seen a lot of videos and I've only seen a few Europeans with that much DNA from there and they were living there at the time so I was wondering is it me or does that sound strange?
@@sparklesp9304 not necessarily, it's a girl here on UA-cam that is over 50% native and she's dark, with kinky short hair and African features. Her mother is Mexican and father African American. But she doesn't look like she has any Mexican or native dna at all. Genetics is a funny thing... I also know a girl that's about 4 or more shades lighter than me and has way more African dna than me. So people don't always look like their results.
Keep in mind the one drop rule said one drop of “black blood” then you’re black, they likely had more European ancestry than African, but they lived as black. On my dad maternal side there’s a couple generations of people who a considered black but were phenotypically European.
It amazing how disconnected most americans are from history. Its sad.carib and tainos are 2 different native groups that actually competed and fought each other.
Yea idk she said that, technically the Carib did sometimes steal Tiano women as their brides so they probabbly became partially taino by blood over time, still distinct culturally tho. Also no way she had a relative as close as a grandparent who was full blooded carib or taino, the intermixing and disease wiped out all pure blooded natives in the carribean hundreds of years ago, some people may have held onto tribal ties longer but they were still mixed ethnically by then. I think the confusion comes from the 1 drop rule and blood quantem as well since it makes relatives think they are full blood when in reality they are only classified that as such because of the deffinition of the time not actual DNA. Plenty of people who are tribal affiliated in the US today are less than half native american by blood, they use different metrics to assign tribal affiliation rather than blood quantem alone.
Taino and Caribs were both extinct more than 300 years ago . They were completely different ethnic groups and were enemies . But is pretty common for Caribbean people to have about 10% of one of those groups DNA .
Thanks for doing this video I hope they watch it, I see and hear some really cringey stuff in these DNA videos you won't believe so thanks for enlightening them
My understanding is that while half my DNA comes from my father and half comes from my mother, there is no guarantee that I inherited their parents DNA at exactly 25 percent each. There is some random blending of the DNA from your parents. This explains why one child in a family might have red hair and the others don't or why I have some DNA matches from some of my distant cousins but they don't match with all my siblings.
❤️❤️❤️sometimes people, like myself, did the DNA test, and wants to track my genealogy but the dna site requires a subscription that I can’t afford right now. It won’t allow me to answer or message anyone. I do, have my genealogy on other sites like family tree and Ancestry.
My friend is Navajo, illegally adopted by Mormons. She became a genealogist for the church. Her great sadness is that she could not trace her own history. But that was mainly because the Tribe has little to do with death. Her DNA was 3% Chinese and the rest Native American.
Would you do a competition for people who haven't done their family tree and then do a reaction video with them? Could be interesting, especially if other channels aren't doing it.
One thing that skews a lot of understanding is that ppl don’t understand gene recombination and how you’re not guaranteed to inherit ANY of a particular grandparent’s dna. (Not likely that it will be 0%, but that it will be between 0 and 25)
Yeah, that's a really interesting show. They did DNA testing for Blair Underwood when he hit a roadblock in his family tree and actually found a match in Africa, so he was able to travel to Africa to learn more about the people at least one of his ancestors was descended from. And on another episode with a different celebrity, I had to rewind and pause on her family tree because it reached a point that actually matched my own family tree, and I wanted to cross reference it to be sure. Turns out we had three separate lines of common ancestors, including the family they chose to focus on in the episode! So that definitely helped me to fill out my own family tree much further back.
@@sadfaery Wow that would be cool. Being second generation on both sides, that will never happen to me. I do want to take one someday, my maternal grandparents were both from Norway. My dad's origins were sketchily mentioned once by my mother leaving more questions than answers. Am I 1/2 Germany(my name is), a real European mix (her weird story) or possible from a Jewish background, because that would fit the information best!
The oldest Y chromosome was found in America. A man was tested in South Carolina. He was found to have haplogroup A00 which rewrote the Y chromosome tree. His name was Albert Perry. His Y chromosome was traced back to Cameroon, to the Mbo people.
With 23 and Me you don’t know your family tree unless you construct it yourself. They offer a connection to other people who share some of your DNA, but you have to fill it in with your people.
I did the heritage DNA test after my daughter did 23 and me. She came up with 3% Asian and mine said 3% Chinese. Talk about a shocker!!!! My mom is 85% African heritage and I'm only 70% . Honestly I was somewhat disappointed by this but I'm now dealing with my very multi racial heritage. I'm literally made up of people in Africa, West Europe, Central Europe, the Baltics, India, and China whoa!
@@reiserkeiser misconception... Clutching pearls.. yeah cause sometimes it was consensual to have a somewhat better life.... Called placage.... Super unfortunate and still demeaning and I digress 💜💛
@@reiserkeiser it's not a "common misconception" you fucking idiot. It's ugly history. No one said it was always the case but for the most part it is. Stop trying to rewrite the facts
I recently found your channel and have been enjoying watching your content. I have a question. What is best way to find records about businesses or properties your ancestors owned? I am trying to find the name of a store and the physical address, my ancestors owned in the 1800's.
For something in-depth like that you will usually need to do more groundwork. Look into what records are available for that town and you may be able to find different registration records. If you know the type of store you might also be able to find directories for people in that specific business. You can also check newspapers, especially if you think they may have run ads. It will really all depend on the location of the store and what record sets are available for businesses in that area. Best of luck!
I appreciate your commentary. One thing to note, you should try not to use the term slave as it dehumanizes our ancestors and minimizes their personhood. Consider using the term enslaved people as it more accurately describes the circumstances that were imposed upon them.
"Well, to share an old family secret: My grandmother was Dutch." ~ Cleavon Little, Blazing Saddles
Best. Movie. Ever.
My favourite movie 🤣🤣
What did he say?
He said the Sheriff is near!
Love that movie. Some one is going to have to ride back to town and get a 💩 load of dimes
Excellent choice!
Yeah my father was from Aruba and from him I have native south american DNA and african. People from the U.S often forget there is a whole South America where many plantations grew sugar and many African people were enslaved. And a lot of mixed "black" people come from there.
I found out that I have indigenous eastern south american dna not sure where that came from still waiting on my moms results to see if it was her side or my dads
Apparently Brazil had more slaves than the U.S. And there is a whole lot of Native Americans living outside of civilization mainly in Brazil , well that was the impression that I get.
yupp, there were FAR more in south America than north, Brazil mostly.
No, no we don’t
Agree with the comments, Portuguese brought more slaves to Brazil than America even dreamed of. So you would have some Spanish, Portuguese, European (Britian, Ireland, Dutch, etc.) and yes they mixed with the indigenous people. You'd be surprised at who shows up in your DNA. It's like treasure hunting.
I did he DNA test and matched with a descendant of man who owned my family as slaves. He is a historian who mapped our tree all the way to a small town in Mississippi to our mutual ancestor
@@ash13311 does this mean you now owe yourself reparations?
Haha... Just joking.
@@ibelieveitcauseiseentit9630 it's a joke but yes. If reparation ever become a thing. The government would pay it and how would they get the money to pay it .... Taxes.
That's crazy!!! 😱 That seems like that slave owner you DNA matched with, had his way with one of your ancestors. Not impossible, but I've heard a lot of stories from folks and their ancestors history. I'm sure the slave owners who were single and not married with kids did that horrible deed.
@@fusionsportdaily1650with one of my relatives that my dad found that was black was actually married into a white family back in the 1800's.
There were plenty of black people that married white people.
After looking into race and the presidential position, I've found that MOST of them were part black.
And the "one drop" rule made them legally black. So Obama wasn't the first black president either.
Also we've already had an LGBTQ president. One of my relatives James Buchanan was gay ( secretly) and was living with another of my relatives from the other side William King who was actually closer related to me.
Kinda weird things you figure out doing ancestry! I have a few relatives that are related to me in two different ways.
My favorite is my uncle/cuz. Although recently found out he murdered his first wife, but never got caught. I guess she was really mean, so everyone just ignored it??
Families were mainly from Missouri, Kansas and Alabama.
Life is just funny!
@@fusionsportdaily1650 Ask yourself...WHY would the man need to force himself on the lady? Maybe he was handsome. Maybe it was good to find favor? Just saying... it is possible. Right?
You can use the ',' (comma) and '.' (period) keys on the keyboard to rewind and advance UA-cam videos frame by frame (you do need to pause the video first). Very useful when you want to see something that flashes by too quickly to catch by just pausing.
Hey, wow thank you (Thumbs up on your help)
good tip, thanks
Thanks, Gustav! I tried this on my laptop and it worked! Before this tip, I used to just pause the video at rapid-fire speed until it got to the right frame, ugh!! 😩
Yup. It may be easier to remember by looking for left and right "arrows" (< > symbols on those keys)
You just changed my life!
I wish they had someone there to help them understand their results.
Dna science proves race is a social construct yet people will racialize their dna test. And talk about "features" like some racist science like phenology from like over a 100 years ago. People will also nationalize their dna and say "im polish" but Polands borders have changed like over 50 times in the last 400 years
@@tecumseh821 You're right, but you have kind of written this out of context...
But yeah, race is an outdated social construct, but ethnicity is not. And that nationality isn't rooted in biology, but in our heads should be clear.
I don't really get why Americans still do race theory. Luckily, we got over it here after WWII because we saw the damage of this ideology.
Who owns these testing centers where millions are freely sending there DNA, how long are they gonna keep it.. People shouldnt forget Henrietta Lacks...
@@solar0wind but borders arent real too. It helps using them for geographic reasons tho but your family might be mainly from an area that encompasses modern day poland but as i stated, their borders have changed dozens of times over the last few centuries.
Colonializing America and west indies is what created race or whiteness in general. Was never used before then and the Nazis got alot of their ideas from how the US treated indigenious and african peoples
At buzzfeed? Never
There is that british show, "Who do You Think You Are" where celebs go and learn more about there family history. There was an episode where a black british celeb found out his ancestors owned slaves in Jamaica. Its a pretty interesting show and the revelation it brings
I’m surprised how many people don’t expect this. Many ethnicities have owned slaves- including black Africans and Caribbean’s with regards to the transatlantic slave trade. Money and power talks, we are all human and when the opportunity arises history has shown most people will take it
That was also a show here in the US and in Australia.
@@Bringon-dw8dx yes, even the Native American owned slaves. I watched a program called red masters, black slaves that was really interesting.
@@Bringon-dw8dx I actually think @stephen P meant that thr black British celeb's white ancestors owed slaves - but I may be wrong
Why the condescending tone tho, that for the little sly comments. Why does it matter who owned slaves? Does it some how make it palatable? Also the Native Americans didn't use Slave Labor to build a America(which the forefathers copied from the Hiawatha's Federation of Native American State's before independence). Please more self aware unless you mean to offend. That way if people let you have it you won't be surprised.
Hey man! I really appreciate your professional input on this topic.Your input is invaluable here and serves as an important footnote to the Buzzfeed video.
Being Caribbean of African descent (Jamaican) I resent watching videos like these because through lack of information, everyone always seems ignorant about their heritage.
After taking my DNA test I realized there was ALOT more to uncover than I had initially thought lol
R u aware of the Jamaican motto...this shouldn't be a surprise to you.
I'm from America well as my parents I took DNA test it show st Elizabeth and st prish Jamaica and far as Africa Nigerian
This idea of racial purity is totally funny here in Brazil, all Brazilians are a mixture of all ethnicities, I myself am a mixture of Portuguese with Japanese Indians and Africans
With a name like that I wouldn't need a test to prove it lol
@@rahinhuq1608 lelel
And you want the rest of the world to be like you don’t you? Does it anger you when you see somebody with a dna test results is “pure” result?
Indian means southern Asian or Native American ??
I'm quite sure not " all" brazillians (as you stated) are natives. In the course of hundreds of years, people have come and gone out of Brazil and have mixed with others a 100× over.
Family tree reactions would be cool, but does not always mean much for family history or genetics.
My parents are Mormon so I have A LOT of our tree done on both sides, but weird things happen.
My grandmother found out through rumor and genetic testing, when she was 80 years old, she was actually the neighbors daughter....
My family tree changed significantly at that point.
How do family tree reactions not mean much for family history? History isn't just about race. This tribalism kick so many are on is one of the least important aspects of one's heritage. Any two physically capable people, whatever their race is, can produce children. That's just about biology, not about accomplishments, failures, beliefs, interactions or the characters of the people one comes from.
These tests are going to uncover a lot of family secrets.
"My family tree changed significantly at that point." LOL That was probably the understatement of the year!
Wow!
It means literally nothing at all in my honest opinion. It doesn't change anything. If you go back far enough you'll notice that we're all related because we're the same species. So what people are saying is that only the last 300-400 years matter? That's ridiculous on so many levels. It's the worst sort of cherry picking you can imagine. Depending on where in the world you live and the documentation available you can go back quite far and see things that can never be unseen.
I am Jamaican. I did my DNA along with my brothers we share
A paternal lineage with Ramesees III. Maternal Mitochondrial DNA is L1C1, 2,4, 6. 48% Nigerian !!!! 20% Senegambian, Liberian and Ghanaian. 12.3% British/Irish. 0.2% Iranian , Caucasian ,Mesopotamia. 0.3 % Native American and others... a few more but those are the more interesting bits for me.
I can send to you if you’re interested.🤗
Hi, Very interesting mix indeed. In the 1700 century there was a migration from Europe to the "new world" by wealthy black Jewish & Muslims Convertors, also known as crypto Jews/Muslims, New Christians, Marranos/Maroons & Black Dutchs among other names. As Convertors they escaped persecution in Europe before emigrating to the Americas were they intermarriage with Free black indigenous native peoples. The convertors were not slaves in any way but merchants & skilled professionals in different fields. Trade was one of their specialties. In the Iberian Peninsula, Spain & Portugal, they were wealthy & powerful, but persecuted & forced to flee. So they went to France & The Netherlands before relocating to England & Ireland and eventually moving to the "new world". They were big plantation owners, sugar/cotton/tobacco, & slave traders of black indigenous native Americans, not Africans. Jamaica was just one of the islands were they settled down, had plantations & did business from. So interesting that you have such a mix in your DNA. =)
Nothing North African in your DNA lady.
Which test you took
The Ramesees part might be connected to your Irish part. The Irish had stories of an Egyptian princess marrying into Irish royalty. DNA has now shown that the old legends were right and many Irish people do have connections to Ramesees. In which case you might be connected to Irish royalty as well.
No it is not Irish it's haplogroup E-P252 which is African. E- M96 is the main African male lineage which had two major descendants E1 and E2. Most African men are in E1. But I'm in E2 or E2b1 or E-M85. Most Irish are in R-M269 or R1b as are most West Europeans.
Nobody has been full blooded Taino for a well over a hundred years they are one of the first tribes to come in contact with Europeans.
Yup. Puerto Ricans get the highest percentage of Taíno, at about 12-25%, but no one has been fully Taíno for a very long time.
Doesn’t mean they aren’t descendants Taino that happen to not be in your genes. If really, they are native but by long ancestry lineage.
Puerto Rican Is not a ethnic group it is a nationality..There are white and afro puerto ricans not just the very mix looking Puerto Ricans...Its like that in all latin countries..The ppl that the media always show on tv in Latin America are very mix
Someome from Mexico had a 90%+ indigenous result.
They're on islands in full blood.
There are a couple of videos of identical twins doing multiple of these heritage DNA tests, they extremely rarely got the same results.
My family is so mixed we have more colours than skittles and love it .
That's pretty much every human out there since we're all related at some point, it's all about the size of the net you're casting. We're humans and should unify as that because conflicts arise from believing you're different than someone else, religions and politics. I hope one day we truly get along as a species or it will be our undoing.
Same hear , very common though ❤️
75% “African American “!?
Where’s Africa America? 😂
You guys black people who live in America shouldn't be called African Americanm that's what I believe the op was pointing out.
@BrooklynBorn 83 I think he was trying to be funny (semantics). I think he was implying that it should be 75% Sub-Saharan African rather than 75% African American since the source of that DNA is Africa & not America. That's how I took it.
@@sassytheclassy_rose9778 Agreed. Really it’s an afrocentric subculture who wants to lump all of us together because of their own personal beliefs and biases. They leave no room for different perspectives and growth. Just the same old cookie cutter mindset that allegedly "represents" us which is false.
@Paulette Stinson The bible was used to justify slavery. Any belief in it should be tossed in the trash.
Africa America is the same place, where, white America is, in the USA.
You are 50% from one parent and 50% from the other. However, you don't know what parts you get.
If one of your parents is 100% Japanese, then you will be 50% Japanese. But if your other parent is 50% African and 50% European, you aren't getting 25% of each. It's theoretically possible that you could get be 50% Japanese and 50% African or you could be 50% European and 50% Japanese. You don't know how much African or European your gonna get from that parent.
I'm half hispanic and Irish, and half african I wonder how much african I have
And spainish blood
Actually, it's not always 50-50. Most people do inherit more from one parent than another. This is a fact that was discovered as DNA testing has gotten better and better over the past 20 years.
I told my aunt, I had a large % of Norwegian. She said, “No. We are 100% German.” She forgot my mother’s DNA was included and no way my father was 100% German. I actually told her, “Well…one of those Vikings did a bang-bang on one of our ancestors!”
BTW, I don’t think I’m better than anyone but I’m proud of my ancestry. I see too many negative reactions to Caucasians.
My maternal ancestry is Greek & Irish, and I'm proud of it too. My grandparents are/were great people, and I'm proud to carry their D.N.A.
White people get a lot of 💩 from some people due to what some of your ancestors did. But no one alive today was around for that, coming from a black guy 😂
Circa 15:30, you were so right about the most frustrating part about including DNA testing in your family history/genealogy of an estimated 2nd-3rd cousin match who will not respond... the amount of clues that can be provided. Good video!
I would be interested in seeing you build a partial family tree for someone, and then compare and explain the results and where the dna traits come from as seen on one of these tests.
My results: 50% Caucasian 40% Clear 10% Invisible
😂😂😂
So 100% sucks
Invisible = blend in like the gazelle avoiding the lion?
Invisibke= Blend in, ..like the gazelle avoiding being eaten by the lion?
😂😂😂😂😂
Lol this video was frustrating. I felt your frustration from the screen because I don't like it when they show it completely! I like analyzing it too!
You still tried your best with what you got!
13:17 You can slowly move frame by frame by pausing it and then the comma key is one frame previous, and the period key is one frame next. Tap the key to get to what you want to see if it's there.
I'd like to challenge everyone who uses the term slave so broadly to change the terminology in regards to African American to be referred to as prisoners-of-war and descendants of prisoners of War. Because slave is a European term for the Slavic Nations who became prisoners of war and sold in the times of the Turkish Islamic expansion
No such thing as African Americans, just Americans
You seem really passionate about your line of work. I gotta admit. It is pretty cool that we can analyze our DNA and know so much about ourselves. Science is wild. I'm glad I found this channel. It's fascinating
Check out Keenan Ivory Wayans ancestry and DNA results from his appearance on a episode of Finding your roots... It was one of the most interesting stories I ever heard about when it comes to ancestry and DNA testing results.
Also I love genetics and family history. I know that my great great grandmother was born enslaved and that my grandmother is named after her. I also know that because my great great grandfather was white. My brother has carried the recessive gene and my nephew was born with blue eyes that changed to green. Genetics are just amazing
Africans can get blue eyes as well but it’s rare. But yeah that’s a shame about that because that probably meant she was abused unfortunately.
Finding your roots with Lupita Nyong'o was good!!
50% DNA from each parent. It depends which 50% you get. Another reason siblings don't have exact match.
I have a black American friend who told me that he was always told that they had an American Indian ancestor--until his grandmother, before she died, told him that she had a white grandmother. That is besides any white slaveowning ancestors are taken into account.
One must keep in mind that 23 and Me runs a quick and dirty test which is a long way from completely accurate.
What test would you say is superior?
23andMe is still the most accurate out of the most popular American DNA services
I've done 23andme, ancestry, myheritage, ftdna and national geographic helix. 23andme is definitely the list accurate‼️
@@christophermilhas5005 I'd say Nebula. For the cheaper ones, CRI was mostly accurate based on me tracing my dads side to 1428. Nobody else came close, but CRI pegged the countries to a t for most recent dna and only of the cheaper popular tests that found my 3% Mongolian
What shocked me the most was how little they wanted European ancestry.
I also agree I’d like to see more family tree being investigated in the videos. With my 14% European I had to know when did the last full European appear in my tree. Surprisingly I’ve gotten pretty far. Pretty cool.
Same here. I'm African-American and I have about 19% European, with significant British/Irish ancestry. According to 23andMe, my last full UK ancestor was at least a 3rd-great-grandparent. Very interesting stuff.
If your mix your not black.
@@Iamblack34 bullshit
did you try multiple tests. Doing the research, i saw that some tests aren't great...as in they do extras that are uneeded, as well as only test from certain points..then take some of those points and assume more than get acccurate data..the last part I feel i mixed up, because I did the research about 3yrs ago. I just don't remember the fine details of what I found out, but it was enough for me to understand that certain tests aren't the best to get as accuarate as I would like. Some are better while others just can't compensate for the fact that..slaves were just separated and messed around with
That's why I'm afraid to do these tests. I don't want to be anything but black but I know there are other things in there. 😔
That “it should’ve been higher” is exactly the reaction I got 🤣😅😂
I just received my CRgentics DNA results and I am African American I thought. Well, I am 59% Tuscany, Italian with Southern Slvac, Frankfurt, Germany, Lyon, France and British Isles. I am 35% Tribes of 3 different peoples that traveled with the Roman dating back to 500 A.D. to the British Isles. Amazing
I am not convinced of the accuracy of CRIGenetics tests. I just got mine back, too, and in addition to their regular testing, I also opted for the mtDNA test to see if they had more specificity than my previous tests, and it wasn't even the same haplogroup that I've received test results for from two other companies and that my mother's brother also had as his result (his test was done later and had more specificity than mine, hence my wanting to get re-tested to see if I would also get a more specific result). Plus it thought I had recent Sri Lankan/Tamil ancestry within the last few generations, and I have done enough genealogical research to be pretty darned certain that I do not have any Sri Lankan/Tamil ancestry at least going back to the 1600s or 1700s. It might be an issue of possibly some error in their reference populations, and that might get fixed later on if they update their results when their reference data is updated like Ancestry does, but that doesn't explain the different mtDNA haplogroup result I got compared to previous tests. So the jury is still out on them for me.
Same I knew I was black but only 51% it was a shock
So what is the African part?
@@mysticalstylings2456 Are you bi-racial or not? And what percentage did you expect? With 50% I would have assumed that the person was bi-racial.
I used them too. 50% European and it sounded fishy. I'm gonna do another one with a different company to see what happens.
I hope these people see your video . I’m a Caribbean who has also done my dna test , I’m 80% west African and 20% British , which makes sense. However, so many people would swear on their last dollar that I have some form
Of East Asian in me , mainly Chinese...
I also find that a lot of Caribbean’s and black Americans romanticise mixes , they never pay attention or find any joy in their African lineage , they could be 98% African and still talk and that 2% of whatever the mix is , than what they actually are. They also LOVE to claim Native American lineage , a great example is that lady telling her mother who disputed it as she claimed her own mother is Taino.
Some Indian & black mixes phenotypically favour native Americans in the Caribbean , this doesn’t mean they have any in them. I have family members that could pass if you didn’t do a dna test.
I see this with a lot of DNA test videos. Most people focus on the fragments. Maybe it's because they don't expect to have certain ancestry in their family.
I recently did my ancestry and I’m 82% African (mostly Nigerian) and 18% European. I’m celebrating my African heritage. Looking for a T-shirt that says Nigerian Queen. I’m proud of my people.
What you said about Black Americans romanticizing mixes is SOO true. I just got my DNA results back yesterday and shared them with my aunt, who relishes in the assumption that we have French ancestry (because the surname "Fuqua" is very much present in our tree, and many of our relatives are lighter-skinned). Turns out, we have 0% French lol. The 37% Nigerian, 21% Ghanaian et al, and 10% Angolan/Congolese didn't faze her. But the moment I mention the
It's a form of self hate. I see it all the time in Caribbean people of African descent. They don't realize that Africa was\is Eden and the dome from an ancient people. A lot of trauma and hurt still exists.
we don't romanticize mixes we just honor them and don't neglect them to say we are just african if that at all. Yall seriously have no clue who yall are basing it solely off of DNA test that aren't even true and misrepresenting/mislabeling identity. The mother in this video literally said her mother's lineage is Carib/Taino and the genealogists says that she may be wrong in assuming the percentage should reflect higher in the test. huh? That's oral history the shit genealogists thrive off of if it's available and he just dismisses it to agree with a deceptive test. Smh 🤦🏾♂️
My great grandfather was a Black man who had people in SC working for him
Sad
Ok? What's the rest of the story? Why do people make random statements with no context? Good grief!
I have people that work for me .... So what do you mean? This was random lol
He was a slave owner. Lots of black people were
Funny, I just realized my AncestryDNA results just updated again. Does everyone else’s change same time as well too? 🤔Not much changed for me but a bit of trace like 1% northern India. My largest never changes 49% Nigerian
Love the vids
For the most part everybody's results are updated at the same time, although some updates they roll it out in waves to different customers. So you may get an update while others might not get the update for a few weeks.
I had a big change in my DNA results on Ancestry... I went from 8 % Nigerian to 32% Nigerian.
On one update, I lost the North African dna but still have Iberian peninsula dna on 23&me but ancestry has me at 99.9% Western European and British Isles with .1% undetermined.
I'm from The Bahamas 🇧🇸 and my results are from all over the place, the majority from Africa I also have Irish, European, Scotland, and also Native American or Indigenous Indian. It was a great experience and I was not shocked to see European but how wide of a range it was, was kinda cool. But my daughter was a whole different story 😅😅 I love your channel and keep it up. 🖤🖤
Thanks for sharing your thoughts and observations. You always do a great job explaining.❤️
So glad I found your channel! I have been on a genealogical quest for the last 10 years...so far I've found my fathers biological family bloodlines. Ive found out that my mothers father is not her father. Im still trying to figure out who my moms dad is. Ive found that one of my great grandfathers was involved in the 'Ndrangheta and had a "bar" in Chicago with his best friend. It's been an eye opening experience. Still not giving up on my maternal grandfather! I will find out who he is..the quest continues!
Love your channel!!
I wonder why Buzzfeed deleted the video
Narrative. If it becomes normalized that majority of black americans are 1/4+ white that couldn't potentially effect the racial divide they are pushing.
Taino where largely wiped out by Conquistadors (and deceases that they imported), the surviving Taino largely mixed with Europeans and Africans few hundreds years back...
Most Afro-caribbeans and afro-latinos didn't lose their African culture it just evolved but many elements remain the same .
Heavy African elements are very evident in Haiti ,Jamaica , Cuba , Colombia & Brazil .
African Americans and Afro Canadians lost a lot of their African culture removed .
Often in the past it was caribbeans who reinvigorated the Africaness in African American culture .
I’ve tried to explain that to some African Americans and they just don’t get it, the think the African American experience is universal to all African peoples.
Unlike Caribbeans, Black Americans were always a minority population in the United States, so naturally they'd lose more African culture. African Americans are American first...the best parts of American culture belong to them.
Hey Jarrett, if you click on the gear at the below right of the window, you can change the playback speed to really slow down the playback to stop it on the frame you want to see.
My father is Afro-Caribbean from British Antigua and my mom is Puerto Rican 😩I probably shouldn’t care about anything because it’ll be hard to really trace back
I'm adopted and I have no idea who or what ancestry I have...and it really makes not one whit of difference. What matters is HOW you treat people and how you are treated by others.
@@Thom1212 agree I am adopted too. I always thought I was black... turns out I’m just a white guy that is super dark. Mostly European
Another thing to keep in mind about the woman saying the native American percentage is wrong. Quanah Parker's mother was white. She was captured by the tribe. Quanah Parker ended up being the Chief. Native Americans weren't just a DNA line. They were more of a culture. They, just like all other humans mixed and wared with each other as well as outside races all the time.
It helps to slowdown the Playback speed of the video when you want to pause at a specific spot. Love your videos!
My great grandmother was Yugoslavian gypsy and when I first did AncestryDNA it showed that I had Eastern European specifically from the region that would have been Yugoslavia, at 13%. It made perfect sense and then with their updates they do all the time, they took it away completely which was very upsetting. I have messaged them multiple times telling them it was correct to begin with and to put it back. I have had my DNA looked at elsewhere and that Eastern European shows up still. Why would they do this??
I appreciate how often you upload! Love your content :D
And I'm excited for the next episode of relative race :)
@meganh1603 First of all, if you were born in America, then you are not African American. You are America .If you were born in Africa, then you are African American.
I'm so glad you made some major points to this video. People assume that they are exactly 50% dna from each parent and so on, and it doesn't quite work that way. Nor with genetics and not with DNA testing. I've had slightly different results from different tests.
I've done the genealogy, and I'm just under half Native American, but that was from a combination of relatives. In one test it said I wasn't Native at all (they just didn't have the samples off the majority of North American tribes to compare). In another test I was more European than my sister, but I have more of the physical Native American traits than she does. Of course Native American is a tricky one genealogicaly.
On the struggle of trying to see the shots of the break down of their DNA: when editing cuts too fast for you to read what you want to, slowing the playback speed makes it much easier to pause on the part you want.
The original video's focus was on how "black" these people were. I think that's why the rest of the other admixtures weren't really addressed.
Oh, man, that last observation about DNA matches that won't message you back or just basically used the site for a day or two and then never went back is so true - and so frustrating!
My mom's grandmother is also full Carib Indian so I guess I could expect similar results
So is my grandmother.
Pretty difficult to happen . Caribs and Tainos have being extinct over 300 years . There are anecdotes of certain small clusters until the late 1800's - early 1900's .
Is very possible your great grandmother had something between 20 to 30 % Native - American DNA . This is if one of her grandparents were part of one of those anecdote groups .
But is pretty common to find people from the Caribbean to have around 10% Native American DNA . It could be from either family tree.
Lesser Antilles usually have Carib . Major Antilles tend to have Taino . ( Both groups were enemies . )
@@MariaRodriguez-hb4ix lol they here in 🇩🇲 in they own reserve so what u talking about
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That's not true and even if they weren't around anymore the DNA would still lingers. Please stop telling people they don't exist just because some who does not know better said it
My ancestors where Spanish french and Italian but I have no idea of their genetics. It could be anything and I don't care. I see black people give it a great importance to being african descendent. I believe a person is the way they are. Point. It has nothing to do with race.
7:10 I agree, Buzzfeed videos are almost all like that. Crap.
Also, given the movement of people throughout the centuries and the globalization in these last decades, immigration, wars, invasions, travels, everybody is mixed race, and you may have genes from some ancestor from far away.
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This is so random but I love that your eyelashes are red 🌻🖤
I've never done any DNA testing, but through my grandpa, I know a bit about my great grandfather. Apparently he was the eldest child of a poor Irish family and his family had worked hard so that they could save for him to become a priest. He hated the idea so much, that he ran away, immigrating to America. There, he worked paycheck to paycheck to support the family he made, succumbing to depression and alcoholism. His biggest regret was letting down the family that he left behind and the fact that he let his past affect his wife and children so much. I may not know a lot about my statistical ancestry, but I find stories like that to be much more impactful.
Their videos show why Buzzfeed cannot be trusted for anything they print.
"Can I NOTE how little European I am" as if its proof of her goodness...
God forbid someone be grateful that their not so distant relative wasn't the victim of sexual assault when they were held as a slave.
Oh NO! It's clearly a conspiracy of an extremely popular website to hurt your feelings in particular.
@@michellemccrakken6490 exactly my thought
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Firstly, not every black person was a slave. Secondly, not every action of sex between a European and a black person automatically means rape. It's exactly your way of thinking that keeps hate in the world.
@@BubbleWrappedBear I try to say this. Even further, not every sexual experience between slave, and slave master was rape.
Well, I've seen many European people react negatively when their DNA results reveal African ancestry, so I wouldn't be too surprised. History has caused a lot of conscious and unconscious antagonism and acrimony.
It would also be great for those of us that are adopted. I was adopted, did a DNA test and found my biological family, on both sides. It would still be great to be able to trace my heritage, my genealogy further.
it's buzzfeed... the point is not to get it right, but to talk about how they're happy to not be white.
Exactly everything they do is to promote racism towards white people.
I traced my roots back to some dude named Adam, and a hippie chick named Eve...
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lol good one.
@@joeschlotthauer840 what's up cuz
idk what you expected from a 5 minute buzzfeed video lol
I was just thinking, what does he expect from Buzzfeed. It could be a whole 30 mins but it's still Buzzfeed. Lol
A big section of the Caribbean isn't accurately identified because the indigenous peoples, from the lesser antilles especially, are often considered "extinct" and so the dna is marked weirdly. Barbados had little to no suviving indigenous population to intermix with. But St. Vincent and Trinidad, and Tobago have a very specific indigenous group that is weirdly isolated and only recently researched so it doesn't appear in ancestry tests. My family is also Carib on mom's side and Arawak on dad's mom's side and recent research shows that there was mixing with Africans and the indigenous population from the 1600s onwards so yeah, that's a good number of generations for the genetics to get muddied
I'm every nation so this is interesting when people take the test. My neighbor turned out to be kin to me, Baptiste and St Jean families sold their own and one of those was the Legree family. It wasn't hard to trace just sad to us, but it was cool to find out we was kin to each other. My Mom had babysat for them before we even knew we was kin.
Participants in these are mostly looking to distance themselves from Africa but its impossible
I love these videos. I’ve done genealogical translation but hasten to tell people I am not a genealogist at this time. I just don’t know enough yet, but I can probably decipher your great grandmother’s handwritten German letters. :)
Most of us do not do family trees or genetic tracing, we have an oral history where older members of our families tell us about our ancestors. For those of us lucky to have them, we have photos.
I started watching shows like Who Do You Think You Are that look into the genealogy and personal history so the DNA is the new and exciting side of it for me still
Hey, you see a lot of videos that say surprising DNA test results but I've actually met someone who has taken the test and got the shock of her life. She's a Black lady with two Black parents. Her son started tracing their roots through research and then after a few years these test became available so he thought it would be a hoot to take it. When he took his it came back with 39% European (25% from England, Scotland, and Wales) which was strange because he couldn't find one European person but he figured that most of it came from his dad. (He's medium complexion on the lighter side) He then had his mom take the test and the mystery took a turn LOL. She found out she was 47% European. Keeping in mind she had two Black parents and no traceable White relative the biggest surprise came when she found out that out of all her European heritage between 39-42% (I can't remember the exact number, sorry) was from English, Scotland and Wales. I've seen a lot of videos and I've only seen a few Europeans with that much DNA from there and they were living there at the time so I was wondering is it me or does that sound strange?
Did she look biracial? I can't imagine someone like that not looking like Vanessa Williams or Sinbad.
@@sparklesp9304 not necessarily, it's a girl here on UA-cam that is over 50% native and she's dark, with kinky short hair and African features. Her mother is Mexican and father African American. But she doesn't look like she has any Mexican or native dna at all. Genetics is a funny thing... I also know a girl that's about 4 or more shades lighter than me and has way more African dna than me. So people don't always look like their results.
Keep in mind the one drop rule said one drop of “black blood” then you’re black, they likely had more European ancestry than African, but they lived as black.
On my dad maternal side there’s a couple generations of people who a considered black but were phenotypically European.
It amazing how disconnected most americans are from history. Its sad.carib and tainos are 2 different native groups that actually competed and fought each other.
Yea idk she said that, technically the Carib did sometimes steal Tiano women as their brides so they probabbly became partially taino by blood over time, still distinct culturally tho. Also no way she had a relative as close as a grandparent who was full blooded carib or taino, the intermixing and disease wiped out all pure blooded natives in the carribean hundreds of years ago, some people may have held onto tribal ties longer but they were still mixed ethnically by then. I think the confusion comes from the 1 drop rule and blood quantem as well since it makes relatives think they are full blood when in reality they are only classified that as such because of the deffinition of the time not actual DNA. Plenty of people who are tribal affiliated in the US today are less than half native american by blood, they use different metrics to assign tribal affiliation rather than blood quantem alone.
@@vianjelos there are still pure blood Caribs in Dominica 🇩🇲 also in parts of South America.
Neat! Love your explanations. So interesting how genealogy works.
I wish they would've used the company African Ancestry. That company helps Black people find their ancestral tribes and not just a general location.
Only works through the mother/matrilineally though.
@@VAswang As a Black American, knowing something about my ancestors before they were enslaved is better than not knowing anything.
People can also up-load their results to GED match and get a better breakdown of their African ancestry.
Taino and Caribs were both extinct more than 300 years ago . They were completely different ethnic groups and were enemies . But is pretty common for Caribbean people to have about 10% of one of those groups DNA .
Thanks for doing this video I hope they watch it, I see and hear some really cringey stuff in these DNA videos you won't believe so thanks for enlightening them
My understanding is that while half my DNA comes from my father and half comes from my mother, there is no guarantee that I inherited their parents DNA at exactly 25 percent each. There is some random blending of the DNA from your parents. This explains why one child in a family might have red hair and the others don't or why I have some DNA matches from some of my distant cousins but they don't match with all my siblings.
You can tell when she said "im almost completely black, thats so cool" shes lying. She doesn't want to be black. Shes just putting up a front.
She damn sure don't wanna be white.idiot.
Quick tip, you can use the "," and "." keys to go frame by frame on a video when you have it paused. "," for backwards and "." forwards
❤️❤️❤️sometimes people, like myself, did the DNA test, and wants to track my genealogy but the dna site requires a subscription that I can’t afford right now. It won’t allow me to answer or message anyone. I do, have my genealogy on other sites like family tree and Ancestry.
Me as well..
My friend is Navajo, illegally adopted by Mormons. She became a genealogist for the church. Her great sadness is that she could not trace her own history. But that was mainly because the Tribe has little to do with death. Her DNA was 3% Chinese and the rest Native American.
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Would you do a competition for people who haven't done their family tree and then do a reaction video with them? Could be interesting, especially if other channels aren't doing it.
One thing that skews a lot of understanding is that ppl don’t understand gene recombination and how you’re not guaranteed to inherit ANY of a particular grandparent’s dna. (Not likely that it will be 0%, but that it will be between 0 and 25)
Questlove’s episode was so interesting it could have been a movie 🎥
In my opinion, Questlove's episode was definitely one of the best FYR episodes of all time! LL Cool J's is pretty close behind it though.
I inherited 18 % German.My dad was 40%. My Son inherited None of it. At least none showed on his DNA.
18% should be enough for your son to get.
Do you know who are is also a great program! Ancestry is really interesting and should be covered as much as the genealogy.
Yeah, that's a really interesting show. They did DNA testing for Blair Underwood when he hit a roadblock in his family tree and actually found a match in Africa, so he was able to travel to Africa to learn more about the people at least one of his ancestors was descended from.
And on another episode with a different celebrity, I had to rewind and pause on her family tree because it reached a point that actually matched my own family tree, and I wanted to cross reference it to be sure. Turns out we had three separate lines of common ancestors, including the family they chose to focus on in the episode! So that definitely helped me to fill out my own family tree much further back.
@@sadfaery Wow that would be cool. Being second generation on both sides, that will never happen to me. I do want to take one someday, my maternal grandparents were both from Norway. My dad's origins were sketchily mentioned once by my mother leaving more questions than answers. Am I 1/2 Germany(my name is), a real European mix (her weird story) or possible from a Jewish background, because that would fit the information best!
The oldest Y chromosome was found in America. A man was tested in South Carolina. He was found to have haplogroup A00 which rewrote the Y chromosome tree. His name was Albert Perry. His Y chromosome was traced back to Cameroon, to the Mbo people.
Ive just found your channel and i like how informative these videos are. Im trying to trace my family tree buts it proving harder than i thought 😂
you got me addicted to watching these videos i am finding myself trying to guess beforehand as well from what they say about their family history
“Native American”? You mean the people that migrated from Asia?
@@sombojoe Autochonous
With 23 and Me you don’t know your family tree unless you construct it yourself. They offer a connection to other people who share some of your DNA, but you have to fill it in with your people.
I'm 76% african 22% European 2% native american. 100% ados/black american
Wow! Your breakdown is almost exactly the same as mine! 76% African/ 24% Euro. 100% ADOS as well.
@@VAswang are you from Virginia too? either way really cool
Hey similar 75 african and 25 percent european mainly irish welsh and scottish strangely enough
I’m also ADOS and my break down was 95% west African and 5% European. I was NOT expecting the my African part to be this high and I love it.
@@anayalator_221 wow.. Which country has the highest percentage?
I did the heritage DNA test after my daughter did 23 and me. She came up with 3% Asian and mine said 3% Chinese. Talk about a shocker!!!! My mom is 85% African heritage and I'm only 70% . Honestly I was somewhat disappointed by this but I'm now dealing with my very multi racial heritage. I'm literally made up of people in Africa, West Europe, Central Europe, the Baltics, India, and China whoa!
Please, never say "slave ancestry". They were human beings, of African origin who were ENSLAVED. You mean their African ancestry. Thanks.
Enslaved by other Africans who sold them
It's really annoying when you can't get the most important information because it's 3 or 4 frames long.
They speak about being European like it's a sickness..one of many reasons buzzfeed is trash.
It's not being European it's the history behind knowing that there was a lot of rape to get that DNA...
@@yes2hvn That's a common misconception. Common, but not always the case.
@@reiserkeiser misconception... Clutching pearls.. yeah cause sometimes it was consensual to have a somewhat better life.... Called placage.... Super unfortunate and still demeaning and I digress 💜💛
@@reiserkeiser it's not a "common misconception" you fucking idiot. It's ugly history. No one said it was always the case but for the most part it is. Stop trying to rewrite the facts
It is a sickness, why would they be proud of having European ancestry? It’s dark history
Learning your dna opens up a litany of questions which no one can answer.
I recently found your channel and have been enjoying watching your content. I have a question. What is best way to find records about businesses or properties your ancestors owned? I am trying to find the name of a store and the physical address, my ancestors owned in the 1800's.
For something in-depth like that you will usually need to do more groundwork. Look into what records are available for that town and you may be able to find different registration records. If you know the type of store you might also be able to find directories for people in that specific business. You can also check newspapers, especially if you think they may have run ads. It will really all depend on the location of the store and what record sets are available for businesses in that area. Best of luck!
They are beautiful and healthy. This is what parents hope and pray for when they are having a child. Congratulations!
I appreciate your commentary. One thing to note, you should try not to use the term slave as it dehumanizes our ancestors and minimizes their personhood. Consider using the term enslaved people as it more accurately describes the circumstances that were imposed upon them.
another reason why results maybe skewed from oral tradition is that your grandfather or father may not be a blood relative of you. i.e adultery ect
I was surprised by the Chinese, Russian, and Middle Eastern I have. It’s very small but the fact is, we are all related