I found Lola...so what did Ancestry DNA say?
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- Опубліковано 26 лип 2024
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The documentary- series "Finding Lola" is done, but is the journey over?
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Come join me on a new docu-series that explores identity, racial tensions in the South during the 20th century, and the unique experiences of those who historically called Louisiana home.
My name is Danielle Romero, and all my life, I have romanticized Louisiana.
Growing up in New York, it represented a place where I could step back the sepia-toned life of my great grandmother, Lola Perot, who died before I was born.
Now, it was time to go back to Louisiana--although I had no idea what the truth would be or what questions to ask---who was Lola really? Who were we?
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I too just had the results of my DNA test.
There were no surprises with my Mum's DNA 97% English and the balance French and German. That tied in with what I knew about that side of my family.
The surprise came with my father's DNA results. My Dad is from Jamaica and had always said his ancestors were Nigerian Ebo and he was 86% right. It was the balance which surprised me. Part Italian and Mesoamerican, likely Taino Carribbean Indian.
Thank you for sharing your story. It has been fascinating to watch.
Thank you and thanks for sharing part of your cool story!
There are so many examples of this which was commonly called ‘ passsing’. What Lola did was to escape from Louisiana and experience what was denied to her as a coloured woman. It is difficult for those who have experienced the benefits of white privilege to understand why someone would go to such lengths to hide their racial identity. Lola’s descendants ,even though they are trying to, because they have been raised as whites , they really cannot understand. Being lighter skinned gave Lola her ticket out of Louisiana.. Looking at the world through 2023 glasses where many are celebrating diversity is very different to the world in which Lola lived. Even Lola’s children would not have welcomed the negative attention should this have been revealed earlier.
This is a good point. We dont even understand what we dont understand.
My mother is UK/Swedish & my dad’s side were white passing Appalachians and tried to claim they were German and Italian. They were mixed and called Melungeon & Carmelites. Our dna and paper trails match Redbones & Canadian Metis. Our ancestors mixed between Native, African, & European for the last 400 years. It’s a beautiful story that I am very proud to be a part of!! 🥰
Rebecca- it is so beautiful! I love seeing how connected we all are
Appalachian melungeon heritage here too!
@@OKay-ox3kh She isn't a typical white American though. More like, semi-brown (in between brown and white) like myself. (Believe me, I know what I'm talking about)
@@OKay-ox3kh Although I'm around 80% European - including Canary Islands - I'm not what you would call white. Although many people with my skin tone consider themselves white. I'm also around 15% native American and around 5% African.
To me, being Mexican-American, when I saw Lola and her brother in the old photo side by side, I thought they looked very Mexican. I could see familiar features that resonated for me. Great documentary! 🙂♥
this made me so happy! I am going to do some travel and videos on my Mexican side this year:) hope you stick around!
@@nytn can’t wait to see your videos on your Mexican side. I’m Mexican and found out I have recent Black ancestry in my family tree
@@djhernandez85 That is so similar!! I am working on it, it has taken me to San Antonio (in the records) so far and DNA from Coauhila!
@@nytn I found out I have roots in Coahuila and my Black ancestor I believe escape slavery and migrated there as well. And then had an affair with my 3x grandmother and had my grandmas father.
@@nytn So you're not even full Italian yet you make disgusting videos denigrating Italians as "not white" reading every passage using racial and bigoted slurs just for views and $$$. Everything you stated in that video has been rehashed a million X over we don't need you to post it just to gain sympathy and benefit off this rehashed NONSENSE.
My family is from Summerfield, Monroe, Louisiana. I'm African American, my DNA showed the parts of Africa, but I was surprised to see 16% White European. I discovered my 4th generation grand parents were both Bi-racial or mulatto listed on the census records, my parents and grandparents never knew they were racially mixed.
My family is from marksville , pineville and lake Charles and everything you and your family said is exactly what my family said and did . From the don’t let you or kids get dark in sun to “ we just French” it’s like you telling my story. It really confirmed what I always felt
Shawna- wow that is 😳😳 especially since my family has ties to lake Charles apparently. Wow. I am SO glad you found the channel, I hope you will stay!!
My Mothers family are from Lake Charles. My Mother remembers being told she was a half breed Indian on her Dad’s side but her Mother spoke Creole French and her Mothers side had very fair skin even though they were African American. They were told never to play in the sun because being Black skinned was bad. All but one of the sixteen siblings left Lake Charles for industrial states in the north and oil rigs in the southwest and for the wonder of California. It is believed one sibling that left at age 14 may have passed for White as he claimed he would and never contacted his family again. My Mother has no fond memories of Lake Charles LA
@@sharonwilliams5965 We probably are family! This is too much like my side.
This is freaking me out. I was raised by my father (Taylor) who wasn’t actually my biological father but I’m researching his family using my sister and a cousins dna. I have found surnames such as HALL and WILLIAMS in their dna matches. I’m still new to all of this and don’t have the money to research it properly but I am trying. My fathers mother was Portuguese and his father I learned was born in Jamaica (John Robert Taylor in 1881), I certainly hope to one day figure out who his family was as he was orphaned at the age of 9. I started my search blind you could say, not even knowing that dad was not my dad, but he always will be Dad in my heart because he raised me with my three older sisters on his own!
As someone who has worked on my family tree since the 90’s and is still discovering something new on a regular basis, I hope you enjoy your journey. It can be exhilarating, heartbreaking and addicting all at once. I had days when I discovered someone famous or a particularly heartwarming story and other days when I needed to just sit quietly and digest some of not so nice things that I uncovered and had to come back to it later. Thanks for sharing your story, love, peace and hair grease ✌🏾🙏🏾
Deborah, thank you so much for this comment. You are such a kindred--and explain this journey SO well! I hope you are here for awhile :)
@@nytn How were to able to get the slave records? I'm trying to get more information on my 3X great mother and father side
@@rodimuspm Check out the video from last night, I'll include links in the video description for what I used! ua-cam.com/video/uAxyz0q0A4s/v-deo.html
hey Deborah im actually trying to piece together my grandmothers side who were Robinsons from VA .....
@@jayp2395 Hey. My Robinson’s are from Barbados and South Carolina
What a wonderful journey. ❤ Thank you.. My grandma who was very fair and French Creole from Louisiana was shunned from her family for 2 things - marrying a dark man and being Catholic and marrying a Protestant. Your videos have helped me to understand to a larger degree why some of my family chose to pass for white. I am from the side that clearly looks like and embraces the African American side, although I’m often asked what I am. I’m a human being.
This makes me SO happy. Im so glad you are here
Please research the historical significance of Natchitoches. It was the endpoint of the Camino Real which was the Spanish trade route connecting the Spanish capitol of Mexico City to the farthest Spanish settlement which was in Natchitoches. The Spanish fort and the French fort were within 20 miles of one another in the Natchitoches area. They were actually friendly with each other being so far from their respective capitols. They traded with each other and intermarried. Your New Mexico Indian connection could have migrated to Louisiana along this route. For many decades, that part of Louisiana was a no man’s land, not being subjected to laws of either Spanish nor French territories. Kind of lawless like the Wild West. It bred a strong and resilient bunch of people. When Lola said she was French, believe her. They were French creoles and spoke a French dialect. You said you found slave records from Lola’s father’s side but be aware that Louisiana had more free people of color than any other state in the south, migrating from Sinegal and , more prolifically, from the Haitian revolution which used to be called Saint Domingue. There was also a lot of voluntary intermingling between white European settlers and people of African descent which contributed to the creation of the Louisiana creole which is a mixture of all the populations that populated Louisiana prior to the Louisiana purchase, black, French, Spanish, indigenous etc. While the rest of America had a 2 class system, white and black, Louisiana had a 3 class system, white, creole and black. Creoles we’re not classified as black until reconstruction as I have been told. BTW I am a Cajun from Lafayette and down here in the French area of south Louisiana we pronounce the last name of Perot as “ puh-ROW”. In north Louisiana there is more English influence so they have anglicized it to “PEE-row”. Your French creole great grandmother would have pronounced it the French way. And do know that times have changed greatly. We are very proud of our creole population. They are the embodiment of what makes Louisiana so unique and they carry the history of how Louisiana evolved differently from the rest of the country.
Elizabeth Shown Mills (and her late husband, Gary, of course) have helped me through their work to really start understanding the cultural climate of Natchitoches over the years and just how malleable it was in many ways. I love that you point out that 3 caste system that existed as well. The "passing" issues coincided only with the Jim Crow era from what I can find of my family. We always knew grams last name to be pronounced "puh-ROW" as well, and I was surprised when I came to Natchitoches it was pronounced "PEE-row". Thanks for such a thoughtful and thorough comment. I am by no means expert or even proficient in Louisiana history, but I am passionate about finding my family and culture!
@@nytn - I hope you find your family’s heritage as fascinating as I do! Good luck and thank you for sharing Lola’s story. What a strong and courageous woman!
Very true I agree with the last statement. My ancestor De St Denis is the founder of that town with his wife being Spanish. I loved their story. It’s on my mothers side.
True, my late husband was from Natchitoches, I wasn’t aware of it’s rich history until I attended my Mother in laws Funeral there.
I’m also a descendent of St Denis. My grandmother had the ancestry work done years ago and told me about it. I’m just starting to do my own research.
I saw all videos and knew from the 1st video ya had Mexican ancestry…I’m black and Mexican …..from Texas…very similar story to yours…a lot of people back then called themselves “native Americans” when they were in fact of Mexican Indio descent. I’ve seen this with friends for decades …white and black friends appalled that they had Mexican ancestors……..your mom , aunts /uncles and their kids look like mixed Mexicanos …and you look it very much, Welcome to the family lol ❤
This made me tear up! Honestly, feels so good to find out where you belong. Thank you for watching and sharing that with me. I plan to do some videos about my Mexican heritage and figuring out what that means! :)
well wouldn't a Native Mexican STILL be a Native American?????
@@13579hee NOPE! If that were the case then why aren’t the millions of Mexican Americans legally & historically tied via birthrights to what’s now the USA NOT getting NA government benefits like white blonde/blue eyed $5 Indians? No offense but that response is not surprising and very telling of how many think….our lives , family history, level of fed into bs/ignorance and believing of it are quite different if you had to ask such a question……There is a small percentage of pure blood native INDIOS left in Mexico , the rest/majority are mestizo s, mixed blood- just like my dad, just like the grandmother of the woman in this video, they could be the lightest of white or that tannest to dark…….historically after americas land grabs, the mestizos who stayed were treated horrible, discriminated against and more……..many were able to pass as white, many would later claim they’re “Native American”(colonizers term) which NO a the greater % are NOT, they might be of “native descent” but we are mixed, we can’t go around saying we’re Spanish either, which is what many white mixed mestizo Mexicans in America did as it was more accepted than being Mexican, even today “natives Americans” are looked at as “real Americans” even though the mixed Spanish/Indios of Mexico had towns businesses life established in what are NOW U.S. lands before colonizers took them over……..just to point out, many blacks fled to Mexico too…… according to colonizers ways, would you call a Native American from Canada a Mexican? An American, a Canadian? Duh…by you’re way of thinking, you’d believe Americans & Mexicans are different but Mexicans and Indians are the same? 🙄and before these man made borders all were indigenous people …
@@catmejia6109 you're comment already isn't making any sense. Native Indigenous means someone who is native to the Americas. That is not something specific to people who are from the United States of America only. And it's really interesting how your framing English as a "colonizer language" with "colonizer terms" like Native American.. but the Spaniards literally came over as colonizers and raped millions of native Indigenous women and that's why y'all are so mixed today lol. However, you're SOMEHOW not seeing the term "Indios" as being a colonizer term when it literally is because it's a Spanish word being used to define the Native peoples of the Americas. What's the difference between English speakers using an English term & Spanish speakers using a Spanish term when both the English and the Spaniards came over as colonizers? If anything, the term "Indios" is worse because it's etymology goes back to the word Indian....... yet the Native Indigenous peoples of the Americas are not Indian. It is very much shunned upon in the United States of America to refer to Native Americans/ indigenous Americans/native indigenous peoples as "Indian Americans" or "American Indians" and it has been for a very long time. If you're going to be such a pompous Mexican and try to insult Americans you all need to catch up to the Americans having a little bit more respect for our Native communities and not continuing to refer to them by a term that literally has its roots in the early days of European colonialism 😂🤣
And I never at once said all Mexicans were fully Native.. that wasn't my point. So I'm really not sure what this comment is getting at but it's really not making any sense. Seems as if you were just offended by me pointing out that there are Mexicans who are very much Native peoples.
Also framing the US as taking over Mexican lands and sticking the term "colonizer" with America only is framing America as some white oppressive state & Mexico as a poc/nonwhite, non-colonizer state. That's not the case. Both the United States of America and Mexico are both direct byproducts of European imperialism, colonialism and enslavement in North America. Those two colonizer-formed countries had wars and territories were either gained or lost. That's it!
You do realize Native American is a broad term meant to quantify the entirety of North America right?
Such an interesting series. Thanks again for sharing. I think there is something “American” about this story. Just across the border in Mexico the word mestizo represents the combination of peoples and cultures and in Canada the Métis are descendants of French and Indigenous peoples. Your personal journeys reach out to connect with so many people and cultures. I learned so much.
There is something VERY American about this. I agree! I love that you mentioned the other groups that have a very similar experience and background---there are many of us. I hope you stay for the next leg of the journey
It’s always best to get a brother to do the test if possible because they carry both blood lines.
That’s a great idea!
My Sister and I had our DNA done and although our percentages were different, we both had the same races, so I"m not really understand why you need to have your Brother have a DNA test.
Toni, and a Sister doesn't?
@@sylviacarlson3561 it's for the paternal haplogroups. Biological females do not have a Y-chromosome, just the two XXs
Ancestry does not not paternal dna testing...they do autosomal testing which is both paternal and maternal. Furthermore, Ancestry just introduced a new tool that is still in beta but it will separate both your maternal and paternal sides.
You're my new favorite! I'm excited to pick up tips from you as I watch your story unfold.
Sherry that’s so nice, I am so glad you’re here 🥰🥰
Love love love! You’re a great story teller. I think you understand your assignment and I am inspired to keep digging! ❤
oh my gosh YES it is my assignment. That's how I feel in my heart. Im so glad you are here, please stay and share what you find as well🥰
Really have loved this series! Thanks for your vulnerability in telling your story.
Jessica, I am so thankful for everyone who is here with me for it! I feel as though I have just scratched the surface...
I have to say, I am so connected to your content. I have to space out time between each episode. I am realigning my ancestry and the pain seems unbearable at times. I appreciate you sharing your process. I truly do. I wish your family all the peace God can allow. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
I am so glad you are here. Im only a step or two ahead of you on this journey, I think it's going to be a long one. And that is okay. :)
A beautiful mix. The human experience in time and there are no pure people as our DNA confirms a blend of nations, cultures and heritage over millennia and thousands of years. God knew what he was doing. 🧬
Melissa- such a beautiful comment. I agree and thank you for taking the time 🥰
Once again, you hit it out of the park! ✌♥
Thanks Dave🥰🥰
This Haplogroup concept is new to me. I think it is wonderful that you are continuing to work on connecting the dots and filling in the blanks, as needed. ❤
It’s a fascinating concept to me!
A synonym for haplogroup is mitochondrial DNA. It's passed from mother to daughter.
I love this topic... I did one in 2018... A mind blowing experience... I'm FBA/African American but my DNA ancestry test said otherwise. I was mostly Asian and European. NO AFRICAN...
I told my grandmother, somebody was cheating.
Thanks for sharing your story.
Wow! Such amazing information! 😊
Hey Danielle, it's Jamarick Guillory enjoying the series !!
Hey! Im so glad you're here--please chime in when I get it wrong! Im learning in public lol
so enjoyed your families journey. thanks for additionbal info. my journey coninues. may your blessings continue to multliply, peace and grace.
I'm glad I came across this! My family is going through the same thing! I'm a Batiste "Baptist" as in John whom I've heard was my great great grandfather! I'm in Baton Rouge an your story inspired me to want to learn about my family!
My wife is from Baton Rouge and her family from New Roads have Batiste in them.
This line would be so fun!! Make sure you share what you’ve found with me- we are going to bring in some genealogists who specialize in Louisiana /Creole families
My great great, great, and grandmother are from New Orleans. My great grandmother's maiden name was Batiste.
I think it's beautiful that you took this journey of self-discovery to not just know you have African and Native heritage but actually learn who those Ancestors were and how they experienced life. I want to offer another perspective as an African American on learning about my DNA heritage. When I took my DNA test, it was to find that connection to Africa, which my ancestors were forcibly and violently disconnected from. My DNA test would also confirm the lack of agency Black women had over their bodies. Nearly all African Americans who descend from enslaved Ancestors in America have an average of 19-24% European DNA. No one stops to really ask why? When I saw that I had European ancestry, I did not think lovingly of past white ancestors who made up the fabric of my family. I saw them as unwanted genes inherited through rape. When I see white DNA relatives, I see them as descendants of those that enslaved and raped my great, great, great, great grandmothers. I don't see them as family. No more than the white men who enslaved and sold the children they produced by raping enslaved women and girls. I don't think I will ever reconcile that fact. I wear the symbol of violence and terror of generations past in my DNA. I'm told that my great great grandfather looked white. He could have passed if he wanted to, but he did not. I realize the sheer vileness of anti-black racism caused many people to sever their deep family connections to escape the brutality of being 'black' in America, no matter how few drops of blackness they had. For most Black people, there was and is no escape. There is a difference between being and living Black, which offers no shield of protection, and those who have African ancestry buried within their DNA but phenotypically look otherwise.
Thank you for taking the time to share this. I think this is another experience that could get talked about more. As I work to personally reconnect to my African and Native great grandmothers and grandfathers, I also realized that there are MANY ancestors in my history and not every ancestor is someone who I am proud to descend from, or did evil things...but at the same time, I would not be here without them. It's complex. I hope that maybe there can be more healing in the future, because none of us are our ancestors, and (I think) we can and should choose who we connect with and be proud of that.
I' know what you mean, The shame of rape,still taints us African Americans) to this day.
I am so glad you are finding answers and making connections. I have also been researching my family for several years now and have been surprised to see what has turned up. My son did the DNA test and he is 40% Scottish which is odd as my husband has none in his line. That DNA is tricky.
Regina- wow that sounds like you have some digging to do there! I hope you’ll share what you find with me!
Fascinating and heartwarming story. We all deserve to know where we came from. I was amazed to learn that my family's stories were actually true.
Karen-- that's amazing! We DO deserve that, and I think our ancestors deserve to be acknowledged by us. So glad you are here:)
@@nytn Continued luck in your discovery efforts! Yes our ancestors do deserve to be acknowledged. No more secrets 😊
I’ve found that many of my family’s stories were not true. Of course there was always alcohol involved when they were being told.
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Unfortunately this is a story in most Creole families! You are blessed to have the time to dig. I think this will motivate some of us to follow. We always heard stories now maybe we fing out more of the truth. In love this and love history!
If you really want to go to the source of your people you must find the "Chahkanina"- or place of crying. It is said to be an underground cave at the confluence of the Red and Mississippi rivers where the Caddo tribe (your people are a subgroup of the Caddo) sprung from. It should be near what is today Simmesport, LA
I have never heard of this. Definitely will look into it- thank you. Is this your family as well?
@@nytn I was just doing some digging in the The Natchitoches Tribe of Louisiana archives to pinpoint their broader tribal affiliations and then some quick googling about Caddo origin myths. There are so often grains of historical/geographical truth in tribal myths and legends that only later get corroborated by archaeology or genetic data. Funnily enough, I match with several Louisiana Perreaults/Perots on ancestry as distant cousins but I'm not sure how we're related- I get my native heritage from the Nansemond tribe of Virginia, which is why your discussion of the practice of "passing" is so fascinating to me. Sometime in the 1800s one of my Nansemond/White/Black ancestors was light enough to pass as white and joined the societal umbrella of whiteness somehow.
@@tabortime.entertainment Umbrella of whiteness. That speaks to me. I bet we are related through that Perot/Perrault line. All the Louisiana ones seem to be our family.
Your story is fascinating! My haplogroup originates in South Asia (India) which I find so fascinating! I have very little south Asian in me also and that’s the surprise in my moms side of the family tree.
Aimee-- that is SO neat. I love finding out we carry a very old lineage, even if it's not the majority of the genes at this point---it's still with you.
I think I found the content I need to be ingesting. I’m adopted by an Italian family. Both my parents tell me my birth mother was also Italian but don’t know anything about my birth father. I am mixed but anyone’s guess is as good as mine lol. My dad once said “I think he was Puerto Rican” 😅 My parents came here in 85 and I was born in 89 at the hospital where my mom still currently works. I have never had the urge to find my birth family, I cannot see my parents as anything other than my parents, I just can’t. My mind cannot process anything else; but I have always had the urge to learn about my genealogy and health risks I may face. It wasn’t until 2012, visiting my dads brothers in Italy that they pulled out a picture book and everyone was gushing about who looks like who and I had never felt so isolated. A joyous moment was so sour for me and it was something that never bothered me before. I go to Italy every year since I was 6 months old and I’m 33 now. I never felt other. Every since that moment, I have been watching videos and asking my dad more questions, but I am still feeling guilty on the inside bc my dad is very old fashioned and me searching for “my biological family” would break his heart(his words not mine) so I’ve come to make this promise that I won’t do a dna test until he passes away but something in me wants to create one big massive family tree that includes my adoptive parents history as well because their family and culture is truly all I know. I am Italian, it was my first language, I speak with a napoletan dialect and I speak it fluently and I’m proud. But I have this sinking fear that no Italian will show up on my dna and my entire life will be erased and I’ll feel like a reverse Rachel dolezal. 😅
Sorry humor is my defense mechanism when things get uncomfortable. Anyways, I watched your docuseries and it was incredible. I instantly felt less fear of the unknown(enough so to leave this public ass comment!). Thank you for sharing a piece of your story with us.
You belong here on the journey with me! But buckle up, it’s a bumpy one. So glad you are here 🥰
Audio during playing of video was whisper quiet at full volume on bluetooth speakers that would normally be jumping off the table at that volume.
Captions worked.
Thanks for sharing.
I apologize! That was an older video and I’m brand new to this. Thanks for hanging ☺️
My maternal haplogroup is B. But I did test many years ago, so it is not broken down as clearly as yours. You have encouraged me to do another test soon. My grandmother and maternal great grandparents came from Mexico to Texas during revolution of 1910 era.
That is so cool to know that! I am working on my Mexican side now and it's not easy
Great job! Louisiana native here.
Ive done my Ancestry as well.
Thank you! I love having Louisiana representing in the comments
I hear your emotions when you speak and I feel it's because not everyone in your family is on board with your discoveries. You have a beautiful interesting lineage. Enjoy it with those that accept it and it's truly unfortunate for those that don't.
You are so kind, grateful for the encouragement!
Thank you for letting me explore this in a safe way. I have no contact with any living family and I’m on the fence about taking a test. So thank you.
Dayna I am so happy you are here!! Truly. We are in this together.
Get off the fence and take an Ancestry DNA test (not the other brands). Luv p
@@paulathepoodlelover one side is child abusers so it’s not as easy as it sounds. I’m not sure I want to know more but maybe in time.
@@daabee236 Best wishes with whatever you decide to do. I found all kinds of crazy stuff in my searches too. No family is immune. Found an uncle with children in Germany that no one believes he had during WW2 but there they are, linked to me via DNA. Eventually, science will prove that some of this "unGodly behavior" is genetic.
DANIELLE,SINCE I BELIEVE IN GOD HE MADE YOU HIGHLY INTELLIGENT AND GODLY. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!!!!
I have enjoyed your documentary.
Pamela-- so glad you are here! Hope you will hang around for the rest of the digging :)
I just discovered your DNA results....It makes sense because when I saw your thumbnails I thought you were Algerian or Morrocan.
Im glad you are still looking for where your family comes from and have a good genealogist to work with. Finding your roots is important so keep doing what you are doing and keep records of all the research you collected. Of all the lines of my ancestry it seems the ancestry i can be most secure about would be the Grosvenor family (moms family) that my brother and uncle traced to England. I seen pictures of the English grosvenors and tgey actually do resemble relatives in my moms family. As far as other families I am descended from lets just say im still learning and researching. Members of my dads family have said they were Indian and they either say cherokee or Blackfoot. Too bad its hard to figure out what tribe i am descended from even with the paper trail because of how to say the least interracial relationships and children were frowned upon back in the day and the more i try to find that heritage the more white i seem to find. So far i am more white than anything else. But if i am a descendant of any native American tribe i like to know exactly. Hopefully I will be secure in knowing what tribe i am descrnded from and I'd have actual proof. At least one family i am decended from through my paternal grandmother , the fields, has descendants in the lumbee tribe, one of which i contacted and she said that i was her people. Hopefully i can figure out more. Definitely keep doing what you are doing Danielle! Its well appreciated and loved!
When I saw you in this video, I automatically thought you looked Mexican American. I'm from South Texas, and you look like a lot of Mexican Americans who live in this area. You probably have a mixture of indigenous and Spanish DNA because a majority of Mexicans do. Good luck on your journey!
That's awesome! I tend to get Spanish speakers running up to me a lot....and my Spanish is no bueno. Finding out my heritage there made me want to start learning. Glad you are here!
Ok so I’ve watched like 4 of your videos so I’m subscribing. Guess what. I also lived in Nashville TN. One of your videos showed the map Grand Ecore going to Campti. This is where I grew up where Cane River meets Red River. My people migrated from Allen/Powhatton area. And yes on the road I grew up on Hargis Road in Grand Ecore going to Campti a family named Perot lived on my road. Yet I don’t even recall what they looked like. I was so young but they were there until I left at age 15 when my dad died passed. Unfortunately this is the side of my family that I can’t trace. My father’s mother’s side. We were told we were Native American as well but my DNA didn’t show this. However my father was mixed race and my grandfather was a white man from the Caddo area. So much hidden history in Natchitoches. I look forward to your stories about your AA heritage as well as you trace this too.
I’m so sorry to hear about your dad! I hope you don’t give up looking for his moms ancestry. Also hilarious you are in Nashville! If you haven’t seen the video on my slave ancestor you might recognize names in that too: ua-cam.com/video/uAxyz0q0A4s/v-deo.html
@@nytn Thank you. I will check out this one. Actually not in Nashville anymore but I lived there 8 years.
No one should make you feel like you are not embracing a certain culture. My DNA showed Denmark and Norway, which I think is amazing. However, the heritage I grew up aware of and identified with was Irish, German, and Indigenous. The pictures don’t lie and not every trait is picked up in your DNA. My second great grandparents, were straight off the boat from Ireland and yet my percentage of Irish is not as high as one would imagine. Yet, because my grandma’s dad was Irish and spoke the language, that’s one culture and traditions I was raised with by my grandmother. So it’s not just your DNA. It’s also family culture and traditions. You have to be true to yourself.
Deanna- thank you! So much. It’s a strange thing to inherit- and I think we should all have the freedom to choose how we want to identify with it. Thanks for sharing your story, made me feel better🥰
Maternal haplogroup C1c is native, but not indigenous to the Americas, it goes back to and area around Eurasia. That haplogroup is a branch of haplogroup M and that traces back to L3 which would be a Hamitic haplogroup, it’s one of the Egyptians, Ethiopians, Libyans, Romans etc. so it’s actually indigenous to the Eurasia area not America. Also L3 is Hamitic which would be African going with Genesis 10. Haplogroup C is also found in places like Australia and there were many aboriginal Australians known to have come to the Americas, especially in places like South America. So on your migration patterns your haplogroup originates back to Eurasia area before moving to other parts. It’s from around the Caspian Sea to around Lake Baikal in Russia which would be close to Kazakhstan area around the north Mongolian steppe. So your maternal like is Russian-Mongolian area around Siberia that traveled to America. You look similar to some of the people from that area and so do some of your family.
Friends father died in car accident when she was 6. Always worshipped his memory. At age 65 she took dna test to discover her father had gotten a woman pregnant before he died that was given up for adoption. She reached out to her and now the step sisters are good friends!
Wouldn’t that make them half not step
@@regina7795 your right
Sounds like 1 of my family members nurses. She told me she thought she was an only child her whole life, and after she took the DNA test she found out she has like 7 or 8 other half siblings.
Then read about a family member on my DNA profile, she was adopted and born in South America and somehow she is in England or Ireland now.
@Regina you're absolutely correct!
If you share both parents = full siblings
If you share one biological parent = half siblings
If Dad/Mom marries & their spouse already has children with someone else = step brothers/sisters
There's LOTS of error out there on this matter but you've got it right!
Pleas continue to do the and share. You never has to prove who you are again. Be proud!!!❤😊
thank you for being here with me!
Im trying to put these in order to give to my family to watch, is this In a sequential order ? .it's really great !!
yes! here’s the playlist ua-cam.com/play/PLvzaW1c7S5hQcox9CjaJWA7QKTYXw9Zn2.html
I'm black and my great grandmother was white passing with blue eyes my grandmother was light skinned I'm still black
My creole bloodline started in 1706.....I am a Louisiana creole my family is from cane river..... Marie Therese Coincoin and Claude Metoyer is my 5time grandparents
Marie Therese Coincoin is my 6th great grandmother!
My mother worked for family and got pregnant with me but I never look up my biological fathers family. I am 57 and after watching this I may just try.
It’s never too late to start looking!
Do it its great journey and you can link with great ppl.
I would love to see a video of you figuring all this out! I’ve had a lot of tough times myself in researching family trees, it would be great to hear how you achieved it!
Kat-- Im so glad you are here! This is very much still in process and I plan to share as much as I can!
Great job!! It is cool you got to narrow down some areas through the DNA.
It is funny. So many people take DNA tests, but it seems like so many are clueless about their lines.You write to someone and they are as in the dark about their lines as you are. Too bad that DNA tribes is no longer in business. I learned a lot about my mother's heritage from them. Unfortunately, the founder of the company died and they folded. I found out that one line was the Miao (Hmong) of Guangxi, China! That makes me question U.S. history.
Dna tribes is gone?! I did my first test with them back in 2016😢
@@SheBaby1983 Yeah. I thought they gave the best ethnic results. I think they used DNA from archaeology digs via National Geographic. It really made more sense than FamilyTreeDNA's results. (Heck, FTDNA doesn't even show my mother's German, Swiss & Slovakian!) I always had a gut feeling that Lucas Martin, founder, might have been bumped off. Hint: The competitor's board member was #41 Prez and we know who he worked for back in the 1970s. They kept the company running for about a year after his death. I managed to do my dad's sisters' DNA before they shut it down. Her results lined up with my genealogy results except a teeny-weeny bit of Polynesian which was a bit of a surprise.
Alisa was that Chinese line from Louisiana? If so I know exactly who your family is
@@nytn I'm not sure. It might be my Pennsylvania line. It is so frustrating! I have another mystery line that was supposedly Native American in the PA region. Now it makes me wonder if explorer Zeng He landed on the east coast! Perhaps some of his crew stayed behind and lived with the Indians.
@@alisaaustin8431 I know my cousins have Chinese because of the 12 Chinese indentured servants that were brought to Natchitoches LA. They were first in Cuba, and their name got changed to Hongo. If you see that name pop up...it's my cousins!
I was told my Italian/sicilian great grandma came to the US through the port in Louisiana. I heard somewhere that the italians came to work on the plantations. And were paid almost nothing.
Wow I never heard this! My dads side is Italian/Sicilian but they came through Ellis Island in Ny
@@nytn Oh that's interesting. My dads father, Phillip Blando, came through Ellis in 1920. My dad's grandma Josephine Aradeo came through Louisiana. MY grandmother, Katie Spanillo, was born in Louisiana or Arkansas? She didn't have a birth certificate.
It's crazy! I would live to come see where they lived. She does have a baptismal record in one of the Catholic churches. That would be where I would start. Thank you for your videos! I'll keep watching!
I meant to explain why I wanted to comment on your video because at first I thought you were going to find out that Lola was actually black. I didn't expect you to say Native American. That is just something I didn't expect but makes perfect sense! Another thing, I am assuming from the stories told on your videos that my grandma's family moved north because of the dark skin thing. I am 1/2 Irish and Italian. I get very very dark when in the sun! I can only imagine they were much darker. The one fact I keep forgetting is they came to America and were not settled here. But I believe they still faced racism anyway. I need to find out the truth!! Thank you for your videos!
wow, I guessed all of these racial/ethnic groups that you mentioned including enslaved, and Native just by looking at you even before I saw this video. All of these groups are represented in your facial features and voice.
My voice! That made me laugh. Love it
That area circled in your Mexico/Texas DNA community was coahuiltecan indian territory until the 1700s when they were absorbed in the Spanish culture. They were often referred to as mission indians, as they were the only Texas tribe successfully converted by the Spanish missions. It was a voluntary arrangement, as climate change had made their land increasingly barren. While the Apache were attacking them from the north. Anyway it's extremely common in that area for people to be from coahuiltecan ancestry.
You just taught me so much. I am trying to reconnect to that side right now. Still learning. My family are listed in the mission books.
@@nytn The typical scenario was a Spanish mission guard/soldier would marry an indigenous woman. She would convert and learn Spanish. Later they would get a plot of land near the mission and start farming on their own. Usually corn, beans, or squash.
I am reminded of a story a lady told when she found out her mother was passed for white.
When she found out and asked her mom… her mother begged her not to tell anyone until she after she died. She couldn’t bear the thought of facing her friends who would know she was lying to them all those years.
Sad.
I really want to do a DNA test now
What stands out the most for me watching this family is Native American and Mexican. I really don't see Black heritage, but that's okay. It might not be that much. I think it's fascinating that you are finding out what your real heritage is. All of our heritage is interesting and we should know where we came from and be proud of it.
Sylvia--I hear that SO much. I don't know much about Lola's maternal line (originally indigenous from Mexico I believe) but am researching it and will share as I learn. It is beautiful when people can see my heritage even when I didnt know it was there :) Thank you!
@@nytn I did see the Native American IMMEDIATELY. There are strong features there , but I also saw black - quite frankly, we can spot our own pretty well, no matter the mixture. I just assumed Lola was Creole because I know the history of Louisiana and New Orleans so her story fit. I am interested in creating a family tree and our tested because our family has been saying our great great grandma was full Cherokee for years. Thinking back on my visit with her at a nursing home as a child, she actually looked Creole. Can you guess where my Grandfather is from?!😊He is from Louisiana! He still has his accent too.
@@nytn
I can see the full spectrum of your DNA in you. Not so much in your mother. Funny how DNA works. But it is all beautiful. 😊
@@camilletaylor8660 I know! I think I favor her mom and grandmother. It is so weird how that works.
It's not black or African American Emblem of America1798 it's Indian culture
im clc also and(r from laredo texas, my family was from nuevo leon ,tamaulipas and coahuila, my ancestors founded monterrey nuevo leon and many towns(laredo,san ygnacio and corralitos in texas and mexico~
My ancestry test said coahuila as well!
Looking at all the info you are presenting, i wouldn't be surprised if you have Seminole ancestry because a band of Seminole black Indians did settle in Northeast Mexico and still resides there today. Also with Creole people, a lot of our history is linked with the Carribean so if you run into blocks in your search, it's probably because your ancestors didn't come straight from Africa, but most likely were mix of people who were "weathered" or "seasoned" in the Carribean in a process of acclimating our ancestors to the Americas and it's germs and climate. I know that because the french were involved in importing enslaved people into St. Dominique and Louisiana, there is a huge range of tribes so don't be surprised if you see east Africa in your ancestry as that was my case. I have broadly Kenyan and Masaai ancestry in addition to my west African and tiny bit of north African ancestry. It's also how some Black people have ancestors all over the eastern and southern coasts of Africa and even Madagascar ancestry. I hope this can help. Good luck.
This comment is everything. I literally just took a screenshot so I can use it for research. I mostly saw West African (Nigeria was highest for older relatives) but there were rumors that part of the line was from Trinidad. This is starting to make sense...thank you SO much. Please stay for future videos, I need you! :) :)
@@nytn okay then i can definitely tell you this, if you have Nigeria Benin Togo most likely you have Yoruba Ancestry. But if you have just Nigerian then most likely you have of Igbo and Ibibio ancestry. Many Igbo and ibibio people were taken to Trinidad as well.
@@omggiiirl2077 Im going to check out my moms test!
@@nytn happy exploring!
@@nytn yes! That’s my sister, she has Trinidad, Nigerian, Benin Togo and Congolese as well as Azorian, Irish, English.
You look Mexican (which is native American) and possibly a small percentage of African. I watched a few of your videos, you are how you are raise. I'm an immigrant myself but came to the U.S. when I was very young so I consider myself an American. I'm obviously mixed race but don't worry or stress about the pass before especially about events before I was born and you shouldn't either.
Have you shared any DNA results? thanks for videos.
A fascinating series. Is there a reason you didn't post the complete breakdown of your DNA? I feel like I'm missing a part of you.
Well... I am too! My DNA tests usually had me at about 20-25% UNASSIGNED. It's crazy. I was disappointed by that
@@nytn Wow, that's a crazy high figure for UNASSIGNED. Anyway, thanks for including us on your journey.
@@JG-qt3pn Im so glad you are here for it! I did a video complaining about my DNA test, a bit tongue in cheek though :ua-cam.com/video/5YJjYFUQiGg/v-deo.html
I watch Professor GATES on PBS, so when mine said mestizo, I was surprised. That involves the Conquistadors and Sephardic Jews of Barcelona. Ha! My blue eyed grandmother thought she was French. Yuk. But I love your saga.
Let us find and respect the members of our lineage. Our lineage consists of
significant individuals who lived with the challenges of their time. Find them.
Learn from them.
What are some of the Surnames you are searching? My DNA is also from the Lafayette Parish areas. My friend Dr. Christophe Landry is an Ancestry genealogist. He's here on UA-cam and is the best on Louisiana Genealogy. You should reach out to him. happy hunting!
Mrs Creole (I love it!!) Gosh, so many surnames. Perot/Perrault, Lamatte/Lamelle/ Conde/Metoyer/Simon/LaCour...lots more. I may have spoken to him once I cant remember-- I will look!! So glad you are here, I hope you will stay around!
@@nytn lol with those names we may be long lost cousins! ⚜️
I'm curious the see your percentages. My grandfather was also highly mixed, European, native American and African and married a European woman.
Just to look at her, I would have assumed she was Hispanic and African American. I do mine soon.
I wonder which test is more reliable. I am a Spanish person living in Spain, but I seem to have kind of an asian look. Considering that in Spain there is for historic reasons a real mixture of races all over the country and evenmore I read that there were people who were brought here from different parts of the world in ancient times I would like to know more about this, but I dont know which test to take, because of the different brands available. Besides I feel a strong connection and so does my Mom with judaism. So I am dobtful because I think that the results vary according to the amount of people taking the same test in your country/area.
I don’t know if any really are reliable- my percentages have changed wildly! I do like the communities and the haplogroups and of course dna matches! Spain has such a diverse history and I bet if you took the test you would maybe see that reflected in some of your distant DNA matches!
Ancestry DNA is the best one. I have a cousin who used 23&me and were very disappointed as we had not used that brand.
Ancestry has the largest database for DNA matches but does not include a chromosome browser or information on maternal Haplogroup or y-DNA lines. I got my most useful matches there in finding my mom’s biological parents. It has a lot of great records but most are locked behind a Membership paywall. I found the membership was worth it for me for a period of time but find the paywall frustrating now that I let my membership expire.
My sisters both tested on 23andMe because they wanted the Health information available there and my kid sister gave me access to her account so I could try to solve the mystery of my mom’s family tree. I liked being able to use the DNA chromosome browser to do the genetic genealogy and then link my tree to some of my sister’s matches there. It was cool to be able to see that if sister matched person A and connected them to a set of common ancestors and then I shared DNA with person A and B in the same place then B must also connect to the same branch of my tree.
I downloaded my DNA from Ancestry and uploaded it to My Heritage because they had a free promo going for a short window in 2021. My Heritage supposedly had more matches in Europe but I didn’t get many useful matches there but was able able to confirm I share DNA with my little sister in the areas that connect to some of the clusters of DNA I saw on 23andMe.
With regards to ethnicity alone they all can be inaccurate. Ancestry has updated their enthnicity estimates at least two or three times in the past two years and seems more accurate than it was. The ethnicity labels and groupings on each of the sites are different and will update based on new matches added to the sites. One of my mom’s grandparents is from the area that became Yugoslavia then splintered in the 1990’s. For that DNA heritage 23andMe said my sisters had close to the 12.5% math would have suggested if inheritance was always 50/50 (which it isn’t) but Ancestry said I was something like 2% and My Heritage said around 24%. Ancestry updated and put me around 15%. The ethnicity percentages on My Heritage seemed the most inaccurate for me personally but it likely varies from person to person but part of that is that they have a lot fewer DNA matches in their database than Ancestry. I find the smaller AncestryDNA “communities” mentioned in NYTN’s videos can be very useful.
Please look up the Mascogos from Coahuila mexico. They were I believe from Louisiana or that region and fled to Mexico to be free.
Wow I just went down a crazy rabbit hole looking into this, thank you!
Are you ever going to post your percentages even though they do change? I'm curious. I just had my daughter's done, and I was surprised on the results. And even though she is automatically considered black, she is more European than African.
African genes are dominant over European genes, and European genes are dominant over Asian and Native American genes, which partly explains the tricky look
I would appreciate a much shorter, clearer version of the information in this video. I also found use of the word "community" here to be confusing.
Thanks for taking the time! The DNA Communities is a phrase from Ancestry--something they just rolled out.
Have a double cousin who has apparently claimed for years our British/German Grandmother was Sioux, from a totaly different state than she was born in. I am forever meeting cousins who relay that story. Ironic since he is racist.
Am enjoying your channel & your commitment to the journey.
That is a crazy story!! Why do people make these outrageous claims? I always wonder where it starts from. Im glad you are here, I am have so much more to share with you all that Ive found
Have you considered looking in the Old US Census records? My family was listed as "M" in some old records from the 1800s that I found, which meant mulatto at that time. They claimed to be American Indian, which was BS. They were half or a quarter Black. I have cousins that have not made their DNA records public for this very reason.
@@paulathepoodlelover thank you for that tip.
@@pelenaka My pleasure. Best wishes to you!
South Texas northern Mexico that's just Apache
We have both gotten into searching the history of our families for different reasons, but the end goal is the same. I found out that we have rare genetic mutations in our family. what was the actual cost of the genealogist? Any tips?
It wasnt that expensive! But I only got one document from it. It was a few hours at $35 an hour. I think using a genealogist for some of the brick wall stuff is absolutely worth it! It's the most valuable if you can narrow it down to one or two things when you hire them
I’m adopted but I do know my birth family. I don’t know much about the family history. One of my birth sisters did the whole ancestry thing but does not share. Oh well . That’s where it ends , we know of each other. I would love to know where and who I come from. This has always been interesting to me. Nobody in my family looks like me so I have always felt the odd man out. Would love to feel connected to someone, belong to someone..,
Delainey-- you belong here!! Nobody owns family history-- you can find it out, too and I bet even more than she knows. I can promise you the journey is worth it-- and Im not that many steps ahead of you
@@nytn thank you.
I’m adopted too by a black family who both passed in 92 one parent said I was Puerto Rican the other said Portuguese and black, well last year my daughter asked what my real last name was, took out my piece of paper with info on I got from the court house years back, gave her my moms info she googled it found out my birth mother passed away in 2016 and found out mom is Italian and I have two brothers, found them on Facebook connected with them. They didn’t know they had a half black sister till they were in their 20’s, younger brother confronted mom, she got mad cried cause the secret came out but she never told my brothers any info. Took DNA last year and oh boy I’m mixed with quite a bit with Italian being the higher percentage and African the next along with low percentage of other European countries, now I know who I am at 57 years old. Good luck on your journey my dear and I look forward to seeing more of your videos ❤️
@@annvasquez2676 wow! It sure has been quite the journey for you!
@@delaineymacphearson6850 it sure has and to find out that my brothers live just a couple of hours from me is awesome my older brother assumed I was adopted out of state and happy that I was just 2 hours away, my birth fathers side of the family there’s 13 of them talked to a couple uncles and an aunt, big family compared to my mothers Italian side which was just her and her sister, no one to really ask about my mom and dad, all I know is that she was married to my older brothers father who was in jail at the time and had an affair with a black man, hid her pregnancy, no one knew.
Most DNA sites only go back 8 generations. Native Americans aren't the only indigenous people.
How did you find out about your haplogroup results? Was that part of Ancestry DNA?
23andme!
My paternal grandfathers side has always been fairly ethnically ambiguous and I get asked what I am all the time and never knew for sure what I was besides my paternal grandfather always said he'd been told native American so I've always been curious due to mainly the way we all look. I know my paternal grandmothers side were all pale with red or blonde hair and freckles and she'd told me her dad and grandpa were extremely racist to the point they'd made comments about my papaw before they'd gotten married like "I've heard them palmer's are Indian or black somewhere down the line and he is awfully dark so ya better watch out you may have colored youngins!" (That's putting it kindly) Of course my grandma not wanting them to give him a hard time would say "he's dark because he farms out in the sun all day!" But turns out there's a lot of stuff in my DNA besides euro and my results go from greatest to least: English, Scandinavian, native American,Asian, Iberian, Papuan, Scottish, and African. what's strange is none of my grandfather's family on the census have anything but White for their race so im kinda figuring his grandma Jemima was the one passing because she looks like she is native, white, and has some African features as well and my grandparents both said that people called her brown Mimie around the area (which was awful) but she called herself that too and would laugh but I'd say she was just trying to get along or something because she probably didn't want to be found out would be my guess.
Im so glad you found the channel!! Your story is familiar to a lot of us
@@nytn oh yes your story hits very close to home! You'd be surprised because there are some family members that kinda got upset with me for announcing what I'd found! We are from a really rural area of Appalachia in eastern Kentucky so we still have a lot of closed minds. I had a older distant cousin message me and tell me that I was a liar! I asked had they taken a DNA to find out and they said no they never would so apparently I ruffled some feathers with my findings.
@@ahem....bullsheet3720 Yes, I have had the same thing happen. I was doing more than ruffling feathers I think..but that's okay. If we are sincerely looking for the truth with kindness--the fall out is not ours to manage. Keep digging, friend!
@@nytn oh yes always! Thank you
@@ahem....bullsheet3720 What did you find out?
Dr. Henry Lou gates at Harvard university. He can explain this very well.
You’re not the first to mention Dr Gates! I always wanted to meet him. Love that show
Write to him, I did
You can't base your identity off these tests. Not every child gets the same DNA from the same parent, so even siblings will have a different genetic makeup. It could not show, even with full genome sequencing, but that's still your heritage. And with genotyping tests like this, even things that actually are there won't be picked up. And things that are found are attributed to different groups over time, as the company expands their database. If they have a very small sample size, they'll group you in with something as similar as possible, but still different from what you actually are.
this is so true. My first dna test like ten years ago is a far cry from what it "updated" to this year. The Haplogroup obviously never changed though, so that has been valuable.
@@nytn it's interesting to know, but that's just one ancestor out of countless others. it could be less than 1% of your DNA today
Down and dirty, people need to stop thinking they are better than others. We are all mixed and related. Point. Blank. Period.
hod did you get your haplogroup from ancestry?
it was 23andme actually!
I'm glad you see the importance of genetic communities. As a Black American (who also has a non Black American genetic group), I acknowledge you as a Black American (or partial Black American) with no problem whatsoever. But, did you get the opportunity to clear it first with Tariq Nasheed (just joking)?
As soon as I start making money from this project I'll be sure to reach out to him and check LOL. Right now it's a labor of love!
@@nytn 💯👍🏿🙏🏿
I've been told that we're Dutch on my Mum's side, but everything is leading me back to Jewish ancestory. My Dad is Irish Catholic and now my gut is saying we're Jews on Mum's side. I don't know how to even reconcile that.
Native American culture is matrilineal. You would technically be allowed to claim native ancestry through your mother. However, this fact does not mean you will be able to enroll in a tribe. If you are able to find a matrilineal ancestor on the Dawes Rolls, this might be possible.
I am directly related to the Chitimacha tribe but their enrollment has been closed for years, I am also connected to a few other tribes in the area but have at this point decided not to enroll, just keep learning!
I am suing
I have done many DNA test for my family tree! I did not hear you break down the percentage of Ethnicity on this!
What company is best to take your DNA? I heard many of them are scammers.
I wish people would look at the camera and not away from it. It feels like you aren't including us.
interesting feedback! I prefer long sided composition for relaxed interview style but some of my videos I use center comp too!
I wouldn't know where to start. Neither of my biological parents were born in the United States nor myself. So where would i begin to piece the puzzle of my genealogy?
take the ancestry DNA test and see where your closest cousin matches show up!
@nytn I did..the results were wrong. I believe that ancestry and 23 and me get registered information, not genuine genetic information.
You may find it interesting to look up "Passing" by Robin Cloud, here on UA-cam. Looking forward to your next episode!
Fernie, thank you for the rec!! Im so glad you are here.
The novels The Vanishing Half and The Personal Librarian might also be interesting to you. Both talk about the experience of choosing to pass though a fictional lens. The mother of the main character in The Personal Librarian moved from a black community in Washington D.C. to New York State and passed as white in New York, having little to no contact with their family after they left. The main character is based on a historical figure who worked for J.P. Morgan.
Why I wonder if your mother's family knew my grandmother's family as she was from Lafayette Louisiana as well,her people are kin to Mouton's.
I bet they did!! I have reconnected with lots of my Creole cousins down there, most of them stayed.
@@nytn wow that is absolutely awesome. I plan to visit Lafayette where my grandmother grew up and understand why she left in the mid-forties . I love the journey that you're going on in finding your roots and understanding Lola's background and what happened that shaped literally your aspect of life. Videos like this green my natural curiosity for not only patterns in history but family Dynamics and what makes us who we are in this country. Keep up the good work and yes I can't wait to go along this journey as well. Question have you heard of st. Landry parish? I don't know if I'm spelling it right.
Family Tree DNA will give you your Terminal Haplogroup with Big Y-700 from your Father or Brother and mtDNA test from you. It helped me breath through a wall at my 3rd Great Grand-Father and I found a NPE (Non-Parental Event) at 1721 in Virginia. (Illegitimate Child). Using it now to find out who the Father was and my Surname from the past.
Whoever is in charge of marking the proteins in dna lables can create the ideas , even if you have black dna that doesn't mean they came on a slave ship, people traveled to America before European colonies. Biologically its impossible to travel 2 months chained up next to 200 individuals without blood thinnners and antibiotics without gettin infections or bed soars, most information in the U.S african history is theoretical , melanasian people ar black but theres no slave ships , you must look at the creators of the history and those that have the power of labeling races of the world.
Black heritage in any family that is not black, is considered a stain.
Im so proud to be exploring this publicly
@@nytn great work. I can see it on your face, it means so much to you. I was watching an episode of Sally Hemming and Jefferson’s descendants, it really shows how many families are passing each other on the street without knowing. A couple of her children went away into the “white” world and their lineage is now “white ,” I saw it on the Oprah show.
Hmmm… haplogroup.
What is your father's haplogroup?
J2A I think