My wife really wanted to do this so I got the ancestry and health kits for each of us as our Christmas present. Not surprised at the results, we're both roughly 60% British and Irish and 25% French and German. I had something like 0.5% trace African ancestry which isn't surprising to me since I'd bet most white people in the US, maybe the world, have some trace African ancestry. My wife however didn't and raised a good point that since my family has been in Georgia/deep south region for so long whereas hers is more from New England that it's possible this is related to the majority of US slavery taking place in the southern states and maybe one of my ancestors long ago did some heinous shit that is now showing up in my DNA. In hindsight it's stupid of me to not think this didn't happen on a large scale, but also interesting that even our country's young history already had probably lots of distinct genetic differences.
Apparently it's not that uncommon for black folk doing these things to have a European ancestor show up out of nowhere a couple hundred years ago. Like, you know it happened but that's rough.
I was at a comedy club the other night and a black guy started doing some jokes based on this. Found out he's part white and started going to farmer's markets, etc. Decent material for jokes
Reminds me of the trans-racial episode in Atlanta. "How do you embrace your white identity" "I dress a certain way, Patagonia. I wear a thick brown leather belt."
So update. Me and my new cousin chatted on the phone and I'm working to get in contact with her mom to see if she would be interested. She's older but seems very cool, sweet, and not crazy/dangerous. Her fb profile pic was interesting though. Spoiler she was on a flight back from the game when she saw my initial note. They had an extra ticket that they gave away to a friend. "If only we'd contacted a week earlier!!!" :(
Did your report give some detail about the African DNA? African ancestry doesn’t necessarily mean sub-Saharan. A lot of DNA mixing has taken place all around the Mediterranean. You easily could have a branch of your family that had DNA from that region introduced long ago, whereas your wife didn’t.
It's 0.4% Senegambian & Guinean and there's not enough information to suggest a timeline. My strong guess after quick googling that this is still related to the slave trade. I'd be very curious to lookup other random people's results who grew up in the south vs some other region where slavery wasn't used as much for their economy.
Is there margin of error on these things? .4% seems small enough that it may just be random "noise" in the data showing up
It's not an error to read that much of you know about genetics. It's definitely considered trace, i.e. probably many many generations ago. 1% of my total makeup was untraceable and therefore not categorized.
I've done a DNA test (the Nat Geo one) and I've read a couple books on the subject. Not an expert for sure but more acquainted than Joe off the street. That's an impressive level of accuracy for sure; rarely do you see something that gets something down to the tenth percent
In the past 10-20 years as genetic sequencing became easier and cheaper, lots and lots of groups have gone out and tried to genetically profile different ethnic groups. Given the vast number of people who submit their DNA to these companies and allow the data to be shared it's not a shock that they've been able to quantify various haplogroups and other markers at a very precise level.
Wouldn't it also be true that one of your ancestors long ago had some heinous shit done to them that's showing up in your DNA?
Similar premise but it was a white guy said he had 1% African who then goes “so what’s up my n’s” and no one laughed.
My ex's parents always wanted her to marry a nice asian boy. I was like "well, show them this!" She never thought it was nearly as funny as I did but then again she is a racist.
Assuming he means because genetically, you are 1/2 related to a parent. 1/4 related to a grandparent. 1/8 to a great grandparent, etc. So by the time you get back to Charlemagne, you're genetically just as similar to him as any person off the street, even if you did directly descend from him
I think he was asking why it’s bullshit that Russell Wilson had his lineage traced back to Charlemagne. I wonder the same thing.
Do you honestly believe they could dig up direct lineage & documentation back through medieval times and the dark ages?
Royals are usually the ONLY people you can trace to, actually. Records tend to exist for them and their lineage, they don't for your serfs who died at 30 and had 9 kids (3 of whom survived to adulthood and could not read or write)
I'm fairly certain he had lineage traced through traditional genealogical records, not a DNA test. https://www.dailyprogress.com/stare...cle_89f2b116-fab1-11e5-aa56-4721ea897f13.html
I don’t think I ever shared this in this thread but my father has never claimed me as his. He basically knocked up my naive mom when she was 19 and peaced out. I’ve met several family members on that side but never him. He has always been sturdy in his denial stance. You gotta think someone like that would stay away from dna websites. But nope, here we are...lol. What an idiot.
No I just signed on and saw it today. Not sure how long ago this happened because I haven’t signed on there in like 6 months.
Do you plan to approach him? Or has it always been a thing where you both acknowledged it but never spoke of it?
I’ve called him twice before. The first time we talked and he was very distant and politely kind of disregarded the whole thing. You can tell I definitely caught him off guard. A few years later I drunk called him and left a VM. If any of you have ever gotten drunken calls/VM from you I’m sure you know how that went lol.