"Tales of African-American History Found in DNA."
"The history of African-Americans has been shaped in part by two great journeys.
The first brought hundreds of thousands of Africans to the southern United States as slaves. The second, the Great Migration, began around 1910 and sent six million African-Americans from the South to New York, Chicago and other cities across the country ... The scientists concluded that most of the mingling between Africans and Native Americans took place soon after the first slaves arrived in the American colonies in the early 1600s. The European DNA in African-Americans, on the other hand, occurs in slightly longer chunks, indicating a more recent origin."
Who can guess why European Americans who live in the South now are more closely related to African-Americans in the North or West than to present-day African-Americans in the South?
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.The most important history for you to know is your own family history.
Castlepaloma
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Jan 24, 2021
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I wish really I knew more about my father's family history, but he died before lots of DNA and ancestry-type websites existed. About the furthest back in history I know is that his parents came from Brest in Brittany and from Marseille.
After exploring my family history over the past couple of years, I developed a belief that everyone should know the truth of their DNA connections. Always having been the darkest of my sisters, and frequently questioned as the 'little Indian" when young, I now know that my mother's lineage does contain Shawnee, and my father's "Bulgarian" father was from dark Greek & MidEastern/Indian sourcing. No more imaginings for me!
tinkercreek
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Jan 24, 2021
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Which resource did you access to research your DNA and ethnicity? I know about two hundred years of maternal history, and two generations paternal European ethnicity. And I got the very basic DNA analysis by National Geographic Genographic Project 1.0 (no paternal DNA submitted - only mitochondrial). The new information (that I didn't already know) is that my haplogroup is H.
@AnonySchmoose I used Ancestry, and have lineage back to the 12th century! Their pricing varies, usually about $70, with occasional sale offers.
@tinkercreek Wow, that is a reasonable price, and a long history of many centuries! Maybe I will try that next. I crave details.
@AnonySchmoose Go for it~ and reminds me, I need to look for a total # of relatives on my family tree there, in the 100's. They also match you up by DNA if you want!
The only race gene in every human on earth is black.
Tell that to the KKK, and they won't believe you.
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