Diverse Genes

  This is my FamilyTreeDNA Mitochondrial DNA Haplogroup Report  for J1c14 My blog post about Haplogroup information https://diversegenes.blogspot.com/2021/08/my-mitochondrial-dna-haplogroup-j1c14.html

  MyHeritage's Ethnicity Estimate updated their ethnic analyses again. My mother's ethnic analysis and my paternal aunt's ethnic analysis were finally updated. During over a decade, I have learned to take ethnic analyses with a strong grain of salt and focus mainly on DNA relative matches. My Genealogical Ancestry I am a multicontinental American that is highly multiethnic, and I am related to many of my fellow Americans in many different ways.   My paternal grandfather's father's ancestry was African American.  He had some European ancestry. My paternal grandfather's mother's ancestry was African American. My paternal grandmother's father's ancestry was African American.  He had some European ancestry.  My paternal grandmother's mother's ancestry was African American with English, Acadian (French in what now known as Nova Scotia), Polish, Swiss, and German.   All four of my paternal great grandparents were born in the Acadiana region in Sout...

  My maternal grandfather's maternal grandfather Joseph John Ocasio was Puerto Rican.  He was born in Utuado, Puerto Rico and died in Sebastopol, Sonoma County, California. His parents were Juan Bautista Ocasio-Ramos and Maria del Carmen Afanador-Baez.  He was married to  Maria Pereira who was a Hawaiian born daughter of immigrants from the Atlantic archipelago Madeira which is an autonomous region of Portugal. They relocated to Sonoma County where my maternal grandmother's mother Marion Isabelle Ocasio was born.  Great Grandma Marian married my Great Grandfather Peter Andrews (originally Andrade) who was born in Yolo County, California. His parents immigrated from the Atlantic archipelago Cape Verde before it gained its independence from Portugal.  2nd Great Grandpa Joe's known ancestral surnames:  Ocasio, Afanador, Ramos, Baez, Maldonado, Rivera, Guzman, and Mercado 2nd Great Grandpa Joe's brickwall ancestors (ancestors with parents unknown) his pate...

 This is a review about my AncestryDNA Ethnicity Estimate My Genealogical Ancestry I am a multicontinental American that is highly multiethnic, and I am related to many of my fellow Americans in many different ways.   My paternal grandfather's father's ancestry was African American.  He had some European ancestry. My paternal grandfather's mother's ancestry was African American. My paternal grandmother's father's ancestry was African American.  He had some European ancestry.  My paternal grandmother's mother's ancestry was African American with English, Acadian (French in what now known as Nova Scotia), Polish, Swiss, and German.   My maternal grandfather's father 's ancestry was Cape Verdean (Portuguese and Sub-Saharan African) His parents were immigrants when Cape Verde was still a Portuguese colony. My maternal grandfather's mother's ancestry was Puerto Rican (Spanish, Sub-Saharan African, and Taino) on her father's side and Madeir...

William Henry Daggs Sr. and Mary Smith were the parents of my patrilineal 2nd Great Grandfather William Henry Daggs Jr aka William Scott.  They lived in Assumption Parish and Lafourche Parish which are in the Acadiana region which is located in Southern Louisiana.  They were recorded as Daigle in Census records, but they were not related to any Daigles of Acadian ancestry. 2nd Great Grandfather William wasn't even recorded as Scott in any of the Censuses.  The only record of him as Scott is his 1888 marriage record with my 2nd Great Grandmother Maria Lilly.  He was recorded as having the last name Dag-- (the last two letters hard to make out) in 1900 Census along with my 2nd Great Grandmother Maria and their children Pinky, Matthew, and Ivory (my Great Grandfather). He was recorded as having the last name Daigle in 1910 Census with my 2nd Great Grandmother Maria. He was recorded as Daggs in 1920 Census. He divorced my 2nd Great Grandmother Maria before 1920 and marri...