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My Maternal Puerto Rican Ancestry

  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 paternal grandmother C
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My AncestryDNA Ethnicity Estimate Update

 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

My Patrilineal 2nd Great Grandfather William's Paternal Daggs and Maternal Smith Ancestral Families

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 married a sister of

My Y DNA Private Variants

  I am shown to have 10 Private variants in Y Chromosome.  I checked them in gnomAD browser.  9 of the 10 were found. All of those 9 have 1 person that has the variant, and they are all from the African/African American group.  Y-4689310-A-T has a CADD score of 11.9, and it is an intergenic variant.  The CADD score is quite high for an intergenic variant.  Y-13205377-C-G    Intergenic variant, Enhancer according to Encode 0.002988% (1 out of 33,470) 4.74 https://gnomad.broadinstitute.org/variant/Y-13205377-C-G?dataset=gnomad_r4 Y-13408427-T-C Intronic variant (18 transcripts) UTY ( (Ubiquitously Transcribed Tetratricopeptide Repeat Containing, Y-Linked) https://www.genecards.org/cgi-bin/carddisp.pl?gene=UTY 0.00308% (1 out of 32,469) 5.07 https://gnomad.broadinstitute.org/variant/Y-13408427-T-C?dataset=gnomad_r4 Y-14386154-T-C Intergenic variant 0.002982% (1 out of 33,529) 4.00 https://gnomad.broadinstitute.org/variant/Y-14386154-T-C?dataset=gnomad_r4 Y-16016460-G-C Intergenic variant

Learning About My Paternal 2nd Great Grandmother Mary's Family And Their Connection To the Kinseys

I learned that the Kinseys were ancestors of my paternal grandmother Mary Alice Gaines' maternal grandmother Mary.  I found out that some of AncestryDNA that Aunt Carrie and I have are descendants of 2nd Great Grandma Mary's niece Susan Thomas. They have Kinsey descendant matches that they share with Aunt Carrie and me.  I found out that Grandma Mary Alice Gaines descended from a Swiss Kinsey family that immigrated to New Bern, Craven County, North Carolina in 1710. Their descendants.went to Jones County, North Carolina and Colleton and Barnwell Counties in South Carolina. Aunt Carrie has over 100 AncestryDNA matches that are descendants of this Swiss Kinsey family.  They're descendants of John Ripley Kinsey (b. 1698) and Mary Isler. She, two European American Kinsey descendants, and a man in Switzerland match each other in the same location on Chromosome 6. https://diversegenes.blogspot.com/2023/07/discovery-of-swiss-immigrant-ancestors.html I found out that Grandma Mary&#