Diverse Genes

My Genealogical Family Lines British/Irish Virginian colonists Walker, Harp/Harrup, Manning, Gilliam, Jones (two different family lines), Magee/McGee, Baldwin, Loftin, Newsom, Eldridge, Crawford, Carter, Seward, Holt, Caufield, Hansford, Spencer, Bayly, Sheppard, Layton, Cross, Holladay, Pulliam, Patterson, Weatherford, Spraggins, Lucas, Abney, Hardy, Waller, Bethea, Goodman, Murphy, MacIntosh, Childress/Childers , Gwin, Harlan, Gibson, Thigpen, Manwaring, Jeter, Prosser, Weathersbee, Stringer, Skinner, Lassiter, Eason, Lambert, Sturdivant British/Irish Connecticut colonists Hoyt, Weed, Reed, Brown, Ferris, Olmstead, Webb, Jagger, Cross British/Irish Pennsylvanian colonists Cooper, Huddleston, Wilkinson, Myers, Harlan, McClure British/Irish Massachusetts colonists Reynolds   British/Irish Rhode Island colonists Reed, Samson, Layton British/Irish North Carolina colonists Gwin, Cross, Bethea, Goodman, Kilpatrick, Copeland, Thigpen, Manwaring Dutch New York/New Jersey colonists R...

 My Genealogical ancestry My Louisianan father's ancestry was mostly Sub-Saharan African. My Louisianan paternal grandfather was an African American. I was told that he had some roots in Jamaica.  His mother was a Voodoo Spiritualist, and I suspect that she had some roots in Haiti. My Y DNA haplogroup is E-M85 (E2b1a), and so my patrilineal ancestry is Sub-Saharan African. My Louisianan paternal grandmother was an African American with some Acadian (17th Century French settlers in Eastern Canadian Maritime Provinces) and English Virginian Colonial ancestry (17th Century). My paternal grandmother's maternal grandfather's father was the son of an Anglo-American man and a Cajun woman who was mostly Acadian with some English. Two people in Denmark match me on my paternal Chromosome 1, and that shows that my father had Danish ancestors. On my Cajun paternal 4th Great Grandmother's side, I have a paternal 7th Great Grandmother named Anne Scalsen.  I have some paternal Amerind...