Ordered African Ancestry Patriclan test

 

I just ordered  African Ancestry's Patriclan test to find out more about my patrilineal ancestry.

According to 23andme, I have E-M85 (E2b1a) which is a SubSaharan African haplogroup that indicates that I don't descend from a European Scott nor any other European on my paternal line. 1 in 7,600 23andme customers share my haplogroup assignment. The mean variance of STR alleles of E-M85 chromosomes is higher in Central-Western Africans than in the Southern African Khoisan, leading researchers to propose that E-M85 might have been involved in the range expansion of Bantu-speaking peoples from Central-Western Africa toward Southern Africa. 

I grew up not knowing my father nor his side of the family just like my mother grew up not knowing her mother nor her side of the family.  I connected with my paternal grandmother Mary Alice Gaines' side back in 2014 and have met my father's maternal halfsister, children, and grandchildren. My paternal grandmother died in 1987. That was the result of my aunt's daughter finding my ancestry.com post searching for my father's family and emailing me. AncestryDNA testing of my paternal aunt confirmed our family relationship and Gedmatch chromosome browser helped determine some paternal segments coming from my paternal grandmother.

I have very little information about my paternal grandfather Nolan Scott's side of the family.  My paternal aunt doesn't anything about that side of the family. My paternal grandfather was already dead before my father was 8 years old.  

According to my father's birth certificate which I obtained as the result of finding my father's social security death record index record with his mother's maiden name on the internet, my father was born in New Orleans and both my paternal grandparents were born in Louisiana.  My paternal grandmother was born in St. Mary Parish in Southwestern Louisiana, and her maternal grandfather James Cross was born in Louisiana in August 1849 and was the son of an African American woman that was a slave from Virginia and a European American man that was the son of an English American American plantation/slaveowner and a 3/4 Acadian woman. 

I don't know the names of my paternal grandfather's parents. My mother told me that my paternal grandfather had ancestral roots in Jamaica and that his mother lived in Lake Charles which is located in Calcascieu Parish in Southwestern Louisiana.  She engaged in spiritual practices like putting snakes on her house porch to ward off the negative spirits that makes me suspect that she had ancestral roots in Haiti.

My AncestryDNA results include Louisiana Creoles & African Americans community and Southern Louisiana French Settlers.

According to my 23andme Split Inheritance:

From my mother, I inherited 43.2% European, 6.3% Sub-Saharan African, 1.0% Indigenous American, 0.6% West Asian, and 0.2% Unassigned.

From my father, I inherited 43.4% Sub-Saharan African and only 5.3 non-Sub-Saharan African (4.3% European,0.7% Indigenous American, and 0.3% Chinese&SouthAsian.

 Because of the vast majority of my paternal chromosomes being Sub-Saharan African and my Sub-Saharan haplogroup, I wonder if my paternal grandfather's recent ancestry was all Sub-Saharan African.

I am looking forward to doing the Patriclan test and finding out more about my patrilineal ancestry.

Four years ago, I did full Mitochondrial Testing at FamilyTreeDNA which showed that my mitochondrial haplogroup is J1c14 which is a West Eurasian mitochondrial DNA haplogroup that has been found in Central and Eastern Europe. 23andme has been reported my mitochondrial DNA haplogroup as J1c since I first did testing back in 2011.  Back in 2013, I found out that I had the mutations for J1c14 from James Lick's online mitochondrial DNA analysis tool.  J1c14 was discovered in 2012. 

My maternal grandmother's mother was a first generation Ashkenazi Jewish American with an immigrant father from Romania and an immigrant mother from Latvia.  The most distant matrilineal ancestor that I know about is my 3rd Great Grandmother.  I was told that J1c14 is exclusively Ashkenazi Jewish and that it makes up approximately 1.4% of Ashkenazi Jewish maternal lines. One of my FamilyTreeDNA mitochondrial DNA relative matches happen to be a full Ashkenazi Jewish man named Joshua Robbin Marks who wrote a couple of short books about Jewish genetic

 I had connected with mother's long lost mother Beverly's side of the family back through 23andme DNA relative matching back in 23andme in 2013. I met my mother's two maternal halfsisters. My maternal grandmother died in 2011. My mother's older maternal halfsister had confirmed my maternal grandmother's mother being Jewish and her parents immigration from Romania and Latvia which I found out from US Census Records back in 2011 with help from one of my many 23andme DNA relative matches that have Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry. Because of the information that I know about my maternal grandmother's mother and her matrilineal ancestry,  there is absolutely no need for me to take African Ancestry's Matriclan test.  

My paternal first cousin tested at 23andme which revealed that her mitochondrial haplogroup is L3e1. 1 in 1, 100 23andme customers share my cousin's haplogroup assignment. L3e1 spread from West-Central Africa to Southwest Africa with the Bantu migration. Found in Angola (6.8%), Mozambique, Sudanese and Kikuyu from Kenya as well as in Yemen and among the Akan people. 

My  paternal grandmother Mary's most distant known matrilineal ancestor is her grandmother and namesake Mary Johnson who was an African American woman born in 1857 in Louisiana and wife of James Cross.  They had 11 children including my great grandmother Priscilla who had the same name as James Cross' paternal aunt who was named after his paternal grandfather Benjamin Cross's mother Priscilla Bethea. 

US Censuses records listed that both my 2nd Grandmother Mary's parents were born in Louisiana. 

I am curious about the information African Ancestry's Matriclan test could give about my father's matrilineal ancestry.