Diverse Genes

  I have 23andme confirmation that my 0.1% Filipino/Austronesian that shows as one segment on my paternal Chromosome 9 is Malagasy in Madagascar.   The Malagasy (French: Malgache) are an Austronesian-speaking African ethnic group indigenous to the island country of Madagascar. Traditionally, the population have been divided by subgroups (tribes or ethnicities). Examples include "Highlander" (ethnically Austronesian/Malay race-Indonesian with less Bantu ancestry) groups such as the Merina and Betsileo of the central highlands around Antananarivo, Alaotra (Ambatondrazaka) and Fianarantsoa, and the "coastal dwellers" (ethnically Bantu with less Austronesian ancestry) with tribes like the Sakalava, Bara, Vezo, Betsimisaraka, Mahafaly, etc. The Merina are also further divided into two subgroups. The “Merina A” are the Hova and Andriana, and have an average of 30–40% Bantu ancestry. The second subgroup is the “Merina B”, the Andevo, who have an average of 40–50% Bantu anc...

I just found AncestryDNA confirmation of Carrie Johnson's son Nolan Scott being my paternal grandfather.  I was going over matches looking for people with ancestral family name Johnson in family tree  and ancestral location Lafourche Parish, Louisiana. The reason why I did that is because I had found a Nolan Scott that might be my paternal grandfather who was father of my father Lawrence Nolan Scott with my paternal grandmother Mary Alice Gaines.  He is around the same age that my father was born on January 2, 1941.  That's 30 years old.   short explanation about my family background to explain why I don't know my paternal grandfather nor his side of the family: I don't know who were my paternal grandfather's parents for I have grown up never knowing my African American father nor his side of the family.  Out of my father's side of the family, I know only my paternal grandmother's side of the family. That was only after my father's maternal half sister...

There is a very common misconception that offspring of European American parent and an African American parent are half black and half white.  This stems from the following: Race (human categorization) A race is a categorization of humans based on shared physical or social qualities into groups generally viewed as distinct within a given society.[1] The term came into common usage during the 1500s, when it was used to refer to groups of various kinds, including those characterized by close kinship relations.[2] By the 17th century, the term began to refer to physical (phenotypical) traits, and then later to national affiliations. Modern science regards race as a social construct, an identity which is assigned based on rules made by society.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_(human_categorization) Miscegenation Miscegenation (/mɪˌsɛdʒəˈneɪʃən/ mih-SEJ-ə-NAY-shən) is the interbreeding of people who are considered to be members of different races.[1] The word, now usually consi...

 I am a 51 year old Multicontinental American that is highly multiethnic. Both my mother and I grew up not knowing about having any Jewish ancestry. It was only back in 2011 that I have learned that I have Jewish ancestry. My mother grew up never knowing her late mother Beverly Floy Walker nor her side of the family. My mother told me that Beverly's ancestry was English, German, French, and Italian. We first learned about the names of my maternal great grandparents back in 1994 when I obtained Beverly's birth certificate. They were Harold George Walker born in Oregon and Ruth Rosenthal born in Nebraska. Because of her name, we started suspecting that my maternal grandmother's mother was Jewish. Back in 2009, I did Ancestry's Mitochondrial DNA Test which told me that I belong to Haplogroup J and that it was European Travelers. Somebody told me about my mutations and informed me that my Haplogroup is J1c. My mother and I did 23andme testing in 2011, and we were confirmed ...