Diverse Genes

 I think that I might have some clues about my Indigenous American paternal ancestry.   My 23andme Chromosome painting shows that I have three Indigenous American segments on my paternal Chromosomes 5, 6, and 9 which total 0.7%. I also have Indigenous American segments on my maternal chromosomes and X Chromosome which total 1%, and I know that those are Taino from my maternal grandfather's Puerto Rican maternal grandfather Jose Juan Ocasio-Afanador who was also known Joseph John Ocacio. My AncestryDNA's Chromosome Painting shows these segments too.  The longest of all my Indigenous American segments is the one on Chromosome 9.  I found only African Americans that match me on my Indigenous American Chromosome 9 segment, and some of them have no Louisianan ancestry. Therefore, the Indigenous American paternal Chromosome 9 segment is from an Indigenous American outside of Louisiana.  My father's maternal halfsister/my Aunt Carrie and my paternal half brother M...

I just recently discovered that my paternal grandmother Mary Alice Gaines descends from a European American Washington Parish family. I noticed that my paternal Aunt Carrie has 6 AncestryDNA relative matches that descend from European American Thigpen families that migrated to Louisiana from North Carolina. 4 of them are European Americans that descend from William Walter James Norwood who was born in 1800 in Oslow, North Carolina and died in Halletsville, Texas in 1887. His father was John Travis Thigpen who was born in 1766 in Oslow and died in Washington Parish in 1855. His mother was Sally Cobb who was born in Edgecombe, North Carolina and died in Washington Parish in 1850.  The European Americans are distant cousins.  Both rholderman and J. Gray share a 43 cM segment with Aunt Carrie. Both  I. Schwille and K. Dean share a 9 cM segment with Aunt Carrie. 2 of them are African American that descend from James Thigpen who was born in 1768 in Duplin, North Carolina and di...

  There is a possibility that my father Lawrence Nolan Scott descended from a Marion County, South Carolina Turner man that was in Nanchitoches, Louisiana.  Turner ancestral family was discovered through DNA relative matches in connection to a predominantly Southern East African segment with Filipino/Austronesian on Chromosome 9. One of my enslaved African American 3rd Great Grandparents on my African American father Lawrence Nolan Scott's side descended from this family. John Turner was the son of his English American owner Thomas Weathersbee and an African American slave. His wife Patience bought him from Thomas Weathersbee in 1769 in Halifax County, North Carolina.  Patience was noted as being 1/4 black and that her mother was Rachel Smith and of Irish ancestry. John and Patience relocated to Marion County, South Carolina. Some of John and Patience's children married into European American families which led to many European American descendants with some of them showi...