Diverse Genes

  This is a blog post review of my Genetic Ancestry with Haplogroups Report from the company Sequencing.  I did the company's whole genome test. My Genealogical Ancestry I am a 4th generation Californian on my mother's side, and my father was a 7th generation Southern Louisianan. paternal grandfather's father: African American born in Lafourche Parish (an Acadiana parish) in Southern Louisiana  other roots in District of Columbia, North Carolina, Tennessee Y DNA haplogroup E-BY101982 (a E2b1 haplogroup) paternal grandfather's mother: African American born in Lafourche Parish (an Acadiana parish) in Southern Louisiana other roots in Missouri, Virginia paternal grandmother's father: African American born in Assumption Parish (an Acadiana parish) in  Southern Louisiana other roots in Virginia, Georgia, South Carolina, and Kentucky paternal grandmother's mother: African American with English and Acadian (French in what now known as Nova Scotia), Polish, German, Dani

 This is a blog post about my Y DNA Haplogroup Variants and The Evolution of the Y Chromosome. According to 23andme, my Y DNA haplogroup was first reported as E2b1 and then E-M85.  Therefore, I have an African Y Chromosome. I am not a patrilineal descendant of a European American.  I did the Big 700 Test (it tests 700 markers) which led me to me being assigned Y DNA haplogroup E-BY101982. It is a branch of  E-CTS4257 which may have originated in South Sudan in 3800 BCE. My father was an African American born in New Orleans, Louisiana.  His father was Nolan Scott who was born in Thibodaux, Lafourche Parish, Louisiana. His grandfather Ivory Scott was born in Lafourche Parish.  My earliest known patrilineal ancestor is my 4th Great Grandfather John W. Daggs. His enslaved wife Rachel and their children (Charles, Joseph, Eliza, Ellen, William Henry, Ann) were shipped to New Orleans from Alexandria, District of Columbia in 1835. William Henry Daggs Sr was my 3rd Great Grandfather and used th

From looking at AncestryDNA matches, I discovered another slave-owning Colonial European American ancestral family on my African American paternal grandmother Mary Alice Gaines side.  It's a Lambert family in Mecklenburg County, Virginia.   This is not an ancestral family of my paternal European American 3rd Great Grandfather James P. Cross, and so it has to be an ancestral family of one of my African American 3rd Great Grandparents on Grandma Mary's side. All of them were slaves in the Acadiana parishes in Southern Louisiana. Reuben Gaines (born in Virginia) and his wife Celecie Horton (born in Georgia) who were parents of my 2nd Great Grandfather Ulysses Gaines who was Great Grandpa Lawrence Gaines' father - slaves in Assumption Parish, Louisiana Edward Riley (born in South Carolina) and his wife Dolly Jackson (born in Kentucky)who were parents of my 2nd Great Grandmother Jeannette Riley who was Great Grandpa Lawrence's mother - slaves in Assumption Parish, Louisiana