Diverse Genes

Last year, I learned that my paternal grandmother Mary Alice Gaines descended from a Kinsey family that immigrated to New Bern, Craven County, North Carolina from Switzerland in 1710. She descended from John Ripley Kinsey who was born in 1693 in Switzerland.  He was one of the few of the Kinsey family that survived the Massacre of 1710 by The Tuscarora Indigenous Americans. The Kinseys were not the ancestors of Grandma Mary's maternal grandfather's European American father James P. Cross who was the son of  English American plantation owner Benjamin Cross who was born in Gates County, North Carolina and 3/4 Acadian woman Anastasia Bourgeois who was born in Assumption Parish in the Acadiana region in Southern Louisiana.  They had to be the ancestors of one of Grandma Mary's African American great grandparents.  All of them were slaves in the Acadiana region.   The only one of Grandma Mary's great grandparents that was recorded as being born in the Carolinas ...

  I have 11 African American AncestryDNA matches that are also matches at GEDmatch.  They all match me with 8+  centimorgan (cM) segments on my paternal Chromosome 9 location 87605455 - 107932645.  23andme, AncestryDNA, Dr Doug McDonald's chromosome painting, and DNA Genics Admixture Studio's numerous admixture calculators/oracles show that the paternal chromosome 9 segment is Indigenous American. AncestryDNA Timber algorithm is affecting the Indigenous American Chromosome 9 segments shared between us.  D. Babineaux, C. Henry, B. Guidry, and D. Dixon are my only paternal DNA relative matches that have roots in my father's home state Louisiana.   The common Indigenous American ancestor was living outside Louisiana.  D. Babineaux, C. Henry, and B. Guidry are closely related to each other, and they are Louisiana Creoles that are part Acadian.  They share AncestryDNA matches of Acadian ancestry with me. I am a 4th great grandson of a 3/4 Acadian ...