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My NativeDNA Results

 This is a review about my NativeDNA results My Genealogical Ancestry I am a multicontinental American that is highly multiethnic, and I am related to many of my fellow Americans in many different ways.   My paternal grandfather's father's ancestry was African American.  He had some European ancestry. My paternal grandfather's mother's ancestry was African American. My paternal grandmother's father's ancestry was African American.  He had some European ancestry.  My paternal grandmother's mother's ancestry was African American with English, Acadian (French in what now known as Nova Scotia), Polish, Swiss, and German.   All of my paternal 3rd great grandparents were African American slaves in Southern Louisiana with the exception of my paternal grandmother's maternal grandfather's father who was a European American son of an English American plantation owner born in Gates County, North Carolinia and a 3/4 Acadian woman born in Assumption Parish in...
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My Ethnic Analyses - AncestryDNA, 23andme, MyHeritage, FamilyTreeDNA, LivingDNA, Gene2me, and DNALand

 This is post of my Ethnic Analyses from AncestryDNA, 23andme, FamilyTreeDNA, MyHeritage, LivingDNA, Gene2me (Sequencing.com).  I did testing at 23andme and AncestryDNA.  I uploaded my 23andme genome to FamilyTreeDNA, MyHeritage, and LivingDNA.  I uploaded my Dante Labs full sequence genome bam file to Sequencing.com AncestryDNA Ethnicity Estimate 53% Africa 12% Benin & Togo 12% Cameroon  Congo & Western Bantu Peoples 12% Nigeria 8% Senegal 6% Ivory Coast & Ghana 2% Mali 1% Nigeria - East Central 45% Europe   15%  England & Northwestern Europe 14% Jewish Peoples of Europe 6% Portugal 5% France 3% Spain 2% Wales 2% Americas  1% Indigenous Puerto Rico 1% Indigenous Americas - Ecuador 23andme Ancestry Composition 49.7% Sub Saharan African   44.3% West African  (20.2% Nigerian, 12.9% Ghanaian, Liberian & Sierra Leonean, 8.9% Senegambian & Guinean, 2.3% Broadly West African) 5.4% Congolese & Southern East African ...
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Offspring of an African American and a European American Is Not Half Black and Half White

There is a very common misconception that offspring of European American parent and an African American parent is 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 consid...
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