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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 Southern Louisiana. 


My maternal grandfather's father 's ancestry was Cape Verdean (Portuguese and Sub-Saharan African) His parents were immigrants when Cape Verde was still a Portuguese colony.

My maternal grandfather's mother's ancestry was Puerto Rican (Spanish, Sub-Saharan African, and Taino) on her father's side and Madeiran (Portuguese with Sub Saharan African) on her mother's side. Her father was born in Puerto Rico. Her mother was born in Hawaii when it was still a kingdom. Her maternal grandparents immigrated to Hawaii. 

My maternal grandmother's father's ancestry was Colonial European American that was mainly English ancestry with some German, Swiss, Scottish, Irish, Welsh, Dutch, and Frisian.

My maternal grandmother's mother' ancestry was Ashkenazi Jewish American. Her father immigrated from Romania and her mother immigrated from an area in the Russian Empire that became Latvia. 


Because of the Transatlantic Slave trade, I know very little about my African ancestry. Africa has over 3,000 ethnic groups, and that includes Nigeria having over 400 ethnic groups.  My African ancestry is highly likely to consist of many African ethnic groups. I have some Indigenous American segments on my paternal chromosomes and not just my maternal chromosomes and X Chromosome. I have some Danish paternal DNA relative matches.  From examining my European American paternal DNA relative matches, I learned that my father was a descendant of John Turner and his wife Patience Smith.  John was the son of English American slaveowner Thomas Weathersbee and an unknown enslaved African American woman.  Patience was 3/4 European and 1/4 African. Her mother Rachel was Irish. Her father was half African, half European. She purchased her husband's freedom from his father in 1769 in Halifax County, North Carolina. There is some debate that Patience may have been of full European ancestry. They relocated to Marion County, South Carolina. I share segments with some of John and Patience's European American descendants that consist of what 23andme shows as being predominantly Southeastern African with a little Filipino/Austronesian. A French man with a paternal grandmother born in the Southeastern African island Madagascar matches me in the location that is Filipino/Austronesian. 23andme shows him as having Southeastern African and Filipino/Austronesian ancestry. His paternal grandmother was part Malagasy.

My highly mixed, diverse ancestry is reflected in my DNA relative matches at AncestryDNA, 23andme, FamilyTreeDNA, MyHeritage, and GEDmatch.


My Sub Saharan African amount of 52% is reasonable.  

My European amount of 33% is a bit underestimated

My Native American amount of 9% is a bit overestimated.   

Ashkenazi Jewish, Portugal (in connection to Cape Verde and Madeira), England, France (in connection to the Acadians) are not listed.

Interestingly, Mi'kmaq is listed.  They reside in Southeastern Canada where the Acadians settled.  I am open to the possibility that one of my paternal Amerindian segments is Mi'kmaq.

Taino is listed, but it is shown as being of the Bahamas and not Puerto Rico.

Canary Islands, Spain is listed.  Most of the Spaniards in Puerto Rico came from the Canary Islands.

Sephardic Jewish (Spain) is listed, and I believe that it is connected to my Cape Verdean, Madeiran, and/or Puerto Rican ancestry.

Sicily, Italy is listed.  I have no known recent Sicilian ancestors

Sephardic Jews and Sicilians are very genetically similar to Ashkenazi Jews.

Lebanon and Iran are listed, and they could be in connection to my Jewish ancestry. I have no known  recent Lebanese or recent Iranian ancestors.


Here are links to my other ancestral analyses


My AncestryDNA Ethnicity Estimate

https://diversegenes.blogspot.com/2024/10/my-ancestrydna-ethnicityestimate-update.html

My MyHeritage Ethnicity Estimate

https://diversegenes.blogspot.com/2024/07/my-myheritage-ethnicity-estimate.html

My Genetic Ancestry With Haplogroups Report By Sequencing

https://diversegenes.blogspot.com/2024/01/my-genetic-ancestry-with-haplogroups.html

My Ethnic Analyses - AncestryDNA, 23andme, MyHeritage, FamilyTreeDNA, LivingDNA, Gene2me, and DNALand

https://diversegenes.blogspot.com/2021/09/my-ethnic-analyses-ancestrydna-23andme.html






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