This is a blog post about my Genealogical and Genetic Ancestry. It includes recent ancestral populations in the Americas with ancestral family last names, DNA connections, 23andme Ancestry Composition/Split Parental Inheritance, and Haplogroups.
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. I am a 4th generation born Californian on my mother's side whose ancestry is mostly European. My African American father was a 7th generation born Louisianian.
The following is a breakdown of my ancestry by great grandparents.
My paternal grandfather's father was an African American born in Louisiana. He had some European ancestry. His other American roots were in District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina.
My paternal grandfather's mother was an African American born in Louisiana. Her other American roots were in Georgia and Virginia.
My paternal grandmother's father was an African American born in Louisiana. He had some European ancestry. His other American roots were in Virginia, South Carolina, Kentucky, and Georgia.
My paternal grandmother's mother was an African American born in Louisiana. She had some English, Acadian (French in what now known as Nova Scotia), Polish, Swiss, and German ancestry. Her other American roots were in Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina.
All of my paternal 3rd great grandparents were African American slaves in 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 North Carolinia and a 3/4 Acadian woman born in Louisiana.
My maternal grandfather's father was a Cape Verdean (Portuguese and Sub-Saharan African) American born in California. His parents were immigrants when Cape Verde was still a Portuguese colony.
My maternal grandfather's mother was born in California. Her 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 was born in Oregon and was of Colonial European American ancestry that was mainly English with some German, Swiss, Scottish, Irish, Welsh, Dutch, and Frisian. His American roots were in Missouri, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Indiana, Tennessee, North Carolina, Alabama, Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut.
My maternal grandmother's mother was an Ashkenazi Jewish American born in Nebraska. 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 300 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 the daughter of a European American woman named Rachael who had Irish ancestry and a man that was the son of a African American man and European American woman. Her husband John Turner was the son of English American plantation/slave Thomas Weathersbee Sr. and an enslaved African American woman. John was a slave due to his mother's status. Patience purchased John's freedom from his father for 60 pounds in Halifax County, North Carolina in 1769. They were already common law-married with sons at the time. Patience's free status made it possible for The Turner family to live as free people of color in Marion County, South Carolina. Most of John and Patience's children (including three sons and three or four daughters) had European American spouses. Through one of his enslaved African American 2nd great grandparents that were all slaves in Southern Louisiana, my father descended from one of John and Patience's three sons and his European American wife. 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 on Chromosome 9. 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 Genealogical Recent Ancestral Populations
African Americans - paternal side
My father was an African American. All of my paternal 3rd great grandparents were enslaved African Americans in Louisiana with the exception of my Anglo-Cajun 3rd great grandfather. They were born in Louisiana, Virginia, Maryland, District of Columbia, Missouri, Kentucky, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina
Daggs (patrilineal name changed to Scott in late 1880s), Johnson, Armstrong, Smith (owned by European American Smith family in St Indigoes, Saint Mary's County, Maryland) , Gaines, Horton, Cross (from Anglo-Cajun 3rd Great Grandfather), Thomas, Smeish, Riley, Jackson, Lilly, Caldwell, Woods
Louisiana Creoles - paternal side
My father was born in Louisiana. Both of my paternal grandparents were born in Louisiana. All of my paternal great grandparents were born in Louisiana. All of my paternal 2nd great grandparents were born in Louisiana. All of my paternal 3rd great grandparents were enslaved in Louisiana with the exception of my paternal grandmother's maternal grandfather's Anglo-Cajun father who was a son of English American plantation owner Benjamin Cross who was born in Gates County, North Carolina and 3/4 Acadian Anastasia Bourgeois who was born in Assumption Parish, Louisiana.
My many paternal DNA relative matches of Louisiana Creole (including Cajun) ancestry greatly vary in their ancestry and match me through European, Sub Saharan African, and/or Indigenous American chromosome segments.
Cape Verdeans (immigration to USA in early 1900s as Portuguese citizens) - maternal side
Andrade (changed to Andrews), Veiga, Gomes, Pina
Ashkenazi Jews (immigration to USA from Romania and present day Latvia in early 1900s) - maternal side
Rosenthal, Josephs, Hosias, Hirschberg
Puerto Ricans - maternal side
Ocasio (changed to Ocacio), Afanador, Ramos, Baez, Maldonado, Rivera, Mercado, Guzman, de Leon
Madeirans (immigration to Kingdom of Hawaii in late 1800s as Portuguese citizens) - maternal side
Pereira, de Jesus, de Frietas, de Ponte
Colonial German/Swiss Pennsylvanians - maternal side
Kessinger (changed to Kasinger after Colonial period), Greenawalt, Limbaugh ( originally Lymbach), Ritter, Crader (originally Greter), Clubb (orginally Klopp), Niswonger (originally Neunschwander from Switzerland), Hartle (originally Hertel), Masters (originally Meister), Statler (originally Stadler)
Colonial British Virginians - both paternal and maternal side
Newsom, Sheppard, Loftin, Holt, Hansford, Walker, Harrup (changed to Harp), Gilliam, McGee, Weatherford, Spraggins, Abney, Lucas, Childress, Holladay, Pulliam, Manning, Baldwin, Carter, Crawford, Caufield, Seward, Hardy, Jones (two), Waller - maternal side
Cross, Bethea, Goodman - paternal side
Colonial British New Englanders (mostly Connecticut colonists) - maternal side
Hoyt, Reed, Weed, Jagger, Brown, Sampson, Webb, Olmstead, Ferris, Reynolds
Colonial British New York/New Jersey settlers - maternal side
Benedict, Layton
Colonial British Pennsylvanians - maternal side - maternal grandmother's father
Huddleston, Wilkinson, Cooper/Cowper (Quaker), Harlan (Quaker)
Scotch-Irish - maternal side
Kilpatrick, Copeland, McClure, Gibson
Irish - maternal side
Murphy in Virginia
Scottish Highlanders - maternal side
MacIntosh in Virginia
Acadians - paternal side
Bourgeois, Landry, LeBlanc, Babin, Terriot, Gaudet, Trahan, Gautreau, Melanson (Huguenot), Bourg, Richard, Boudreau, Aucoin, Dugas, d'Entremont, Guilbeau, Bernard, Richard, Blanchard, Brun
New Netherlands colonists - maternal side
Romeyn (changed to Romine), VanNess, Wyckoff
Native Americans (segments on chromosomes 5, 6, and 9) - paternal side
Malagasy - paternal side
Southeastern African-Filipino/Austronesian segment on paternal chromosome 9 inherited from the free Colonial mixed African-European American Turner family in Marion County, South Carolina
Ancestral families in USA with unknown origins
Myers, Gwin, Evans, Serbel, Hall, Keith - maternal side
Stubens/Stebens/Stieven/Estivenne - paternal side
DNA connections to ancestral families
Turner
European American descendants of John Turner (b. 1730s/1740s) and Patience Smith (b. 1740s) - DNA relative matches on my father's side through one of his enslaved African American 2nd great grandparents on my predominantly Sub Saharan African-little Filipino/Austronesian segment on paternal Chromosome 9
John was born the enslaved son of English American plantation owner Thomas Weathersbee and an enslaved African American woman. Patience was the free born daughter of a man of half African(from father)/half European (from mother) and Rachael Smith who was a European American woman that had Irish ancestry. Patience purchased John's freedom from his father for 60 pounds in Halifax County, North Carolina in 1769 after being married with three sons. They relocated to Marion County, South Carolina where four daughters were born. They owned land and had a farm. All three of their sons had European American wives and most of their daughters had European American husbands. Three of their grandsons (Martin Turner, James Turner, and John Turner) joined the army during War of 1812 and spent some time in Louisiana.
Kinsey
European American descendants of John Ripley Kinsey (b. 1698 in Switzerland) and Mary Catherine Isler (b.1718 in Craven County, North Carolina) - DNA relative matches on my paternal grandmother's enslaved maternal grandmother's side through one of her enslaved African American parents on my European segments on paternal Chromosomes 6 and 16
John Ripley Kinsey was one of the few of the Kinsey family that survived the Massacre of 1711 by The Tuscarora Indigenous Americans. He had descendants that were listed as mulatto and white in US Censuses before the Civil War. One of them was Lewis Kinsey who was born in 1795. His father was Jesse W. Kinsey (b. 1762) who was the son of Joseph Antoine Kinsey (b.1740) who was the son of John Ripley Kinsey (b. 1693). He lived in Colleton County, South Carolina and Barnwell County, South Carolina. He and his children were recorded as white and mulatto in US Censuses. He owned slaves. Some of Lewis and Sally's European American descendants match me on my Sub Saharan African segment on paternal Chromosome 2.
Thigpen
European American descendants of James Thigpen II (b. 1664 in North Carolina) and Elizabeth Manwaring (b. 1671 in Virginia) - DNA relative matches on my paternal grandmother's side through one of her enslaved African American great grandparents
James' parents James and Elyn (Travis) Thigpen immigrated from Ireland. Elizabeth's father Stephen Manwaring was an English immigrant, an officer in the Bacon's Rebellion, pardoned in 1677, and had his property confiscated.
Hampton
European American descendants of John Hampton (b.1683 in Gloucester County, Virginia) and Margaret Wade (b.1694 in Kent County, Virginia) - DNA relative matches on my father's side through one of his enslaved African American 2nd great grandparents on my European segment on paternal Chromosome 10
They're the paternal grandparents of Wade Hampton I who was an American Revolutionary patriot officer. He served as the top miltary officer in the Territory of Orleans. He purchased The Houmas, a sugar plantation in Ascension Parish, Louisiana. His son Wade Hampton II served under Andrew Jackson in New Orleans.
Darnall
European American descendants of Henry Darnall (b. 1779 in Virginia) and Nancy Henson (b.1783 in Rutherford, North Carolina) - DNA relative matches on my paternal grandmother's side through one of her enslaved African American great grandparents
Victoriano/Victorian
African American descendants of Louis Victoriano Ramos (b. 1750 in Mexico) and Marie Thereze deSoto (b. 1761 in Louisiana) - DNA relative matches on my father's side through one of his enslaved African American 2nd great grandparents
There is a belief that a woman named Marie was a daughter of Marie Thérèse “Coincoin” (born enslaved to the St. Denis family, of African parentage) and an enslaved Native American man. This belief remains unproven and unsupported by any surviving records. It persists mainly in oral speculation and in attempts to explain gaps in the early Natchitoches enslaved population.
Devereaux-Whitaker
African American descendants of Devereux-Whitaker family that lived in Rich Square, North Carolina after being freed from slavery - DNA relative matches on my father's side through one of his enslaved African American 2nd great grandparents
Thomas Pollock Devereaux sold 107 slaves to John H. Whitaker in Halifax County, North Carolina in 1857.
Adkins/Atkinson and Mullins
European American descendants of William Atkinson Sr (b.1695 in Henrico County, Virginia) and Elizabeth Parker (b. 1695 in Charles City County, Virginia) - DNA relative matches on my maternal grandmother's father's side.
European American descendants of William M. Mullins (b. 1721) and Elizabeth Scott (b. 1729) - DNA relative matches on my maternal grandmother's father's side
My mother has many DNA relative matches that descend from Booker Mullins (b. 1767 in Franklin County, Virginia and Sarah Jane Stanley (b. 1762 in Virginia). Booker was son of Sherwood Adkins Jr (b. 1742 in Virginia) and Mary Mullins. Sherwood was a grandson of William Atkinson and Elizabeth Parker. Mary was a daughter of William M. Mullins and Elizabeth Scott.
23andme Ancestry Composition/Parental Split Inheritance based on DNA phasing between my genome and my mother's genome
49.7% Sub Saharan African (43.4% paternal, 6.3% maternal)
47.5% European (4.3% paternal, 43.2% maternal)
1.7% Indigenous American (0.7% paternal, 1.0% maternal)
0.6% Northern West Asian (0.0% paternal, 0.6% maternal)
0.3% Chinese/Southeast Asian (0.3% paternal, 0.0% maternal)
0.2% Unassigned (0.0% paternal, 0.2% maternal)
Y DNA Haplogroup
E-BY101982 (earliest known ancestor is my enslaved African American 4th Great Grandfather John W. Daggs who was born in Virginia)
The E-BY101982 paternal line was formed when it branched off from the ancestor E-BY108741 and the rest of humankind around 850 CE.
The man who is the most recent common ancestor of this line is estimated to have been born around 1050 CE.
6 male testers have the markers for E-BY101982 at FamilyTreeDNA.
E-BY101982 is a branch of E-M85 (E2b1a)
E-CTS4257 is an upstream haplogroup of E-BY101982, and it was formed in 5450 BCE. Globetrekker shows that it may have originated in South Sudan. 1 in 2,300 FamilyTreeDNA male testers have E-CTS4257 genetic marker.
J1c14 (earliest known ancestor is my Ashkenazi Jewish 3rd Great Grandmother Sarah Hirschberg who was born in present day Latvia)
The J1c14 maternal line was formed when it branched off from the ancestor J1c14^ and the rest of humankind around 150 BCE.
The woman who is the most recent common ancestor of this line is estimated to have been born around 50 BCE.
J1c14 is found in only people that have Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry.
It makes up less than 2% of Ashkenazi Jewish maternal lineages.
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