Diverse Genes

 I think that I might have some clues about my Indigenous American paternal ancestry.   My 23andme Chromosome painting shows that I have three Indigenous American segments on my paternal Chromosomes 5, 6, and 9 which total 0.7%. I also have Indigenous American segments on my maternal chromosomes and X Chromosome which total 1%, and I know that those are Taino from my maternal grandfather's Puerto Rican maternal grandfather Jose Juan Ocasio-Afanador who was also known Joseph John Ocacio. My AncestryDNA's Chromosome Painting shows these segments too.  The longest of all my Indigenous American segments is the one on Chromosome 9.  I found only African Americans that match me on my Indigenous American Chromosome 9 segment, and some of them have no Louisianan ancestry. Therefore, the Indigenous American paternal Chromosome 9 segment is from an Indigenous American outside of Louisiana.  My father's maternal halfsister/my Aunt Carrie and my paternal half brother M...

I just recently discovered that my paternal grandmother Mary Alice Gaines descends from a European American Washington Parish family. I noticed that my paternal Aunt Carrie has 6 AncestryDNA relative matches that descend from European American Thigpen families that migrated to Louisiana from North Carolina. 4 of them are European Americans that descend from William Walter James Norwood who was born in 1800 in Oslow, North Carolina and died in Halletsville, Texas in 1887. His father was John Travis Thigpen who was born in 1766 in Oslow and died in Washington Parish in 1855. His mother was Sally Cobb who was born in Edgecombe, North Carolina and died in Washington Parish in 1850.  The European Americans are distant cousins.  Both rholderman and J. Gray share a 43 cM segment with Aunt Carrie. Both  I. Schwille and K. Dean share a 9 cM segment with Aunt Carrie. 2 of them are African American that descend from James Thigpen who was born in 1768 in Duplin, North Carolina and di...

  There is a possibility that my father Lawrence Nolan Scott descended from a Marion County, South Carolina Turner man that was in Nanchitoches, Louisiana.  Turner ancestral family was discovered through DNA relative matches in connection to a predominantly Southern East African segment with Filipino/Austronesian on Chromosome 9. One of my enslaved African American 3rd Great Grandparents on my African American father Lawrence Nolan Scott's side descended from this family. John Turner was the son of his English American owner Thomas Weathersbee and an African American slave. His wife Patience bought him from Thomas Weathersbee in 1769 in Halifax County, North Carolina.  Patience was noted as being 1/4 black and that her mother was Rachel Smith and of Irish ancestry. John and Patience relocated to Marion County, South Carolina. Some of John and Patience's children married into European American families which led to many European American descendants with some of them showi...

 More than a half a year ago, I learned that my paternal grandfather Nolan Scott was the son of Ivory Scott and Carrie Johnson. Great Grandma Carrie was one of the eleven children of Harvey Johnson and his wife Rosanna living in Lafourche Parish, Louisiana.  Grandpa Nolan's maternity was confirmed by my having two AncestryDNA matches that are descendants of Madison Rhodes and Maggie Williams who was the daughter of Great Grandma Carrie's oldest sister Maria Johnson and her husband Hudson Williams.  There is a 1930 Census Record of 2nd Great Grandma Rosanna living with Hudson and Maria. My cousins didn't know who was Aunt Maria's father.   I learned that Grandpa Nolan was the son of a single teenage mother. After re-ordering and getting my father Lawrence Nolan Scott's death certificate, I learned that the informant was his aunt Florence Dawson. I used Aunt Florence's information to find out that Ivory Scott was Grandpa Nolan's father.  Grandpa Nolan was Gre...

 After learning that my Great Grandfather Ivory Scott died on January 11, 1969 in Los Angeles, California and that he was a widower at the time,  I checked to find information about his longtime second wife Dicey Wilson.   I wanted to see if Great Grandpa Ivory moved to Los Angeles from Thibodaux, Lafourche Parish, Louisiana with her. h ttps://diversegenes.blogspot.com/2023/09/death-certificate-of-my-patrilineal.html I found a 1958 Los Angeles, California voter registration record of Great Grandpa Ivory and Dicey registered as Democrats and living at 3639 Adair Street. Some time between the time of the 1950 Census and the time of the 1958 voter registration, they relocated to Los Angeles from Thibodaux. Some of their children relocated to.  My father Lawrence Nolan Scott left his birthplace New Orleans to join them later.   I also found a 1958 Los Angeles, California voter registration record of Great Grandpa Ivory and Dicey's daughter Florence and her...

 I just received the death certificate of Ivry Scott whose Jan 11, 1969 Los Angeles, California death record that I found at ancestry.com.  I suspected that it was my Great Grandfather Ivory Scott's because of Louisiana being birthplace and Lilly as mother's maiden name.   It's definitely that of my Great Grandfather Ivory Scott. His daughter Florence Dawson is the informant on his death certificate, and she is also the informant on my father Lawrence Nolan Scott's August 15, 1993 death certificate which showed that he died of Dilated Cardiomyopathy with significant conditions contributing to death that include fatty liver, Nortripyline effect, and probably hyperthermia.  Aunt Florence's Los Angeles addresses on Great Grandpa Ivory's death certificate and my father's certificate are the same.  I used Florence's information on my father's death certificate to find out who was the father of my paternal grandfather Nolan Scott. I had recently found out ...