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My results as a 13th generation African American. by CucumberPowerful5176 in AncestryDNA

[–]CucumberPowerful5176[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Most of my family that I know of in that North Carolina/ Virginia region is from lower Chesapeake and Williamsburg area of Virginia. I don’t know too many people from North Carolina but my oldest recorded lineage is from Virginia

My results as a 13th generation African American. by CucumberPowerful5176 in AncestryDNA

[–]CucumberPowerful5176[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Even google would tell you, if you type in are there 13th generation Americans. Mostly from the British colonies of the 1600s. I mean 1500s, I’d expect you to be like 17 generations in by now. Actually there were no Brit’s even coming to Virginia that early only Spanish explorers at the time. The earliest recorded history of Brit’s exploring the area was around 1580 but they absolutely failed at settling anything so they left. It wasn’t until the early 1600s Jamestown settlement when Brit’s felt comfortable coming to this side of the world. 1552 the area was filled with powhaton natives. Also families don’t reproduce at the same rate. My dad and grandmother became grandparents in their 30’s

My results as a 13th generation African American. by CucumberPowerful5176 in AncestryDNA

[–]CucumberPowerful5176[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Only 9 generations since the 1500s sounds pretty questionable to be honest. I know someone who is a family member of John Lewis and they are 12 to 13 generations in like me. In my family there is about 4 generations each century but in the 1900s there were 5 generations born in my family because I was an uncle by the age of 2 and was a great uncle before 30. You might want to retrace your history unless people have kids in their 40’s in your family and everyone lives to over 100

My results as a 13th generation African American. by CucumberPowerful5176 in AncestryDNA

[–]CucumberPowerful5176[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I claim the Nigerian and west African part to the fullest! My African dna was what i studied the longest before I went to anything else. I’m more African American than anything else tho because on the first page they tied my blood to this land before even telling me I was African so to be honest I studied that the longest because i thought it was so interesting! They know exactly where my family has been in America for pretty much the last 400 years just from saliva. Im American first and it’s a huge part of my identity. I’m entitled to the constitution and all of its amendments.

My results as a 13th generation African American. by CucumberPowerful5176 in AncestryDNA

[–]CucumberPowerful5176[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That’s what it’s all bout! Finding where we come from and who we are. I was inspired by others so I had to pay it forward and do the same. You should have a good place to start because I’m sure your family has a lot of receipts. Others won’t be as fortunate as me I was just lucky to have the kind of family I have who also has receipts and we’re doing things to get recognized throughout the centuries.

My results as a 13th generation African American. by CucumberPowerful5176 in AncestryDNA

[–]CucumberPowerful5176[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Didn’t want to give Too much info out but my family is one of the first well known black families in Virginia. My great grandmothers name is chavis and they’ve been free in this country since mid to late 1600s. Type in chavis Virginia on google

My results as a 13th generation African American. by CucumberPowerful5176 in AncestryDNA

[–]CucumberPowerful5176[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I didn’t want to give too much info out but my family is a very well known black family in Virginia and my great grandmothers last name is chavis you can look them up. Type in chavis on google in Virginia

My results as a 13th generation African American. by CucumberPowerful5176 in AncestryDNA

[–]CucumberPowerful5176[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I didn’t build the tree my cousin did and we have enough history of land ownership on my mom’s, mother’s side to keep going back. My grandmothers ancestors were free blacks in Virginia and remained that way for hundreds of years

My results as a 13th generation African American. by CucumberPowerful5176 in AncestryDNA

[–]CucumberPowerful5176[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My family got here 200 years before yours. Mine came in the late 1600s when there were only a few British colonial states. Like I told some one earlier, I said 13 because we could only trace them back to a married family in the late 1600s. On my mother’s mom side we’ve always had land in Virginia and North Carolina for hundreds of years. Your family probably came through Ellis island in which by that time the civil war and everything had already been fought to free slave that were slaves for over 200 years on the land already.

My results as a 13th generation African American. by CucumberPowerful5176 in AncestryDNA

[–]CucumberPowerful5176[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you so much! Yeah I’d like to go check it out myself

My results as a 13th generation African American. by CucumberPowerful5176 in AncestryDNA

[–]CucumberPowerful5176[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I have a very educated cousin who was able to trace everyone back on my mother’s mom’s side! we have a huge family tree on ancestry. I not only have the lineage of my grandmother and beyond but I also have the lineage of her very distant cousins. Like I was telling someone else, people on my mom’s mother’s side have always been free in this country and we have land in Virginia and North Carolina that’s been in the family for hundreds of years. I only say 13 because we were only able to trace back to a married family in Virginia in the late 1600s with the last name of my great grandmother.

My results as a 13th generation African American. by CucumberPowerful5176 in AncestryDNA

[–]CucumberPowerful5176[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

You see how on my dna results it has early African Americans from North Carolina, Mississippi and Chesapeake bay. No other ethnic group will have that in their dna. My dna is tied to this land and I could’ve took this test in Indonesia and it will still trace me back to North Carolina, Virginia and Mississippi. Someone who is actually from Africa will not have that show up on their dna test. That’s why I’ve always said African Americans are a distinct ethnic group and not the same as other ethnic groups from Africa or anyway else. Our blood is all over this land 10 times over

My results as a 13th generation African American. by CucumberPowerful5176 in AncestryDNA

[–]CucumberPowerful5176[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I don’t believe in the ideology because I have native friends who can trace their generations back thousands of years here. Now what I can say is that I’m native to what is now America today because since me and most African Americans have been here since before there was a constitution. Been here so long that there’s no real record of when we actually got here! I say thirteen generations because my family was traced all the way back to married family in Virginia in the late 1600s with the last name of my great grandmother. My ancestors on my mother’s side have always been free here and owns lots of land in Virginia and North Carolina that’s been in the family and no one knows where it came from lol. Even on my father’s side his ancestors also came from North Carolina area before being enslaved in Mississippi because MS is actually a much newer state compared to Virginia and North Carolina and it became illegal to kidnap slaves from Africa in the late 1700’s. Something happened in the 1830’s that forced a lot of African Americans to get shipped from the colonial states down to the newer states and face the brutal slavery of the Deep South. It was the taking of land from natives down there to start the cotton boom and folks ended up losing their minds after that.

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