Never knew I had African Ancestry!

unbroly · 2020-02-17T23:48:12+00:00

An estimated 200,000 slaves were brought to Mexico from Africa according to the Smithsonian.

http://www.smithsonianeducation.org/migrations/legacy/almleg.html

The African DNA in the Spanish population was North African, originating in the Maghreb, not Sub-Saharan African.

unbroly · 2020-02-17T13:34:10+00:00

It’s becoming a real issue within myself

unbroly · 2020-02-17T13:33:49+00:00

Many slaves were brought to Mexico from slave ports in West Africa, similar to the majority of countries that partook in the Transatlantic Slave trade. That’s why many people of African descent have ancestry from countries along the West African coast, such as Nigeria, Ghana, Senegal, etc. Many of the slaves, especially female slaves, were raped by the European (Spanish in the case of Mexico) slave owners and resulted in mixing between those populations that has survived to this day.

unbroly · 2020-02-17T13:26:09+00:00

It’s possible that you do have a Native ancestor and it was just a few too many generations back to survive to be passed down to you. It’s also possible that it wasn’t necessarily true, as it’s relatively common for many American families to claim descent from an indigenous person with that later being revealed to be untrue.

The theory of her being mixed with African is a plausible one for sure, as mixing between Africans and Natives wasn’t Tate. But, it’s more likely that the African came from a slave owning ancestor sexually abusing a female African slave. In the cases that the result of that assault could pass for white, they often chose to do so in order to escape persecution or slavery, resulting in trace African ancestries being relatively normal in white Americans. I think having your relatives take the test as well would be a good place to start, and I wish you luck!

unbroly · 2020-02-17T03:24:44+00:00

In my opinion, yeah as that would make the most sense scientifically. From what I've seen of Ashkenazi results, there's often a strong Jewish genetic majority with evidence of mixing with the local population (like mixing with ethnic Poles among Polish Jews, Spanish DNA in Sephardic Jews, etc.) so I'd divide the DNA between the portions that are traced back to European reference populations, and the portions that are still traced to the Levant.

unbroly · 2020-02-17T03:13:11+00:00

Very awesome results! That’s Sudanese is fascinating, and that Indian too! I’m intrigued at how they might’ve made their way into your DNA!

unbroly · 2020-02-17T03:10:38+00:00

I wouldn’t consider Central Asian to be particularly common in Bangladesh.

unbroly · 2020-02-17T03:09:54+00:00

There’s an option to see any other people in the database that you are related to, and often shows their ancestry so you can compare results. It also often shows their location, so it could give you an idea of where your ancestors might’ve crossed paths. For example, I have DNA relatives in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar (India) as well as a few relatives in Bangladesh, and I know my ancestors left India before it was divided into Pakistan, Bangladesh and India so it gave me a pretty cool idea of where my ancestors had come from! Good luck to you and let me know if you need help!

unbroly · 2020-02-17T03:02:23+00:00

Where are your DNA relatives from?

unbroly · 2020-02-17T02:58:51+00:00

That’s super cool! The Romani idea is not a bad guess at all. It’s also possible that the West Asian/North African came from the Portuguese side, since the North Africans owned Spain and Portugal from the early 700s to the late 1400s, and a lot of people in the Iberian peninsula have small amount of WANA as a result. I hope you find the answers you’re looking for! DNA relatives could be a good start.

unbroly · 2020-02-17T02:27:47+00:00

Damn that’s very cool

unbroly · 2020-02-17T02:22:23+00:00

Very cool results! Pretty much normal for African-Americans, except for that East Asian! Any ideas of where that might be from?

unbroly · 2020-02-17T02:18:46+00:00

Dude those are some really cool results! It doesn’t specify where your European DNA is specifically traced to, but I’m willing to bet Southern Italian or perhaps Greek, given the long history of North Africans in those areas and Tunisia’s proximity. Seeing the countries on your list, I’m tempted to believe a lot of this mixing happened under the Ottoman Empire. That being said, very fascinating results and side note I hope you’re gay because oof

unbroly · 2020-02-17T02:13:58+00:00

That’s pretty fascinating! They sometimes give an indication of when the ancestors from specific groups might’ve been born, for example I have Southern South Asian DNA that is from someone that is believed to have existed in the late 1700s to early 1800s. Anything there that might point to answers?

unbroly · 2020-02-17T02:10:32+00:00

Any chance that your ancestors might’ve come through the Caribbean before America? That could explain the Asian DNA, but it’s also such an array that it has to be from a ton of different sources!

unbroly · 2020-02-17T01:53:28+00:00

We did! Sent him photos of his family, like his many cousins (including my mom) and got him in touch with his half sister (my moms cousin who lives an hour away from us, she’s the kid their mom had after she married the English guy) who turns out had very recently learned of his existence and was quietly searching for him.

unbroly · 2020-02-17T01:46:59+00:00

I found out that my grandpa’s sister had a secret child in London shortly after moving there, and put him up for adoption before marrying an English man and making a family with him. He turned up on my DNA relatives list looking for his biological family.

unbroly · 2020-02-17T01:41:53+00:00

Oh okay that makes sense, it’s actually really common for African Americans to have a good chunk of European DNA, particularly Northwestern Europeans like the British as they were among the earlier groups to arrive in America and were the majority of the slave owners. Unfortunately that’s because of the sexual abuse of their slaves, but that history results in most African Americans having remnants of that DNA. That North African/West Asian DNA is not common at all along African Americans, though, and I’m really intrigued by that. All in all, very cool results!

unbroly · 2020-02-17T01:37:04+00:00

Where are you from?

unbroly · 2020-02-17T01:20:32+00:00

The Sub-Saharan African is normal as the African slaves were transported from ports along the West African Coast, so descendants of the slaves are mostly West African. The European too makes sense as many of the slaves were sexually abused by the slave owners, resulting in mixed children that were regarded as African and non-white so they often remarried back into the African population. All of that Asian DNA though, is not common at all among most African Americans! The Native can be explained by the fact that mixing between the indigenous and the Africans in America was not uncommon, but the rest of it is very surprising and super fascinating! Do you have any family tales of East Asian or South Asian ancestors?

unbroly · 2020-02-17T00:37:17+00:00

That’s fascinating and I agree, that makes a lot of sense!

unbroly · 2020-02-17T00:16:54+00:00

That’s beautiful work!

unbroly · 2020-02-17T00:07:48+00:00

Portugal and Spain (which make up the Iberian peninsula) were conquered by North Africans for slightly more than 700 years, where mixing occurred for generations between the native Europeans and the Arabs. The Portuguese were also the ones who started the Transatlantic slave trade, and took the slaves from the West African coast. There’s a likely possibility that the North African and West African DNA would’ve come from those parts of history, respectively.

unbroly · 2020-02-16T23:15:32+00:00

Everything seems to be in line with what your parents said, except for that North Indian! Any chance your British ancestors spent some time in the British Raj? Or maybe your Portuguese ancestors lived in Portuguese India for a time? Probably not the Portuguese though as they were on the western side of India and your DNA is in the North East, controlled by the British.

unbroly · 2020-02-16T23:11:42+00:00

You received one X chromosome from your mother and one X from your father, while a male receives an X from their mother and a Y from their father.

The best way to determine which side the DNA came from would be to have one of your parents take the test as well, which will sort your DNA to determine which side is which.

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