Afro's Ancestry DNA Results are In - UPDATED: I'm 36% Nigerian, 5% cac.
To be fair this is from Ancestry DNA.com not African Ancestry.com
I'll take their test next and compare
In case folks are curious, this is their site.
I DID NOT use them yet.
African Ancestry – Trace Your DNA. Find Your Roots. Today.
EDIT: These kits are $299
Am I the only one that'son sending a company my DNA?
I don't blame anyone for not wanting to send theirs in.
I'm too curious though.
Is that what the OP used?
People from the low country lean more towards Ivory coast/Ghana and Senegambia/Mali than Nigeria and some of those other areas when it comes to Ancestry.com from what i noticed.
the low country is the Coastal part of SC (Berkely is metro Charleston so it would be a part of the low country), IIRC Blacks with roots from there and the Coastal part of GA have the highest percentage of African bloodlines of any subgroup of Black-AmericansI don't understand the question
Down South?
My Grandfather was born in Berkley County, SC.
Time for you to start learning Fon/Ewe my guy
I feel you. And I'm definitely not mad at that answer. I just don't like the idea of someone now having a sample of my DNA. I don't know who they sell the information to etc. But I'm not mad at the curiosity
I used Ancestry.com, not African Ancestry.com
The latter provides two test for each side (Mother or Father) but damn are they expensive.
MajorVitaman
Superstar
To be fair this is from Ancestry DNA.com not African Ancestry.com
I'll take their test next and compare
In case folks are curious, this is their site.
I DID NOT use them yet.
African Ancestry – Trace Your DNA. Find Your Roots. Today.
EDIT: These kits are $299
my cousin did african ancestry you're gonna like it. when i get mine done i'll post it for thecoli
That is interesting, I need to take more tests then to confirm this
Reading the brief history of Benin/Togo though
We really can't be out here PAWGing then
I feel you. And I'm definitely not mad at that answer. I just don't like the idea of someone now having a sample of my DNA. I don't know who they sell the information to etc. But I'm not mad at the curiosity
African Ancestry.com's site says they DO NOT sell your information, so take that as you will
Lil Debbie
Pro
How long did it take yours to come back? Mine arrived at their center on the 9th. Now i’m just playing the waiting game.
Also I heard there was a way that we could email them to destroy our dna sample after we get our results. You know anything else about that?
And this is a good site to help understand your african results. He broke stuff down pretty good.
AncestryDNA Regions
Also I heard there was a way that we could email them to destroy our dna sample after we get our results. You know anything else about that?
And this is a good site to help understand your african results. He broke stuff down pretty good.
AncestryDNA Regions
I just got these results this morning, but Nigeria, Benin, and Togo are extremely close together so its not out the realm of possibility.
The 2% Arab makes sense (Thats the Asian) but the Scandinavian is curious. I'm assuming someone was mixed way back but who knows.
That is as far as they break it down
Reading a little bit before I go to work I could belong to a few different tribes, they don't break it down to the ethnic groups, at least in the case of Nigeria which has a few.
EDIT: Looks like I gotta really dig because of their maps. Are they accurate?
https://www.ancestry.com/dna/origins/5266FE8F-0E26-4F8F-9076-95DB56F2D0C7/ethnicity/Nigeria/history
Don't know if the link works but,
Hausa and Fulani = Blue
Yoruba = Orange
Igbo = Green
Seems accurate and if I am reading you right you seem to have A LOT of Hausa/Fulani which proves AAs have a lot of Sahelian ancestry. Did NOT know Ancestry DNA broke it down further to ethnic groups. Whenever AAs showed alot of Nigerian I wondered WHICH ethnic group.