If you are saying you dont fully trust those sites give you an accurate reading then I can understand that. I don't fully trust them either. I thought all of this was best guess a general ideas. This site is apparently black owned from a post on this site Africanancestry.com, but Im sure even it is ultimately still a guess. If I do one its going to that site tho.
Real question you say read a book and I know you mean that generally but how can you research what part of Africa you come from when you're from the diaspora with the effects of slavery(no records) to link between where you are now and where your ancestors were from prior to slavery?
First of all it is not a guess or guess work. It is science. It is a fact. The same DNA that convicts people of rape and murder; and the same DNA that indicates who a child's father is for child support cases or who a person's parents are in adoption cases; is the same DNA testing used by DNA companies to identify ancestry in people. After all a father, a mother and grandparents are ancestors of a child; so they pass on their DNA directly to a child. I
In ancestry testing; the DNA companies test people in a region. They compare your DNA to their regional databases and they advise you that your DNA looks the most like people from a certain region. When you stop and think about it for a moment you must know that it is pretty accurate, because your had to have left from a region; which meant that they had relatives in that region. Just because your ancestors left that region that does not mean that all of the DNA that was related to you ancestors left the region too. The people left in the region after your ancestors were taken as slaves to the Americas, would have a DNA profile similar to yours; which means that they are your DNA relatives. Distant relatives, but they are still your relatives just like people that your mother and father or your grandparents left down South in Mississippi or Georgia or wherever. Your cousin little skillet and em that you never met down in Alabama are still your cousins, even though you have never met them; because your parents were related to people in that region and you would have some DNA similar to lil skillet and em.
Another thing that people keep screwing up is this whole notion of there being no written records of where people are from. That is not true. There were not many slaves that were brought to the USA to begin with; something like only 4%-6% of the total number of slaves were brought to USA and the overwhelming number of the slaves actually brought to the USA were from the area known as the "Rice, Ivory and Gold Coasts" (Senegal, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Mali and Burkina Faso) and from Central Africa (Cameroon, Congo and Angola). There are lots of written records on where the slaves in the USA are from and you can hear it in the music (the Blues and Islam in the USA).
