Ancestry DNA Matches from Africa - Are These Questions Ok to Ask Them or Nah?
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I mean.....how are they even supposed to know who was taken?
My ivory coast/Ghana went down a lot which got me questioning my research into my family history
My highest is cameroon/congo/bantu because theyo combined southeastern bantu with Cameroon and congo.
My second highest is benin/Togo which is probably accurate. I prolly have Ewe Ancestry rather than Ashanti /Akan like I thought
xoxodede
Superstar
I mean.....how are they even supposed to know who was taken?
My ivory coast/Ghana went down a lot which got me questioning my research into my family history
My highest is cameroon/congo/bantu because theyo combined southeastern bantu with Cameroon and congo.
My second highest is benin/Togo which is probably accurate. I prolly have Ewe Ancestry rather than Ashanti /Akan like I thought
I don't know about your family - but growing up and even now as a grown woman -- we heard and continue to hear about what happened to my family from their enslavement, what happened after they were freed, where they lived, what white people they hated in the town, what they loved to eat/cook --- basically everything about them.
I'm from Michigan - but when I was little -- I had to go down south every summer - one month each in two different Alabama towns. I heard about everybody and everything - whether I wanted to or not.
Basically, i'm saying we keep oral history alive and well. If someone took a whole bunch of my family members or just a few ---- best believe --- we would know something -- and they would be talked about and remembered by name.
All those people taken -- and they don't talk about any of them? Nah. Something ain't right. I'm sorry.
People act like it was SOOOO long ago. It really wasn't. I have 2nd and 3rd great grandparents straight from Africa.
It was long ago for many people
your experience is different from mine, concerning the bolded, i don't know any of that. i know generally information like what region they lived in but thats it. i can trace back to my grandparent's grandparents.
and i have one famous ancestor but thats it.i'm pretty sure my family was taken from Africa much earlier
xoxodede
Superstar
It was long ago for many people
your experience is different from mine, concerning the bolded, i don't know any of that. i know generally information like what region they lived in but thats it. i can trace back to my grandparent's grandparents.
i'm pretty sure my family was taken from Africa much earlier
I understand.
I have ancestors who were here in the early/mid 1700's and some that arrived in the early 1800's before the 1807 ban.
I am just having a hard time understanding why no one in those African countries/tribes/villages talk about those who were taken -- or how it is no oral history.
I know I need to get over it -- and just take it as it is -- but it's just weird to me.
If my brother, sister, mom, dad -- or if I had a child -- and one day they were taken -- I would make it my mission to make sure my descendants and family members knew about them, it would be a record/stories of their presence on earth -- and to be on the look out for them or their descendants.
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Dillah810
Flat Girther
Mine changed quite a bit as well. It got more refined.
This is the old one^^^^
This is the new one.^^^^^
This is the old one^^^^
This is the new one.^^^^^
Kofo Dosekun, she was educated in Europe. She should be easier to get in contact too but most Americans really don't reach out and neither do Africans. She's probably overwhelmed. I would continue trying to get in contact with her. Seeing that both of you are quite accomplished in your fields internationally.
xoxodede
Superstar
lol, Dede said this like Kofo is just a managing partner, this might be the biggest law firm in Nigeria
Aluko & Oyebode - Wikipedia
Aluko & Oyebode - Wikipedia
She is rich in a 3rd world country. For all she knows, she may think this is a hustle as you know Nigeria got a TON of them. But I know how you roll, you aren't that type of person, you got a moral compass. It's going to be okay, she's a global millionaire. She lives a very privileged life.How you know!?
That's her....
Maybe one day.
idk this just isn't something i'd expect people to know. like the vast majority of people don't know what their great grandparents' names are, i wouldn't expect them to know about their 18th centuries relatives or neighbors
JahFocus CS
Get It How You Get It
Especially given the circumstances under which their relatives were taken (i.e., war).
@xoxodede, I think it depends on the family and maybe even the village/tribe or ethnic group though... I talked to a New Afrikan cousin who is in a Facebook group to connect diaspora Africans with continental Africans. She told me a Yoruba man in that group shared that his family has stories of ancestral relatives who went to the river to get water and never came home, and they never knew what happened to them. Of course we now know they were most likely captured and sold into slavery.
JahFocus CS
Get It How You Get It
He was mad af in the comments
A worsened algorithm for West Africa in particular but in some ways a slightly improved one for Central Africa it seems...
he said they took a step back by a decade in terms of the sophistication of their algorithm
They somehow managed to make every region of Africa less specific / accurate