Ancestry Test?

[Mister_DoItNice]

I was curious if anyone on the coli has ever taken an ancestry test. My mom is from Jamaica and my pops is from Honduras. I'm more curious about ties that go further back to Africa. I want to know what countries I'm the most closely tied to. Most tests are around $200. I don't want to waste the bread though if I won't actually learn something about my heritage. Any recommendations?

 

[hoodheronova]

i wouldnt do it. They sell your DNA to other businesses

http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/23andMe-Sells-DNA-to-Drug-Companies-296136411.html

 

[↓R↑LYB]

i wouldnt do it. They sell your DNA to other businesses

http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/23andMe-Sells-DNA-to-Drug-Companies-296136411.html

That's specifically 23andMe. I haven't heard of African Ancestry selling DNA. Im gonna get mine done in the next month or so.

 

[hoodheronova]

That's specifically 23andMe. I haven't heard of African Ancestry selling DNA. Im gonna get mine done in the next month or so.

doesn't mean they won't do it. Just saying be careful

 

[Larry Lobster]

SCAM

 

[↓R↑LYB]

doesn't mean they won't do it. Just saying be careful

I've given my DNA to some of the most ratchedest bytches that ever walked God's green earth. Might as well give it one more time to find out what tribe I'm from

 

[Mister_DoItNice]

So is there actually real science behind this that will bring results or just a bunch of companies trying to take people's cash?

 

[Neil Tyson]

I was curious if anyone on the coli has ever taken an ancestry test. My mom is from Jamaica and my pops is from Honduras. I'm more curious about ties that go further back to Africa. I want to know what countries I'm the most closely tied to. Most tests are around $200. I don't want to waste the bread though if I won't actually learn something about my heritage. Any recommendations?

Dunno, I don't want to read anything about no slave shyt.

But my Great Grandfather is from Hong Kong so I'm curious about the Chinese part.

 

[Mister_DoItNice]

The slave thing is something that I already accepted, given where my parents are from. I just want to know where in Africa my predecessors came from. I want to go there eventually and explore those areas.

 

[Samori Toure]

I took the test and it was interesting stuff. The test that I took was from Ancestry and it cost me about $100.00. It was autosomal. I learned that I am about 86% African, with about 38% of my DNA coming from Cameroon and the Congo. About 32% is from Ghana and the Ivory Coast. About 7% from Nigeria; 3% from Togo/Benin; 3% from Mali; 2% from Senegal. The rest was European and Polynesian.

You can Gedmatch your results and get a clearer idea of what particular ethnic groups in those countries you come from. A more comprehensive test is provided by African Ancestry, wherein they test your maternal and paternal lines. I have not taken that test yet, because it almost $600.00, but I plan to do it later this Summer.

I think that the testing is really interesting and it was really interesting reading up on some of the ethnic groups that I am related to.

 

[Samori Toure]

Also be advised that if you take the Ancestry test; be ready for some deep family shyt if you accept the Ancestry question about showing your cousins. You are going to learn of cousins that you never knew; some as close as 2nd or 3rd and some as far away as 5th-8th. It freaked me out to see so many old yellowed haired white women from England being my distant cousins.

 

[Mister_DoItNice]

I took the test and it was interesting stuff. The test that I took was from Ancestry and it cost me about $100.00. It was autosomal. I learned that I am about 86% African, with about 38% of my DNA coming from Cameroon and the Congo. About 32% is from Ghana and the Ivory Coast. About 7% from Nigeria; 3% from Togo/Benin; 3% from Mali; 2% from Senegal. The rest was European and Polynesian.

You can Gedmatch your results and get a clearer idea of what particular ethnic groups in those countries you come from. A more comprehensive test is provided by African Ancestry, wherein they test your maternal and paternal lines. I have not taken that test yet, because it almost $600.00, but I plan to do it later this Summer.

I think that the testing is really interesting and it was really interesting reading up on some of the ethnic groups that I am related to.

Also be advised that if you take the Ancestry test; be ready for some deep family shyt if you accept the Ancestry question about showing your cousins. You are going to learn of cousins that you never knew; some as close as 2nd or 3rd and some as far away as 5th-8th. It freaked me out to see so many old yellowed haired white women from England being my distant cousins.

Appreciate the heads up. Exactly the information I was looking for. As far as the African Ancestry test you were referring to, would that require me getting my mother and father tested as well? I'm a few states away from them. Would make things a bit more difficult.

 

[Barnett114]

I took the test and it was interesting stuff. The test that I took was from Ancestry and it cost me about $100.00. It was autosomal. I learned that I am about 86% African, with about 38% of my DNA coming from Cameroon and the Congo. About 32% is from Ghana and the Ivory Coast. About 7% from Nigeria; 3% from Togo/Benin; 3% from Mali; 2% from Senegal. The rest was European and Polynesian.

You can Gedmatch your results and get a clearer idea of what particular ethnic groups in those countries you come from. A more comprehensive test is provided by African Ancestry, wherein they test your maternal and paternal lines. I have not taken that test yet, because it almost $600.00, but I plan to do it later this Summer.

I think that the testing is really interesting and it was really interesting reading up on some of the ethnic groups that I am related to.

You did 23 and Me?

 

[Samori Toure]

So is there actually real science behind this that will bring results or just a bunch of companies trying to take people's cash?

I think that the science is absolutely real; after all they locking people up every day and taking ends from baby daddy's all over the country by using this stuff. In an a a very unscientific way I realized the science was legit when I did the Gedmatch of the Ancestry results. Gedmatch kept pointing to me being partially Bamoun (also know as Bamum) people, who are an Islamic people in Cameroon; that are related to the Tikar people. While doing some research on the Bamoun people I came across a picture of this lady:

Her name is MomaMfon Rabiatou NJOYA and she is Bamoun. I did a double take when I saw this picture, because this lady's profile is a spot on match for my deceased maternal grandmother. She also looks very similar to my older sister. Not scientific at all, but I think the science is right.

 

[Samori Toure]

You did 23 and Me?

No I did Ancestry, but either one will let you upload your results to Gedmatch.