where you from?My results from ancestry came in. Interesting. Now I'm just waiting for GED Match.
Ancestry Test?
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Mister_DoItNice
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Queens. Family is from Jamaica. I was surprised and relieved to see how low my European percentage was. I have to take a trip to Africa soon.
Mister_DoItNice
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How long does it normally take to get your tribe results back from GEDMatch?
LEss than a day
My results from 23&me.....What I really found interesting is how low my Native American ancestry is but my maternal haplogroup is Amerindian...that lets u know your paternal/maternal lineages don't really matter (my paternal is Euro) 
or maybe this whole DNA thing has a long way to go...what if my haplogroup found in the Americas really isn't "Amerindian" 
...this one black lady hit me up on there with some Hebrew Israelite info like "this will tell u more about your mother's haplogroup" 
......what if she's right 
or maybe this whole DNA thing has a long way to go...what if my haplogroup found in the Americas really isn't "Amerindian" ...this one black lady hit me up on there with some Hebrew Israelite info like "this will tell u more about your mother's haplogroup" ......what if she's right
My results from 23&me.....What I really found interesting is how low my Native American ancestry is but my maternal haplogroup is Amerindian...that lets u know your parental/maternal lineages don't really matter (my paternal is Euro)
Disappointed in mines I have 17 to 18 percent European from the 1A* hologroup and 73 percent Sub Sahara. 1.5 Neanderthal
1.2 Native American/East Asian which is weird because my Grandmother on Father side is part Native.
The thing that is the most surprising and amazing to me about the DNA testing is how many African ethnic groups genes that we carry. The Gedmatch stuff blew me away, because when you do stuff like the PuntDNAL calculator you will see that the slaves brought into the Western Hemisphere are actually descended from a lot of different African ethnic groups including the Ethiopians, Hausa, Kaba, Fulani, Somalians, Zulus, Berbers, Egyptians, on and on and on. For whatever reason we always think about the slaves being only from West Africa, which is where they were captured; but DNA testing is showing that the slaves ancestors were from the East and North in Africa.
Posted mine in the other thread but it's always good to know it came back over 99% African. Ive been able to trace back 5 generations all on the island of Dominica. Half of my genome according to ancestry, was from Benin with the next closet being Mali. Trace areas was in italy/Rome and its a chance they could of been black. I'm not satisfied with my results though, I need to know more. I want to know my haplogroup. It's important to know anything under 1 percent is basically noise or not a good indication. Gedmatch is kinda pseudo to me.
Aren't your parents African
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My results from 23&me.....What I really found interesting is how low my Native American ancestry is but my maternal haplogroup is Amerindian...that lets u know your paternal/maternal lineages don't really matter (my paternal is Euro)
Generally Haplogroup's would have very little to do with your most recent ancestry with in the past 500 years, which is normal not to show something in your results that's thousands of years old. Although some people have haplogroups and show recent admixture that relates to their haplogroup like people with Native American haplogroup's but do indeed show Native American ancestry in their results.
Basically, you could have a Native ancestor who had kids with a black ancestor, and those kids have kids with another black ancestor and so on. With each generation, you're NA autosomal markers get watered down to almost nil because of continued breeding with non-NA's, but you still have that NA direct Haplogroup lineage.
Just ordered mine 
Gedmatch was confusing as hell to me, but pretty much I shared DNA with a lot of Malian tribes (not surprised since thats where my ancestors come from before moving into present day Liberia/Ivory Coast). So Dogon in my match on Gedmatch and was like
Just got my results back
My Parents are from the Island of Dominica. On my mother's side is where I'm guessing the 1% European (Greece/Italy) seeing that I carry an Italian Surname but my pops told me his pops was Mulatto? My family has been in Dominica, at least since the 1700s, with Scottish ancestry in Trinidad, Jamaica and Dominica(Father's linage).
Benin and Togo?
Mali?
Africa Southeastern Bantu
During the time a lot of Italians migrated away from italy a lot of em went to DR and PR too... ik a few ricans with italian surnames.
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Gedmatch was confusing as hell to me, but pretty much I shared DNA with a lot of Malian tribes (not surprised since thats where my ancestors come from before moving into present day Liberia/Ivory Coast). So Dogon in my match on Gedmatch and was like
It is confusing due to the use of stuff like distance, but after studying it for a while I figured that distance referred to time. So the distance to some ethnic group in my way of thinking referred to how far back (in terms of generations) that you had those ancestors. The other point is that some Gedmatch tests don't have all of the ethnic groups for people of African descent, so you would probably be best served by focusing on a specific test that points out African ethnicity. If you are a Black person and all 4 of your grandparents are Black then the PuntDNAL calculator test will probably work best for you. That PuntDNAL calculator goes way back just focusing on African ethnic groups. In my results I saw Ethiopian, Egyptian, Somalian and Berber lines.
One other thing that I noticed about Gedmatch is that it identifies ethnic groups that you might not think of as being within a country. I noticed that I got back test results for Ghana and the Ivory Coast. Right away I knew that I likely tested positive of Brong, which is an ethnic group related to the Asante of Ghana and the Baoule of the Ivory Coast; all of whom are Akan people. What I didn't realize until later is that the Hausa and Fulani people are also in great numbers in those countries and for that matter all over West Africa. We typically only think of the Hausa people being in Nigeria, but in actuality the Hausa are one of the largest ethnic group in Africa and they live in many, many countries. So if you test for Ghana, you might actually be testing for Hausa people rather than Akan people. The same exists for Togo and Benin; you could be testing positive for Hausa or Yoruba, rather than Fon or Ewe. However, Nigeria might not show up on your test results; which is why you almost need to Gedmatch your results. The down side of the PuntDNAL is that I think that it lumps some ethnic groups like the Tikar people (Tikar, Bamoun and Bamileke people) of Cameroon into the classification of Igbo who of course are over the mountains in Nigeria. Other DNA calculators on Gedmatch break out those ethnic groups.
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Ethnic groups of Africa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Or he could be related to the Moors and Berbers of North Africa. Those folks are also in countries like Mali, Niger and Senegal.
Berbers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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