African Ancestry DNA Results: My Maternal Lineage Mini Documentary

[@AfricanAncestryDNA]

We're so enthused for you and your ancestors! Thank you for choosing us and thank you for sharing your results with the world! We appreciate you. Welcome to the African Ancestry Family!

[@AlisonRyce]

You guys are amazing! Out of every DNA test I've taken (I've taken it all), your results meant the most to me & my family. Thank you so much for your exceptional customer service, your professionalism, & your dedication to reconnecting our roots. Thank you again & my dream is to travel with you all one day so that I can return in honor of my maternal ancestors. ❤

[@princediamond989]

Bull shit

[@princediamond989]

Ancestry dna and 23 is better cheaper and great results

[@IsatouSey2023]

Congrats on your results!! I just found out that I'm Fula from Guinea Bissau 99.7% I cried like a baby when I received my results. I'm so proud to know my tribe❤

[@nynjahgyal]

I feel you Sis! ❤️❤️❤️

[@ednaidatipote5602]

Visit Guinea Bissau..it is beautiful..I am from there ❤

[@africanandproud6792]

So proud of you our beautiful African Queen.. From South Africa. 🇿🇦🙏🏾

[@AlisonRyce]

Thank you so much! That means a lot to me! ❤🙏🏽

[@FlavoredGenuine]

Congratulations on getting your results and that your maternal lineage is Guinea-Bissau 🇬🇼 and Sierra Leone 🇸🇱! I was inspired after watching this video and other people who took the African Ancestry test and I did the test and currently awaiting results for my mom’s side of the family.

[@FlavoredGenuine]

I will be taking the PatriClan test so I can trace my father’s lineage back to Africa after getting my results back from Ancestry DNA that confirms that I’m mostly 90-96% African.

[@RaphaelAshanti]

Akele, Fula, and Temne. What a combination. Congratulations! And this was a very good documentary on your lineage discoveries. Thank you for sharing this. I'm on board.

[@AlisonRyce]

Thank you very much for your kind words! That means a lot to me!

[@keyzbelieveme]

Why am I tearing up?! Omg! Congratulations! Blessings on blessings to you and yours! Thank you so much for sharing 🫶🏾

[@Darnell]

Congrats! I have Mende & Temne from Sierra Leone 🇸🇱 on my Mother’s side too! Yes, what our ancestors went through was horrific (I took a tour of one of the torture islands called Bunce Island) & I encourage you go to for yourself. Oh! One more thing! You can apply & obtain citizenship in Sierra Leone 🇸🇱 as they are offering it to those who can prove they are related to one of the 16 tribes in Sierra Leone 🇸🇱. I received mine in April this year. Anyways, be blessed!

[@AlisonRyce]

That sounds incredible & I'll look into it. Thank you! 🙌🏾

[@TheCounselOfNigritia]

You can get citizenship

[@AjaniSpeaks]

Look at banana island sierra leone

[@Thatthing1234]

The Trans Atlantic Slave Trade was a sin to humanity. Thank God we're able to reconnect with our ancestors. I'm happy for you🙏🏼I can't wait to try African Ancestry too! Much love from a Dominican 🇩🇴

[@wallacepatterson4113]

This DEEP DNA LOVE that is in all of Us, and our Ancestors are waiting for us all to receive this first part of our Reparation, through Knowledge Of Thyself,Congratulations,much Love & Blessings Upon Blessings unto your journey, I am anxiously waiting for my results here in South Carolina

[@nollywoodtrendingmovies4014]

This is great, in Africa we always trace our lineage through our parents. It gives you a sense of belonging and you get to know yourself better. I am glad that you found your and welcome to Africa❤❤❤

[@dee_tracy5863]

Thank you for your heartfelt video!! I too got my Maternal ancestry results from African Ancestry. I’m from the Bamileke people in Cameroon today. Upon getting my results I was very emotional because my mother is no longer her to share this with her. But I have Aunties and others we have shared it with and we all are overjoyed. We will find out my Paternal ancestry soon.

[@nadiapaul4784]

Ali this is so great. Thank you so much for doing this for US. I love you so much. This really touched me. Now WE KNOW.

[@AlisonRyce]

You're very welcome Nadia! Our family means so much to me and my aim is to preserve stories for our future generations. I love you so much too cousin! YES! NOW WE KNOW! 🙌🏾🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@dexterryans2815]

I took the african ancestry DNA test on my father side he is fula to mother side Bamileke people in cameroom

[@adavis2170]

Love this! Waiting on my African Ancestry results now...due to be received between Nov. 2 -Nov. 30, 2021.

[@AlisonRyce]

Cool! I'm excited for you!!! 🙌🏾🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@adavis2170]

@@AlisonRyce 🙏🏾🙏🏾🥰🥰

[@nnekaruizmontalvo6573]

We can draw on the generational resilience, resourcefulness and joyfulness that we inherited from our amazing ancestors. Thanks so much for sharing your experience with us.

[@lovehealsforever]

I cried looking seeing how moved you were looking your results. I know how you feel. I'm testing next with African Ancestry. I want to know more about my people. ❤️

[@ancupola1994]

I am very touched by your response to your ancestry DNA results. Thank you so much for sharing your emotive and inspiring story. Your people surely suffered awful injustices and oppression. The cruelty of slavery and those who inflicted it is beyond words. My solidarity with you. THANK YOU again.

[@prophetesspamkingfinklea1855]

I love it!! So heartfelt. Thank you for sharing!!

[@AlisonRyce]

Thank you! 🤗 Thanks so much for watching! ❤

[@khadinephillip3449]

I always wanted to find out more but was always apprehensive. Auntie Helen was an amazing woman so thank God for survival because 4 Real I was also a product of that love from the women in your family.

[@AlisonRyce]

My dear grandmother loved you & in her heart, you were one of her own. She adored you and her prayers for you are still valid. Thank you for being an extra reason for her smiles.🙏🏽 🥰

[@GatoreChantal]

You made cry so hard! I am happy for you dearest!

[@Nghilifa]

Thanks for sharing, I'm so happy for you and your family. It really does make you feel "whole" doesn't it, knowing where your roots and traditions hail from. Peace & blessings 🙏🏿

[@AlisonRyce]

Yes, definitely! It's such an amazing feeling! Thank you so much! 🥰🙏🏽

[@abc1908]

Nice!. My Mt-dna is also L1 but L1b instead. I do plan on taking the African Ancestry test for my maternal line soon.

[@Chevda2485]

Thank you for your diligent efforts in perusing your ancestry over the years. This has been very helpful in assisting on my own path towards knowing my family background in Africa. Amazing work sister

[@altheasherieel3724]

I really enjoyed your video thank you so much for sharing your journey. You've encouraged me to truly move forward and get my DNA test done. My mother's father family is from Long Island Bahamas. So I truly understand what you mean about those African influences in the Caribbean. In the Bahamas we celebrate Junkanoo which is Carnival. And here in Miami we celebrate it as well and it's called Goombay. So I understand the beautiful cultural connections from having Caribbean heritage.

[@DruidOneTrickDnD]

To my knowledge, my maternal line isn't Fula, but my mom and her mom also did the nose pressing thing xD I'm glad you got your results

[@tommyraymond6936]

Happy for u! Stay strong

[@keithjackson9141]

Love this my mothers side came back non African Pakistan, Now I await my fathers side to come in due March-April prayerful it comes back African!

[@2008Sanai]

Congratulations. I cannot wait to find out my results. I’m Haitian American. That’s all I know for now! lol

[@Makaylachosen]

Girllll I’m about to get my kit I know ima break down crying bad 😩😩😩I love my people so much I can’t explain

[@BoieBah-j8r]

Nice to see my Fullah sister,and I am from Sierra Leone,

[@soloketo]

Best video on KZbin great content

[@AncestorsJourneys]

We love you,sister

[@jobsunguti9224]

this is just a solid proof that fula and temne are related,they descent from a common ancestry.

[@abasimoyennda7046]

I am so nervous right now. I am waiting to get my African ancestry kit. I'm so happy for you.

[@AjaniSpeaks]

Crazy how sierra leone is soo small and temne are relatively a small group yet I see it in every video I've seen sofar..

[@kaynixo3087]

Beautiful results! Thanks for sharing!

[@Njoofene]

Many congratulations.

[@DamiselleParanoiaque]

This is amazing 💙 Are you thinking about getting the Sierra Leonian citizenship by DNA?

[@polmphoto-212]

Awesome video, also hey cousin

[@cliftonharrydass8077]

Love you Cuz this was beautiful!!!

[@AlisonRyce]

Thanks so much Clifton!! The Amazing thing about African Ancestry is that your Maternal lineage is identical to mine. Our grandmothers share the same mother; so you, your siblings, all your sister's children, and so much more of us cousins share the same maternal lineage! I love you too cuz! ❤️

[@cliftonharrydass8077]

@@AlisonRyce I love that! Thanks for always sharing such valuable research with us helping to know our lineage, luv yah blessings!

[@AlisonRyce]

@@cliftonharrydass8077 it's my pleasure! 🙏🏽❤🤗🥰

[@stephaniecrosby5294]

My maternal lineage is 100% Mende tribe from Sierra Leone, and my folks and I are from Trinidad . The MitDNA is past down to the male on your mom side, but of course they can’t pass it down…so share the result to all on maternal side,

[@AlisonRyce]

Hey Trini 👋🏾 🇹🇹 Yes, I'll definitely share it with all the children of the women on my great grandmother's line. Thanks for sharing! 🙌🏾🎉🎉🎉

[@cocobenji6123]

I did both matriclan so it was more accurate.

[@cocobenji6123]

@Prince J-Jay Obaseki how do we do it?

[@stephaniecrosby5294]

@Prince J-Jay Obaseki thk you. I’ll definitely look into the process.

[@stephaniecrosby5294]

@Prince J-Jay Obaseki thk you. I’ll look into it.

[@leasaalvarenga352]

Alison I am in Jamaica, I am in my 75th year and as a kid we use to play ship sail. Thank you, I am also familiar with the boil and roast corn. Who Knew? Thanks for sharing.

[@chavezmoore390]

Still as beautiful as your other video sharing your grandparents results.❤❤

[@AlisonRyce]

Thank you so much! 🤗🤗

[@chavezmoore390]

@@AlisonRyce You're more than welcome Queen.

[@yermiyahubenyahudahbenyisr4990]

Peace love light and healing family I received my DNA results came back 100% Bissa tribe I'm so excited to have proof I knew it would be from west Africa and I knew it would be of the Israelite bloodline which majority from west Africa are and other place in Africa

[@sahara_xo632]

Thanks for sharing your results 💯. And you're stunning!

[@AlisonRyce]

Aww thank you! 😊 Thank you so much for watching too!!

[@itiyahfowler8952]

I found out I’m Fulani from Guinea Bissau 🇬🇼❤️

[@ednaidatipote5602]

I am from Guinea Bissau 🇬🇼 Fula people are beautiful..you should definitely visit Bissau it is beautiful. Welcome home 🏡 ❤

[@chimakalu41]

4:52 Congrats, fula of Guinea Bissau and Temne of Sierra leone

[@abhi739]

congrats on finding your roots alison, fula and temne people live very close, the fula were forcibly converted to islam by arabs, and were used to capture other territories, so fulas were strong but used islam to distinguish themselves from other africans, the temne however were originally from guinea but they moved to sierra leone to escape the islamic conquest and they also resisted the portuguese enslavement fiercely, the temne mostly won, both the islamic malians, portuguese british have high regard for them

[@JimmyU]

Wow! Thank you for sharing. So inspiring

[@AlisonRyce]

Jimmy! Thanks so much for watching!!! 🙌🏾🎉🎉🎉

[@jo100]

Your African AncestryDNA Results are very very very very Cool 😎, my Queen Sister ✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿

[@Wavecurve]

It is, indeed, difficult to imagine what your ancestor went through to get to West Indies. They went through a passage worst than the valley of shadow of death. Now, think about us, native Africans, whose relatives were kidnapped, and were never to be seen again. But seeing you makes us happy to know that our sister survived the brutal journey. We are now consoled! Every African name has a significance, and makes complete statement. In my tribe, you will be named, *"Oguguamakwa".* It means, "the one that stopped my tears, consoled me, and gave me closure."

[@miriamjones8804]

Hi Allison awesome video beautiful story of your family's lineage I had my African ancestry done and I am Bibu and 5ikar bantu from Cameroon and guinea

[@miriamjones8804]

L3e2

[@angelnelson2012]

Love this

[@AlisonRyce]

Thanks so much!! 🤗🥰

[@EmekaTalksTech]

Great video :)

[@AlisonRyce]

Thank you! 🤗

[@oseiosei6649]

Shaping of babies head is something African people has been doing since ancient Kemet ( Ancient Egypt). In Ghana we still do it, there are ethnic groups in modern day Egypt that still do it, some ethnic group in Nigeria still do it. Some Caribbean communities still continue this cultural practices. We have been doing this practice for thousands of years.

[@AlisonRyce]

Wow! Thank you for sharing! I appreciate it.

[@steveboy7302]

Stop talking about Egypt and focus on subsaharan africa

[@bossmachi]

We do it in America too, moreso in the south of the country

[@nickidrew5113]

Why is it that you people continue to deny the fact that black people were the ancient Egyptians? I’m convinced this is why we have continued to be discriminated against because we are and have always been an advanced and special people. God anointed! So move

[@livinggreatwithstephnie9998]

touched me sooo much... I'm happy for you. before my Grandmother died she told me that she could only remember that her great grandmother said something about guinea. I will soon check my own results although i was secretly hoping i was from nigeria lol

[@junebug7923]

Congratulations.....you are winning! Now it's time for you to visit Africa...

[@AlisonRyce]

Thank you! Hopefully that will come true for me one day.

[@GetSlappedPlease]

Yessa

[@worldtraveler134]

I have taken so many DNA test 23andme, Ancestry DNA, National Geographic DNA, I am L3F1B5 Haplogroup, All test place Majority of my DNA from Nigeria. I want to do African Ancestry, to get a maternal tribe so I can visit and learn. I want to ask if known how come 2 tribes came back? Fula and Temne? I'm so curious now

[@AlisonRyce]

From what I've been told, sometimes women were married into other tribal groups. I'm not 100% sure, so I'll be sure to ask African Ancestry at their next live event. Thanks for asking!

[@miriamjones8804]

Congratulations Allison from African ancestry by the way my family's last name is Clark as well on my mother's side

[@AlisonRyce]

Thank you so much! I'm so happy to be a part of the African Ancestry family! 🥰 So cool! Clarke is my married name by the way! 🤗

[@miriamjones8804]

@@AlisonRyce hi Allison I'm just a member of the ancestry group you could join as well I'm so excited for you and I am waiting on my results from African ancestry I did my my heritage it is fun to learn about your family and find out your true heritage. Tell your husband that my family is from Dollar Ford Tobago and I did myheritage DNA and found out that we also have family in Barbados and Jamaica and one of the island and that's through my Nigerian heritage okay take care and enjoy sharing your information with your family

[@AlisonRyce]

@@miriamjones8804 thank you! I've just joined the group! My hubby's father's side are from Trinidad by way of Barbados. I'll definitely let him know! 🎉🎉🎉🎉 I'm so excited for your upcoming African Ancestry results! Knowing is so worth it! 🙌🏾

[@TyroneBlackman7]

Much love! Thanks for sharing. 🙏🏾

[@sd-se7ow]

fula here in usa from Senegal . when i had my kids my mom would always remind to shape by babies nooses and shape my kids heads.. and she very much insisted unfortunately i was not able to do cause i thought i was not expert and will do mistake and shape it baddly i wish i learned when i was young.

[@AlisonRyce]

Oh wow! I can't imagine the pressure you've probably felt to get it right. It's never too late to learn. You can learn now so that you can teach the next generation. That would be a beautiful tradition to pass down. Thanks for watching and sharing!

[@danielkyles1654]

Tikar from Cameroon I got my results several years ago

[@AlisonRyce]

Congratulations on your results! Thanks so much for sharing!!!

[@kheprineteru4990]

🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@design401]

I got those results too+ more. Mandinka, Temne + Mende, and Kru... You even look like my aunt.

[@AlisonRyce]

Wow, thanks for sharing! 🤗

[@yokotastrong3902]

Congratulations my fellow Temne sister!! 🇸🇱👑❤️

[@cherrybombams7505]

I’m Haitian and we shape babies heads and nose too !!!

[@albaptist3385]

Thanks for sharing. How did you find out your father's line?

[@WilConquer]

I’m happy for you , but I’m highly dissatisfied with my experience, I paid nearly 800 $ for some results which I question as a scientist. To tell me without a percentage that you can say one of my relatives in the last 1500 years came from an obscure tribe is unacceptable. Also I know for a fact that I come from multi tribes . Again , highly disappointed. I never got the other things which were included in my package. I do not recommend.

[@LisaCulton]

But the maternal DNA is immutable and could have only come from one woman. It is passed down unchanged, so you would not have multiple maternal haplogroups. In the same way, if you test your paternal lineage, there will be only one result for your paternal haplogroup.

[@HERRUTUTT]

BEAUTIFUL WOMAN I TOOK MY TEST LAST YEAR MY ANCESTORS ARE ALSO FROM THE GUINEA BISSAU AREA

[@cocobenji6123]

On my dad's side it was temne and balanta. Still waiting for my mom's side results.

[@AlisonRyce]

Wow! Thanks so much for sharing! I'm excited for you! 🤗

[@rosahacketts1668]

91% African - wow.

[@AlisonRyce]

Right? I was presently surprised when I saw that. In my Caribbean community, if you aren't a deep chocolate hue, folks automatically assume that you're more mixed than you really are.

[@rosahacketts1668]

@@AlisonRyce My family too are from the Caribbean and if you aren't deep chocolate then you aren't black enough.

[@AlisonRyce]

@@rosahacketts1668 😂 😂😂 true!

[@Confessions2Change]

Mines linked back to Bantu peoples of Cameroon that seemed to have spread out to other regions where I have identical DNA but have Bantu speaking people there as well

[@rayarene4772]

10:15 This is a practice with African Americans too 🤯

[@AlisonRyce]

It's so amazing to learn that some of our ancestors traditions are still with us today! It's so heart-warming. 🙌🏾 🥰

[@ericmeadows367]

Temne also-welcome family.

[@simonedurham3934]

Did they connect you to family members

[@willis3537]

Do you know that most native african can Guess easily your region in Africa. There are differents ethnic and different groups, that are differents bu each one recognize the others. They did not want to tell you, the diaspora, because of your imprevisible reaction. We know who you are for decades

[@swatkins67]

Hugs🤗🤗🤗

[@zikimma]

YEP!!! YOU DO HAVE THE FULA (POULA or fulani, or peulhs in french ) TRAITS... THEY ARE BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE...

[@oumlowe8885]

Well come to the family gal I’m Fula too. And let me tell u something about the Fula tribe. There women are one of the most beautiful women in the planet. And they are mostly Normans traveling around west African country’s

[@TyroneBlackman7]

Alison, the African Ancestry DNA is only a micro slice of your DNA and does not reflect your tribe origins. Sixteen generations of your ancestors represent 65536 branches of which your result is 1/65536th. If St. Vincent was your full DNA, what you get from African Ancestry would be about 1.5 acres. Given the composition of our DNA and the number of tribes in the various West African regions, the 1/65536 is what was presented to you is a microcosm, and your DNA is probably a composition of most of the West African tribes.

[@westindianmalkah8570]

Hi hon what is your haplogroup my maternal line is if the Mende of Sierra Leone

[@Neffertiti79]

100% African your so lucky and beautiful 😍

[@oseiosei6649]

Sierra Leone will give you citizenship through your African Ancestry in Sierra Leone. Please look into it.

[@AlisonRyce]

Yes! African Ancestry reached out to me and shared that great information with me. I'm a born citizen of Trinidad 🇹🇹 and a naturalized citizen of the United States 🇺🇸. I'll have to check to see if it's legal to have passports and citizenship in 3 countries. If that's possible, I'll apply for citizenship when I visit Sierra Leone 🇸🇱.

[@LisaCulton]

@@AlisonRyce Yes, it's possible.

[@akorfaaisha7562]

♥♥♥♥♥🙏🙏

[@dunstancole989]

You look like a sierra Leonean ❤️

[@buntingy]

My mom and my dad's mom are l1

[@AlisonRyce]

Wow! So both of your parent's maternal lines shared almost the same migration history. Thanks so much for sharing! 🤗

[@abdoufofana8104]

You really look like Fula as African I know you’re Fula for the true

[@dexterwalker4964]

Tikar People living in Cameroon 🇨🇲 today for me

[@davidb5594]

Congratulations! The Fula or Fulani are considered to have the most beautiful women in West and Central Africa. You have Fula cousins all over west/central Africa. The tears are the ancestors talking to you. Bigups to you✊️

[@AbdallahEsa]

Masha Allah.Those are 2 majority Muslim ethnic groups .You should take your shahada now.

[@AlisonRyce]

Thanks for watching! I don't know what a shahada is, but I have respect for all religions.

[@JemimaNta]

She could decide to be Christian while being Fula or Temne

[@ijeomaanya4847]

Slave traders

[@javielalvarez5459]

You look cute like an African Princess! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@johnwebb2442]

Love this.