AncestryDNA Results | African American/Louisiana Creole

[@a4l4l]

For anyone that just wants to know percentages... Mom - 68% African, 25% European, 7% Native American Me - 75% African, 22% European, 3% Native American

[@brianrocketleaguegalaxy9413]

@@a4l4l Good to know man! I’m going to get my mom to do one soon!

[@a4l4l]

@@brianrocketleaguegalaxy9413 It definitely helps expand knowledge of your ancestry! I would like to get my remaining grandparents tested too

[@Josiah-p4z]

What about your dad

[@a4l4l]

@@Josiah-p4z Hey! My dad's results are on 23andme...I just recently posted a video sharing mine and his

[@apgeneticgenealogylover6601]

@@a4l4l 7% Native American for a non-Hispanic African American is a whole lot. Wow. Most African Americans who do get a non-zero percentage of Native American only get 1% at most, which no one has ever given an explanation for the validity of it.

[@doubleutee8867]

I'm so glad you posted your results, because I was always curious about Black people born and raised in the California region. I've always wanted to view whether those results still connect back to the East coast, and take note on the expansion from the East coast, or whether Ancestry would form neo-genetic communities to accommodate Black Americans on the West coast. Again, thanks!

[@a4l4l]

Wow!! That's a really interesting concept...Thank you for watching!

[@doubleutee8867]

@@a4l4l You are most welcome.

[@mayorjoshua]

I think that the migration of Afro-Americans to the West (or, in my case, the Midwest) is too recent to create communities for them. I don't think that the communities that have resulted from the diverse Southern migrants only within the last century are "settled" enough to isolate genetic similarities that are _characteristically_ shared by the members of the very new communities.

[@doubleutee8867]

@@mayorjoshua That makes sense! And by what I understand, many Black Americans from the California region (and even northern areas of the USA) are re-migrating back to southern areas of the United States, likely due to the racism and the lack of opportunities. Genetic communities can take centuries to create, and I believe the websites of Ancestry DNA, and/or My Heritage DNA indicates such truth. At least 50-500 years of physical interaction with a usual median range of at least 250 years. Thanks for the input. Peace!

[@lukegilpin]

I would love to educate myself more on Louisiana AA DNA/Heritage. I love learning about peoples family history and I would love to hear yours as well.

[@a4l4l]

For sure! I'll keep that in mind...thank you for watching

[@a4l4l]

I've been super busy, but happy to share that a video interviewing my grandmother will be posted in a few hours. She had alot of VERY interesting things to say.

[@zeeqq105]

On my genealogical journey I have learned a lot. My family is from NC/VA/MS. I wondered how did a lot of my family ended up in Mississippi. There was a domestic slave trade. When getting slaves from Africa directly was illegal in 1808, they moved large groups of people from Va/Md to Louisiana/Mississippi and Alabama. In the North slavery for agriculture was slowing down but in the Deep South enslaved people become more needed and more profitable…….because of cotton. My 3 x great grandma was sent to Louisiana as an infant. I don’t have lots of family in Louisiana…maybe a few from this era but a lot from Mississippi. She ended up back in Maryland where she was born. I did both ancestrydna and 23andme.

[@a4l4l]

Wow thank you for sharing that tid bit of history! I did 23andme as well...I will post. Do you have a preference for either?

[@freedomisthechoicesyoumake8594]

I'm from southeast Louisiana born and raised, and I'm of creole descent as well. Both of my parents are creole from New Orleans and Head of Island.

[@a4l4l]

Nice! Have you taken the test?

[@a4l4l]

Also, in the process of interviewing my grandmother in Compton (from Louisiana) and my grandfather in Long Beach (from Texas) about some historical events that took place over their lifetimes both in the South and in Los Angeles. They're my last living grandparents. Stay tuned.

[@Monaedeezy]

Hey if you can please share theirs stories.

[@a4l4l]

@@Monaedeezy Hello thank you for commenting... unfortunately my grandfather passed not too long ago before I could interview him. I did make a brief video about him though...he was the first Black attorney in the Compton, California area and was big on civil rights and history. My grandmother is still alive, and I'm interviewing her soon.

[@Monaedeezy]

@@a4l4l My condolences. Thank you, I appreciate this video. I can't wait to hear your grandmother's stories.

[@a4l4l]

​@@MonaedeezyI've been super busy, but happy to share that the video will be posted in a few hours. My grandmother had alot of VERY interesting things to say.

[@Jumbo37279]

So the Virginia thing if you trace your roots from your relatives not from Louisiana they’ll probably end up in virginia since that’s were most slaves early ancestors came from

[@a4l4l]

Makes a ton of sense. Thank you!

[@KristinaUSA-x5n]

That is where my ancestors were from Virginia and then settled other places including the Appalachians and I am European American and they had slaves and treated women just as bad. My mother's family was Czechoslovakian and Polish and Balkan and Baltic and Eastern European and Russian. My family on both sides covered up intergenerational abuse and I have Cherokee from Tennessee farther back with Melungeon Tennessee Native American and slaves, but they just said unknown Cherokee Indian on the family tree from the 1700s, so it is too far back to detect the Native American and African American in the DNA testing from Ancestry. I might be related to the African American slave from Virginia Nate Turner that led the slave rebellion that preceded the U.S Civil War and was literate enough to read the Bible and teach others.

[@a4l4l]

​@@KristinaUSA-x5nWooow that's very interesting! Thank you for sharing and acknowledging the reality of history. I'm actually union general William Tecumseh Sherman's 4th great grandson. Being a descendant of Nat Turner though is incredible!

[@KristinaUSA-x5n]

​@@a4l4l I am probably not a descendant of Nate Turner, since only 0.1% Sub-Saharan African and 0.57% American Indian and 1% Siberian shows up in my DNA. He might be related because my ancestors were probably in the Jamestown Virginia colonies and disinherited anyone that fought against slavery and hid the family history and founded the USA and fought in the American Revolution and American Civil War against each other and also the wars in Europe. Sally Hemings was Martha Washington's half sister that married Thomas Jefferson. It shows how we are all connected. I saw a 60 Minutes episode on Sharswood in the Philadelphia Virginia border are that my family settled and an African American Civil Engineer bought the plantation next to where he grew up and found out his ancestors were on that plantation as slaves. It shows how the Miller family that sold it to him could even be related and they were not racist and sold to an African American family. It is like God wanted the family secrets to be exposed. The Ancestry DNA does not seem to be as detailed as the 23 and Me. The 23 and Me inheritance comparing Maternal and Paternal inheritance since I had my mom and dad take the test had their results more detailed. Most of my ancestors came from Sweden originally on the Ancestry DNA. The Balkans are also where my mother's family has ties to, so I do not know as much of the family history. My sister-in-law is from Bhukhara Uzbekistan and about half Russian. My nephews speak English and Russian. I uploaded my 23 and Me and Ancestry DNA and My Heritage DNA results to GedMatch and my GedComs for family trees from My Heritage and Ancestry DNA to Family Search. They have records on My Heritage that go back to the 1700s, but seem to censor and not show more controversial ancestors. George Washington Turner is a common name in the family.

[@a4l4l]

@@KristinaUSA-x5n Wow... As a history buff, I love that you're so knowledgeable about your history! And thank you for sharing...I actually visited Sally Hemmings quarters and Lincoln's plantation while in Virginia.

[@Angrygumballl]

French DNA is kind of hard because DNA testing is illegal in France. Most of the French thar settled in Southern Louisiana where Saint Domingue Haitian Refugees. They also fled to two major American ports like Baltimore and Philadelphia. You should be able to see that migration pattern in your results.

[@a4l4l]

See my updated video. It shows Haitian ancestry from the 1700s and French migration from Canada and France

[@Sammagoose]

So many of us in California have similar ancestry in the U.S. The side of the family that I was raised by is also from Louisiana (North) & Texas.

[@a4l4l]

Yes! I'm actually working on a video about that now. There's a well documented connection between Lousiana and California and Texas.

[@Sammagoose]

@@a4l4l Wonderful, I will look for it. I've become interested in learning Louisiana Creole because of its endangered status and I'm looking for local folks with roots there who are also interested, it's just easier knowing that you have a community to learn with but in order to retain it you also need to be around other speakers of it.

[@a4l4l]

​@@Sammagoose I've been super busy, but happy to share that the video will be posted in a few hours. My grandmother had alot of VERY interesting things to say.

[@stevenleslie8557]

You have family from a lot of different places.

[@creolegod8589]

Your DNA match mine almost to the T......I have Baptiste in my family tree.....My 5times grandparents are Marie Therese Coincoin and Claude Metoyer

[@a4l4l]

Wow! Just might be related...I know nothing about the Batiste side tho (paternal).

[@creolegod8589]

@@a4l4l that's wuzup. I am a Balthazar tho

[@honeyjazz4147]

What Indigenous tribe are you from? It means the French was not passed down to you in your dna, but a full sibling could have it, each child of your parents inherit different parts ethnicities of their dna.

[@a4l4l]

Hello I'm part Houma Indian...and you're absolutely correct! Also, only half of my ancestry is rooted in Louisiana

[@honeyjazz4147]

@@a4l4l I have Cherokee ancestry.

[@junglemayne4057]

French people are from Germany and Sweden

[@demontespeechless_2]

I have Louisiana creole ancestry on my mom side my mom from New Orleans but her maternal side are from Mississippi and her paternal side is from southern Louisiana particularly we took the dna test on ancestry and 23andme also both of her brothers with the same parents also took it and also their paternal uncle which is my great uncle me, my mom and one of her brothers don’t have Louisiana creole and African American as our communities but my other uncle and great uncle do have Louisiana creole and African American as their genetic community my mom’s paternal grandmother is from assumption parish Louisiana with assumption and ascension parish roots in Louisiana she’s of African, Spanish creole(islenos), French and possibly Filipino ancestry cause my great uncle has 1% Southeast Asia and that’s probably Filipino dna cause the Filipino settled in St. Bernard parish in 1763 and intermarried with the Cajuns and islenos people and blacks and my mom on 23andme have 0.6% Filipino and austronesian which trace back in the mid 1700’s.

[@a4l4l]

Wow!! That's crazy the community didn't pop. Maybe it will on a future update. My mom has an East Texas community that doesn't show up on mine.

[@demontespeechless_2]

@@a4l4l well it show on my uncle’s dna and a lot of my dna matches are black and whites of Louisiana Creole and Acadian roots our ancestral surnames are allemand or alleman , trosclair, Benoit, and Broussard.

[@a4l4l]

@@demontespeechless_2 Oh wow. I'm related to Trosclairs and Broussards on my mom's side! They're from the Acadiana region of Louisiana... Dad's side is more the New Orleans area

[@demontespeechless_2]

@@a4l4l well what up cousin 😂💯 through the trosclair and Broussard line lol

[@kaelyndennis7001]

Omg that’s crazy! I’m related to Benoits too! I’m LA Creole and I have family in the Pass Christian area of Mississippi mainly Deadeuxs and Swaniers

[@senpai704]

Why yall say african american 💀💀💀 im mississippi creole there different subgroups of us fam..... we are all african american tho

[@a4l4l]

I'm most familiar with it, but only half of my heritage is from Louisiana...the other half is a mix of Texas & Kentucky/Tennessee....so "African American/Louisiana Creole" to acknowledge the broader Black American heritage, but also the roots specific in Louisiana too.

[@Elke_KB]

Have you looked at the parental split between you and your sister. It may not be 100% accurate, but by comparing the two you may be able to identify which parent is #1 or #2.

[@a4l4l]

I haven't, but it definitely may be worth looking into. Thank you!

[@QLivin]

I hear some Creole's saying they not Black American. Y'all need to get it together cause we don't need no off code tethers amongst us

[@a4l4l]

@@QLivin 😂

[@kingkillmonger74]

Man! Your make is almost exactly like mine! We might be cousins! Lol!

[@a4l4l]

We might be!

[@ClassyGyal]

Interesting. Im british but my family came here via the Caribbean. Our DNA is similar and i also have Baptistes in my family. The french slaves masters had us on the island of Grenada🇬🇩

[@a4l4l]

@ClassyGyal how cool!! Fascinating how we're all connected in the diaspora

[@Njoofene]

I am 100% Senegambian. I have relatives from Early South Carolina African Americans.

[@a4l4l]

Wooooow!! I've tried to filter matches for continental African ones.

[@Njoofene]

@a4l4l I've just bought a dna kit for my mom who came to visit me. Decided to get her tested before she goes back. I don't like Ancestry's labelling of Parent 1 and Parent 2. This does not help, especially if you are 100%. As such, I can't narrow down if I'm related to these African American cousins via my father or my mother. Having my mom tested will shed light on that. I've been documenting and preserving our family history and genealogy for 30 years, taking over from my late uncle who has been doing it for 60 years. As guardian of our family's heritage, I wanted to do the test and make it public and see if I connect with distant relatives from the Diaspora. Unfortunately, many of my African American cousins who've contacted me haven't done their genealogy and are not fully knowledgeable on their own family history, therefore making it difficult for me to determine how exactly we are related. I, however, suspect it is via my father's side.

[@a4l4l]

@@Njoofene wow incredible. What is it about your father's side?

[@Njoofene]

@a4l4l He comes from royalty. I know of at least 1 ancestral relatives (a princess) who was captured and taken to Cuba and eventually ended up in the US. That was during the political crisis between the Kingdoms of Jolof and Kajoor in the late 18th century - which lasted for decades, culminating in the killing of my father's ancestor (my father's great great grandfather) on 13 March 1851.

[@MariE-bz2eq]

3% is quite a bit for for a African American person

[@bbpersonalpage1613]

Every black American isn't going to have the same mixer . Or same amount . Not sure how you can't understand that . Snoop dogg is black American and has 25 plus percent native American

[@swifstart_7777]

My creole cousins are mainly African French Spanish not that Irish etc this guy has This guy is like 1/24 creole

[@weavesnatched_1153]

Wrong I have creole relatives and they had British Irish Ancestry and Italian ancestry as well there wasn't only a French/Spanish presence in Louisiana that shows me you don't know shit about Louisiana's history it was melting pot of different races and different European ethnicities.

[@whoahna8438]

Some Creoles have zero French or Spanish

[@a4l4l]

​@@whoahna8438 People don't understand that DNA results are a purely scientific measure not a social one. My mother for example has French and Spanish on her results...my sister does too...my father has French on his...I have neither. You can have ancestry/ancestors from a certain place and that not show up...or your ancestors may have identified a certain way, but their genetic origins are actually from somewhere else. Either way I know my family history well...the test connects me to New Orleans & Southeast Louisiana which is accurate.

[@whoahna8438]

@@a4l4l Yeah they not familiar with history. Irish been in Louisiana since the Spanish period when Alejandro O'REILLY was sent to Louisiana by the Spanish to squash the French rebellion against Spanish rule. Alejandro O'REILLY was Irish. The French are largely CELTS (same as Irish/Scots) before the Latinization by the Roman Empire. English, Scandinavians and other people were in Louisiana before long before the Louisiana purchase. For one reason or another people think only French and Spanish were in pre America Louisiana

[@charlesjohnson5331]

Did you look at the other regions +1800

[@a4l4l]

Hello. What do you mean?

[@charlesjohnson5331]

@@a4l4l if you scroll farther down a show 18+community and when you tap on that it show you Africa tap on Africa then African Americans community pop up and Caribbean as well

[@a4l4l]

@@charlesjohnson5331 OH! That just shows me all the ethnicities they tested my DNA markers against. I only have the results shown. My communities were Virginia African Americans, Louisiana Creoles, and Southern Louisiana French Settlers (New Orleans and Southeast Louisiana)

[@charlesjohnson5331]

@@a4l4l ok

[@brianrocketleaguegalaxy9413]

Our dna results look very similar man!

[@a4l4l]

Nice! What are yours?

[@brianrocketleaguegalaxy9413]

@@a4l4l as of now its Nigerian 28%, Cameroon, Congo, and Western Bantu People 20%, Ivory Coast and Ghana 14%, Senegal 12%, Mali 7%, Benin and Togo 7%, Ireland 3%, Southern Bantu Peoples 2%, England and Northwestern Europe 2%, Scotland 2%, Eastern Bantu People 2%, Vietnam 1%, Indigenous Americas-North 1%, overall my man I’m 91% African, 7%European, 1%Asian, and 1%Native American. 100% American 🇺🇸 Have a good day man and good stuff 👍🏾

[@brianrocketleaguegalaxy9413]

@@a4l4l my DNA updated from last time

[@a4l4l]

@@brianrocketleaguegalaxy9413 Very nice! Mine as well...what are your new ones? I posted mine

[@bgramirez966]

Awesome, I did mine a few years ago..... I am 51 percent Native American, 30 percent Spanish, 2 percent Italy, 6 percent Portugal, 3 percent African, 2 percent Germanic Europe, 1 percent Ireland, 1 percent Jewish Europe....Iam from Texas I don't know the exact tribe but the Apache & Comanche Indians had a strong historical presence in Texas.....I probably get my African from the slave trade in Mexico

[@a4l4l]

Wow 51% very nice!

[@bgramirez966]

@@a4l4l I see you have Native too ...Houma tribe? Excellent 👍

[@kevinlezo1046]

If your of Mexican heritage and you migrated to the USA you aren’t Apache or Comanche. There are tribes in Mexico that you are. Although there is Mexican born apaches from northern Mexico

[@bgramirez966]

@@kevinlezo1046 Apache & Comanche indians crossed into Mexico for raids & trade , both those tribes have a historical presence in Texas.....my grandmother was born in Pampa, Texas does have Apache heritage

[@AutonyB]

how in the H### do u have almost 800,000 matches i only have about 40,000 do u know what that means

[@a4l4l]

I guess less of your relatives took the test? I'm not sure...it could be a reflection of having more diverse DNA results and broader connections because of that.

[@whyme3772]

I got 82% African and 18% European according to Ancestry. Unfortunately no Native. My ancestors were mostly early South Carolina African Americans, though that spreads all across the deep south (Mississippi thru North Carolina). Waiting on my 23&Me results, since I've heard they're a bit more accurate.

[@a4l4l]

@whyme3772 Very nice! The native is a tricky one...you could've had native ancestors that were of African descent which the test wouldn't be able to distinguish. Some of our ancestors were here before slavery. Or you could have asiatic native descent...but it could be so distant at this point that it doesn't show up.

[@Zeyede_Seyum]

Very mixed American

[@XplainLuxury86]

Born and raised in the boot. The heritage is a gumbo pot lol

[@a4l4l]

Truly!

[@ekoopasetapart3933]

Bro, you ARE NOT CREOLE AT ALL!!!!

[@a4l4l]

Thank you for watching

[@JohnDoe-jn4ex]

Alabama!

[@a4l4l]

Hmm?

[@swifstart_7777]

This dude 1/100 creole 😊

[@weavesnatched_1153]

Your a troll most Louisiana Creoles have British Irish ancestry there was a presence of them in Southern Louisiana before the Louisiana Purchase stay mad that's he's more creole then you are and he has the community too

[@xolotl1403]

You’re 3% Native American is extremely negligible my friend and you wanna claim Native American ? . Sir you have more European in you than native . And that’s typical for African Americans to have more European ancestry but yet you don’t claim that ? Lol

[@weavesnatched_1153]

He can claim any part of his heritage he wants yall love to gatekeep peoples DNA so bad

[@xolotl1403]

@@weavesnatched_1153 nobody’s gatekeeping he’s obviously African and his DNA proves that so he is African . He also has more European in him then Native American but it’s funny how he doesn’t claim his European ancestry. Nor do most African-Americans . African Americans have various degrees of European ancestry some more than others have European last names speak a European language yet they don’t identify as European ? his low percentage of Native American certainly does not give him the right to identify solely as Native American when it is extremely negligible and the majority of his DNA is African with European . That’s the truth sorry if you don’t like it

[@weavesnatched_1153]

@@xolotl1403 No shit girl He can claim all parts of his Dna its rare for African American to have a lot more native. He has African, European and Native ancestors in his line who are you to gateekeep what DNA people can claim. He never claimed he was native he acknowledged it was there you native nationalists are going out sad arguing peoples percentages knowing damn well your not even pure native.

[@chrisrollins6945]

@@xolotl1403 Most African-Americans in the south will get no higher than just 5-15% European he is creole they tend to get higher admixtures.

[@swifstart_7777]

Ur not creole

[@weavesnatched_1153]

You see the Creole communities are you creole I don't think so