SHOCKING ANCESTRY DNA REVEAL: TRACING MY ROOTS TO SLAVERY

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In today’s edition, Avri talks about not only what a special day it is, especially since Emancipation Day just passed as well, but also about her heritage. She's originally from Jamaica of African descent. Avri took a DNA test via AncestryDNA to learn more about her family and ethnicity... and got some shocking results! We invite you to tag along and watch and take a test for yourself 🙂 if you use this link, you will save an additional 15%!
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[@AvriSimas]

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[@favorgirl4893]

My son's grandma is Anderson from Mt Pleasant she's ur dad's aunt her name is Paulette

[@marshamarritto9136]

From one Jamaican to another, thank you and good job👍. That's why it's so important for us to continue the journey in a positive way.

[@joycebryan2584]

Am not African, am Jamaican, My ancestors are from africa not me.

[@sandrathorpe8227]

Thanks for a great video. It made me very emotional. Happy, sad but mostly greatful. I also did my ancestry test which was surprising in a good way. Results: Benin/Togo. 41% Cameroon/Congo. 28% Ivory coast/Ghana. 17% Mali. 9% Nigeria. 4% Senegal. 1% Which makes me 100% African. So much for stories of my Scottish ancestry lol.

[@anjee.3261]

@@joycebryan2584 ancestrally you are African then🤷🏿‍♀️ I am of African descent but born ah yard!

[@f6876]

Jamaica had the most slave rebellions out of all the islands. You can’t keep the Jamaican spirit down.

[@raisoion1313]

Ashanti warriors

[@andriapd]

That is why i dont do the dna test. Our ancestors survived, just so we are here today. Im happy just being Jamaican.

[@mustafanur4707]

Sorry Haiti won that award “factually”

[@conchitacaballero1564]

Yes..strong people, especially the women. They fight battles with victory... Big up... 🇯🇲

[@MABardowell]

@@mustafanur4707 true but it was an African who went to Jamaica and caused problems there and so they moved him to Haiti and He started the revolution there. All in all it was an African/Jamaican/ Haitian Dutty Boukman. But it did start in Haiti by way of Jamaica and Africa. Africa!

[@daintyja2442]

It's always an emotional experience when we really sit and think how a part of our ancestors survived the horrors of slavery and lives on in us today.

[@nmagain24]

It will make you even more emotional when you realize how LITTLE the various DOS own in our respective countries too.

[@Khaos969]

On one of those horrific boats out at sea for months one of those slaves survived to have children who had children till 100 years later we are here... i so wish i could've known them...

[@yangabeng]

Khaos969 I think that’s what we should be celebrating each time we look at ourselves in the mirror.

[@NoNonsenseJohnson]

Why the inherent victim mentality. Your ancestors could have been slave traders or resistance fighters. Don’t demote your history into being victims.

[@hcassells66]

I've had dreams about it, more like nightmares. It was like I went back in time and saw it, I was traumatised for a while

[@yvettechinsee63]

Black ppl in the diaspora should all take a trip to Africa if we can. I find so many similarities in the customs of some African countries and ourselves. It's mind boggling that these practices were able to survive so many generations and also everything the slave masters did to prevent this from happening. I went to South Africa last year and while we were in a Zulu village, one of the men told us that the round cloth that you use to place on your head as cushion to carry water is called akatha. Now growing up.in Jamaica I know it as katta. So me thinking that over 400 years we managed to drop off the 'a' only? You cannot imagine how I felt being in Africa and learning this and I'm learning new things all the time.

[@ellamitchel441]

That is so true, coming from Dominica we called it katta too.

[@jpecco9668]

its called being born of slaves who were taken from many palaces hench the mixture

[@yvettechinsee63]

These African countries didn't exist during slavery. Africa was divided up by the colonisers. Besides many of these tribes were nomads. They were free to roam all of Africa if they wanted to. There are also many similarities in the languages and dialects of African people. But this is for who is interested in going to Africa and who believe they are descended from Africans. You don't have to concern yourself with this if you think you came from an alternate universe. Personally I intend to visit every African country in my lifetime if I can.

[@overviewthem]

True. We were told to frown up the words we used like nyam (eat) and others not knowing very well the words we used were authentic African words in essence. Thanks to Miss Lou and others, for engaging in that area in the past, perhaps a lot would have been lost from the Jamaican Language vocabularies. However, it is still sad to see some Jamaicans who are still succumbed in the colonizers psychology and who tried to displace real African words spoiling it up with traces of English like for example just using one more; calling dukunuu "Blue Draws" (the cake cook by wrapping with with leaves especially that of the banana or plantain plant). Every time there is a confusion on which way to express one self whether to the real words inherited from our ancestors or to use English, the language of that Colonizer, there goes the problem of choice. One love💖.

[@natanyat4901]

@@ellamitchel441 cool!

[@soniamatthews3267]

Avri is such a well spoken confident young lady. I admire her forthrightness and humility. She is to be admired fr her strength and how focus she is. Clearly she was well raised by her mother and properly schooled by Titchfield High School in Portland, Jamaica. Perfect English interspersed with patois she gives a clear delivery of what she wants to convey to her audience. Bright eloquent all the best Avri and HAPPY INDEPENDENCE. YOU KNO WHERE U ARE FROM.

[@AvriSimas]

Thank you so much. I really appreciate this comment! Puts a smile on my face because the message was delivered to you exactly how I painted it. Thank you😊😁.

[@faithandgrace8244]

@@AvriSimas Hi Avri, try Lustrasilk Curl Max.

[@isanaallday9744]

This was so well said.

[@jonathanlammie9975]

am, so so intrested in doing my ancestry test can u link me back am from port antonio too

[@nmagain24]

What does "well spoken" mean?

[@overnow4315]

I'm born in Jamaica. My DNA results says I'm Nigerian,maasai,Sierra Leone, portuguse, Spanish,German and native American and English.

[@jaysys777]

same for africa mines the same

[@mistymcguffin2098]

Bro same there was like no Jamaican in my report

[@yakthebest9262]

M Hickling mines too me I’m born in Me and my parents born in the USA but my mom’s dad his mom is born in Jamaica and full Jamaican but I didn’t see anything in my report about Jamaica

[@sirdrilliam2724]

@@yakthebest9262 because the original people of jamaica were not black, youre most likely african

[@rasheemwyattreid3351]

@@mistymcguffin2098 there won't be because your DNA comes from people from the Old World (Europe, Asia, Africa and other areas) however they can trace your DNA to tell you that your ancestors settled in a particular country.

[@viviennecampbell2084]

It's always a shock when I hear some people's opinion of Africa and Africans. 1love Jamaica and Africa

[@MayLynch]

You made me cry girl, I am a Jamaican living in the USA I am 58 I cried while you were giving us those information on your ancestry report. I did GCE West Indian History WOW

[@oludummo4593]

Jamaican passport holders.dont need any visa to Travel to ghana.and vice versa.

[@conchitacaballero1564]

Thank you for mentioning my country Trinidad and Tobago. Thank you for the history moments for both islands..big up. 🇹🇹 🇯🇲 ❤ and peace.

[@cypto_niti2897]

Love to islands from Toronto your influence is worldwide from day one

[@grace-fc2kf]

You are awesome girl! So many Jamaicans think it is beneath them to be regarded as having African beginnings. They brag about all kinds of ethnic roots but would not talk about their so very obvious African heritage. But as sad as it might be, we should love them anyway, because it is all part of the ugly legacy of slavery and colonialism. We have to gently teach them and help them to learn the facts. Going back to the slavery era, the slaves who were born on the plantation, (for various reasons) thought they were better than those arriving fresh off the slave ships from Africa. The newbies were laughed at and called the salt water slaves. Even as early as that time, we were conditioned to deny and make fun of Africa. And so many forms of discrimination evolved and multiplied as we moved from slavery to being colonial subjects, and to this very day. I have always been very proud of my African Ancestry and traced my maternal roots back to a plantation in St. Elizabeth. I deeply love the History of my people, and like you, I mourn those battered souls, especially those who had to edure the wretched middle passage. The first time I crossed the Atlantic, it was a very deep, spiritual, and painful moment for me. There I was in the comfort of a plane for a few hours, but my heart was aching for my people who for weeks, were forced in shackles to embark upon that hellish journey, jammed in the bottom of a stinking dirty ship, amidst their own filth, sickness, disease, and even death! As I looked out and viewed the wide expanse of the ocean, I was touched and humbled in grief, because of the horrors we endured as a race when we had to cross that body of water in agony. I could not help but think of the souls whose worn and diseased bodies were thrown overboard, to rest with no dignity at the bottom of that terrifying place. But, I was also humbled by the great handiwork of the Creator unfolding before my natural eyes. He has been merciful to preserve us to become many nations in the Caribbean, even though we had all those atrocities heaped upon us. We still have a very long way to go, but we have come from a much longer journey.

[@oludummo4593]

Most of our people on slaveship were fed to sharks Whho followed thhose slaveships and ate our ancestors alive .lots of them Were fed to sharks as punishment on board. Inhumei europeans.

[@876mostvaluabletreasure2]

grace every time I read or heard of these horrible stories about our ancestor, my eyes filled with tears. Our race must stop kill each other and unite.

[@charlesjohnson7354]

Maybe the reason is because they sold us into slavery and the main ones was the Nigerian ask them and see what they tell you then say they didn't know the white people was going to do us the way they did here in America lynching us burning us alive and hanging us from trees while reading a bible to us before they snap or necks while family and even there little kids laughing as we died and some of us that they say came here on a boat are hebrews and the real Jews who god in the bible made a covenant with if so that mean there ancestors are Egyptians and Africans.and the second group of so call African Americans they are aboriginal indigenous peoples to this land they always been here before the native Americans so everyone did not come from Africa god populated the whole world with color copper people some of us dont have no connection to Africa not language or anything us here in America we are closer to Caribbean people and native Americans we here have the same blood line as jamaican and Haitian we are just in America only.after they sold us into slavery yall didn't come back to get us what about the ones who jump off the boat and drown in the water thousands of is now at the bottom of the sea are ancestors its hurts me to talk and think about it

[@garyzangel2808]

Who you sound as if you have first hand knowledge of these events. How does a nation of people let others tell them their history.

[@desreelaing5732]

@Grace! I echo what you've written. When put like this, my spirit mourns for my African ancestors because of the hell they endured being ripped from their homeland, dragged through another hell called the 'Middle Passage' and eventually thrown in the horror of slavery. We are not descendants of slaves, we are instead descendants of strong African ancestors who were enslaved. We learned a poem in school in Jamaica titled 'Ancestor On The Auction Block' by Vera Bell. I remember us having to recite it at school as children; we had to be expressive! That poem always comes to my mind whenever I consider my African ancestors who were forcibly taken to the 'New World.' Thanks for doing this video Avri. Touching history lesson. Bless you.💕

[@gagaga1244]

A stigma for being an African ? wow. I'm a very proud African and trust me Africans love their heritage.

[@gracenembhard4733]

My dear Ga Gaga...it's from the legacy of world wide white supremacy on this side, my dear. Glad that it didn't affect you...but, for the majority of us on this side, especially in the USA, it is very very dominant. Many of us have had to learn and teach ourselves how to be proud as PADs (People of African Descent). The philosophy of whitenss is soo pervasive...many PADs put themselves down/belittle themselves because of it, and do not even realize it! "Up! Ye mighty race!', said Marcus Garvey. "Up, up, UP!"

[@AvriSimas]

I'm sure they do. But see @Grace Nembhard's response to your comment, she did an awesome job explaining why I said what I said.

[@ludwigthomas9006]

I'm a Jamaican but have always known my roots

[@esthero.7704]

Thanks my humble sister for sharing. I am 1/2 Nigerian & Bajan born in the UK. I found spending some time in Africa age 10 enabled me to be more comfortable with who I am. Us black people as a whole need to come together, then we will be a stronger force even to stand up to this "Ugly" thing we call racism.

[@BAghz00]

I agree but it’s more than just racism. It’s the socioeconomic oppression that is keeping us subservient. We have to see this and stop the corruption from our political leaders.

[@kerryfran9438]

Just found your channel a few days ago and am a fan,love your content.

[@Adrian-wh2ts]

thanks for making this public! i love what you said towards the 2nd half of the vid :)

[@ealane1]

This is such a great, educational vlog. Well done!

[@RealmofGenghisKhan]

I love it how you are so well informed in the history. Thumbs up to the Jamaican educational system 😊. Cool upload

[@AvriSimas]

Thank you! Much appreciated

[@ppalmer556]

That is so interesting. I will be looking into mine also because I was told that some of my ancestors came from Scotland on my dad's side. But I was entranced with the information you discovered.......very interesting. Very humbling indeed..

[@elsastuckman6052]

Happy Independence Day🇯🇲 this vlog is so relevant!!thank you👍🏾😁😁big up

[@sportsrealtalk2843]

This is the best DNA reveal I have viewed on KZbin - Brilliant my sister!

[@steppaboss]

Hi I am new here. Very beautiful and educated young lady. You have lots of great info to offer. Keep up the good works. It is awesome to see that you have found your roots. I have been on you tube for the past month into all things Africa. Learning so much about the Continent from these young African and African-American youtubers who are showcasing different countries. Jamaica is awesome ✊☝️love

[@ClaudetteLals]

Thank you so much for the history lesson and sharing ur DNA results. You brought me to tears. Well done. Proud Jamaican.

[@AvriSimas]

It’s sad but very important history 🇯🇲❤️

[@AirborneEclipse]

I really liked this Avri. Inspite of it all, we have you two beaming joyful hearts and love to the world 💕

[@ayanaolutunde1426]

Guyana,south america, celebrated its 53th anniversary on the 1th august.

[@DellaStJohn]

Guyana independence is May 26. Emancipation Day is August 1st

[@ayanaolutunde1426]

@@DellaStJohn Thanks, Della St John; don't know where my head was, guess I was excited that we were celebrating something on the same day as Jamaica.

[@khountribeauteigh1106]

Thank you so much for this video, everytime I plan on taking this test I ended up changing my mind, but I think I am going to go through with it this time

[@roseslovely4003]

I wanted to do my DNA testing for a while now but don't know how to go about doing it this video is very informative thank you.

[@reneewalwyn1831]

Awesome video. Proud of you, keep educating folks about our Caribbean culture.

[@andicksoful]

Avri I thank you so much, I'm just crying right now, when I think how my ancestors made it so that I'm here, my mom and dad together to produce our family tree. I'm truly humbled, truly humbled. Thanks again.

[@mjohnson4]

Are you from SVG

[@odeanlawrence1834]

Thank you so much for sharing your DNA results with us! It was exactly what I expected to see in your DNA as I have seen quite a few of these YOU TUBE results. Try to find out when, why and how your ancestors were in those other Countries, was it for export? Escaping? etc. I appreciate all the Black History education you shared; I am less ignorant now...thank you. I have never been ashamed of my African Ancestry. My parents were both from Dominica W.I, but I know my DNA (without having done the test) includes,some just like yours, Biafra, Congo, Nigeria and recently, I just read a news clip from Dominica where they had just welcomed some dignitaries from Nigeria. There are alot of Nigerian's studying, Medicine and Law in Dominica and have made it their second home as they ALSO (again, due to Slavery) have alot of Ancestors on the Island of Dominica. It was so nice to read this peice of news, it affirmed my connection with my African Ancestors. My mum and dad use to argue about whose father was the blackest!! (Really mum...dad!) But they did! Loool However, this helped me to picture what my grandfathers might have looked like due to having come from "darkest" Africa. I also had a friend who was Ghanaian and we decided to have a cultural dish tasting day and whilst doing so, he tasted one of my Caribbean dishes and said, "Aye! Where you get dat food from? Dat is African food!" I replied, "From my dad, who got it from his father, who got it from HIS father!" We both stopped and looked at each other and at the same time shouted out, "AFRICA!!" It brought a warm glow to my face and made me very happy to have discovered that I was eating African food that had survived Slavery. Sorry this was so long, but I really wanted to share that with you Avri. HaPpY InDePeDeNcE DaY! 🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲

[@s_sanny]

HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAYYYY from a fellow yardie

[@barbararose7022]

Thanks Avri...well done!

[@Appleboo222]

Loved your results, wow your story with your cousin & all of that wow 😭❤️🇯🇲 love your message! We are definitely one with Africans!

[@AvriSimas]

Thank you! We absolutely are 🙂

[@tt2524]

🇨🇦🇯🇲 Happy you share your results. I have completed my DNA also I also have a passion for understanding the journey/ plight of my ancestors. Keep up the great work. Your channel is growing nicely

[@AvriSimas]

Thank you dear!

[@TyroneBlackman7]

Thanks for sharing. Your ancestors didn't derive from countries but regions and tribes. The countries you mentioned are the colonizers concepts. The continent had many kingdoms and tribes continually migrated. The same can be said about the Caribbean region, mass migration took place post-emancipation. The two largest deployment of slaves in what is now the English-speaking islands was in Jamaica and Barbados. The mass migrations from these two islands populated the southern and northern regions. So, the Caribbean is closer linked along blood lines than we tend to believe.

[@SS-li5ej]

Agree.

[@maaruz1979]

yet you still refer to the ancestors as 'slaves'....not as 'Africans'

[@TyroneBlackman7]

@@maaruz1979 Correct. Use of "slave" is to provide specific context. I could also have said enslaved African as well.

[@petafoster3625]

In my experience as a Jamaican living in the US since 1976, I have always had a strong proud connection to Africa! I don't know if it's the younger generations thats having an identity crisis but as a people I believe we have always been proud of where we come from originally. The Rastafarians for example are super proud decedents of Africa!!!!

[@lurleenfrancis3564]

Agri you're so uplifting,keep up the good work.Bless up Jamaica..

[@davidfoote3431]

Is it possible to order the DNA kit from Jamaica? I once had a terrible history last year where i purchased a DNA kit from '23andme' which i successfully received the package here in Jamaica. However when i delivered my sample to the US lab address, i was contacted saying that they cannot test any sample coming from outside of the US.

[@paulinecampbell4017]

You make tears come to my eyes....just thinking about our four parents and hard it was for them to survive those hardships 😭😭😭😭

[@suebell1212]

I so enjoy watching your videos, and I must say you are such a smart and intelligent young lady. Thank you for acknowledging and honoring our Jamaican 🇯🇲 freedom and ancestral culture!!

[@AvriSimas]

Thank you so much! Its my pleasure and pride 🙂

[@aw8119]

This is such an amazing video. I am a Black American from North Carolina and South Carolina in the United States. My Ancestry test revealed 94% African ancestry and my regions were very similar to yours. There is such a strong connection among people of African descent but unfortunately many of us will never know nor accept this.

[@breadbutter4221]

You've piqued my interest in doing this test. Interesting. So true many Jamaicans dont like to embrace their African ancestry because of the stigma attached to Africa. On d other hands there are many like myself who embrace our African ancestry. Yes girl love your reflection ...we are survivors because we are descendant of people who were treated with extreme cruelty but were still resilient n survived.

[@AvriSimas]

You should try. I can't even explain the feeling of seeing the results. You start thinking about everything!

[@jamaicanprincess4124]

Most Jamaicans embrace their African ancestry.

[@wesleysaunders1291]

Happy Independence Day new subscriber from London love you guys 🇯🇲🇬🇧

[@andriapd]

It is also very emotional for me to think of how they survived, it brings tears.

[@keybrewer82]

Wow.. what a beautiful breakdown of how deep it is that we are here. Its deep

[@lorrainewilson3040]

new subscriber from Portmore Jamaica In totally love you guys

[@nicoladixon688]

Happy independence day, I am new living in California...great information

[@torileo7606]

Thank u for sharing your findings with us.🙏🏾🙏🏾

[@medicmissions5286]

Thank you for this video. Some truths spoken here. Thanks for sharing... am more intrigued to get a test myself

[@TheKofinyarko]

As an Akan Tribesmen, our ancestors travelled across the west coast of Africa trading. No countries existed back then.

[@Ramakan]

This vlog inspired me to subscribe. Thank you.

[@Ramakan]

Love the background music too.

[@rthomas5986]

Likkle but Bumbo Claat Talla-wah! Sorry mi had to cuss. I wanted to do my ancestry DNA for a while now. Your results are interesting, we as Jamaicans have been told about mostly being from the Ashanti Tribe in Ghana and also many from Nigeria. As for JA independence, it's good but always make me think about the Evil Colonizers. The British and the so Call Queen Enslave African people, stripped Jamaica of it's riches and natural resources, then cut the country and many Caribbean countries loose with nothing. I am a proud Jamaican, proud to be of African Ancestry and wouldn't want to be anything else, even in a next life. Your hair looks great like that. You and Simas are a very nice couple, Mi admire de love weh unu show fi each adda.

[@anjee.3261]

Love it!😃...Best comment by far!💯👍🏿

[@charmaineranger7733]

Mother ĺand Africa

[@AvriSimas]

Lmao, well I don't mind the cussing lol. It's apart of our culture too! And I think that the conversation of payment to all the former colonies must be had soon! It needs to happen!

[@kevinanderson63]

tracingafricanroots.wordpress.com/2018/09/22/did-ancestry-kill-their-african-breakdown-part-1/ These results that they have produced are due to an oversampling of Benin / Togo, Mali and Cameroon, Congo.

[@andreabarnes5879]

True ting. Birth Certificate priceless. Another proud Jamaican, here. Left at the age of 11yrs, 1971, my culture naw'guh'nuh'wheh. Bless up. One luv. ❤💛💚❤💛💚

[@gisellesookoo511]

Great info Avri..

[@antoinettegordon5349]

Happy Independence from one Jamaican to another Jamaican we've come along way 57 years we little but we talawah ❤️❤️🇯🇲🇯🇲

[@AmadThibobeaux]

You and me are definitely related! Good job on finding your people ✊

[@lisdearvlogs2684]

Love your contents 🇯🇲🇯🇲😊😊

[@shaniquebuddington9374]

Nice video very interesting and informative.

[@arlenemaxwellcopeland1644]

thank you for the history lesson. 3 of my grandparents were born in JA. One was born in Barbados, but his mom was also Jamaican, makingme 7/8 Jamaican and 1/8 Bajan, but we are all (cousins and brothers) wondering now what that means. We can't just go by our looks. Some cousins did dna tests, but the results are all over the place. I appreciate the background you gave. It helps to put it all in perspective.

[@ShanTFull]

Wow. This was an incredible episode.

[@janice911]

I have been trying to listen to africans talk and watch lots a movie, listen the music and had friends...just trying to know some of my roots...the pidgin languge almost the same as patois... Good to bring this topic about ancestry dna at the time of independence. Happy indipendence Jamaica/Jamaicans

[@dawnhewitt1]

What a great video!! My ancestry results are similar, I have Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon/Congo, Benin Togo, and Mali. It's so true what you said about our slave ancestors, In Ghana, I experienced the slave dungeons and it was soooooo bad what they went through in there, the same thing as the ships. We are from strong stock. Thank you for this wonderful video!!

[@001islandprincess]

Dawn Hewitt Greetings. You should state “enslaved” ancestors.

[@lovmcpherson2188]

you so very intelligent. Preach to ignorant my girl. I am so proud of you as a Jamaican.

[@namelastname2127]

Well said and thank you for sharing, lots of love from Toronto Canada 🇨🇦 ❤ 💙

[@andreensewell1745]

Thanks for teaching me a little that I never know I knew a few but some of what u are saying now its new to me so thanks for a eye opener

[@stephneydawkins-jones9391]

Just viewed Avri Simas this ole lady is so very proud of you both your integrity your candor is so impressive when. I was your age to busy trying to solidify a relationship you both got it right school relationship life together admire and respect unna to the max! No worries I did get myself on track but late Keep encouraging and holding each other up you got this darlings😀😀😀

[@annthomas7461]

See and I respect you for your forthcomingness. All my Jamaican friends that I grew up with all praise and glorify themselves as being mixed with being white. You can definitely look at them and tell it's self hate. So, to hear you, being so young and honest, I respect you. Seeing this video of you being so honest and proud restore my faith and love for Jamaicans. God bless and keep being the beautiful you as you are.

[@lisdearvlogs2684]

Avril, my daughter and I bought the same hair product and have the same result....tiny fur in her hair....did you find out what was wrong?

[@AvriSimas]

I think the hair needs to be wet when you apply the product to it. If that's not it I don't know lol.

[@hopemcfarquhargraham8337]

Thank you Avri. Very informative. One love sister

[@nnaseilneleh8674]

Whoop whoop big up Trinidad & Tobago!!! Love you both Avri & Simas. Happy Independence Jamaica

[@Decadancehallking]

Wow, you're another person who has very similar results to me from a Jamaican background. I'm seeing that Jamaican people are coming back with Benin/Togo, Cameroon/Congo, and Ivory coast/Ghana consistently as the highest percentages. My next step is to get African ancestry to break it all down to the distinct people in those areas I come from. Thanks for sharing

[@001islandprincess]

Lenworth Greetings. African AncestryDNA only provides results of one line, the mtDNA, which is the unbroken maternal line. This line only accounts for less than 5% of your total genome. Other companies, like AncestryDNA, provide estimates of your total ancestral makeup contributed by both parents. If people want to learn a out their ancestry, they should be studying their matches to learn about their ancestors.

[@Decadancehallking]

@@001islandprincess Do you have further information on how you know their testing or that specific part of our DNA is only 5%? Where can I do more research on that point?

[@LituanaCorazonmexicano0508]

That’s soooo interesting, Avri!😃👍🏻 I’d love to take it some day, because I know almost nothing about my ancestors. It would be so interesting!🙂

[@AvriSimas]

Simas took his , you should too. Very interesting!

[@LituanaCorazonmexicano0508]

Avri & Simas Maybe someday😉

[@stormstorm7396]

Girl im sure you know a lot

[@jimiwhat79]

Nice video!

[@hazelcampbell2089]

How many young ladies or young ppl for the matter is so informed ...am from Jamaica as well and am proud to know you remain so humble , because many came to this place thinking they land in the kingdom , they totally forget where they are coming from ..love you hair

[@babesval]

Well said ...thank you...keep up the work ur doing 👍👍👍👍

[@cherylmarshall4747]

It is so incredible to know your your ancestral back ground it is really an eye opener history tells u where u are from and where I are in the future I love your channel love from Trinidad and Tobago

[@AvriSimas]

Yes it was really important to know because our history was stolen but we can try to recover bits and pieces of it 🙂

[@thatjamericankidd6637]

Yay y’all at 10k

[@roxywyndham]

Happy Independence Day y’all 🇯🇲 new sub 😊

[@desireemonroe9910]

This video, along with your suggested videos, made me want to subscribe ASAP. I want my husband, who is Jamaican, and our son to take this test so bad (I have already tooken it). I also loved how informative your video was, your personality, and your beautiful results to match ❤ from Virginia, USA 🇺🇸

[@MariE-bz2eq]

I think Jamaican results would be similar to African American results unless he has East and South Asian ancestry. The avg Jamacian is 80.6% African.

[@pinengingah9399]

Taken

[@sheilacampbell8474]

Avri thanks! Because Africa is a continent and not one country but several nations with several languages(tongues), tribes, physical features, a rainbow of colouration & many cultural differences/practises, it is a misnomer to call a person an "African," a nickname just like "Jew" or "Christian"but some of us do like & embrace nicknames. "African", is a label ascribed to all the deeply pigmented people who were stolen from countries situated in the equatoria[ regions of west &west central areas of the African Continent. By the end of the actual "slave trade" those brought to the West were completely Colonised & in so doing they were robbed of their language, nationality, tribal grouping(ethnicity), cultural peculiarities & religions. The dilemma for the enslavers "post slavery"was that these so-called free slaves were not going to be given "our" nationality, not British, Portuguese, Spanish or even American! So, they set about recreating a new identity for the descendants of the slaves in the West, because on the plantations they were just "male " or "female" negroes. As slaves they were dehumanised & this has to be maintained even if they are "free"! Their Nationality became AFRICANS(of course they were taken from Africa) thus the Continent of Africa has been transformed into one Nation. Their ETHNICITY(tribal grouping) became their RACE because they are not regarded as Homo Sapiens but of a different & lesser specie. Cultural peculiarities deemed to be barbaric & uncivilised & were synchronised to be acceptable within the dominant culture( in other words "become refined"). RELIGION is another matter, all the eastern religions such as the Greeks, Romans, Egyptians, Assyrians etc are regarded as pagan but they are not discouraged even if not embraced by the "civilised West; but tribal religions from the African Continent are regarded as witchcraft & sorcery. All of the above have affected the psyche of the descendants of slaves in the Diaspora causing them to be constantly having to prove that they are equal to all other members of the human race notwithstanding the colour of the skin. The Caribbean in general & Jamaica in particular have such a wide ethnic blending, that we have created a nation of people called JAMAICAN that represent every shade of melanin, whether you are pearly white, darkest brown or so called black , you are represented by our motto "OUT of Many One People. It is very disconcerting to me, when I hear Jamaicans of the darkest hue say"anything too black no good" or "mi nawh wok fi no black smaddy"! There are others who will always make the claim & often remind others that "my great, great, great, great grandfather was a Scots/Irish/English man(I wonder why they never say Welsh) and will search their DNA to find the 0.00001% European validation.

[@Shannaeddy]

Thanks you! Lol Man where is your Jamaican colours in the background? Greta video

[@j.oreardon9426]

First, I appreciate the history of the middle passage and when they first arrived. All I can say is we need to learn from the mistakes of the past!! Also, may I say that regardless of your exact DNA makeup, you are an intelligent, good hearted, and beautiful young lady. God bless you and Simas. Best wishes, as always

[@LikangelOfficial]

Wow, we are probably related too-my grandpa is from Mount pleasant, Portland too. I’ve been trying to learn more info about his side of the family. Maybe we can chat more!

[@thebridge5483]

Thanks for sharing

[@fishcakes5626]

I appreciate this video and I thank you for sharing your ancestry! You show why it’s so important to acknowledge our heritage as the African diaspora! I’m first generation Jamaican-American and my ancestry goes like this. 40%- African (Yoruba, Congo, Maasai) 40% - European (Scottish,Portuguese) 20% - Indian (Bengali)

[@Lifestylewithjada]

How can i get a ancestry test? A lot of ppl normally tell me that am African and i normally get angry about it but watching this video has opened my eyes and show me that i should appreciate my african Roots..im Jamaican btw i wanna know what am made up of i wanna learn how to appreciate africans

[@fishcakes5626]

@@Lifestylewithjada I’d order a dna kit from a company like ancestry or 23 & me. Both do a good job of breaking down your percentages to show where your dna comes from. (Keep in mind though that because of the much smaller population of the African diaspora around the world our results aren’t usually as specific as those of Western European descent). As far as accepting yourself I’d recommend watching the documentary Africa’s Great Civilizations by Henry Louis Gates Jr. It gives great perspective on the history of Africa and reveals the beauty and diversity of the continent.

[@rhondasargeant7488]

Yea. Trini here. Thank you! 🙂

[@olufemiadeleye9462]

Honestly, most Africans are not aware of this, more than 14 years in England, I call every black person my brother or sister, I still do. However, I recently started learning them Afro Caribbeans don't identify with Africans. Then lately there's been some beefing of Africans by African Americans. My observation is the whole problem is down to misinformation or misrepresentations. That's why I educate my kids and they are able to learn about how we all found ourselves in different places. Good job, sister. And your husband is cool headed too.

[@dj20centakavinc]

Thanks for sharing with us ...Thanks for Educating us ...Thanks for the Awesome Message...I,m a Cameroon Born and if you need to know more about the culture and more , don't feel like a stranger ..

[@AvriSimas]

I would really appreciate it 😊. Contact me via Instagram: @avri_simas

[@tesswonderful4194]

I had mine done. 60% African, 38% white. Some Indian, Phillipines, Asian. Well said Avri about understanding we are all African and just ended up in different places.

[@nevetajohnson4873]

Happy Independence from me in Jamaica. Yes I am interested in doing the ancestor test

[@AvriSimas]

You should dear!

[@rael8425]

This was a great reveal. She is beautiful and her spirit seems very kind. I was moved by her appreciation of her ancestors surviving the treacherous journey from Africa.

[@maryowino8134]

OK Bantus are originally from congo region and they migrated to different parts of Africa in search of fertile land for farming and that's why you are 1% east African

[@adewilliams8]

No, Bantu people originated in south eastern part of Nigeria and migrated to eastern, western and southern Africa! Most west Africans are also Bantu people!

[@maryowino8134]

@@adewilliams8 OMG which history did you learn back in school???Bantus are widely found in east n central Africa n few in South Africa and bantu language is also part of Swahili n mind you Swahili is spoken in east n central Africa... West Africa was for the kwa speakers

[@benyahudi1233]

She share maternal genetics with East Africans

[@benyahudi1233]

@@maryowino8134 Swahili is related to the ancient Persian language through the Shirazi people who originated from Shiraz in South Iran

[@benyahudi1233]

@@adewilliams8 there's no Bantus in West Africa , stop listening to the white man and his theory

[@udawyma1682]

Good job!

[@freedomisthechoicesyoumake8594]

I'm not even Jamaican... I'm Louisiana creole born and raised.... My results are Mali, Senegal, Spanish, large amounts of Italian, Greek and Balkan, Middle Eastern (Lebanese and Syria), Southern France, Portuguese.

[@travellight8255]

U articulate very well 👌🏾

[@cryssiejones7315]

happy belated independence day Avri to you and your mom .....you are so humbled and sweet thank you for sharing your ancenstory with us ....interesting results too

[@AvriSimas]

Thanks dear, and it was my pleasure.

[@joy-annelewis8926]

Thanks for sharing. My daughter wants to do that DNA Ancestry test really badly and she is only 15 but she is curious of who her ancestors are and so am i

[@001islandprincess]

Joy-Anne Lewis Greetings. It will be a journey and perhaps a lifelong one to figure out your entire ancestral makeup.

[@Lifestylewithjada]

@@001islandprincess How can i do a test?? Am curious too i get angry when ppl tell me am African

[@mrc1964]

That is sooo true sis, to survive the human waste and disease treated like human rats. I say Hallelujah for ancestors who survive for me to be here. APTTMH.

[@jhanelgarwood3614]

Hi Avri...I've been binge watching you and Simas' videos since last week. I didn't know your surname is Anderson. My mom's surname is also Anderson and we're from St. Thomas, Jamaica 🇯🇲. My mom is originally from St. Mary though

[@Actuallyrai]

I just found out that On my dads side I’m from South Africa, Scotland, Ireland, Italy,Nigeria, Maili, Haiti, Jamaica, Native American( Shinecock Tribe) And Scandinavia, Sweden, Benin and Tongo, Ghana, west Africa, Mexico. That’s just my dads side. MY MA IS ITALIAN AND IRISH I CANT WAIT FOR THAT CONVERSATION

[@alottoftea]

That's so interesting what you said about Jamaicans not claiming their African ancestry. I'm half Afro-Jamaican on my mum's side and I've been told that my great grandmas were white Cuban and Indian (not sure if this means Native American or South Asian!). None of those show up on my DNA test though. I have Ivory Coast & Ghana, Benin & Togo, Nigeria and Cameroon, Congo & Western Bantu Peoples, also identifying my more recent ancestors as Northern Afro-Jamaicans.

[@blossommaragh7480]

Girl thanks for sharing, and yes we are descendant of African.

[@jamericanrebel]

Spritz your hair with water/ cowash it before you put in curling custards. I wear my natural hair 99.9 percent of the time in a curly pineapple style. Also use a hair pick to fluff your hair