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My Ancestry update gave me 1% Egyptian. Which, when you consider the fact that I'm a Jamaican who teaches and performs Egyptian Dance...... That's really trippy! I strongly suspected it because on 23 my uncle has North African and my cousin has Coptic specifically. So even though my dad and I didn't get the marker, at least on 23, I felt it had to be there. Myheritage, which was the least accurate for my European and African gave me North African. Ancestry also gave me Pilipino, which I knew from 23. I feel like you have to take several companies to get a fuller picture.
@@chrisventura1881 Think Ancestry is the best for that. They also have access to a lot of records. I was really surprised at some of the documents they were able to find, but you have to pay extra for that level of service.
@TRUTHTEACHER2007 yeah doesn't seem too accurate. Only way would be if the whole world did it too pool all the DNA together. Im not interested in DNA breakdown. But I am interested in my family tree. I'm not sure my ancestors beyond Great Grands. I never met them just know their names. I'd love to learn more about the people who came before me.✌🏼
Hi Danielle, I have been watching for a while now. You are the reason I did my DNA test with Ancestry. Now I am at a loss my mother side doesn’t know their history and my father side I have not idea because my grandmother died when I was 19 and my father died when I was 15 years old. Now I get these 15 ancestral regions and I don’t know where to start on both sides of my family. My grandmother is a live on my mom side but she doesn’t want to help at all. She keep says we are better off not knowing which of course I want to know what’s you are hiding grandmother. Thank you for your videos.
... It's amazing how much stuff many of our families hid in our family trees regardless of our race/class.If your family has been in 🇺🇸 for a bunch of generations, it's hard to tell what all you may unearth from the roots of your family tree.
My Dad's family was mixed over 200 years including Indian & Black slave. The side of the family that was "white" didn't acknowledge the darker mixed cousins. There was a "falling out" related to inheritance pre WW1. There was an aunt that denied any connection our side of the family. I am afraid those relations may be lost forever. There are cousins on the "Res" in OK that don't acknowledge the "White" because they were sent away to school. So sad!!
This was a great video that shows the depths you go to correlate the information you’re receiving from various testing services, historical information, family history, etc. You’re definitely doing great work to properly interpret the data. BTW, compliments on your intro modifications. Shorter intros, with that music background, is a nice touch!
A really good book is Louisiana and the Gulf South Frontier, 1500-1821 by F. Todd Smith. I learned so much that I had no clue that I was ignorant about. The gulf coast was originally colonized by the Spanish and French who had different ways of doing things than the English. It covers a lot of the history of the different Indigenous groups and their interactions with the colonizers. They got caught in the politics of Europe and the Europeans manipulating the Indigenous rivalries. At different times, the colonists were not supported by their governments and had to fend for themselves. So many different groups settled in Louisiana like Germans and French refugees from Haiti. I had heard that New Orleans was a Caribbean city, not culturally part of the US and now I understand what that means. It also goes into the Kings Road and the ties between Nacogdoches and Natchitoches. A really thorough deep dive into the region.
Love your hair! I think it's good to research the communities and know what was going on during the time when our ancestors were alive. I think it could also help us to break through some of our brickwalls.
Thank you for this new post, Danielle. I have had an Ancestry DNA account for years, the most recent update until the newest one was September 2019. The Ancestry DNA update that I just received had a substantial change over all previous updates. In the past my largest match was Great Britain & Northwestern Europe followed by Germain heritage. This new update reversed that and made Germain my largest match by far. It was followed by Great Britain and Northwestern Europe. The new update also added several new location matches in smaller percentages.
Great video. I just subscribed. I'm African American and have a DNA mix of Northern European and Sub-Saharan African. I did Ancestry's DNA test several years back and have been through many updates. The European and African overall mix hasn't changed, but the area matches have. From having little Nigerian and Scottish to those now being the larger regions for me. The Journey or Communities didn’t change much this last update. I've shared my Ancestry results with other sites and have taken other tests. They are all pretty much the same on European and African mix, and the area matches are close.
Early Creole/African American and French may be from post-Haiti Revolution migrations. Since before Louisiana area was a state it was part of France. And French slave holders had plantations in what would become part of the US. After the Haitian revolution there was an additional large migrations of free Black people from Haiti as well as French with enslaved Africans Africans.
It’s great to see your channel growing… especially as one of the early riders to your adventure. With that said, if you’re so deeply ‘Louisiana’, we’re probably cousins 😂🙂↔️ - we are all related somehow down here. Keep up God’s work…pray all is well.
Canadian French were called Acadians if they came from modern day Nova Scotia. There are distinct French speaking communities in Canada based on New France colonies. France battled Britain and lost a battle on the Plains of Abraham in Quebec in 1759. French who refused to be British subjects ended up in Louisiana as it was French territory. Acadians were forcibly removed. Other less war related French Canadian migration post 1800 is present in Maine, Vermont, Massachusetts.
I don’t know if this will help but I do know that the men who started Natchitoches, La. and Nacogdoches, Tx. We’re Twin Brothers. Love what you’re doing! Keep Digging! ♥️
No worries, your hair is lovely! I was exstatic to see the new communities, it helped confirm some theories I have on my mom's side (Sephardic is now a category!). The Irish results made me laugh, b/c like you I had almost none but crazy amounts of Scottish (inc my dad, where I get it from). I will say for Ulster, a lot of people have Scottish descent because of the Plantation of Ulster years. It blew my mind b/c it's a sad history but explains why we have Scots-Irish in US and why it's hard to narrow down DNA when it comes to Scots and Irish (on top of the Celts dna).
I’ve found the Journeys (formerly Communities) on Ancestry to be pretty good. It accurately listed many that I knew about and some I need to look further into.
I took Ancestry several years ago and have been through all of the updates. Unlike your really interesting, rich & diverse ancestral journey, mine is nearly entirely Slavic with only some trace regions (assumptions I presume) bouncing around its edges over the last few updates from the Nordics, Baltics, and Germanic Europe. I really enjoy watching your updates!
My wife followed her DNA test to a small town near Belfast, Northern Ireland. Now in our 60's. Her grandfather immigrated here just after working on the Titanic, at only 17. Due to religious persecution. Leaving a wife and daughter behind with family. His wife soon passed and the daughter went on to have 14 children. All but one still alive. They're all still live in the same area. And all showed up at the pub in town we had stopped at with only a name. Within 1hr all 13 showed up wanting to hear about their grandfather that fled to America. They ranged from 63, to late 80's. All had large families of kids and grandkids. We stayed for 2 weeks. I helped worked the ranch they live on. It took a week to understand their accents. But some of the best times Ive ever had. I spent time in 32 countries. This trip was the best.
My update from ancestry puts me with Spain and Portugal at 84 percent and my community is in the Canary Islands. My parents who have never took the test and are deceased also have communities that comes under journey by parents and my mother’s community is in northern Spain, Azores as well as Ireland and what is interesting about Ireland is that my great grandmother was of English descent, but yet my mother’s community is in Ireland. My father’s community is also interesting because it is Ashkenazi Jews in Eastern Europe as well as Louisiana French settlers and French settlers of Mississippi, New Orleans, Quebec, New York and Vermont. I truly believe that I am Spanish, French and English, but mostly Spanish and I hope to one day hire a Genealogist to help me find my paper trail and my real heritage.
@1:12 you got that hair that changes with the seasons, with that dark brown, black and copper hair, you can style it naturally, ain't nothing wrong with it, lol. During the summer, part of my hair can get bleached into copper, and I get a copper tone tan when I work out in the field. The sun dictates, so I roll with it, haha.
Just got to the end of this video and made my cup of tea to drink with you. I am enjoying your enthusiasm and the relaxing chat style videos you are making. I look forward to hearing more about your Louisiana research since that is where we overlap somewhat in our heritage. Thanks again for all you do!
You're a beautiful Sicilian woman. I liked listening to the banter between you & your Dad. I love what you're doing. I'm learning so much more about my Sicilian heritage. I am a swarthy complected male, which I am also very proud of. I tan well in the summer months and get many compliments in this regard. My family lost speaking Italian 2 generations ago which is regrettable. I heard a Rosa Parks type story that my maternal grandmother experienced in Florida back in the late 1940's and/or the 1950's...she was forced give up her seat and move to the back of the bus. She was also a beatiful Sicilian woman with olive skin color. I take after both my nana and my mom in that respect. I found it humorous that your dad has been approached by different people questioning his ethnicity. I have been approached by patrons at my place of employment speaking Arabic, Spanish & Portuguese probably due to my swarthy appearance. I was able to navigate through the Spanish as I've had 4 years of it in school. On a bad note, I am being discriminated against at my place of employment (public service) which I feel is not only due to my Sicilian heritage but also due to my age(58). I have been with this employer for 31 years. I am an Air Force/Air National Guard veteran and have 4 years of college (BS in Aviation Science) with a great employment history. Discrimination in employment with Italians and/or Sicilians still exists today. Please keep up the research, I enjoy your work and the history that you & you're dad have shared. Thank You, Jamie/Boston MA. ....heritage from Tortoricci , Sicily
Hi there, I'm from Northern Ireland (Ulster) which is part of the UK, not the Republic of Ireland. Many people in Ulster have ancestry from Scotland like myself, we are called Ulster Scots or in America they are called the Scots or Scotch Irish. The Scots Irish migrated to the US in the 1600-1700's and were the first white settlers in many parts of the US , they were the Protestant Irish, infact one third to one half of George Washingtons soldiers were all Ulster Scots / Scots Irish, they were critical to early America. The Southern (catholic) Irish moved in waves many years later in the mid 1800's during the Irish famine. So, culturally those in Ulster are mostly of Scottish ancestry (like myself) unlike those in the South of Ireland. Many Americans who claim Irish ancestry are in fact the protestant Irish of the Scots Irish (Ulster Scots).
My dad's side of the family move to Maryland USA from Central England in 1800's and married Black women (my great great Do I throw another great in there?" ). I have a photo of him in his British Uniform. I can only trace my mom's family back to Oklahoma where her great grandmother (Cherokee) married her great great grandfather (an escaped slave and former Civil war Buffalo soldier at ft. Sill ). And he also fought with US Grant from The battle of the Wilderness to Appomattox. Its fortunate he lived to over 100 years old , else we would not have his History.
I’ve just said we are all mutts these days. I don’t mean that in any sort of derogatory way. I say it because I think too many people these days run around as if they are “pure” or something (whatever that means. I will say however that each marker from each community represents an individual in time that contributed to the genetic makeup that makes you who/what you are. An individual with a story. From another culture with another story. And a history with its own story. And if their story didn’t happen, you wouldn’t be you. I was hoping to connect with you in a phone conversation. I messaged you. I don’t want to be a pest so I will not bring it up again. I think (and yes, I could be wrong) that you would enjoy the conversation. And based on your videos, I am interested in your opinion. You definitely seem like a very impassioned and thoughtful person so that is my motivation to have that conversation
Oh thank you! I definitely missed that message. I really appreciate your perspective on identity-it’s true, we’re each made up of countless stories, woven together in a way that makes us beautifully complex and interconnected. Just to be open with you, I've had to be mindful about privacy due to past experiences with people trying to track me down! I’m happy to keep the conversation going here if you’d like, though-I really value engaging with people who bring curiosity and insight to these topics. Or over on Patreon, Im able to direct message with folks! Thanks again for understanding, and I’m looking forward to hearing more of your thoughts!
@@nytn : I may comment here if I see a video that I want to offer something on but the conversation I was trying to have is not one I want to attempt here. I messaged you again since you missed my other message. Like I said, don’t want to be a pest so up to you. Either way I definitely understand.
In the days of old, people didn't move very far, they married people nearby in the same village or the next village, so over generations the people tend to look like each other. That is how ethnic groups and races form, by restricted breeding, the way you breed pure breed dogs like Great Danes or Chows. It doesn't mean we are pure of an ethnic group or race, it just means we look like each other and share a lot of dna.
I’m so glad to have found your channel through watching other Melungeon vids, great stuff & now I know I need to do Ancestry for the documentation of my family tree, already did 23&me yrs ago, but it doesn’t tell the story of migration. Also my dad’s family’s from southern WV & my grandparents literally laughed @ me when I was young & had an assignment to find out what nationality we were, they said what do ya mean like the breed of a dog 😂 so then they just started reconin what we might be by the way our families last names sounded throughout the generations. My moms side on the other hand is short sweet & to the point Irish & a pepper of French/German, I only knew the French/German was in there because a distant cousin started doing moms dad’s side back in the late 80’s, she’s like an OG @ the docs side of things, I should probably get in touch w/her, but heck sounds easier to have Ancestry or My Heritage, which do you recommend 1st???
My grandparents on my father's side came to America in the 1920s from Southern Italy. My mother's parents were Canadian/Irish. Out of all the children we had one sister who ended up being very Olive skinned with very wavy hair (I was jealous) She was born in 1955 and in her youth was treated very badly and called derogatory names. I inherited red hair and green eyes so I was spared the abuse. I think people forget how badly Italians and Irish people were treated.
I checked out the new ancestry journey update and I was quite pleased with it. It showed I am descended from Louisiana Creoles . I have been intrigued about this part of my ancestry as Creoles are beautiful people.
love the continued couch conversations. these conversations are helping me heal from the circle of secrets. i have found THREE marriage records of my grandparents due perhaps to her being "colored" and him being Irish. one Catholic Registry, one civil registry, and then a LATER civil court record??? i have watched a TH-cam vid on why 25% of our DNA is NOT always our grandmother~ but i don't really understand it....yet.
The Puerto Rican connection could be through shared ancestors from the Canary islands? I once went through some old New Orleans parish records and Puerto Rican families were certainly present there.
There were multiple changes on my DNA with the new dump of data on Ancestry. I knew I had Dutch from my surname and the paper trail. My ancester founded New Amsterdam (now New York City). But it didn’t show up before. I assumed it was included in the Northwestern Europe category. But my 20% Swedish disappeared and turned into Finland and The Netherlands. My Irish is now split to include Iceland. My percentage of French more than doubled. My Southern Bantu changed to Yorubaland (which I'd never heard of) and Camaroon. My daughter didn't get any of the new stuff from me. It is very interesting to see how the gene lottery works. I apparently gave her most DNA from my mother and not very much from my dad. My first cousins used to share the same Southern Bantu with me, but now theirs changed to something else and it's not even the same as each other. My aunt went from decending from 3 tribes in Africa to 6. This tells me my African ancestors were here for multiple generations mixing up the blood lines before passing. It appears from cousin matches that there was passing in both my grandmother and grandfather's families. I can't tell yet whether this will make it easier or harder to track them down!
I know I’m late but thank you for letting me know about the updates. I’m part East African and Danish now lol. However it’s weird it like magically appeared 4% Denmark out of nowhere. It’s new to it added to my European dna. which is crazy for them just now to discover this 0 to 4% I wonder what changed. The East African doesn’t surprise me my second highest group on Ancestry is Bantu. What did surprise me was Yoruba land. It’s never linked me to an African ethnic group besides the Bantu. I wonder how they did it what new data did they get. It’s crazy how these things change over time (Dna results). I can see why you need other research in collaboration with these results. I’ve done alot of research but it seems I still have so much more to do. Thank you again 💫
Very interesting content. I truly enjoy watching. It's pretty interesting even among siblings with the same parents, traits that show. Genetics is extremely complicated.
I also had a super specific community that was a really small radius in Austria/Hungary that my dad and granduncle still have but for some reason they took it away. It is so accurate to my tree, matches, and immediate family have it so I don’t get that logic but hopefully I get re attached to it. Another thing about ancestry communities is they are heavily impacted by your matches, so you may get communities if you have a lot of cousins from that community even if you don’t necessarily connect to it with your direct ancestors.
Interesting. All these DNA companies have different databases in comparison. The genetic grouping updates just keep appearing. I haven't heard Creoles of Color in a long time.
I have Munster Ireland as well, most of my ancestry from Ireland comes from the southwest corner of the island (County Kerry specifically, do I know there's more than just that county in that region). They gave me about six specific areas within Munster, most of which I'm pretty sure encompass where my grandfather's ancestors are from. A lot of Irish immigrants came from that area, I think Cork is included in there as well and there were a lot of Irish immigrants that came from county Cork. I also went to Ireland in 2016 so I'm somewhat familiar with the area. Super beautiful place by the way, completely recommend visiting!
Your hair is beautiful. I understand the hair color thing. Happened to me, before a photo shoot, once. I washed it so many times. It actually worked out great. Relax and enjoy.❤
Great video, the italian is very strong. In the future, you should do a video on the louisiana spanish and the Choctaw apache tribe which is state recognized, a fascinating rabbit hole.
Danielle, you are Gorgeous. You should write a book. Thank you for your hard work. Great video! There are so many Blacks that passed for white. It comes out sometimes as we age. I work in a assisted living see many. 😊
Munster was one of the four major divisions of Ireland (mostly southwest). Munster has a high Celtic Irish population, being west of the so-called Pale of Settlement where "Englishry of the Pale" had settled between century 13 and century 16. Ulster was in the north, and was the place where James I of England aka James VI of Scotland (the "King James" of "King James Bible" fame) had taken land from Celtic Irish locals who had supported "Red Hugh O'Neill, the Earl of Ulster, in his rebellion against the English during Elizabeth I, and given it to Lowland Scottish Protestants (who became the source of the "Scotch-Irish" and tried their hand at killing Celtic Irish Catholics as a dress rehearsal for killing Native Americans in century 18 and c. 19).
Before World War 2 , at Saint Patrick`s Cathedral in New York City , the ITALIANS had to use the basement of the Cathedral for their masses , because the IRISH would not allow Italians to use the first floor !!
@UilleamMacLoganach Also , when they tried to integrate the schools in Boston in the 1970`s , the anger and hatred toward Blacks from the Irish was tremendous.
@UilleamMacLoganach There is no need to preach to me Mac. I am the person who wrote on NYTN , that when Columbus first saw the Caribbean Natives , he wrote in his ship`s log " they look like they will make good SLAVES."
@UilleamMacLoganach " Mac ", your name looks Scottish , but apparently you`re Irish. I have in the past written on NYTN that SOME of my Italian mother`s family members were quite racist. But somehow the Irish only claim to be VICTIMS of bigotry , and never the VICTIMIZERS. And that claim is NONSENSE.
@UilleamMacLoganach Mac , In a survey & study of all the countries in Western Europe , that was done a few years ago , IRELAND was found to be the MOST anti-Black. England was the LEAST anti-Black. The study only questioned White residents , to keep it accurate. I rest my case !! By the way , I am also of part Scottish ancestry.
Louisiana/South Texas were unique in the central US in that they were heavily Catholic, and were also home to several immigration ports. Religion was often very important in choosing destinations for settlement. During the Mexican-American war (1849?), many Irish recruits went over to the Mexican side because the armies were encamped across the river from each other, and the Mexican Padres would hold services and offer communion, and the Irish Catholics were without this solace.
Tip from me - pushing 60, lightly graying in areas -use Purple shampoo. It's usually meant for blonds, but it blends the gray in if you have darker hair.
The French Canadians migrated to Louisiana (Arcadians or Cajuns!). Your Irish ancestry and your ability to show direct links to specific people born in Ireland makes you eligible to apply for Irish citizenship/passport! Do it 😎
Danielle , since your mother`s family was from south Louisiana , have you ever researched the Knights of the White Camelia ?? The Knights were founded in south Louisiana by Jean Maximilien Alcibiades Derneville De Blanc ( a long name ! ) in 1867. I wonder if any of your ancestors had any problems from The Knights ??
Also the Ozarks, since the first European settlers of the Ozarks came from Appalachia. My grandfather is from the Missouri Ozarks and descended from the very first wave of European settlers, and he shows up as 95.3% British (broken down into 70.6% “Scottish and Welsh” and 24.7% English), 3.5% French, and 1.2% Dutch on v2.5 MyHeritage.
That's interesting, my adopted sister did Ancestry and found out she had French settlers of Quebec as ancestral community too. That would be so bonkers if you guys were cousins!
My update seemed more accurate AND more mystifying than previous ones. I'm still 2/3 to 3/4 Irish (Connaught and Ulster) on both paternal and maternal sides, which I know to be the case from research. They finally added in the "Germanic Europe" that I always knew had to be there as I know I have some ancestors from Bavaria on my mother's side. So far so good, but the fun and the mystery were in the trace elements. They always had given me 1% Cyprus, which was completely mystifying. This time they refined it to 1% Eastern Mediterranean, Southern Italian. There was also 1% Denmark, down from 9%, which made sense, and 1% Wales. The Ancestry results purport or aim to, at least, show people where their ancestors were living a thousand years ago. What could possibly connect Denmark, England or Wales, and Southern Italy? So I'm thinking Normans? They were in all those areas. In genealogy, each new question that gets answered seems to raise more!
There were Normans in Sicily and Southern Italy. Borders have moved in Europe, parts of Denmark are now Germany, it can be difficult to know where to draw the line.
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Start at St. Martinsville, Louisiana....memorial wall. It's in a museum. The creole museum is next door. I'm one step ahead of you in this as I am next door in Texas.
@NYTN: No, you did expect becouse it is exactly the ancestors that I predicted several videos ago. In any case, you should know that in North Africa there were Romans, so whites, Carthaginians, whites too, Suebi, Alans and Vandals that Visigoths expelled from Spain, that is, Germanic tribes and also in the USA, especially in the east or those who arrived. By Ellis Island they have a lot of mixture with Jews. I repeat that creole is not a mixture of races, it is a word that comes from the Spanish "criollo" and they were the white Spaniards who were born outside the metropolis, the mestizos, it is usually applied to a mixture with Indians in Spanish and mulattos mixed with blacks. It is evident that for a time some of your ancestors were part of the Spanish Empire because those Indians they are telling you about disappeared with the English and the Usacs, instead they were part of Spanish communities. Another part of your family was Irish and Nigerian, which was a British colony but at that time they did not have slaves, perhaps it was the one who bought land in Louisiana?
my paternal gr grandparents and their parents I’ve confirmed lived in Castleblany Ireland (mid 1800s - last one of my direct family left by 1921) which is near the border with & almost became part of Northern Ireland. Northern Ireland still remains part of the UK today. I found a letter signed by my great grandmothers sister supporting and requesting the county be left out of the new Irish free state as they are loyal to Britain. I’m 1% Irish according to my dna test & I literally JUST started learning about Ulster Ireland yesterday. Lots of issues going on there in the 1920s 1930s. Forged in Ulster has some good videos.
I don’t know if this will help your understanding of how some of the Louisiana groups came to be known. But I do know from my time in grad school that LSUHSC grad school was awarded a grant to characterize the Cajun genome. Because of our language difference from most Americans, and the lack of mobility at the time, marrying cousins happened quite a bit. The Cajun genome was targeted when automated sequencing was becoming more economical both cost and labor wise, and the reality that Cajuns were among the most inbred identifiable group in America with several genetic disorder genes becoming rather frequent (ushers syndrome types I and II, thalassemia, some retinal degenerative disease, among others). Sequencing the genome of samples of this population was thus simpler (less variation) and would likely identify new disease causing mutations. The lady leading the project at the time was Bronya Keats. At the same school another researcher named Prescott Deininger, now at Tulane med, was big into sequencing ALU repeats which are transposing dna elements (viral dna that were incorporated by early human ancestors that become active when an egg is fertilized and are drivers of most of the genetic diversity among people as mutation in coding genes is more often pathologic). Anyway, it makes sense to me that genetic markers unique to south Louisiana and those of French decent be they black or white would be identified as this work started in the 1990s. And I can tell you French speaking creoles of mixed heritage, especially when lighter colored, were very exclusive as to who they mixed with. They absolutely did not consider themselves black, and they were not considered white, so they had their own communities, churches and schools. Some of the most prestigious historical black schools in south Louisiana descend from this community, which as late as 1980s I learned, found it more socially acceptable to mix with European descendant folks than they did with dark skinned folks of African descent. My blunt introduction to this was when a light skinned female coworker of French creole ancestry had her parents storm into our work place to confront a dark skinned young man who had been trying to ask out their daughter. I don’t think I’ve ever heard a man called the n word so many times and threatened so much in a public space ever. Anyway, mixing was more acceptable under French rule, and once Americans took over language and racism by whites and mixed creoles kept groups much more reproductively isolated than is typical of not groups in the states.
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My original dna results were 87 percent Irish and 13 percent Scottish. With this update they gave me 7 percent Scottish and 6 percent english. My mother got 16 percent Scottish rest irish. Happy enough with that.
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im always confused on the dna communities and how its determined and the benefits of them and what they tell u. like mine is northeast Poland, French Canadian and it breaks down further, and new york/Pennsylvania. but as far as i know i have no French Canadian ancestry or ancestors according to my search and when it was free for a week it told me that community was on my maternal side. and ancestry tells u its from likely specific regions such as England, Scotland and Germany
People change their names, they might lie about their origins or they might pass from French Canadian to USA Anglo American. French Canadians come from a limited number of French founders, so they appear to be more closely related to each other than they are in reality.
@Ponto-zv9vf I also have no French Ancestry, so I wonder if my grandfather's information records are wrong and the northwestern European and England results are from northern France
The maternal haplogroups are also passed from mother to son, not just to daughters. The maternal haplogroup is from the mitochondria DNA, which is the food source for all of your cells. It's not part of the X-chromosome that is also passed from a mother to all of her children. As a note, FTDNA Family Finder is rolling out the high-level haplogroups to people who test there directly and they will add the haplogroups to people who have transferred their DNA, but those who transferred their DNA will be the last people to get that assignment.
Pro tip: When using a semi permanent hair color, always use a shade or two lighter than your natural hair! Once you go salt and pepper, this will give you beautiful highlights, because it won't lighten the dark hairs, but it will give a complementary, dimensional color to the gray hairs. Next time, try medium brown or even medium auburn - that would go nicely with your natural coppery undertones!
I watch because I am trying to get this obsession with race in her country. Why put it on your birth certificate, driver's license, death certificate... It seems pointless.
The African ethnic groups only appear for Nigeria, Cameroon, and Mali. I didn't receive ethnic groups for the generic North Africa, Senegal, Ghana/Ivory Coast, the generic Western Bantu, etc. Still I have more than 40 ethnic group matches. Quite interesting because each ethnic group had a landing page with demographics, a brief bio, and 3 videos.
No, neither Ancestry nor 23andMe accept uploads from other companies. Do you still have the raw DNA data file that you uploaded to GEDmatch? If so, you can upload it to MyHeritage and FTDNA. You cannot download your raw DNA data file from GEDmatch, but since you had to have a copy on your computer in order to upload it to GEDmatch, do you still have a copy? Another tip. Be sure to save any raw DNA data that you download. That is the primary source for any analysis.
Most shampoos and conditioners take color dye right out a lot faster than a month and a half. I guess the main ingredient to look for is sulphates. Sounds like everyone got dramatic changes to their dna results. Mine were mostly reinterpretations. These testing kits follow humans over the past couple hundred years and what have we been doing more than ever before, moving around.
Wow could the Canada French communities be Cajuns who migrated to Louisiana territory? I find the communities interesting in the direction my ancestors may have went or come from. I only have mid Atlantic and southeastern African American groups.
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Hi Danielle, Thank you for your channel and great videos. I have taken ethnicity tests from 23andMe, Ancestry, MyHeritage, and Family Tree. The all have given me different results and all have missed my French and Filipino ancestry. I know where everyone of my ancestors came from down to the village level. Here are some examples of goofy results, the Asian results are either Siberia or Central Asia. My maternal haplogroup is M7b3a which is from ...wait for it...the Philippines. My sister in-law was born in France to French parents in a village that her family has lived in for centuries. What do her Ancestry results say she is (she was looking to see if she hade Jewish ancestry)? English! What's my point? You have to take the results with a grain of salt. One more thing, DNA tests are illegal in France so the testing companies are getting zero reults from there. Thanks, and keep up the good work. Cheers, Joe
my only "ancestral journeys" on Ancestry are on my mother's side, whereas I used to have the same communities on my father's side that he does, but now they have disappeared for me but not for him🤷♂
The Acadians (French speaking Catholics) were forcefully removed from Nova Scotia Canada in 1755. The resettled in Louisiana. There were also many who resettled in ME, NH, VT, and MA too. I heard about it through descendants living in New England. Many many many maintained their French language throughout their lives through the generations to this day.
It is interesting that Ancestry DNA regions show that we can share a connection to others that we would have not thought we are connected to. For example, although a majority of my ancestors, 64%, came from Europe, 26% of them came from indigenous Americas Mexico and though I don't identify as Mexican as I am a descendant of a tribe from Southern California, my region includes Southern California, Southern Arizona, Sonora, Mexico, and Baja California, Mexico. In addition, I got 2% Indigenous Americas Yucatan Peninsula plus 3% Indigenous Americas North. So clearly the Natives of the American Southwest and the Natives of Mexico are related. I look like a total white boy and while I am white, primarily from Germanic Europe, the British Isles, and some from Southern Europe, I also have a substantial amount of ancestry from people of color. I knew from family history that am part Native American, but the Ancestry test surprised at me as I also have 3% Sub-Saharan African blood and 2% from Northern Africa which means I am part black and Arab too. More and more I am seeing that Human Beings are connected. So what race am I? Human! ONE RACE, THE HUMAN RACE, BE GOOD TO EACH OTHER!
I can recommend a few! I saw in another comment your family is from Louisiana. Contact my cousin Alex Lee (Alex Genealogy) on facebook. He's a genealogist with Louisiana heritage, too. He has a FB group that's amazing. Tell him I sent you!
I've been a member of Ancestry since 2011. I contacted them after my aunt and daughter both showed French dna. I've matched with 100% French members. They listed French Canadian areas. When I contacted them, they acted like I didn't know what I was talking about. In this new update, I am.... 29% French. That is ridiculous. It took 13 years to show French.
Nacogdoches, Texas to Natchitoches, Texas ;isn't this sort of the area where the Redbones are from ? It is an aeea that is " like a bridge" between the Louisana Creoles and Mexican -American and Mexicans from Southern Texas/ Northern Mexico .
Acadians are primarily the French people who moved down to Louisiana from Quebec when France lost Quebec to the English, best guess is that this where his Quebec settlers link.
As far as Trinidad and P.R. go, understand that the Indigenous Caribbean people (Arawak) inhabited alk of the Caribbean, and since Spain occupied both islands 'Cairi' (Trinidad) and Boricua (P.R) with Africans generally from the same regions (mostly Benin, Nigeria, etc) and of course the Spaniards with the main difference being a greater population of 'West Indians' in Trinidad than in P.R. (P.R. had/has West Indians but no where near the population that Trinidad has). My point being it may be that you're more from P.R than the latter. Unless you find West Indian in your ancestry then its anyones guess. Either way, these terms P.R., Trini, etc are not races or ethnicities, but nationalities. The Caribbean are all ONE people conquered and divided, colonized and brainwashed into thinking they are not one and the same.
The reason i asked is because Trinidad has an interesting history and connection to the people in the south of the US and come of the Creols. After the Hatian revolution some of the people who left went to luisiana and some made their way down the island chain till they ended up in Trinidad. Trinidad also has a group of people who we call the "Merikins". They were the enslaved people who faught for the Brits in the war of 1812. The Brits later settled 200 people in Trinidad.
(Its because they don't really move that far away.) Its just a grouping of them making the culture East Texan. Natchitoches and Nacogdoches are not French in origin but Indian (Indigenous American) everything around them has a mixture of Indian, French Creole, Spanish blind. I cant really tell you why but also a Southeast Asian feel. The Southeast Asians are not beating the allegations of being seen as Black/Hispanic (but that neither here nor there) But Texas and Louisiana would fight you over any slender of the Vietnamese and Filipino Tía's
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My Ancestry update gave me 1% Egyptian. Which, when you consider the fact that I'm a Jamaican who teaches and performs Egyptian Dance...... That's really trippy! I strongly suspected it because on 23 my uncle has North African and my cousin has Coptic specifically. So even though my dad and I didn't get the marker, at least on 23, I felt it had to be there. Myheritage, which was the least accurate for my European and African gave me North African. Ancestry also gave me Pilipino, which I knew from 23. I feel like you have to take several companies to get a fuller picture.
Curious what companies help you with your family tree?
@@chrisventura1881 Think Ancestry is the best for that. They also have access to a lot of records. I was really surprised at some of the documents they were able to find, but you have to pay extra for that level of service.
@TRUTHTEACHER2007 yeah doesn't seem too accurate. Only way would be if the whole world did it too pool all the DNA together. Im not interested in DNA breakdown. But I am interested in my family tree. I'm not sure my ancestors beyond Great Grands. I never met them just know their names. I'd love to learn more about the people who came before me.✌🏼
The hair looks great.
thank you:)
So does the biker shorts
" @cedricharris ", YES , I didn`t want to be the first guy to say it , but Danielle has beautiful legs !!
@@Percept2024 oh that's her name ☺
She's married people.
Hi Danielle, I have been watching for a while now. You are the reason I did my DNA test with Ancestry. Now I am at a loss my mother side doesn’t know their history and my father side I have not idea because my grandmother died when I was 19 and my father died when I was 15 years old. Now I get these 15 ancestral regions and I don’t know where to start on both sides of my family. My grandmother is a live on my mom side but she doesn’t want to help at all. She keep says we are better off not knowing which of course I want to know what’s you are hiding grandmother. Thank you for your videos.
... It's amazing how much stuff many of our families hid in our family trees regardless of our race/class.If your family has been in 🇺🇸 for a bunch of generations, it's hard to tell what all you may unearth from the roots of your family tree.
My Dad's family was mixed over 200 years including Indian & Black slave. The side of the family that was "white" didn't
acknowledge the darker mixed cousins. There was a "falling out" related to inheritance pre WW1. There was an aunt that denied any connection our side of the family. I am afraid those relations may be lost forever.
There are cousins on the "Res" in OK that don't acknowledge the "White" because they were sent away to school. So sad!!
@@doylecoleI'm sorry about the chaos because of race.
Pick a line and take it back.
This was a great video that shows the depths you go to correlate the information you’re receiving from various testing services, historical information, family history, etc. You’re definitely doing great work to properly interpret the data.
BTW, compliments on your intro modifications. Shorter intros, with that music background, is a nice touch!
OMG,Your hair looks absolutely beautiful along with the rest of you.🥰🌺
A really good book is Louisiana and the Gulf South Frontier, 1500-1821 by F. Todd Smith. I learned so much that I had no clue that I was ignorant about. The gulf coast was originally colonized by the Spanish and French who had different ways of doing things than the English. It covers a lot of the history of the different Indigenous groups and their interactions with the colonizers. They got caught in the politics of Europe and the Europeans manipulating the Indigenous rivalries. At different times, the colonists were not supported by their governments and had to fend for themselves. So many different groups settled in Louisiana like Germans and French refugees from Haiti. I had heard that New Orleans was a Caribbean city, not culturally part of the US and now I understand what that means. It also goes into the Kings Road and the ties between Nacogdoches and Natchitoches. A really thorough deep dive into the region.
Yes! It’s crazy how Native Americans suffered under the English and still survived!
Love your hair! I think it's good to research the communities and know what was going on during the time when our ancestors were alive. I think it could also help us to break through some of our brickwalls.
...& help us build bridges😊.
Thank you for this new post, Danielle. I have had an Ancestry DNA account for years, the most recent update until the newest one was September 2019.
The Ancestry DNA update that I just received had a substantial change over all previous updates. In the past my largest match was Great Britain & Northwestern Europe followed by Germain heritage.
This new update reversed that and made Germain my largest match by far. It was followed by Great Britain and Northwestern Europe.
The new update also added several new location matches in smaller percentages.
Great video. I just subscribed. I'm African American and have a DNA mix of Northern European and Sub-Saharan African. I did Ancestry's DNA test several years back and have been through many updates. The European and African overall mix hasn't changed, but the area matches have. From having little Nigerian and Scottish to those now being the larger regions for me. The Journey or Communities didn’t change much this last update. I've shared my Ancestry results with other sites and have taken other tests. They are all pretty much the same on European and African mix, and the area matches are close.
Early Creole/African American and French may be from post-Haiti Revolution migrations. Since before Louisiana area was a state it was part of France. And French slave holders had plantations in what would become part of the US. After the Haitian revolution there was an additional large migrations of free Black people from Haiti as well as French with enslaved Africans Africans.
It’s great to see your channel growing… especially as one of the early riders to your adventure. With that said, if you’re so deeply ‘Louisiana’, we’re probably cousins 😂🙂↔️ - we are all related somehow down here. Keep up God’s work…pray all is well.
Canadian French were called Acadians if they came from modern day Nova Scotia. There are distinct French speaking communities in Canada based on New France colonies. France battled Britain and lost a battle on the Plains of Abraham in Quebec in 1759. French who refused to be British subjects ended up in Louisiana as it was French territory. Acadians were forcibly removed. Other less war related French Canadian migration post 1800 is present in Maine, Vermont, Massachusetts.
Interesting, thanks for the history.
French Canadians also settled in Rhode Island.
I don’t know if this will help but I do know that the men who started Natchitoches, La. and Nacogdoches, Tx. We’re Twin Brothers. Love what you’re doing! Keep Digging! ♥️
No worries, your hair is lovely! I was exstatic to see the new communities, it helped confirm some theories I have on my mom's side (Sephardic is now a category!). The Irish results made me laugh, b/c like you I had almost none but crazy amounts of Scottish (inc my dad, where I get it from). I will say for Ulster, a lot of people have Scottish descent because of the Plantation of Ulster years. It blew my mind b/c it's a sad history but explains why we have Scots-Irish in US and why it's hard to narrow down DNA when it comes to Scots and Irish (on top of the Celts dna).
Thanks for the tip. I now need to go read up on the Plantation of Ulster.
I love your videos and your hair looks great. To say that these are interesting would be an understatement. Keep 'em coming and I'll keep watching. 👍🏾
I’ve found the Journeys (formerly Communities) on Ancestry to be pretty good. It accurately listed many that I knew about and some I need to look further into.
Yeah, they missed my one shroud of Turin gene🪜😆
I took Ancestry several years ago and have been through all of the updates. Unlike your really interesting, rich & diverse ancestral journey, mine is nearly entirely Slavic with only some trace regions (assumptions I presume) bouncing around its edges over the last few updates from the Nordics, Baltics, and Germanic Europe. I really enjoy watching your updates!
My wife followed her DNA test to a small town near Belfast, Northern Ireland. Now in our 60's. Her grandfather immigrated here just after working on the Titanic, at only 17. Due to religious persecution. Leaving a wife and daughter behind with family. His wife soon passed and the daughter went on to have 14 children. All but one still alive. They're all still live in the same area. And all showed up at the pub in town we had stopped at with only a name. Within 1hr all 13 showed up wanting to hear about their grandfather that fled to America. They ranged from 63, to late 80's. All had large families of kids and grandkids. We stayed for 2 weeks. I helped worked the ranch they live on. It took a week to understand their accents. But some of the best times Ive ever had. I spent time in 32 countries. This trip was the best.
A good colorist is priceless. I love the conditioner in the dye box though. It really tames my nappy hair.
the conditioner IS AMAZING. Im so glad you said that. I would buy the dye just for the tiny conditioner tube
My update from ancestry puts me with Spain and Portugal at 84 percent and my community is in the Canary Islands. My parents who have never took the test and are deceased also have communities that comes under journey by parents and my mother’s community is in northern Spain, Azores as well as Ireland and what is interesting about Ireland is that my great grandmother was of English descent, but yet my mother’s community is in Ireland. My father’s community is also interesting because it is Ashkenazi Jews in Eastern Europe as well as Louisiana French settlers and French settlers of Mississippi, New Orleans, Quebec, New York and Vermont. I truly believe that I am Spanish, French and English, but mostly Spanish and I hope to one day hire a Genealogist to help me find my paper trail and my real heritage.
@1:12 you got that hair that changes with the seasons, with that dark brown, black and copper hair, you can style it naturally, ain't nothing wrong with it, lol. During the summer, part of my hair can get bleached into copper, and I get a copper tone tan when I work out in the field. The sun dictates, so I roll with it, haha.
Just got to the end of this video and made my cup of tea to drink with you. I am enjoying your enthusiasm and the relaxing chat style videos you are making. I look forward to hearing more about your Louisiana research since that is where we overlap somewhat in our heritage. Thanks again for all you do!
You are glowing Danielle! Blessings to you and your family 🙏🏽
You're a beautiful Sicilian woman. I liked listening to the banter between you & your Dad. I love what you're doing. I'm learning so much more about my Sicilian heritage. I am a swarthy complected male, which I am also very proud of. I tan well in the summer months and get many compliments in this regard.
My family lost speaking Italian 2 generations ago which is regrettable. I heard a Rosa Parks type story that my maternal grandmother experienced in Florida back in the late 1940's and/or the 1950's...she was forced give up her seat and move to the back of the bus. She was also a beatiful Sicilian woman with olive skin color. I take after both my nana and my mom in that respect.
I found it humorous that your dad has been approached by different people questioning his ethnicity. I have been approached by patrons at my place of employment speaking Arabic, Spanish & Portuguese probably due to my swarthy appearance. I was able to navigate through the Spanish as I've had 4 years of it in school.
On a bad note, I am being discriminated against at my place of employment (public service) which I feel is not only due to my Sicilian heritage but also due to my age(58). I have been with this employer for 31 years. I am an Air Force/Air National Guard veteran and have 4 years of college (BS in Aviation Science) with a great employment history.
Discrimination in employment with Italians and/or Sicilians still exists today.
Please keep up the research, I enjoy your work and the history that you & you're dad have shared.
Thank You,
Jamie/Boston MA. ....heritage from Tortoricci , Sicily
Hi there, I'm from Northern Ireland (Ulster) which is part of the UK, not the Republic of Ireland. Many people in Ulster have ancestry from Scotland like myself, we are called Ulster Scots or in America they are called the Scots or Scotch Irish. The Scots Irish migrated to the US in the 1600-1700's and were the first white settlers in many parts of the US , they were the Protestant Irish, infact one third to one half of George Washingtons soldiers were all Ulster Scots / Scots Irish, they were critical to early America. The Southern (catholic) Irish moved in waves many years later in the mid 1800's during the Irish famine. So, culturally those in Ulster are mostly of Scottish ancestry (like myself) unlike those in the South of Ireland. Many Americans who claim Irish ancestry are in fact the protestant Irish of the Scots Irish (Ulster Scots).
My dad's side of the family move to Maryland USA from Central England in 1800's and married Black women (my great great Do I throw another great in there?" ). I have a photo of him in his British Uniform.
I can only trace my mom's family back to Oklahoma where her great grandmother (Cherokee) married her great great grandfather (an escaped slave and former Civil war Buffalo soldier at ft. Sill ). And he also fought with US Grant from The battle of the Wilderness to Appomattox. Its fortunate he lived to over 100 years old , else we would not have his History.
Wow, you gotta share more of that! What important parts of American history that often doesn’t get mentioned!
Sounds very interesting!
This is awesome!!! Very cool!
You have given me calmness in approaching my heritage.
I’ve just said we are all mutts these days. I don’t mean that in any sort of derogatory way. I say it because I think too many people these days run around as if they are “pure” or something (whatever that means. I will say however that each marker from each community represents an individual in time that contributed to the genetic makeup that makes you who/what you are. An individual with a story. From another culture with another story. And a history with its own story. And if their story didn’t happen, you wouldn’t be you.
I was hoping to connect with you in a phone conversation. I messaged you. I don’t want to be a pest so I will not bring it up again. I think (and yes, I could be wrong) that you would enjoy the conversation. And based on your videos, I am interested in your opinion. You definitely seem like a very impassioned and thoughtful person so that is my motivation to have that conversation
Oh thank you! I definitely missed that message. I really appreciate your perspective on identity-it’s true, we’re each made up of countless stories, woven together in a way that makes us beautifully complex and interconnected.
Just to be open with you, I've had to be mindful about privacy due to past experiences with people trying to track me down!
I’m happy to keep the conversation going here if you’d like, though-I really value engaging with people who bring curiosity and insight to these topics. Or over on Patreon, Im able to direct message with folks! Thanks again for understanding, and I’m looking forward to hearing more of your thoughts!
@@nytn : I may comment here if I see a video that I want to offer something on but the conversation I was trying to have is not one I want to attempt here. I messaged you again since you missed my other message. Like I said, don’t want to be a pest so up to you. Either way I definitely understand.
In the days of old, people didn't move very far, they married people nearby in the same village or the next village, so over generations the people tend to look like each other. That is how ethnic groups and races form, by restricted breeding, the way you breed pure breed dogs like Great Danes or Chows. It doesn't mean we are pure of an ethnic group or race, it just means we look like each other and share a lot of dna.
I’m so glad to have found your channel through watching other Melungeon vids, great stuff & now I know I need to do Ancestry for the documentation of my family tree, already did 23&me yrs ago, but it doesn’t tell the story of migration. Also my dad’s family’s from southern WV & my grandparents literally laughed @ me when I was young & had an assignment to find out what nationality we were, they said what do ya mean like the breed of a dog 😂 so then they just started reconin what we might be by the way our families last names sounded throughout the generations. My moms side on the other hand is short sweet & to the point Irish & a pepper of French/German, I only knew the French/German was in there because a distant cousin started doing moms dad’s side back in the late 80’s, she’s like an OG @ the docs side of things, I should probably get in touch w/her, but heck sounds easier to have Ancestry or My Heritage, which do you recommend 1st???
Keep up the great work.
My grandparents on my father's side came to America in the 1920s from Southern Italy. My mother's parents were Canadian/Irish. Out of all the children we had one sister who ended up being very Olive skinned with very wavy hair (I was jealous) She was born in 1955 and in her youth was treated very badly and called derogatory names. I inherited red hair and green eyes so I was spared the abuse. I think people forget how badly Italians and Irish people were treated.
A wonderful mix. Be proud of them.
I checked out the new ancestry journey update and I was quite pleased with it. It showed I am descended from Louisiana Creoles . I have been intrigued about this part of my ancestry as Creoles are beautiful people.
Your hair color looks great!
love the continued couch conversations. these conversations are helping me heal from the circle of secrets. i have found THREE marriage records of my grandparents due perhaps to her being "colored" and him being Irish. one Catholic Registry, one civil registry, and then a LATER civil court record??? i have watched a TH-cam vid on why 25% of our DNA is NOT always our grandmother~ but i don't really understand it....yet.
Great information! Love the detail. I might have to take another test; I would love to uncover more detailed information. Thanks.
The Puerto Rican connection could be through shared ancestors from the Canary islands? I once went through some old New Orleans parish records and Puerto Rican families were certainly present there.
I just love your videos. Communities sound neat.
There were multiple changes on my DNA with the new dump of data on Ancestry. I knew I had Dutch from my surname and the paper trail. My ancester founded New Amsterdam (now New York City). But it didn’t show up before. I assumed it was included in the Northwestern Europe category. But my 20% Swedish disappeared and turned into Finland and The Netherlands. My Irish is now split to include Iceland. My percentage of French more than doubled. My Southern Bantu changed to Yorubaland (which I'd never heard of) and Camaroon. My daughter didn't get any of the new stuff from me. It is very interesting to see how the gene lottery works. I apparently gave her most DNA from my mother and not very much from my dad. My first cousins used to share the same Southern Bantu with me, but now theirs changed to something else and it's not even the same as each other. My aunt went from decending from 3 tribes in Africa to 6. This tells me my African ancestors were here for multiple generations mixing up the blood lines before passing. It appears from cousin matches that there was passing in both my grandmother and grandfather's families. I can't tell yet whether this will make it easier or harder to track them down!
I know I’m late but thank you for letting me know about the updates. I’m part East African and Danish now lol. However it’s weird it like magically appeared 4% Denmark out of nowhere. It’s new to it added to my European dna. which is crazy for them just now to discover this 0 to 4% I wonder what changed.
The East African doesn’t surprise me my second highest group on Ancestry is Bantu. What did surprise me was Yoruba land. It’s never linked me to an African ethnic group besides the Bantu. I wonder how they did it what new data did they get.
It’s crazy how these things change over time (Dna results). I can see why you need other research in collaboration with these results. I’ve done alot of research but it seems I still have so much more to do. Thank you again 💫
Enjoyed! As usual 😇
Appreciate you watching!
@nytn Thanks, looking forward to more content.
@@nytn can you read my comment? I think you might find it interesting.
Very interesting content. I truly enjoy watching. It's pretty interesting even among siblings with the same parents, traits that show.
Genetics is extremely complicated.
I also had a super specific community that was a really small radius in Austria/Hungary that my dad and granduncle still have but for some reason they took it away. It is so accurate to my tree, matches, and immediate family have it so I don’t get that logic but hopefully I get re attached to it.
Another thing about ancestry communities is they are heavily impacted by your matches, so you may get communities if you have a lot of cousins from that community even if you don’t necessarily connect to it with your direct ancestors.
Interesting. All these DNA companies have different databases in comparison. The genetic grouping updates just keep appearing. I haven't heard Creoles of Color in a long time.
I have Munster Ireland as well, most of my ancestry from Ireland comes from the southwest corner of the island (County Kerry specifically, do I know there's more than just that county in that region). They gave me about six specific areas within Munster, most of which I'm pretty sure encompass where my grandfather's ancestors are from. A lot of Irish immigrants came from that area, I think Cork is included in there as well and there were a lot of Irish immigrants that came from county Cork. I also went to Ireland in 2016 so I'm somewhat familiar with the area. Super beautiful place by the way, completely recommend visiting!
Makes you wonder what was going on in Munster that made them want to leave.
Your hair is beautiful. I understand the hair color thing. Happened to me, before a photo shoot, once.
I washed it so many times. It actually worked out great.
Relax and enjoy.❤
Great video, the italian is very strong. In the future, you should do a video on the louisiana spanish and the Choctaw apache tribe which is state recognized, a fascinating rabbit hole.
Danielle, you are Gorgeous.
You should write a book.
Thank you for your hard work.
Great video!
There are so many Blacks that passed for white. It comes out sometimes as we age. I work in a assisted living see many.
😊
Hey Danielle, kind of going through some of the same things with my family heritage from Louisiana.
Munster was one of the four major divisions of Ireland (mostly southwest). Munster has a high Celtic Irish population, being west of the so-called Pale of Settlement where "Englishry of the Pale" had settled between century 13 and century 16. Ulster was in the north, and was the place where James I of England aka James VI of Scotland (the "King James" of "King James Bible" fame) had taken land from Celtic Irish locals who had supported "Red Hugh O'Neill, the Earl of Ulster, in his rebellion against the English during Elizabeth I, and given it to Lowland Scottish Protestants (who became the source of the "Scotch-Irish" and tried their hand at killing Celtic Irish Catholics as a dress rehearsal for killing Native Americans in century 18 and c. 19).
Before World War 2 , at Saint Patrick`s Cathedral in New York City , the ITALIANS had to use the basement of the Cathedral for their masses , because the IRISH would not allow Italians to use the first floor !!
@UilleamMacLoganach Also , when they tried to integrate the schools in Boston in the 1970`s , the anger and hatred toward Blacks from the Irish was tremendous.
@UilleamMacLoganach There is no need to preach to me Mac. I am the person who wrote on NYTN , that when Columbus first saw the Caribbean Natives , he wrote in his ship`s log " they look like they will make good SLAVES."
@UilleamMacLoganach " Mac ", your name looks Scottish , but apparently you`re Irish. I have in the past written on NYTN that SOME of my Italian mother`s family members were quite racist. But somehow the Irish only claim to be VICTIMS of bigotry , and never the VICTIMIZERS. And that claim is NONSENSE.
@UilleamMacLoganach Mac , In a survey & study of all the countries in Western Europe , that was done a few years ago , IRELAND was found to be the MOST anti-Black. England was the LEAST anti-Black. The study only questioned White residents , to keep it accurate. I rest my case !! By the way , I am also of part Scottish ancestry.
Louisiana/South Texas were unique in the central US in that they were heavily Catholic, and were also home to several immigration ports. Religion was often very important in choosing destinations for settlement. During the Mexican-American war (1849?), many Irish recruits went over to the Mexican side because the armies were encamped across the river from each other, and the Mexican Padres would hold services and offer communion, and the Irish Catholics were without this solace.
Tip from me - pushing 60, lightly graying in areas -use Purple shampoo. It's usually meant for blonds, but it blends the gray in if you have darker hair.
The French Canadians migrated to Louisiana (Arcadians or Cajuns!).
Your Irish ancestry and your ability to show direct links to specific people born in Ireland makes you eligible to apply for Irish citizenship/passport! Do it 😎
I can’t wait to see the Nacogdoches to Natchitoches. My family settled in and around Nacogdoches while it was still Mexico.
Your natural hair is beautiful.
Danielle , since your mother`s family was from south Louisiana , have you ever researched the Knights of the White Camelia ?? The Knights were founded in south Louisiana by Jean Maximilien Alcibiades Derneville De Blanc ( a long name ! ) in 1867. I wonder if any of your ancestors had any problems from The Knights ??
Ulster Plantations : Scott-Irish part of Ireland where many people from Scotland settled. Many people in Appalachia have Scotts -Irish ancestry
Also the Ozarks, since the first European settlers of the Ozarks came from Appalachia. My grandfather is from the Missouri Ozarks and descended from the very first wave of European settlers, and he shows up as 95.3% British (broken down into 70.6% “Scottish and Welsh” and 24.7% English), 3.5% French, and 1.2% Dutch on v2.5 MyHeritage.
That's interesting, my adopted sister did Ancestry and found out she had French settlers of Quebec as ancestral community too. That would be so bonkers if you guys were cousins!
Some of them sort the DNA by who you are and others sort by your relationship to the nation. That's why it can change
My update seemed more accurate AND more mystifying than previous ones. I'm still 2/3 to 3/4 Irish (Connaught and Ulster) on both paternal and maternal sides, which I know to be the case from research. They finally added in the "Germanic Europe" that I always knew had to be there as I know I have some ancestors from Bavaria on my mother's side. So far so good, but the fun and the mystery were in the trace elements. They always had given me 1% Cyprus, which was completely mystifying. This time they refined it to 1% Eastern Mediterranean, Southern Italian. There was also 1% Denmark, down from 9%, which made sense, and 1% Wales. The Ancestry results purport or aim to, at least, show people where their ancestors were living a thousand years ago. What could possibly connect Denmark, England or Wales, and Southern Italy? So I'm thinking Normans? They were in all those areas. In genealogy, each new question that gets answered seems to raise more!
There were Normans in Sicily and Southern Italy. Borders have moved in Europe, parts of Denmark are now Germany, it can be difficult to know where to draw the line.
Cousin Dani👋 it’s me. Hope ur well. I wanted to tell u that music and intro on the couch with coffee. 🤌 it was noticed and it was good! So proud to call you cousin
We have some ethnic overlap, and my similarly colored hair turns copper on the ends in summer as well.
Start at St. Martinsville, Louisiana....memorial wall. It's in a museum. The creole museum is next door. I'm one step ahead of you in this as I am next door in Texas.
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Oh my gosh! What the heck happened?! Hahah. I uploaded this to YT with an ending that is not there 😅😅
Hi my Nigerian sister. My dad was Nigerian and my mom from Jalisco in Mexico. You literally look like my younger sister
Good morning neighbor lady, from Copperhill Tn. 😊😊
good morning!
@NYTN: No, you did expect becouse it is exactly the ancestors that I predicted several videos ago. In any case, you should know that in North Africa there were Romans, so whites, Carthaginians, whites too, Suebi, Alans and Vandals that Visigoths expelled from Spain, that is, Germanic tribes and also in the USA, especially in the east or those who arrived. By Ellis Island they have a lot of mixture with Jews.
I repeat that creole is not a mixture of races, it is a word that comes from the Spanish "criollo" and they were the white Spaniards who were born outside the metropolis, the mestizos, it is usually applied to a mixture with Indians in Spanish and mulattos mixed with blacks.
It is evident that for a time some of your ancestors were part of the Spanish Empire because those Indians they are telling you about disappeared with the English and the Usacs, instead they were part of Spanish communities.
Another part of your family was Irish and Nigerian, which was a British colony but at that time they did not have slaves, perhaps it was the one who bought land in Louisiana?
my paternal gr grandparents and their parents I’ve confirmed lived in Castleblany Ireland (mid 1800s - last one of my direct family left by 1921) which is near the border with & almost became part of Northern Ireland. Northern Ireland still remains part of the UK today. I found a letter signed by my great grandmothers sister supporting and requesting the county be left out of the new Irish free state as they are loyal to Britain. I’m 1% Irish according to my dna test & I literally JUST started learning about Ulster Ireland yesterday. Lots of issues going on there in the 1920s 1930s. Forged in Ulster has some good videos.
I don’t know if this will help your understanding of how some of the Louisiana groups came to be known. But I do know from my time in grad school that LSUHSC grad school was awarded a grant to characterize the Cajun genome. Because of our language difference from most Americans, and the lack of mobility at the time, marrying cousins happened quite a bit. The Cajun genome was targeted when automated sequencing was becoming more economical both cost and labor wise, and the reality that Cajuns were among the most inbred identifiable group in America with several genetic disorder genes becoming rather frequent (ushers syndrome types I and II, thalassemia, some retinal degenerative disease, among others). Sequencing the genome of samples of this population was thus simpler (less variation) and would likely identify new disease causing mutations. The lady leading the project at the time was Bronya Keats. At the same school another researcher named Prescott Deininger, now at Tulane med, was big into sequencing ALU repeats which are transposing dna elements (viral dna that were incorporated by early human ancestors that become active when an egg is fertilized and are drivers of most of the genetic diversity among people as mutation in coding genes is more often pathologic). Anyway, it makes sense to me that genetic markers unique to south Louisiana and those of French decent be they black or white would be identified as this work started in the 1990s. And I can tell you French speaking creoles of mixed heritage, especially when lighter colored, were very exclusive as to who they mixed with. They absolutely did not consider themselves black, and they were not considered white, so they had their own communities, churches and schools. Some of the most prestigious historical black schools in south Louisiana descend from this community, which as late as 1980s I learned, found it more socially acceptable to mix with European descendant folks than they did with dark skinned folks of African descent. My blunt introduction to this was when a light skinned female coworker of French creole ancestry had her parents storm into our work place to confront a dark skinned young man who had been trying to ask out their daughter. I don’t think I’ve ever heard a man called the n word so many times and threatened so much in a public space ever. Anyway, mixing was more acceptable under French rule, and once Americans took over language and racism by whites and mixed creoles kept groups much more reproductively isolated than is typical of not groups in the states.
We have the same hair struggles.. I feel you so much on trying to keep it one color. I don't like to dye my hair... but I also don't like the contrast when the season starts to change bc the copper-ish color starts looking dull in contrast to the dark brown coming in. 🤦🏽♀️
Im so glad you understand. It looks like dyed hair and it's just from the sunshine! LOL
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My original dna results were 87 percent Irish and 13 percent Scottish. With this update they gave me 7 percent Scottish and 6 percent english. My mother got 16 percent Scottish rest irish. Happy enough with that.
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im always confused on the dna communities and how its determined and the benefits of them and what they tell u. like mine is northeast Poland, French Canadian and it breaks down further, and new york/Pennsylvania. but as far as i know i have no French Canadian ancestry or ancestors according to my search and when it was free for a week it told me that community was on my maternal side. and ancestry tells u its from likely specific regions such as England, Scotland and Germany
People change their names, they might lie about their origins or they might pass from French Canadian to USA Anglo American. French Canadians come from a limited number of French founders, so they appear to be more closely related to each other than they are in reality.
@Ponto-zv9vf I also have no French Ancestry, so I wonder if my grandfather's information records are wrong and the northwestern European and England results are from northern France
Potenza... Interesting. I've been to Potenza once. In the archeological museum there are kept rather interesting female grave goods.
The maternal haplogroups are also passed from mother to son, not just to daughters. The maternal haplogroup is from the mitochondria DNA, which is the food source for all of your cells. It's not part of the X-chromosome that is also passed from a mother to all of her children.
As a note, FTDNA Family Finder is rolling out the high-level haplogroups to people who test there directly and they will add the haplogroups to people who have transferred their DNA, but those who transferred their DNA will be the last people to get that assignment.
Romero is not an Italian surname at all, but originated in Spain and in fact, out of all of Latin America, it's extremely common in Puerto Rico.
Im married and my husband's grandmother is from PR :)
@@nytn so your husband is Puerto Rican??
@@cajuncultureking he is American, but PR, Mexican and English heritage
@ nice. Question, can you make a video comparing the English to Spanish colonialism??
That’s a great idea !
Pro tip: When using a semi permanent hair color, always use a shade or two lighter than your natural hair! Once you go salt and pepper, this will give you beautiful highlights, because it won't lighten the dark hairs, but it will give a complementary, dimensional color to the gray hairs. Next time, try medium brown or even medium auburn - that would go nicely with your natural coppery undertones!
Ooh, I like that. It sounds like a great way to get a more natural, low-maintenance look! Thank you :)
We share the Quebec community, and also the Ulster community. Maybe we're related!
I just watch for the eye candy. 😊
She’s gorgeous!
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I watch because I am trying to get this obsession with race in her country. Why put it on your birth certificate, driver's license, death certificate... It seems pointless.
The African ethnic groups only appear for Nigeria, Cameroon, and Mali. I didn't receive ethnic groups for the generic North Africa, Senegal, Ghana/Ivory Coast, the generic Western Bantu, etc. Still I have more than 40 ethnic group matches. Quite interesting because each ethnic group had a landing page with demographics, a brief bio, and 3 videos.
I've also got east central Louisiana Acadian French settlers
And southern Louisiana French settlers
No, neither Ancestry nor 23andMe accept uploads from other companies.
Do you still have the raw DNA data file that you uploaded to GEDmatch? If so, you can upload it to MyHeritage and FTDNA.
You cannot download your raw DNA data file from GEDmatch, but since you had to have a copy on your computer in order to upload it to GEDmatch, do you still have a copy?
Another tip. Be sure to save any raw DNA data that you download. That is the primary source for any analysis.
this is good, Im going to see what I have..
Most shampoos and conditioners take color dye right out a lot faster than a month and a half. I guess the main ingredient to look for is sulphates. Sounds like everyone got dramatic changes to their dna results. Mine were mostly reinterpretations. These testing kits follow humans over the past couple hundred years and what have we been doing more than ever before, moving around.
Yes true ,
Cajuns (Acadians) & creoles are separate but some people are Cajun and creole
Wow could the Canada French communities be Cajuns who migrated to Louisiana territory? I find the communities interesting in the direction my ancestors may have went or come from. I only have mid Atlantic and southeastern African American groups.
Hi Danielle, Thank you for your channel and great videos. I have taken ethnicity tests from 23andMe, Ancestry, MyHeritage, and Family Tree. The all have given me different results and all have missed my French and Filipino ancestry. I know where everyone of my ancestors came from down to the village level. Here are some examples of goofy results, the Asian results are either Siberia or Central Asia. My maternal haplogroup is M7b3a which is from ...wait for it...the Philippines. My sister in-law was born in France to French parents in a village that her family has lived in for centuries. What do her Ancestry results say she is (she was looking to see if she hade Jewish ancestry)? English! What's my point? You have to take the results with a grain of salt. One more thing, DNA tests are illegal in France so the testing companies are getting zero reults from there. Thanks, and keep up the good work. Cheers, Joe
my only "ancestral journeys" on Ancestry are on my mother's side, whereas I used to have the same communities on my father's side that he does, but now they have disappeared for me but not for him🤷♂
CRI is the best dna company.
Genealogy heads up; Romero[Ramirez].
The Acadians (French speaking Catholics) were forcefully removed from Nova Scotia Canada in 1755. The resettled in Louisiana. There were also many who resettled in ME, NH, VT, and MA too. I heard about it through descendants living in New England. Many many many maintained their French language throughout their lives through the generations to this day.
Have you heard Acadian French? It is more of a creole.
It is interesting that Ancestry DNA regions show that we can share a connection to others that we would have not thought we are connected to. For example, although a majority of my ancestors, 64%, came from Europe, 26% of them came from indigenous Americas Mexico and though I don't identify as Mexican as I am a descendant of a tribe from Southern California, my region includes Southern California, Southern Arizona, Sonora, Mexico, and Baja California, Mexico. In addition, I got 2% Indigenous Americas Yucatan Peninsula plus 3% Indigenous Americas North. So clearly the Natives of the American Southwest and the Natives of Mexico are related.
I look like a total white boy and while I am white, primarily from Germanic Europe, the British Isles, and some from Southern Europe, I also have a substantial amount of ancestry from people of color. I knew from family history that am part Native American, but the Ancestry test surprised at me as I also have 3% Sub-Saharan African blood and 2% from Northern Africa which means I am part black and Arab too. More and more I am seeing that Human Beings are connected. So what race am I? Human!
ONE RACE, THE HUMAN RACE, BE GOOD TO EACH OTHER!
Do you have a few genealogist for hire that help people with their family trees?
I can recommend a few! I saw in another comment your family is from Louisiana. Contact my cousin Alex Lee (Alex Genealogy) on facebook. He's a genealogist with Louisiana heritage, too. He has a FB group that's amazing. Tell him I sent you!
@@nytn I will. Thank you. 😊 ❤️
I've been a member of Ancestry since 2011. I contacted them after my aunt and daughter both showed French dna. I've matched with 100% French members. They listed French Canadian areas. When I contacted them, they acted like I didn't know what I was talking about. In this new update, I am.... 29% French. That is ridiculous. It took 13 years to show French.
You matched with 100% French members?
Not everyone knows their ancestry or cares.
@@MaryLou913 Yes!
@MaryLou913 Yes, they were 100% French and I was not showing French!!
Nacogdoches, Texas to Natchitoches, Texas ;isn't this sort of the area where the Redbones are from ? It is an aeea that is " like a bridge" between the Louisana Creoles and Mexican -American and Mexicans from Southern Texas/ Northern Mexico .
yes! My next video is on that this Friday! :)
Acadians are primarily the French people who moved down to Louisiana from Quebec when France lost Quebec to the English, best guess is that this where his Quebec settlers link.
Quebec is still overwhelmingly French Canadian.
My nephew has the Mongolian spot!
As far as Trinidad and P.R. go, understand that the Indigenous Caribbean people (Arawak) inhabited alk of the Caribbean, and since Spain occupied both islands 'Cairi' (Trinidad) and Boricua (P.R) with Africans generally from the same regions (mostly Benin, Nigeria, etc) and of course the Spaniards with the main difference being a greater population of 'West Indians' in Trinidad than in P.R. (P.R. had/has West Indians but no where near the population that Trinidad has). My point being it may be that you're more from P.R than the latter. Unless you find West Indian in your ancestry then its anyones guess. Either way, these terms P.R., Trini, etc are not races or ethnicities, but nationalities. The Caribbean are all ONE people conquered and divided, colonized and brainwashed into thinking they are not one and the same.
Hold up....did you say from Trinidad? so like did they come from or migrate to Trinidad?
The reason i asked is because Trinidad has an interesting history and connection to the people in the south of the US and come of the Creols. After the Hatian revolution some of the people who left went to luisiana and some made their way down the island chain till they ended up in Trinidad. Trinidad also has a group of people who we call the "Merikins". They were the enslaved people who faught for the Brits in the war of 1812. The Brits later settled 200 people in Trinidad.
Possibly one ancestor. The others came over from west Africa across the middle passage
I have never heard of this! I am going to save it for my research on that line. thank you so much
How much African did your husband come up with?
(Its because they don't really move that far away.) Its just a grouping of them making the culture East Texan. Natchitoches and Nacogdoches are not French in origin but Indian (Indigenous American) everything around them has a mixture of Indian, French Creole, Spanish blind. I cant really tell you why but also a Southeast Asian feel. The Southeast Asians are not beating the allegations of being seen as Black/Hispanic (but that neither here nor there) But Texas and Louisiana would fight you over any slender of the Vietnamese and Filipino Tía's
hi I think Ulster is Protestant or Scots Irish
They are both, but a lot of the native Irish, the Gaels, still lived there.