I'm residing in the United States, to be more precise Alexandria, Virginia but I'm originally from Liberia 🇱🇷 in West Africa so we are one family and you guys are welcome to the motherland. Liberia 🇱🇷 welcome you all
Hi, Ladies...thanks for posting. I recently received my AA DNA results, which was 100% Sierra Leone/Mende. My fiance' received his results yesterday, which was 100% Marka People living in Burkina Faso like your dad. We both were complete surprise. Have you found any additional information on the Marka people since your posting? We would love to connect
Congratulation. You are from the land of honest men. That’s what Burkina Faso means. The country of Thomas Sankara ( one of the greatest African leader).
Well, I think we have Mossi Tribe in Ghana. I understand the people of Burkina originated from Ghana. A Princess from the Northern part of Ghana run away and found the land of Burkina. Is this true. I read it somewhere.
Your mom is so funny! I love her personality. Please greet her for me. My eldest son did his a couple of years ago. It has produced interesting and helpful results. He recently purchased kits for my grandson and I. All of our kits are from Ancestry, however my son also used 23 and Me in addition to Ancestry.com. I am looking forward to my results. TFS!
Hi Domestic Handmaiden of Distinction! I will share your nice comments with mom. It will be interesting to compare the results from the other ancestry companies. Thanks so much for watching and would love to hear your results!
Sister Cousins Michelle I think you for sharing. We as Africans need to do this not only to understand who we are as a race and where we came from, but also for closure. This will fill that void that we all have. I am so glad that your ancestral roots trace back to Burkino Faso because that country could have been the role model for Africa as a continent. The lack of information on this country is not done by mistake or because it lacks history. Any progressive country that start to break out of its colonial shackles and emancipate themselves from mental slavery is a threat to the world order and the Europeans don’t want people to know about its great leader Thomas Sankara. They don’t want other countries to follow. So he was disposed of and never spoken of again. He did in 3 years what we in the US have accomplished in over a 100 yrs. if you have sons- please educate them about this great man- he is a model for African men all over the world. I’m only in my 30’s and I was not around him or have ever met him, but he lives inside my heart along with all those who have come before us. I am Haitian and we Haitians have a grand history. We were the first slaves brought over from Africa that was able to strategically fight off 3 major powers- France, Britain, and Spain, and freed ourselves and establish the first free African Republic outside of Africa and gave tribute to the natives on the land that was slaughtered by renaming the island Ayiti (Haiti). So my love for history is crazy. I have not done my DNA analysis, but I will soon. I just hope that you take the information that you learned and give back to the people of Africa. I appreciate you and thank you.
I am glad that African Americans are discovering their identity. It was sad for slave masters to destroy their identity. Their names and language. I am happy for you, you can only go forward if you know where you're coming from.
so basically you are from the Makaka tribe in burkina faso from your dad side, and Temme fron serra leone and librarian from your mum side. So your 100% percent western African ladies.
Burkino Faso is the country of the Greatest African President to ever walk the land. The up right man: Thomas Sankara. That it a privilege to share his roots. Look him up. He and his country was a model to which other countries should have followed. He was too progressive and the west and the Europeans felt threatened. He could have saved Africa. I love that man. One of the smallest countries with a president with a big heart.
pascale dixon thank you for the info. I have heard about his wonderful leadership. I will do research to learn more. Thank you for the information and for watching!
YOUR Dad country is called the land of the Upright people... the land of SHEA BUTTER... VERY INDUSTREOUS AND HARD WORKING PEOPLE... ...AND YOU MY sister who is read you look Kru...
oh waou so there were some Maraka enslaved. They're also called Sarakole i think. I'm from the Republic of Guinea but I know my dad's family are Maraka and originally came from Mali. Lots of them are from Mali. this is pretty cool!! but please STOP saying "TRIBE", I hate when people say that. I call them ethnic groups. If the French , Spanish, Germans are not tribes why should Africans be? Also don't like when people refer to our languages as "dialects". Hey we might be cousins! I really want to look into my father's family History. Will ask questions next time I go to Africa :-)
Congratulations on your results!! I can help you understand them. Your direct maternal lineage was tested, solely your mother’s mother’s mother’s lineage etcetera unto a foremother who passed down genetic information on your mitochondria’s dna. Apparently your foremother was from either from among the Temne, Mandinka or Kru people, but her dna has been commonly dispersed among all three people since the Atlantic slave trade therefore you have relatives among all three. Your direct paternal lineage was also tested your father’s father’s father’s lineage etcetera unto a forefather who dispersed the dna through his y chromosome. He was obviously a Marka male who came to the United States via the Atlantic slave trade. The Marka people are the Soninke people who forged the Ghana empire not affiliated with the country of Ghana but was located in present day southeastern Mauritania & western Mali.
Also you must be aware these were solely direct lineages that were tested. You have a hundred plus more lineages in your family. Upon conception each child receives a random 50 percent of their parents genetic make ups, « random » key word. As for what your individual genetic make ups are it’s good to take an admixture test, also called an autosomal dna test. These tests reveal to you everything in your genetic make ups. Ancestry DNA or 23 and Me are the best for these tests, Myheritage is NOT good seeing they have such a poor reference sample database. They give you ethnicity estimates, for example like 28 % Ghana/Ivory Coast, 19 % Nigeria 8 % Mali etcetera. What’s great once you get your results with both companies they give you access to their database where they have matched your dna with hundreds of other people you can contact. What is great you can sometimes locate distant African cousins if you are Afro-American or from any other Afro descended people in the New World.
An example of connecting with distant African cousins in Ancestry DNA’s(ancestry.com) database so far I’ve connected with dna cousin matches who are Edo, Igbo, and Hausa-Fulani from Nigeria, Ashanti and Ga from Ghana, Ewe from Togo, Fulani from Sierra Leone & Guinea, Bakongo & Mbundu from Angola. Connecting with these cousin matches give you information about the ethnic groups you share ancestry with in the countries given to you in your ethnicity estimates. Also as an Afro-American a part from of course the United States, you may also find cousin dna matches in the Caribbean or South America seeing lineages were split during the Atlantic slave trade either in Africa going separate ways or split in the New World, where as some family members could be sold from Jamaica for example to South Carolina, leaving others behind. I’ve found distant kin from Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Belize in Central America, Trinidad & Brazil.
My Ashanti brother, this is your Ashanti sister. SHOLOM. Do you know we’re Hebrew Israelites and Ashantis and those of our ancestors taken to Babylon ( modern day Trump’s Land) are al, from the Tribe of Judah? How humbling! SHOLOM
@@daughterofzionhebrewisrael3189 No, baby you’re not Hebrew Israelites. If the Hebrew Israelites were black Jeremiah the prophet would have referred to his own people when he made the analogy about the Ethiopian not being able to change his skin color, a term referred to the Sudanese and generically at times to the Sub-Saharan African in Ancient Greece, Rome, and the Near East at the times. Jeremiah 13:23. Unfortunately, due to European colonization, carrying with it Judeo-Christian traditions, and the spread of Islam many Sub-Saharan Africans hold in high esteem prospective links to the Middle East, opposed to their native Sub-Saharan African origins, even if they’re not true and imagined.
And I want to say this doing research before going there will not help you seriously, you gotta go there and see for yourself. Don't be scared it's home, trust me you will never regret your trip.
Just came across your video... hey cousins... Literally, almost have the same result except I also got Mende people in Sierra Leone... You guys even look similar to my mother's side. lol
@@SisterCousinslifestyle I looked at your channel and I am also an interior designer.... lol They say that the Mandinka people love fashion and design. Actually, Senegal is the fashion capital of Africa.
Sister Cousins, Y'all must know the Africans taken for slavery were almost exclusively from West, Central, and Southen Africa. It's amazing how colonized we (African Americans) are, we don't know anything about Africa but can name almost every country in Euorope. SMH
You’re my neighbors if you’re from Burkina. I’m from Ghana. Most Burkinabées originated from Ghana so we’re the same people just that the colonizers, wanting to divide us and set us against each other, changed our national language. Ghana’s national language is English and Burkina is French
@@SisterCousinslifestyle, do you also know Africans are Hebrew Israelites especially West Africans? Egypt, Ethiopia, Somalia and some other African countries are the real Africans. Some Ethiopians may be Hebrews too. Check this: Genesis 15: 13-14 and Deuteronomy 28:68. Thanks. Love ya my sister.
Hey, you should edit this video and blur out your address! Someone can still figure out where you live, because you showed more than you intended to. People are crazy on TH-cam, so you should protect yourself! Take care!
Fronm Seneganbia,Guinea Conakry,Bissau,Siera León,BirkinaFaso and Malí their all the same people,their language are tha same with a little defiende of tongue.
+Sister Cousins any way I could help answer your questions I will I'm on Facebook @ Foday Kunda I would like to introduce you all to the rest of the family
The Y chromosome,males only,are quite different than the X.women do not have Y,yet men carry X and Y.women pass the X from mother to mother to mother back many generations,we do not get Y.the Y is passed from father to father to father back many generations(I did not mention son and daughter because in all likelihood we become parents ourselves).so the male result will have more detail than female result.in past centuries families were strictly paternal with women becoming relative to men and not the other way around(jew-ish descent has caused a global effect on all westernized societies today by 'thinking' we are from our mothers-most single parent homes in america).in my opinion,this is the natural order of descent,paternal, due to the Y chromosome.this is why we females need dna results for dad,uncle(dad's brother with same father),or a brother with same father is you to have more detail in dna results.its less complicated for males.thats just my spin on it.
❤️❤️I'm so moved🥺 My daddy is a Nigerian immigrant, we are of the Igbo people ❤️❤️
I'm residing in the United States, to be more precise Alexandria, Virginia but I'm originally from Liberia 🇱🇷 in West Africa so we are one family and you guys are welcome to the motherland. Liberia 🇱🇷 welcome you all
Thank you!
Damn...I feel like crying.ny people finally know where their roots are from.this is beyond touching ...
Hi, Ladies...thanks for posting. I recently received my AA DNA results, which was 100% Sierra Leone/Mende.
My fiance' received his results yesterday, which was 100% Marka People living in Burkina Faso like your dad. We both were complete surprise. Have you found any additional information on the Marka people since your posting? We would love to connect
Congratulation. You are from the land of honest men. That’s what Burkina Faso means. The country of Thomas Sankara ( one of the greatest African leader).
congratulations on discovering your DNA results; my paternal ancestry is from Burkina Faso as well - the Mossi People
It's wonderful to find out your roots
Eddie Meeks. We have so much to learn about the Marka tribe. Thanks for watching!
@@simplynature1932 that's great - I visited Burkina last year
@@simplynature1932 I did, the chicken was awesome; going back in October hopefully.
@Mama Africa please let me know when you receive your results. Please don't hesitate to contact me and we can discuss your findings so far.
Well, I think we have Mossi Tribe in Ghana. I understand the people of Burkina originated from Ghana. A Princess from the Northern part of Ghana run away and found the land of Burkina. Is this true. I read it somewhere.
Your mother is hilarious and a beautiful soul. Love her!!
🤗Thank you!
@@SisterCousinslifestyle You're welcome! 🤗
Thanks for sharing your family's information with us 🤗.
Thank ya’ll for sharing! Awesome!! My maternal line is Temne, also.
I am from kenema. Sierra Leone. And I was born there as well.
Beautiful family, should visit Africa ! Much love from Ethiopia 🇪🇹!
Thank you! My dream is to visit Africa. Thanks for stopping by🤗
Your mom is so funny! I love her personality. Please greet her for me. My eldest son did his a couple of years ago. It has produced interesting and helpful results. He recently purchased kits for my grandson and I. All of our kits are from Ancestry, however my son also used 23 and Me in addition to Ancestry.com. I am looking forward to my results. TFS!
Hi Domestic Handmaiden of Distinction! I will share your nice comments with mom. It will be interesting to compare the results from the other ancestry companies. Thanks so much for watching and would love to hear your results!
Sister Cousins Michelle I think you for sharing. We as Africans need to do this not only to understand who we are as a race and where we came from, but also for closure. This will fill that void that we all have. I am so glad that your ancestral roots trace back to Burkino Faso because that country could have been the role model for Africa as a continent. The lack of information on this country is not done by mistake or because it lacks history. Any progressive country that start to break out of its colonial shackles and emancipate themselves from mental slavery is a threat to the world order and the Europeans don’t want people to know about its great leader Thomas Sankara. They don’t want other countries to follow. So he was disposed of and never spoken of again. He did in 3 years what we in the US have accomplished in over a 100 yrs. if you have sons- please educate them about this great man- he is a model for African men all over the world. I’m only in my 30’s and I was not around him or have ever met him, but he lives inside my heart along with all those who have come before us. I am Haitian and we Haitians have a grand history. We were the first slaves brought over from Africa that was able to strategically fight off 3 major powers- France, Britain, and Spain, and freed ourselves and establish the first free African Republic outside of Africa and gave tribute to the natives on the land that was slaughtered by renaming the island Ayiti (Haiti). So my love for history is crazy. I have not done my DNA analysis, but I will soon. I just hope that you take the information that you learned and give back to the people of Africa. I appreciate you and thank you.
I am glad that African Americans are discovering their identity. It was sad for slave masters to destroy their identity. Their names and language. I am happy for you, you can only go forward if you know where you're coming from.
so basically you are from the Makaka tribe in burkina faso from your dad side, and Temme fron serra leone and librarian from your mum side. So your 100% percent western African ladies.
Congratulations my sister! I got Burkina Faso also. I hope to make some connections.
great video guys , I was thinking about doing the test before but after watching your video I'm going to do it
We are so glad we did it. It's nice to have a better idea of your roots. Thanks for watching🙂
Malidoma Some is an author from Burkina Faso . His books give a great picture to what Burkina Faso may have been like before the french colonizers .
Your mom is funny. I’m waiting for my results.
I want to get this done so badly.
I'm glad that we did; it is very interesting, now I want to visit the motherland.
Great results! Congrats
+Skys life Thank you!
Burkino Faso is the country of the Greatest African President to ever walk the land. The up right man: Thomas Sankara. That it a privilege to share his roots. Look him up. He and his country was a model to which other countries should have followed. He was too progressive and the west and the Europeans felt threatened. He could have saved Africa. I love that man. One of the smallest countries with a president with a big heart.
Please look up the TH-cam video of Thomas Sankara the up right man of burkino faso. Great country!
pascale dixon thank you for the info. I have heard about his wonderful leadership. I will do research to learn more. Thank you for the information and for watching!
Congrats, love from Sierra Leone
YOUR Dad country is called the land of the Upright people... the land of SHEA BUTTER... VERY INDUSTREOUS AND HARD WORKING PEOPLE... ...AND YOU MY sister who is read you look Kru...
Wow Liberia in west Africa west Africa have 18 countries u r welcome any time to west Africa nice video
thank you for sharing this moving experience
Brothers and sisters retrace our roots by choosing wherever you want to go.
Thank you for sharing your touching video and story. God bless you
oh waou so there were some Maraka enslaved. They're also called Sarakole i think. I'm from the Republic of Guinea but I know my dad's family are Maraka and originally came from Mali. Lots of them are from Mali. this is pretty cool!! but please STOP saying "TRIBE", I hate when people say that. I call them ethnic groups. If the French , Spanish, Germans are not tribes why should Africans be? Also don't like when people refer to our languages as "dialects". Hey we might be cousins! I really want to look into my father's family History. Will ask questions next time I go to Africa :-)
In France, Spanish and Germany aren't TRIBES. Only in Africa or Asia
Very great video! Awesome family
thank you Bethany!
This is beautiful!
Thank you Sarah theGeek
Thanks for sharing. Did they give your parents' haplogroups?
Congratulations on your results!! I can help you understand them. Your direct maternal lineage was tested, solely your mother’s mother’s mother’s lineage etcetera unto a foremother who passed down genetic information on your mitochondria’s dna. Apparently your foremother was from either from among the Temne, Mandinka or Kru people, but her dna has been commonly dispersed among all three people since the Atlantic slave trade therefore you have relatives among all three. Your direct paternal lineage was also tested your father’s father’s father’s lineage etcetera unto a forefather who dispersed the dna through his y chromosome. He was obviously a Marka male who came to the United States via the Atlantic slave trade. The Marka people are the Soninke people who forged the Ghana empire not affiliated with the country of Ghana but was located in present day southeastern Mauritania & western Mali.
Also you must be aware these were solely direct lineages that were tested. You have a hundred plus more lineages in your family. Upon conception each child receives a random 50 percent of their parents genetic make ups, « random » key word. As for what your individual genetic make ups are it’s good to take an admixture test, also called an autosomal dna test. These tests reveal to you everything in your genetic make ups. Ancestry DNA or 23 and Me are the best for these tests, Myheritage is NOT good seeing they have such a poor reference sample database. They give you ethnicity estimates, for example like 28 % Ghana/Ivory Coast, 19 % Nigeria 8 % Mali etcetera. What’s great once you get your results with both companies they give you access to their database where they have matched your dna with hundreds of other people you can contact. What is great you can sometimes locate distant African cousins if you are Afro-American or from any other Afro descended people in the New World.
An example of connecting with distant African cousins in Ancestry DNA’s(ancestry.com) database so far I’ve connected with dna cousin matches who are Edo, Igbo, and Hausa-Fulani from Nigeria, Ashanti and Ga from Ghana, Ewe from Togo, Fulani from Sierra Leone & Guinea, Bakongo & Mbundu from Angola. Connecting with these cousin matches give you information about the ethnic groups you share ancestry with in the countries given to you in your ethnicity estimates. Also as an Afro-American a part from of course the United States, you may also find cousin dna matches in the Caribbean or South America seeing lineages were split during the Atlantic slave trade either in Africa going separate ways or split in the New World, where as some family members could be sold from Jamaica for example to South Carolina, leaving others behind. I’ve found distant kin from Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Belize in Central America, Trinidad & Brazil.
My Ashanti brother, this is your Ashanti sister. SHOLOM. Do you know we’re Hebrew Israelites and Ashantis and those of our ancestors taken to Babylon ( modern day Trump’s Land) are al, from the Tribe of Judah? How humbling! SHOLOM
@@daughterofzionhebrewisrael3189 No, baby you’re not Hebrew Israelites. If the Hebrew Israelites were black Jeremiah the prophet would have referred to his own people when he made the analogy about the Ethiopian not being able to change his skin color, a term referred to the Sudanese and generically at times to the Sub-Saharan African in Ancient Greece, Rome, and the Near East at the times. Jeremiah 13:23.
Unfortunately, due to European colonization, carrying with it Judeo-Christian traditions, and the spread of Islam many Sub-Saharan Africans hold in high esteem prospective links to the Middle East, opposed to their native Sub-Saharan African origins, even if they’re not true and imagined.
Congratulations!!!
And I want to say this doing research before going there will not help you seriously, you gotta go there and see for yourself. Don't be scared it's home, trust me you will never regret your trip.
That is my dream to visit my motherland!
Respect from Cameroon
Just came across your video... hey cousins... Literally, almost have the same result except I also got Mende people in Sierra Leone... You guys even look similar to my mother's side. lol
Wow. Isn’t that something?. Nice to meet
You cousin♥️
@@SisterCousinslifestyle I looked at your channel and I am also an interior designer.... lol They say that the Mandinka people love fashion and design. Actually, Senegal is the fashion capital of Africa.
Mama couldn't let it go, lol. She said " the Mormons will look it up for ya." Congrats yall. I love your mom
Lol. Thank you!
Is a good country my friend came from there we share a border Burkina Faso with Ghana
Have you already had the chance to visit Burkina Faso or are you willing to do so? I know a lot of officials there and I could help
It is a dream to someday visit there but I have not been able to so far.
Sister Cousins, Y'all must know the Africans taken for slavery were almost exclusively from West, Central, and Southen Africa. It's amazing how colonized we (African Americans) are, we don't know anything about Africa but can name almost every country in Euorope. SMH
what up cousins am from temne tribe also
AWESOME
such a beautiful family 😍
+Kandi Preciado Thank you so much!
Thank you Kandi Preciado!
Thank you Kandi Preciado!
Thank you Kandi Preciado!
Great work ladies.
Sierra Leonean welcome home
6:36 and 6:45 wow temne mandinka and kru from Sierra Leone, senegal and liberia. Cool. 3 fold.lol
Did your mother say she take Ghana Lolll funny.
Look up Dhar Tichitt, you're paternal ancestors did that, wow. Look up middle Africa aquatic civilization, lived in Atlantis.
Mother immediate country she was born is Jamaica right?
You’re my neighbors if you’re from Burkina. I’m from Ghana. Most Burkinabées originated from Ghana so we’re the same people just that the colonizers, wanting to divide us and set us against each other, changed our national language. Ghana’s national language is English and Burkina is French
Very interesting. Thanks for that information ❤️
@@SisterCousinslifestyle, you’re most welcome
@@SisterCousinslifestyle, do you also know Africans are Hebrew Israelites especially West Africans? Egypt, Ethiopia, Somalia and some other African countries are the real Africans. Some Ethiopians may be Hebrews too. Check this: Genesis 15: 13-14 and Deuteronomy 28:68. Thanks. Love ya my sister.
Hey, you should edit this video and blur out your address! Someone can still figure out where you live, because you showed more than you intended to. People are crazy on TH-cam, so you should protect yourself! Take care!
Thank you RL B !!
No problem! Take care!
Congratulations cousins
Fronm Seneganbia,Guinea Conakry,Bissau,Siera León,BirkinaFaso and Malí their all the same people,their language are tha same with a little defiende of tongue.
Interesting; thanks for watching!
How long did it take?
+Zuri Ali If I remember correctly it took between 7-8 weeks.
In African culture, wherever your dad is from is who you are culturally. Focus on your dad's side
Temne here
Cant wait to do the research to learn more about the Temne tribe.
+Sister Cousins any way I could help answer your questions I will I'm on Facebook @ Foday Kunda I would like to introduce you all to the rest of the family
Great Foday Kunda. Thanks for letting us know. Would love to learn all we can. 😃
It just gives Africa not the entire picture?
The Y chromosome,males only,are quite different than the X.women do not have Y,yet men carry X and Y.women pass the X from mother to mother to mother back many generations,we do not get Y.the Y is passed from father to father to father back many generations(I did not mention son and daughter because in all likelihood we become parents ourselves).so the male result will have more detail than female result.in past centuries families were strictly paternal with women becoming relative to men and not the other way around(jew-ish descent has caused a global effect on all westernized societies today by 'thinking' we are from our mothers-most single parent homes in america).in my opinion,this is the natural order of descent,paternal, due to the Y chromosome.this is why we females need dna results for dad,uncle(dad's brother with same father),or a brother with same father is you to have more detail in dna results.its less complicated for males.thats just my spin on it.
It’s just her maternal side not her father side. Women don’t carry Y chromosomes
my dad is from the temne tribe