Where are you from?

[The Huddler]

Im an alien 

[frash.exe]

On 3/31/2018 at 9:43 AM, TPanther920 said:

2 weeks in Rome as a 20 year old U.S. sailor. amazing....food, wine, architecture, history on every corner.

i’m actually planning a trip to go to the village i traced my great grandfather’s family (and my last name) to. it’s between rome and naples and was historically in the region of caserta until the 1920s. now it’s in the province of frosinone.

there’s a nearby town at the foot of a mountain (cassino). the whole area was razed during the italian campaign during WWII. the village is so small that everybody who lives there is probably a 6th cousin of mine or w/e.

[rayzor]

one side of my family has pretty stout english blood that came over pre-revolutionary war and includes in it some guy named ralph waldo emerson (cousin or something). supposedly we have some pequot indian in there at some point as well, but know one knows for sure or has tested it to my knowledge. probably a case of someone identifying as pequot. i also have a grandmother whose parents came over from scotland.

the other side of my family...i have a grandmother who has quaker roots in PA and a grandfather whose family very little is known about because his grandfather dumped his dad and siblings off with some irish family that settled in the middle of PA after his grandmother passed away at childbirth or something. the guy just showed up, left the kids and wandered off.

[TPanther920]

"Emerson"...you're famous. You sent me chasing a rabbit. Interesting man Emerson. Tuberculosis was more common than I realized. AND he liked to stir the pot.

[jasonluckydog]

I'm from America and America only, my blood is red white and blue.

[jasonluckydog]

My old lady was told as a child she has indian blood in her so she took a DNA test and they found 0 indian in her, she told her old Uncle and he doesn't believe her now he's so mad he won't even talk to her. Apparently this is a big issue people lied to their whole life and really get upset when they find out their family lied to them

[rodeo]

On 4/5/2018 at 5:05 PM, AggieLean said:

Don’t know which parts of Africa or the tribe, but I do know my great great grandad was a slave in Mississippi before somehow making it to North Carolina. My great grandaddy was a sharecropper in NC, and amassed a great bit of land in Kernersville and Fairmount. My grandma tells us the story about how my great grandad couldn’t even purchase the land, but a white man who he had befriended purchased it for him and then transferred it into his name. The man could’ve tricked my great grandad and took the money and land, but he didn’t. My dad tells us stories all the time about growing up and spending most the day picking tobacco on the land. 

My brother and I want to trace our ancestry, but I too, don’t want to waste my money. The plan is to trace our ancestry, then go and spend some time in that African country. Right now if you ask us where we started from, we’ll tell you as far as we know, our roots started in Mississippi. 

if you decide to go through with getting your dna done, i'd recommend ancestry.com over 23 and me. my mom works extensively with them and they're far more accurate from our experience. i think it's 99 bucks but they have sales periodically.

[rodeo]

47 minutes ago, jasonluckydog said:

My old lady was told as a child she has indian blood in her so she took a DNA test and they found 0 indian in her, she told her old Uncle and he doesn't believe her now he's so mad he won't even talk to her. Apparently this is a big issue people lied to their whole life and really get upset when they find out their family lied to them

lmao that's the same story of just about every southern granny who has had someone in the family take a test. my grandma was pissed. "BUT MY CHEEKBONES!"

[SmokinwithWilly]

On 3/30/2018 at 3:35 PM, ARSEN said:

Who the fug knows.  The place I come from was invaded like 10 times by foreigners in last 300 years so I’m a mutt.

I didn't know you were French. 

[AggieLean]

My brother and I just completed an ancestry composition kit, and today I found out I’m 85% West African, 12% European (6% British) and 3% East Asian/Native American. 

We’ll be taking another one that breaks it down to the specific country, but this is a start. Once I find out the specific country and tribe, then the plan is to visit and try to meet some members of my tribe. Was joking with my bro and homeboy that once we find out the country and the tribe, we’re going to roll up over there in traditional garments and be like what’s up family! Learn and practice some of their traditions, while introducing them to Afro American customs; like a cookout playing some Charlie Wilson and doing some of our dances. 

This is exciting! Finally learning some of my ancestry and where I come from. This also means I’m a descendant of a slave, and my plan is to find out not only where they came from in Africa, but the tribe and where they started out here in the states. My grandma says we started at a plantation in Mississippi, but I know records weren’t kept well in MS, so it’ll be difficult to track. I’m going to do it, though!

[jasonluckydog]

I just got my results back from ancestry and I was correct I'm white! Super white! 

Like 37% great Britain,  18% Irish the rest was Eastern Europe Russian,  Poland etc.

The most interesting part was a very tiny  percentage of Eastern Jew.  Apparently one of my relatives was an Ashkenazi jew. So my great great great.........great ....grand something was related/ Noah.  

 

I was thinking about doing the 23 and me to see if the results match 

[Anybodyhome]

My grandparents on my mom's side were a Dobie and St. Bernard. On my dad's side was a Rottie and a Husky.

I have a blue eye and a brown eye and I go around 100lbs. Got no clue where I'm from, but I was rescued at 10 weeks in southern VA...

 

[cookinwithgas]

I'm a direct ancestor of Aaron Burr.

[TPanther920]

9 hours ago, AggieLean said:

My brother and I just completed an ancestry composition kit, and today I found out I’m 85% West African, 12% European (6% British) and 3% East Asian/Native American. 

We’ll be taking another one that breaks it down to the specific country, but this is a start. Once I find out the specific country and tribe, then the plan is to visit and try to meet some members of my tribe. Was joking with my bro and homeboy that once we find out the country and the tribe, we’re going to roll up over there in traditional garments and be like what’s up family! Learn and practice some of their traditions, while introducing them to Afro American customs; like a cookout playing some Charlie Wilson and doing some of our dances. 

This is exciting! Finally learning some of my ancestry and where I come from. This also means I’m a descendant of a slave, and my plan is to find out not only where they came from in Africa, but the tribe and where they started out here in the states. My grandma says we started at a plantation in Mississippi, but I know records weren’t kept well in MS, so it’ll be difficult to track. I’m going to do it, though!

What company's test?