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[Herb.]

CONTACT YOUR COUSIN MATCHES.

I just got off the phone with my one of my maternal relatives that matched me thru DNA. He confirmed EVERYTHING that I guessed about my grandmother's heritage. Well, almost. She isn't of "Creole" ancestry, but of Melungeon ancestry, which is pretty much the same thing, a mix of French/Spanish, African and Native. But their roots are in North Carolina/VA, where most of my family is from, instead of Louisiana.

http://www.frenchcreoles.com/CreoleCulture/freepeopleofcolor/The%20Melungeons.html

I KNEW just by looking at my great great grandmother (in my sig), the fact that she appeared to be free and well off, and the significant levels of Spanish/Portuguese/Native ancestry (at 10%) in my own DNA , and my grandmother's DNA strain returning as "Dominican", that Creole or Melungeon was a strong possibility. HOWEVER, I honestly didn't find a lot of paper trail evidence to confirm that.

But I was looking at and researching the WRONG LINE of my family. I assumed that the heritage came from the "DeBerry" line of my family, but it actually comes from the "Lilly" line, who were related to the Dumas.



We matched relatives with one another, he confirmed the areas, the names, he also gave me names to check that were related to the Melungeon Dumas/Lilly family to see if there was a match in my DNA list. Every name he gave me popped up as a fucking match!!!!!!!!!!!

I finally got my fucking answers!!!! I was RIGHT. Well, almost. But I was definitely on the right track. I finally know who she was. 
And I finally really know who my grandmother is. And who her father was. 

I finally know her story!!!!!!


Get your money's worth. Don't just look at the percentages. Contact your matches and dig in. They're just as excited as you are to mess a bit. Make every penny count!!!!

[CHOKE]

So yall just send your DNA to this place and they tell u your heritage?

What do with your DNA after that, they could be raising an army of evil clones

 

[Young]

Let me log the fck in omfffff


And it's true I had cousins blowing me up and messaging me the second my results hit.
I was a bit overwhelmed sddddd

[Nyan Cat]

So yall just send your DNA to this place and they tell u your heritage?

What do with your DNA after that, they could be raising an army of evil clones

 

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[Herb.]

So yall just send your DNA to this place and they tell u your heritage?

What do with your DNA after that, they could be raising an army of evil clones

 

It gives you percentages that estimate what your heritage is.
It's pretty spot on.

The cousin matches are flawless.

But honestly contact the cousin matches, and gathering DOCUMENTATION, that paper trail is everything to me. I really feel like I got my money's worth now. Up until now I was trying to research my mom's side on my own. And making very educated guesses.

But there could be a cousin that has more experience and time invested than you do. That's who I spoke with today. And I finally got what the fuck I've been looking for. 

Still good to know that I tried on my own though. And that I was making good guesses. I kinda slay

[Herb.]

Let me log the fck in omfffff


And it's true I had cousins blowing me up and messaging me the second my results hit.
I was a bit overwhelmed sddddd

[Young]

So yall just send your DNA to this place and they tell u your heritage?

What do with your DNA after that, they could be raising an army of evil clones

 

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Gorl they have everyone's DNA on file

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Believe that.

Atleast with this you know you're giving DNA and getting something out of it lol

[Zankou.]

What the... 🌚

[SouravMay]

Would that mean siblings get identical results?

[Herb.]

Would that mean siblings get identical results?

Yes, kinda.
But you have to be careful.

Originally looking at Ancestry DNA results
it was like a sprinkle of Iberian Peninsula here, a sprinkle of Ireland there, "West Europe" here....it just seemed like it was spread out everywhere with a whole bunch of random European ancestors or something.

I assumed it was some slavery rape mess and kept it moving.
I was never gun ho about DIVING into the European portion.

But once I got into GEDMatch, I saw how it clustered "Iberian" (Spain/Portugal) into 7%, then followed by MesoAmerican at 2%, North Africa at 3% .... I was Like wait, these are similar to results that Dominicans and Puerto Ricans get  when they take these tests (in larger amounts for them of course).

It wasn't until yesterday when Theo dived into GEDMatch and it PERFECTLY matched his grandparents heritage ( http://brandy.4fans.net/index.php?topic=14879.msg418808#msg418808 ) that I felt confident that there was something to the "Dominican" result i kept getting for one of my grandparents (which I knew was my grandmother for sure.)

That's what made me reach out to my cousin match (who was trying to get @ me for a minute but I kept ignoring them) to get things popping today. I think I overlooked it because I just didn't expect Hispanic heritage to be a significant part of my makeup. But it is

My grandmother's father was of Melungeon descent.

Siblings will get SIMILAR results but they won't get exactly the same.
So just because one sibling gets 12% Irish 35% Nigerian , their full blooded sibling shouldn't expect to get it the same. The sibling may get 13% Scandinavian 32% GHana. But this is where research, common sense and documentation would need to combine to form a logical explanation.

Many areas overlap one another. People in the Iberian Peninsula often return Irish results, etc. KNowing history and geography is definitely an advantage.

[Herb.]

It makes sense of so much.

I know my great grandfather was not "white", but on documents I found he's listed as a white man.
My grandmother said he was very fair skinned with curly hair.

A lot of Hispanics can easily slip under the radar and pass for white if they wanted to. He was passing.

[Herb.]

So yall just send your DNA to this place and they tell u your heritage?

What do with your DNA after that, they could be raising an army of evil clones

 

v

Gorl they have everyone's DNA on file

N
Believe that.

Atleast with this you know you're giving DNA and getting something out of it lol

sdsd

The coolest thing about this is that I didn't even know who Melungeons were before I began this journey. I actually like that it's not something I never knew about, or a group of people I never heard about rather. It's not a race but simply a way for them to simplify their multicultural heritage. And every single line of it, African (duh), Spain, France and Native are perched in every DNA kit I have.

I finally cracked this shit. Like REALLY cracked it. I had my guesses, for the most part I had already figured it out. But documentation makes me comfortable really CLAIMING it.

I really have to thank Theo. Just seeing how accurate his GEDMatch mess was, it gave me hope that there was something more for me to explore. Or something to confirm. This is the beauty of it all....I help you guys, you help me.

[Glenda]

Omfff I just need my results to hurry ahp and GET here.

[United Nations Barbie 🇺🇳]

I'm about to empty my coins into this history search. You're really selling this, are they paying you or something?

[Herb.]

Omfff I just need my results to hurry ahp and GET here.

I cannot tell you how good I fucking feel right now.

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