Quote from: MAKEDA on April 16, 2016, 12:30:43 AM
Quote from: Herbie on April 15, 2016, 11:45:34 PM
Quote from: MAKEDA on April 15, 2016, 11:35:25 PM
You don't try to spin it. You keep overlooking your dad's side and your maternal grandfather.
Never did I say every line of my family is Melungeon. 
But the woman who raised me is.
it's a big part of who I am. 1/4th. I was raised by my mother's family (which did not include my biological grandfather btw --- my grandmother remarried before I was born and I barely had contact with him, if you're wondering), and I have every right to celebrate who we are.
Me celebrating Melungeon is celebrating Blacks who were free and had their own identities. And I can print receipts to prove that. Anyone who takes issue with that needs to reevaluate themselves. Not me.
This logic 
Afro, it's a new thing everyday. Just a couple of days ago you were rambling about being Coharie, now it's Melungeon. Which is it? Idk luv... I just feel like you're so far gone in this whole ancestry thing that it has become scary. I remember when you posted your results and it was 2% NA. Not seeing where you got the 25% from fjjjj
Look at this post:
http://brandy.4fans.net/index.php?topic=14879.msg418799#msg418799I didn't really take another gander at my results from a test until I saw how accurate Theo's were.
My grandmother came back as Dominican. The Dumas family is originally from Saint Domingue (which is now the Dominican Republic/Haiti).
Don't forget hun, and don't get it twisted. this is something I had ALREADY had an idea bout months ago.
Check how I was ALREADY piecing together clues. This didn't come out of nowhere.
http://brandy.4fans.net/index.php?topic=8946.msg247372;topicseen#msg247372Melungeons and Creoles are very similar. So I was 80% there. I just got the name wrong.
So I reached out to one of my maternal matches and he confirmed that I am of Dumas descent.
I matched his Dumas relatives.
It's the accuracy of THeo's results that made me question whether or not I WAS overlooking something significant. notice that the contact with my DNA match occurred this weekend, the same time Theo posted his surprisingly accurate results. It renewed my dwindling faith in DNA testing. I'm actually thankful to Theo.
Honestly the 2% Native has to be attached to the Melungeon heritage. They usually come back with a TRACE of Native. Since the Natives mixed with them, but it was still majority Africans Spanish and French, my DNA reflects that.
My great grandmother is Coharie. I know all of my Native relatives names and they lived on the Coharie settlement. But as I said BEFORE (again, nothing new), many of the Native tribes have refused to offer their DNA for testing. And strictly go by your family charts.
But anything that has to do with my grandmother, is 1/4th of who I am. Anything.
