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[Young]

 I've been so busy on the spiritual and professional side that I haven't had much time to dive into my mess the way I want to.

But some things I really wanna know are :

How do you know if you're creole / Melungeon etc

What does it come up as n your DNA

Where does Cherokee show up in your DNA AND HOW



Because I'm seeing old photos and I think it's time for some mess

[Young]

 I have that feeling as well.

Theres alot of he say she say for some reason about the races of some of the people in my family:


My Maternal great grandmother has some weird looking people in her family im sorry sddsdsd
like they dont look fully black to me. but they are darker i guess you'd say.

I dont know their maiden names or how that whole trail goes because I think her married last name is davis. my great grandfather (her husband) was Irish they say..or half irish

he was something because I see it in my grandfather and his NOSE omg he pass that mess down to all of us

but i really wanna trace them and see what they really are and how everything played out. Especially on my grandmas side.

On my father's side he showed me his grandmother who was a black woman but then a grandfather that they said cherokee indian. You never know and i never wanna assume especially with the stigma of blacks and being indian

i really wanna get down to the bottom of all this.

and then of course my Japanese side has always been a huge part of my life. But i wanna get to know ALL of me like you were saying.

Like i wanna go to Ghana, Nigeria etc and feel the presence of my ancestors and things.

I know it will all be rewarding but it seems like it takes ALOT of work

[Young]

the few things i know:

On the left is my great grandmother and her family

her son (my grandpa is on the right) thats where they got the last name davis. The Davis' i met on Ancestry are either black like me or white; is weird sdsddssd

BUt i dont know my Grandmother's maiden name mess

[Young]

My Dad's Grandfather

He's so striking. He was "indian" they say..

I have to do research on that and find out his name and etc..

[Young]

My advice is to start with what you know first, any clues that your family can give you.

Sometimes the whole "picture" thing can be a kii kii.

Example: "Ohhhh if you see my great great great grandmother and look at her hair and bone structure you can CLEARLY tell she was Indian "

but sometimes they can be clues. that picture I posted had been in our livingroom since I was a child. but my grandmother didn't know the story. now she does This is why I am claiming it so proudly because this isn't a story my grandmother already knew and decided to discard and ignore.

it's a story she didn't know and couldn't tell us. but I found a big chunk of my family's history and identity. why NOT claim that?

use the stories pictures etc as clues and work from there. contact ur cousin matches as well.
lemme know if u need help

my grandparents are sooooooo not texters or callers so i have to wait til im home to visit to ask these kinds of questions of names and things.
i cant wait.

and my parents dont know nor really care tbh
my mom is kinda interested but my dad, not so much

but i agree I find that there's alot missing or just not really talked about that i wanna find out and celebrate regardless of what it is because it makes me who i am ya know

[Young]

I have that feeling as well.

Theres alot of he say she say for some reason about the races of some of the people in my family:


My Maternal great grandmother has some weird looking people in her family im sorry sddsdsd
like they dont look fully black to me. but they are darker i guess you'd say.

I dont know their maiden names or how that whole trail goes because I think her married last name is davis. my great grandfather (her husband) was Irish they say..or half irish

he was something because I see it in my grandfather and his NOSE omg he pass that mess down to all of us

but i really wanna trace them and see what they really are and how everything played out. Especially on my grandmas side.

On my father's side he showed me his grandmother who was a black woman but then a grandfather that they said cherokee indian. You never know and i never wanna assume especially with the stigma of blacks and being indian

i really wanna get down to the bottom of all this.

and then of course my Japanese side has always been a huge part of my life. But i wanna get to know ALL of me like you were saying.

Like i wanna go to Ghana, Nigeria etc and feel the presence of my ancestors and things.

I know it will all be rewarding but it seems like it takes ALOT of work

If you feel there could be a Native connection, ask the names of the people in your dad's family that he said were Indian. It's quite simple -- usually natives had weird names. My grandmother's mother's name was Chief. Uncle was Badger, etc etc.

But

BUT sometimes Natives can have regular names too. My great grandmother's sister name was Judie. lol  so another thing would be to check to see if they lived in a Native settlement area.

Natives settled in areas and ALWAYS stuck together. so if your ancestors are far from areas that Natives called home, and on top of that they don't have native names or other signs of Native culture, they may not have been native.

I think Native mess is a bit easier to confirm in that sense.

i wanna say he did have a eird indian mess from what my grandmother said but i cant remember dsdssdsd

i need to ask her again

[Glenda]

So Ancestry finally sent me my 10 links to download my raw DNA files and all them bitches are expired.

You know what.

[Glenda]

I'm wondering if the Pacific Islander in my results is the "indian" my grandma was referring to? I don't believe my mom had PI in her results.

[Young]

Wtf ddsdsdsdsdsdsdsdsdssdsdds

[Glenda]

Young, what were your results?

[Glenda]

My Dad's Grandfather

He's so striking. He was "indian" they say..

I have to do research on that and find out his name and etc..

Wait

Those cheekbones. 

[merkaba]

We should make this official ancestry thread I have so many questions.

I want to do my GED match but ancestryDNA is acting a fool today

[Young]

Omffff

Good idea sis!

[Glenda]

Young, your family is gorgeous. 

[Young]

Young, what were your results?

Here's mine