Genealogy & Ancestry

I see a lot of people getting some small percent of African dna on their results but when I did a 23&me I got 0% sub Saharan African



Feels good to finally get a perfect score on a test

I've had success with LINK I've traced my dad's side back to the 1600's

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I've had success with LINK I've traced my dad's side back to the 1600's

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Be careful with FamilySearch. It's a useful tool, but it's community-researched data, so there are a LOT of errors.

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Be careful with FamilySearch. It's a useful tool, but it's community-researched data, so there are a LOT of errors.

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I've noticed that on a few entries but I try to fact check as best as I can and compare other websites.

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I am very happy with ancestry.com and got a lot of high-quality research done. I coupled it with a subscription to newspapers.com. Having access to the newspapers allowed me to confirm links with more confidence because I had access to images of wedding announcements obituaries etc.

I did ancestry as has a lot of my dads side. My aunt has traced our family all the way back to Belfast when my direct ancestor left on a boat and landed in Charleston harbor in 1762. He was part of the massive ulster Protestant migration from Northern Ireland. That man eventually fought in the revolution for the good guys and his son moved down to the Mississippi territory following the war

Pretty cool stuff and my aunt did a ton of research and found old family pictures of my greatx3 grandfathers that fought in the civil war. 2 of them were in confederate cavalry units and 2 in infantry. They look like some serious baws

That’s just my dad’s side. My mother’s side of the family is a complete mess. Both her parents were orphan kids born to new immigrants from Ireland so we have very little information there other than they were Irish Catholics. Funny how one side is Irish Protestant (with some German/french mixed in) and the other is Irish catholic (with some heavy Scandinavian ancestry somehow)

I am a heavy mix of 100% Northern European ancestry. I don’t have a lick of Italian, Spanish, Greek etc so yea I don’t tan well and like to drink

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Ancestry.com or 23&me

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my mother in law did Ancestry. It told her she was 90% Italian and 9% African. She badmouth Ancestry about how wrong it is for a year saying she is 100% Italian/Sicilian. She eventually did 23&Me to try and prove herself. And of course it said she was 9% African.


So long story short, they are both full of shite according to my Mother in Law

Italy’s not far from Africa…?

I found my great grandmothers obituary and it listed her parents. I clicked their names and did the same for their names and so on until I found a 6th great grandfather who was born in 1732 and great grandmother born in 1740.