Clara and Tom Porter,
Stephanie's Grand Parents on her mother's side
Stephanie Tulloch
Africa
- Ivory Coast/Ghana31%
- Nigeria26%
- Cameroon/Congo9%
- Trace Regions
6%
Europe27%
- Great Britain18%
- Europe West5%
- Trace Regions
4%
West Asia< 1%
- Trace Regions
< 1%
My oldest
daughter Stephanie decided to take a DNA test. She wanted to find out what
nationalities she is made up of. Remember
when I told you that a DNA test is not 100% accurate? Here is my opportunity to
explain.
Stephanie's
test was done by "Ancestry DNA." They tested her Y-DNA not her X-DNA.
That means that this test did not include her father's DNA, me. It was all
about her mother's family DNA.
According to
her test, she is;
72% African
27% European
1% Asian
Now I know for a fact that Stephanie's grandfather's
ancestors in the early 1800s had its roots in Central Virginia (Spotsylvania) with the Manahoic Native Americans. Most if not all of these people were killed
or taken into slavery by White Virginians. So their DNA print is lost to
history and could not be in the test. Mary
Yeager was a White British woman, married to Thomas Porter I. Her DNA signature is traceable. Other European traces probably came from interrelations with other people in Europe over the past 3,000 years.
Stephanie's
Grandmother, Clara, is descendent from the Shawnee people from West Virginia. Probably, here is where her African genes is
coming from. Remember West Virginia was part of Maryland and Virginia at one time. They were both slave states meaning Africans
could have been brought into the area in the 1600, 1700, and 1800.
The British
came into North America, bringing their disease with them. They even gave many
natives blankets knowingly with Small Pox in them. These blankets whipped out
many Shawnee people. So a good sample of
Shawnee genes is not available today.
Here is why
for most of her ancestor's history, we just have her grandparents testimony to
go by.
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