Ancestry DNA And Solved Mystery Update - 1 Year Later

Video breakdown: DNA and region rundown, Mayflower lineage, the mystery of my missing and murdered great aunt. I don't do time stamps.

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Shawn
Toni
Jazmine- 18
Emaya- 17
Ciara- 15
Charlise- 13
Foster 1- 10
Blake- 8
Foster- 2- 7
Natalya- 6
Foster 3- 4
Micah- 4

[deen]

My spouse and I both did DNA tests...and besides discovering I had a half-sister, we also found one woman who is on BOTH our DNA matches. Haven't quite discovered our shared ancestor (no worries, it goes back about 7 generations, but I found it hilarious). Just goes to show that at some level the whole world is our family...and maybe we shouldn't be hating on each other.

[jonmac]

Dont let the internet hate get you down, your DNA is your history, not to be hated or loved, it just is what it is. Family secrets are interesting to be discovered. Cheers.

[BeccaJoyDowdaBriscoeMoorehead]

In my research I discovered that there were actually 3 separate Mayflower voyages to the new world. My ancestors were on the first voyage. They died the first winter. Their grown kids decided to fulfill their parent's dream and traveled to the new world on the third voyage.

[joellenbroetzmann]

I had a great-great grandpa who moved into MN Territory from the Buffalo NY area in the Civil War era. After having several children his 1st wife died. I can find no death info about her. This grandpa was not wealthy. He was a basket maker. I have always heard stories about them being poor. He needed help with kids so remarried. Years ago before I did my DNA I wondered what woman would marry such a poor man with many children. I even wondered at that time about her heritage thinking perhaps even his poverty was better than her former life. They had children together starting a couple years after marriage. When I did my dna I realized I had probably guessed correctly about her former life. I have dna from the Middle Passage. I have tested many cousins and am 100% confident this Great Great Grandma is the one who was probably emancipated and came up the Mississippi to marry. I do have African heritage cousins from MO. I believe she kept her heritage a secret worrying that someday some legislater would throw her back into slavery. My biggest reason that I think nobody was told in the family is a couple years after this grandpa died, she remarried. Her 2nd husband was a Klan member! Yes..the Klan even had members in WI! What an amazing woman. Over the years she delivered many babies and nursed many a sick person back to health. I hope I get to meet her in Heaven!

[lipstickandpurls]

What a weird world… I watched this video a week ago just because I was waiting for my Ancestry DNA test in the mail and figured I’d watch some videos of other people who had done the test. Turns out while I’m waiting for my results, I discovered that John Howland and Elizabeth Tilley are also my 10th great grandparents. I am descended from their daughter Hannah.

[Rebecca-lehn]

Sometimes when a child died very young, the next child born of the same sex was given the name of the deceased sibling.

[Ppurk]

Mayflower descendants: We need a bigger boat.

[Rebecca-gcgw]

We are distant cousins. I am a descendant of Henry Howland, John’s brother. Henry is my 12th great-grandfather. Henry and another brother, Arthur, came a few years later to the Plymouth Plantation. So cool! Thank you for doing this video. It really shows you how connected we really are.

[nextlifetimebrendan]

lol if anything you seemed more educated and sensitive to American history than most people who take these tests

[cynthiacook]

My three Irish great grandparent's came from Munster, which is where County Cork is located. At first I only knew they were Irish, but then I finally found my great grandfather's naturalization papers, which listed him being from County Cork. I'm 38% Irish and have William Brewster as my 10th great grandfather, with ties to most of the other Mayflower families.

[sharonvik]

Added your path from John Howland & Elizabeth Tilley (as they are in my tree already: their daughter Hannah married my 2nd cousin 12x removed) to my tree, and you and I appear to be 13th cousins 3x removed through my father's mother's Terrill - Richmond-Webb line. Not exactly a close relationship, but we are related. Hello, cousin! :)

[dolphinlover]

My comment regarding the Mayflower connection, is that if we go back far enough in human time, say, thousands of years, even before records were kept, there were very few people living on the planet as a whole. Earlier in our evolution, humans were known to be nomadic explorers.
We therefore at some level or another, must surely all be related to these ancient people, and ultimately therefore, to everyone else currently living on earth...

[ronifae]

Thank you for pointing out that we need to stop being hung up on ethnicity. It really doesn't matter in what country a person was born. It's the DNA that matters.

[spanglelime]

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I really want to see you do the six degrees of Kevin Bacon now. I can make it in 3.

This is really interesting! Thanks for the update.

[Zandanga]

I love history (among other subjects, of course) and I have really enjoyed "sitting around the table" with you and hearing about your family history research stories. Thanks for sharing ...
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[amymartin]

All very interesting! Where did the little girl go missing? My grandparents are from rapid city and my grandfather was born in Lemmon. I just learned he never had a birth certificate. He had to use a baby quilt that had his birth info as proof of his birth his whole life.

[johnthompson]

Thank you so much for all your work and effort plus honesty!

[travelelectric]

Norwegian and Finnish is probably the same source, via the vikings who settled in the British Isles. As far as I've understood, the modern English population has about 6 % "viking" ancestry, while closer to 16 % is common in Ireland and Scotland.

[PixieDuster]

My family used 23 and me and that has worked out great. Have so many relatives and interesting stories associated with them. Best of luck in you journey. I'm like Heinz 57 a mutt French/German, British/Irish, Italian, Scandinavian, Portuguese, Spanish, Ashkenazi Jewish, and Indigenous American. So I'm a mess but a proud mess. It's fun to learn about our relatives. Enjoy the journey like I am. So far on my journey 23 and me have connected me with 5th generation relatives.

[the_radiant_patriot]

Idk why, but I've been having this urger to get this test done ever since my dad died in 2019. I know it sounds weird, but I cant shake the feeling that I have a half sibling somewhere. My dad cheated on my mom, more times than I care to mention, so it seems like a legit question. If there was, Lord knows my mother wouldn't tell me if she knew. Anyone else experienced this?