Barbara's Ancestry Mystery | My Family Secrets Revealed | Ancestry

Barbara and her family want to know more about the African roots they've discovered in their family history, specifically where in their family tree their African DNA first appeared. Will AncestryDNA and family history research be able to help Barbara and her family?

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Barbara's African Ancestry Mystery | My Family Secrets Revealed | Ancestry

[meleneb]

I love that she is enamored and wants to know more about her African heritage! She is beautiful!

[alexanthagr]

Beautiful how much she loves her African Ancestry.

[MegaDiva]

i love the way this seemingly lilly white family seem so excited and thrilled about their African heritage.Thats so touching.

[tiphneewestry]

Imagine the day when we can all except embrace the fact that we are ancestrally connected and all family in someway or another! This is so beautiful!

[mst]

...and your black cousin is here today...come on out!!

[Bootstataboots]

It's adorable how excited she is.

[karitasolives]

I love their reaction ....such a calm and sweet family

[NShores]

I would watch longer versions of these, especially if they had more definitive conclusions. As it stands, they feel quite unfinished.

[josweetlove]

I dont understand the mystery here. Both of her foreparents look to be of African descent. That is evident. De nile is not ony a river in Egypt.

[Surftouka]

Am I the only one that expected that relative to show up? C'mon, don't leave us hanging like this...story incomplete!

[arieltaylormo]

Robert and Rose, the grandparents, are black!

[ycartyahoo]

Those grandparents look some variety of African to me...

[a.bourne]

Biracial descendant and proud. What my ancestors had to deal with and overcome was heartbreaking.

[joekrub]

I found my dad after 44 years through AncestryDNA.

[ParisianBookworm]

I’d like to know more! Feels like a cliffhanger 😊

[cherryboob]

If she’s Scottish, we could be related! Lol. I’m Scottish (Anderson) and Caribbean/African descent of my grandfather. My great grandmother was Irish and married a mixed race man

[ladylioness]

Ray Charles can see those grandparents have African in them. There were many ppl passing.

[jeffmorse]

I'm 1% Cameroon/Congo/South Bantu according to AncestryDNA. So is my mother. Its not surprising that a small bit of African DNA is there being my family is originally from the Southern United States. I'm sure a lot of people of mixed background that could pass for white disappeared into the general white population there. Rather ironic given how many of my ancestors fought for the Confederacy in the Civil War.

[bajkhan]

Yea, she clearly has #African #blood if her grandparents look like that. It's amazing how #genes work

[vetabordeaux]

Very similar story to my lineage. The second I saw the picture of my great grandmother born in 1874 I knew she was of mixed heritage. My map of Africa was very similar. In the last ten years I have found out quite a bit about her.