While there is some acquiescence to genetic thinking about ancestry, and by implication, 'race', among African-American and black British consumers of genetic genealogy testing, test-takers also adjudicate between sources of genealogical information and from these construct meaningful biographical ...
plus Dutch, Pennsylvania Dutch (German), and Scots-Irish. It’s certainly possible to verify that using genealogy, but what can DNA testing alone tell us?
This essay is an autoethnographic analysis of AfriGeneas.com and Africanancestry.com, two African-American genealogical websites that represent the poles of a spectrum ranging from resource sites to DNA testing sites. I argue the actions at these sites reveal a transatlantic nostalgia stimulated ...
It is well-known in ancestry and genealogy research African American slavery matter prohibits current-day research efforts about family histories. The blockages that create the brick walls often referred to in African American ancestry research is due largely to enslavers not listing the full names, ...
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Of African Descent? Blackness and the Concept of Origins in Cultural PerspectiveDNA ancestry testinggenetic genealogyBlacknessoriginsethnicityraceBrazilUnited StatesFranceOver the past decade, the DNA ancestry-testing industry—based largely in the United States—has experienced a huge upsurge in popularity,...
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(non-Bantu), Nilo-Saharan, Afro-Asiatic, and Arabic. Several sequences had unknown population labels but did have admixture analysis results from other studies or the FTDNA database, in which case the dominant sub-Saharan population was used. We used the ace function in the ape package68and...
We used HaploGrep 2.067to classify mtDNA haplogroups. We performed Y-chromosome haplogroup classification using Yleaf68, and checked mutations against the ISOGG (International Society of Genetic Genealogy) SNP index (as of June 2018). We used pathPhynder44(https://github.com/ruidlpm/pathPhynder...
While there is some acquiescence to genetic thinking about ancestry, and by implication, 'race', among African-American and black British consumers of genetic genealogy testing, test-takers also adjudicate between sources of genealogical information and from these construct meaningful biograph...