Don’t be misled by the myth of “single tribe origin”! This is a line of thought which seems to be psychologically comforting for many people.
It is well advised to carefully read the Predicted Relationship Info given by and especially the confidence score they will assign to your African DNA match. Also the size of the shared DNA segment will be indicative. Getting your parents tested or any other relatives of older generations will increase your ability to be more certain about any given reported DNA match. The first thing to take into consideration is establishing whether your African match is indeed genuine or “identical by descent” ( IBD) and not just a socalled false positive or random “identical by state” ( IBS) match. Naturally this section is not meant to be exhaustive. Without wanting to rain on anybody’s parade I will list some considerations which might be helpful to improve the interpretation of receiving African DNA matches. Understandably this sometimes leads to wishful thinking and tunnel visionwhereby DNA results are not critically assessed. As a genealogical research reward in itself but often also on an emotional or even spiritual level. It is considered a highly prized outcome. It is probably no exaggeration to say that for many Afro-Diasporans getting connected with an African DNA cousin represents nothing less than a dream come true.
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However many people still find it difficult and/or tedious to sort out their DNA matches. In this blog post I will therefore describe a method which enables a systematic, comprehensive and time saving detection of your “100% African” DNA matches on. This increases the likelihood of receiving African DNA matches. Fortunately this has been changing lately because a quickly growing number of Africans or rather African migrants and their children are taking a DNA test. In the beginning this was mostly because only very few Africans were included in the customer databases of companies such as 23andme or. But just like me they are having a hard time to do so. They hope to achieve this by finding a DNA match from the continent. Many people seeking to trace back their African ancestors are very eager to be connected to a specific place and person within Africa. As I am of Cape Verdean descent this finding seems very appropriate and in line with my primary Upper Guinean roots (see Top 20 Ethnic Roots for Cape Verdeans). Even when I took my first DNA test with 23andme already in 2010! In other words I had to wait seven years for it! Inspite that I haven’t had any meaningful contact yet this genetic connection is still very valuable to me. I was exhilarated! I had never been able to find a mainland West African match before. Judging from his name and ethnicity preview he is a Mandinga from Gambia. I cannot see the remaining part of his breakdown though.Ī couple of months ago I found my very first mainland West African DNA cousin on. Because of the new Compare tool I have now (November 2018) also learnt that his main region is 81% “Senegal”(pre-update).
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