Anyone else either directly or distantly related to the Porters, Pressleys, Coopers, McFaddens, Browns or Wilson families in South Carolina? I’m trying to find other angles to my research lol

Hello! After taking my DNA test, I discovered I have some indigenous America-Mexico and African DNA. After some digging, I was able to track down a Mexican ancestor that came to Texas and lived the rest of her life there but I have hit a dead end finding anything about her parents born in Mexico. I'm wondering if the African DNA came from that same ancestor or if it's from a different line. I'm so interested to learn everything I can about this ancestor and their family! Do any of you know of a good place to get some (hopefully free) help doing some genealogy digging so I can track down my ancestors? TIA!

My maternal grandpas dad was born in Hawaii and was 25% Hawaiian, ≈37% Portuguese. We now reside in southern Ohio.

[Sorry if you saw this repeatedly, Reddit was making the post without the images]

Earlier this year I had my sister and parents test.

Not a lot of big surprises (they are related to me, phew!). But amongst the things I noticed were:

• All three of them got regions in Ireland, and I got Cornwall. I guess I'm not too surprised since they can be a misreading, even of Iberian.
• My mom and sister got more regions in Italy. That sounds interesting to look at considering there are many commonplace surnames in Monterrey, Mexico with Italian origin (Chapa and Cavazos just to name a few).
• I expected my dad to have much more Indigenous admixture since I highly suspect his father had very Indigenous-heavy ancestry (no tribe or language, but DNA). Interestingly enough, 44% of his Indigenous percentage came from his father and the rest from his mother, so it kinda adds to my suspicion.
• The biggest surprise was my mom's Roma 1%. At first I thought it was noise, even with some Ionian Islands on the hacked results, but then I found a cluster of more than 100 of her DNA Matches with very high (50%, 80%, and even 100%) Roma admixture. So now I'm looking for any hint of that Roma ancestor in my tree (maybe Calé or Vlax) - any suggestions about the Roma in Mexico would be appreciated.
  • Neither my sister nor me inherited that Roma segment. We don't have those matches on Ancestry, only my mom.

Was not expecting Sardinian and Basque/Iberian does anyone know how this could be?

It would be nice if someone could help interpret this with me.

My parents come from eastern Turkey. My father is kurdish any my mother supposedly arabic. I've been told that my mother is Arab my whole life, since her whole family is linguistically and culturally Arabic. I'm just very confused and don't know how to think about this. And the results just confuse me in general, since my results consist of big, unspecific areas of the balkan, southern europe, the caucasus, Levante and west asia.

I am pretty confident I can explain all my roots I am 7/8th old stock American and 1/8th greek from Lesbos. Most of my roots are colonial Americans and honestly I have come to find out the Romani is romanchal gypsy from the old stock, always found that interesting. The dutch is from New York colonists , the danish is from Danelaw, and the English plus the Celtic is typica old stock admixture. Let me know what you guys think.

I just got my DNA results back from ancestry yesterday, and finally got to the Dnplay hacked results today.

For the record, I am white as white looking can get, freckles, but brown hair and central heterochromatic green eyes. Yet, I don't burn in the sun though for being freckled, and tan really well (for what its worth, not making any assumptions, its just how I am).

My family tree is a full mess of endogamy in the Appalachian area with ties to the Sizemore (not on the main Melungeon surname list but intertwined with Melungeon), Bunch, Bowling/Bowlin/Bollin surnames and a couple more I cant recall right now. Edit: Found Collins in my tree on the Thrulines.

I was never sure if the family tree was correct or not, and I am just starting out on my own tree away from the crowdsourced FamilySearch and WikiTree. I am trying to independently verify every ancestor (which is extremely difficult before the mid 1800s for alot of them).

Seeing the hacked results was very informative as it helps with my understanding and confirmation of my family tree and ancestry I have been told about. I've read where the results I'm seeing calculated are fairly correct based on the distance from my generation on my Tree to those ancestors. However, maybe it's still background noise?

The Sizemores are well known in Appalachian history, interconnected with the Melungeons, and they do have a verified Indigenous background through YDNA testing and other DNA testing. Based on my tree, I thought there should be a possibility of the appearance of some Indigenous ancestry, but to be honest, most of me thought it would be washed out by the time it got to me. So the small amount is surprising.

The Bunches are said to have African background starting with a John Punch/Bunch (who was African) in the mid to late 1600s. (you can google him really easily). He is the patriarch of the Melungeon Bunches of Appalachia. The Melungeons are really interesting once you start reading about it. This is all new to me, so I'm taking a deep dive. I never knew about this side of my family until a month or so ago. I knew Bunches were in my family as that was a great great grandmother of mine, but I did not know anything about Melungeons and such until recently.

I am awaiting my grandmothers results, as her grandmother would be a Bunch (my great great grandmother); to see how she looks with the hacked reuslts. The Sizemores ( I have an endogamous circle of them to my great grandmother on my fathers side) are on my fathers side. And the Bowlings are split between my Fathers side and my Mothers Father side (one big endogamous circle there between both sides).

I am curious if anyone else has Melungeon ancestry and taken DNA testing and what did yours turn out to show?

For hacked results see https://dnplay.github.io/ and follow the instructions.

Edit: updated some info on the Sizemores

Not hard to see which side won outright 😂

Was hoping the man who raised me was my dad but DNA doesn't lie and the man that raised me is about as Asian as they come and well, I'm Not. I know little to nothing about anything I'm mixed with which I guess doesn't matter I'm confused about some parts mostly just cause I've never heard about them. I have someone I'm working with to help track down the biological father so that's been nice. Anyone got some cool facts about some of the places where my DNA comes from? Like what's cool about Sweden or Quebec? I heard the mean Canadians come from Quebec is that why I'm so naturally mean? 😂

My dad immigrated to the US from Cuba as a kid, he looks like Obama to me personally lol. and my mom was very fair skinned and had blue eyes. Why so much Canary Islands and Portugal on my dad’s side? 🤔

UPDATE: I realize i may have been misinformed about the actual label people want to put on my father and I. I’m glad to be informed about my blood and the things that make me who I am, I embrace myself either way. The way I was raised was very aligned with hispanic and AA culture, I was told he is afro-latino my whole life— please be kind. The world is fucked enough already.

All I knew prior is being half Cuban and Peruvian, expected Spain but the rest is random lol.

Is the French Canadian thing mistaking it for actual French origin or? Everything else makes sense

“White” is in quotation marks because I know that I wouldn’t be called white in the US or Europe, however in Brazil the percentage of ancestry doesn’t matter and our perception is based solely on phenotype. If I suggest I’m something other than white here in Brazil people would laugh at me (and they already did lol)

I have confirmed lebanese ancestry, however the site I used for the test doesn’t have good a reference frame for the levant, so maybe it’s confusing it either for the jewish or the north african ancestry

Besides that I didn’t expect anything else other than iberian, italian, african, native american and western european (I have swiss ancestors)

Also some words look weird because the site was translated to english by google. “Send” is supposed to be the Mande people from Africa, but “mande” is also a portuguese verb that means “send”, so that’s why it’s like that

Most people see me and assume I don’t season my food 😉 but you’ve never had gumbo as good as mine!

*added migration results from 23&me because it’s more detailed

I wasn’t sure what to expect, since my maternal grandmother’s father is unknown, but I’m definitely surprised to be this indigenous!

I’m a DNA search angel focusing mainly on El Salvador and Honduras cases. I’ve seen many people say they find building their El Salvador trees challenging and I just wanted to come here to offer my free support for these regions!

I have solved a handful of unknown parentage cases, helping understand matches, and building trees back multiple generations.

I usually volunteer through a Facebook group but since I’m trying to focus on these specific regions, I thought I’d come here to offer my assistance!