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Chromosome 7 – An African American Connection

Chromosome 7 – Myself [Personal Photo] With the continued use of DNA Painter, I have been able to see (in a sense) my results through a more magnified lens. Being able to break down genetic cousins via a comparison to my other tested family members has allowed me to better parse down a bit from which …

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A Puerto Rican Look at: Generational 23andMe African Ancestry

This blog post will be an updated report on my African ancestry from 23andMe. Last month I had posted about some of my new European Ancestry reports from 23andMe while last year I wrote about my generational African mixes from AncestryDNA (which I’ll have to update at some point as well!). Since 23andme has updated their African scores …

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A Puerto Rican Look at : A Generational Exploration of African Ancestry

Recently, I bought a few AncestryDNA test during their Black Friday/Cyber Monday sale. With those tests I was able to add 3 new members of my family to the site: my father, my mother, and my maternal grandmother. I still have one more test left and I’m hoping to test my maternal grandfather, but I’d …

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Discovering Stories Through Others

Since I’m on vacation and have some downtime, I decide to start reading some of the books I ordered. The ones I got so far are “Black Shack Alley”, “Texaco” and “The Diligent”. I decided to start with Texaco seeing as how it’s a historical fiction book which I thought would be nice to start …

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