Got My Dna Results Today, I am . . .

Ohhh, nice to have a BIG family now.

But what about the x-mas presents ? 

A bit expensive, huh? 

And I guarantee you that the same marker isn't unique to Igbos and can be found among all ethnic groups across South Eastern Nigeria. How then do these DNA clowns know she's Igbo?. . .Genetically, Igbos have several ancestors from several parts of the country, which Igbo group are they talking about exactly? The ones from Anioma, Anaedo, Umunri, Wawa?

The test is rubbish for anyone who knows a thing about African ethnicities, they need to come out with another way of swindling unassuming African Americans because this test makes no sense to me. I don't think there's anything in Igbos that isn't in Efiks, or something in people from Enugu that isn't in people from Southern Benue!

Assuming these tests are real, for someone who doesn't know which part of Africa their ancestors originated from talkless of the particular country, knowing the region is enough consolation, so whether it is core igbo or Efik or whatever it don't matter. Southeastern Nigeria is more than enough

No doubt they did. What you should ask yourself is whether or not their markers uniquely represent the ethnic origins they're saying to represent. Donzman's remark about the fact that they could also represent some other geographically close people is correct. It's very difficult to find any unique characteristics to a specific people epecially because  there is very little variability among humans to start with compared to most other mammals (e.g. two packs of lions that live a few hundred kilometers apart show more genetic variability than the whole of humanity combined). You can say that the probability that you descend from an Igbo maternal line is quite high, but you can never be 100% certain, unless they test for several markers and the reference database truly represent the genetic variability of the population it says to represent.

I'm happy for you that you've been able to trace your ancestry back, you only shouldn't read too much in the results, your genetic make up can also include several other peoples that they haven't catalogued yet or the variability that is not in the reference database.

nna men,,,,that is da same thing i'm wondering. is there a genetic difference b/w tribes?
i'm going to do some personal research online on that subject.

yeah, i've gone back and read Nferyn's post and think it also makes sense. i'D still have to research it when i get the chance. in the mean time, Drusilla, have you chosen your  Igbo name yet?

well, yeah, you could make it your nickname at least {well, i guess for at least the fun of it anyways}

And what do I do, if it turns out that my maternal maternal line is Yoruba?  We still have not paid for the test of that line. Though my aunt has agreed to pay and will do so in the next few months.

I might end up being both.

Although it is widely doubted now.

We are starting to believe that the rarity of the 100 percent match for Igbo's of Nigeria Today.

Means it is going to turn out that the maternal line is Igbo also.

GhettoChick,

The tests my family took and will take again --only searches their database of paternal and maternal lines for African matches.

I believe but I did see on the website that whites can take the test also.

Yes, the tests are expensive. 349$ to be exact for one line. www.africananscestry.com

My sister had just recieved a huge lump sum and paid for the one test. My aunt has enough money to pay for her own test and has agreed to do so. Yet she is saying she is waiting for a few months.

GhettoChick,

To many an African American it will seem like a lot of money to give away, just to find out that you are Black.

Which they already knew.

My sister is a Black Doll Maker and I know about Black history. She came to live with me and she began to do a lot of research about the history of Black People and not just our dolls. This led to her deep interest in our own Black history. She began collecting artifacts and census records and tracking us down. She could not get past the slave records because slave records were kept in such a sloppy fashion.

With most slaves being named simple names like Tom, Sue, Sally. With no last name listed. The children of the slaves were rarely listed by name.

So the only way over the slavery hump to find who your people were before slavery is a DNA test.

This is how we got here that my sister was willing to pay that type of money for a DNA test.

We only had 2 testable lines left. The others died out or led back to white people. Who we knew where they came from.

As you know, the first line has come out Igbo. We should know the other line before the year is out.

We are still all tripping at the first test. To actually have the test paper say that we are a 100 percent match for Igbo. Even African Ancestry says that our test results were very very rare.

Oprah Winfrey is only 84 percent match for the tribe they say she is from in Benin I think.

However, TD Jakes and Forrest Whitiker came out as matches for Igbo but not as muich as we did.

Something happenned that my grandma's Father had such pure Igbo blood preserved.

I was telling my family about reading  on Nairaland non-Igbo's complaining about Igbo girls and guys generally always choosing another Igbo from where their village is, when they settle down to have children.

We think Igbo's probably stuck close together as a group upon arrival in the US. Recognizing other Igbo's already on the plantations where sometimes thousands of different Africans worked together.

It is my grandma (my dad's mother that raised me) that is descended from an Igbo man.

The other test will show what my grandma's mom was. We have always believed my grandma was Geechi. Geechi though is almost  an meaningless term. It just means that her mother was part of a group of Africans taken from Africa, after slavery had ended. These slaves were placed on an Island right off South Carolina, this is what they were given since nobody wanted to take them back to Africa.

Eventually they came to be called "Geechi's". Yet it has no meaning for telling what tribe the person is from because all those taken as slaves only to get to America and find slavery had ended so they did not need to be slaves -- could have been from all over, West Africa.

We can use the test though to find my grandma's mom's tribe.

My grandfather's line (my dad's dad) can not be tested for, because we can only find out the Black Line through a female. All the females are dead for that generation. The other line goes back to a whiteman (British)  and a Black Chaqtaw Indian woman. So it is of no use to us either for finding our Black Anscestors.

GhettoChick,

We don't know when she was taken from Africa. The Library of census records was burned to a crisp mostly for 1870. So those are the worst records you find until you get to the slave records before 1860. If you look up American census they explain about the library burning down, so records directly after the end of slavery are lost for a lot of Americans, not just African Americans.

Unless you can find records for your African relatives among the navy and army records of the civil war, or other wars, it's basically a blank.

1850 and 1860 Slave records -- sloppy and unuseful
1870 --- Records all burned up.

So we can not get back past those two factors when looking at census records.

And Geechi does not show up as an option since, it is an American Island and the person would just be listed as an Black American.

I think those Igboids ought to be forced to take the test let's settle things once and for all

Babyosisi,

Thank you. I like it. Smile.

Somehow and this is very exciting to us. My maternal grandfather was born to an Igbo man, who was born to an Igbo man, who was born to an Igbo man.

There are two possible scenario's for this outrageous result of 100 percent Igbo.

1. My Paternal Grandfather was also one of the Africans shipped here and not put in the general population but segregated on Geechi Island off of South Carolina.

2. Igbo slaves stuck together and intermarried each other only.

Number 1 seems more credible to me because of our Oral family tradition that my grandmother was Geechi. (Never enslaved just dropped off on the Island.)

Nigerian government needs to make everyone in nigeria take that test but before that train our nurses and doctors to be the ones to draw the blood for the test because the some haters might take advantage and slip aids into the equipment; Just being cautious. But yeah, our government need to make everyone take that test beginning from niger delta, then to the rest of the country. But they also need to make it cheap tho.