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Where did you hear it wasn't a slave port? El Mina castle in Ghana was one of the biggest slave ports in the Gold Coast. I've read that most slaves who went to the Danish West Indies were from Ghana. I also likely have some Ghanaian links on my father's side (Ewe and Akan.) I think it's possible that you may have Ghanaian ancestry, but I wouldn't say that because FTDNA says it. They said my European ancestry was Russian and Finnish... nope. Lol!
But I read a post of yours where you said your father's sister matches a Lithuanian (linkus here at ABF) at 23andme. Lithuanian is in the ballpark with Russian and Finnish.
So FTDNA was right about your white ancestry coming from Russia/Finland (Lithuania), unless you don't share that ancestry with your aunt.
---------- Post added 2012-07-01 at 22:43 ----------
Originally Posted by amerinese
For example, I have England and Ireland in my list of ancestral origins, but I know Ireland is wrong, who specified Ireland, and why... I know which of my distant paternal cousins had an extramarital affair with their distant great grandmother in the early 1700's, spawning a child under her Irish previous husband's name, before later marrying her.
I have a predicted 4th cousin at 23andme to someone's mothers second cousin (100% European) and we have no matching surnames but my Great Great Grandfather lived where her ancestors lived for a few years in that time frame, so I conclude there must have been an extra-marital affair hence the DNA match and my Great Great Grandfather is their biological ancestor. Unless there were additional relatives there who could have been the culprit.
A few of my matches are like this where the surnames don't match but my male ancestor or a male relative of my ancestor lived in the area of my dna matches ancestors. I have a 23andme cousin, DNA match in my RF, from Massachusetts who insists we are not related because all his ancestors have lived only in Massachusetts since the 1600s. And he stopped sharing/communicating with me. Well, I never got to tell him that my Great Great Grandfather had three brothers who moved to Massachusetts in the late 1800s. And other matches in New England and Canada, were male relatives of my ancestors lived.
^^ Yeah, it's really interesting to uncover "non-paternal events" like that. In my case all my paternal cousins with my surname and Y-DNA match some people with other surname as closely as we match each other, with 67 STR markers. Their great grandmother is on record as re-marrying to a man with my surname and Y-DNA, and his "stepson" kept the surname of his official father, but as an adult, gave his son our surname as his first name. They (the cheating couple) were also censured by the local church for "cohabitating out of wedlock" prior to being married, and he was disowned by his father, left only a token inheritance in the will.
Anyway off-topic for the thread. I just brought up the example to show how user-supplied ancestry on consumer websites could be wrong. Actually I am interested to know if any NWB's have documented Y-STR matches to old world cousins in Africa. Obviously there are fewer DNA hobbyists in West Africa than Europe, but there is that African Ancestry testing company that claims to have a big database of African lineages.
Where did you hear it wasn't a slave port? El Mina castle in Ghana was one of the biggest slave ports in the Gold Coast. I've read that most slaves who went to the Danish West Indies were from Ghana. I also likely have some Ghanaian links on my father's side (Ewe and Akan.) I think it's possible that you may have Ghanaian ancestry, but I wouldn't say that because FTDNA says it. They said my European ancestry was Russian and Finnish... nope. Lol!
true.
El Mina castle was built by the Portuguese. Most of people enslaved in Ghana went to the West Indies from the research I have done.
I'm half Ewe, half Akan btw
---------- Post added 2012-07-01 at 23:24 ----------
Acording to my Y-DNA STR results in FTDNA , they located my ancestry back to Ghana, but I heard it wasn't a slave port, so, does this means I am not a slave descendant or I am?
Jibaro no offence but where did you hear this? And how could you not know about Ghana a.k.a. Gold Coast being a major exporter of African slaves to the Americas after spending so many years on these boards... Going by number Ghana probably had the most slave ports. After the Portuguese also the Dutch , Danes and English created their own forts over there.
Also your parental lineages are just a small part of your total ancestry. Like other New Worlders you have multi-SSA origins. You can never determine each and every one of them but hopefully in the near future they will be able to say with more accuracy which subregion or ethnicity contributed the most. Right now i would take all those results as just an indication but not anything definite.
According to documented slave voyages there were no direct imports from Ghana (Gold Coast) into PR, but of course there was plenty of unrecorded smuggling going on with the english/dutch/french. So surely some ghanaian slaves must have made it into PR.
---------- Post added 2012-07-02 at 06:03 ----------
Originally Posted by oditous
Jibaro no offence but where did you hear this? And how could you not know about Ghana a.k.a. Gold Coast being a major exporter of African slaves to the Americas after spending so many years on these boards... Going by number Ghana probably had the most slave ports. After the Portuguese also the Dutch , Danes and English created their own forts over there.
Also your parental lineages are just a small part of your total ancestry. Like other New Worlders you have multi-SSA origins. You can never determine each and every one of them but hopefully in the near future they will be able to say with more accuracy which subregion or ethnicity contributed the most. Right now i would take all those results as just an indication but not anything definite.
According to documented slave voyages there were no direct imports from Ghana (Gold Coast) into PR, but of course there was plenty of unrecorded smuggling going on with the english/dutch/french. So surely some ghanaian slaves must have made it into PR.
No, not offended at all, it seems that the person who gave me that information didn't knew about this for some unkown reason and made the remark, but I had doubts about it so hence why this thread was made.
---------- Post added 2012-07-02 at 06:29 ----------
Originally Posted by oditous
And how could you not know about Ghana a.k.a. Gold Coast being a major exporter of African slaves to the Americas after spending so many years on these boards
Errr, nope, unfortunely I didn't knew, if I didn' knew I wouldn't have come with this thread.I hope I hadn't offended you.
Originally Posted by ari87
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Jibaro no offence but where did you hear this? And how could you not know about Ghana a.k.a. Gold Coast being a major exporter of African slaves to the Americas after spending so many years on these boards... Going by number Ghana probably had the most slave ports. After the Portuguese also the Dutch , Danes and English created their own forts over there.
