DNA Reveals | Her Family Is Black. Her DNA Surprised Her. | Ep. 9

We have four people this week, starting with Jahorace, whose 23andMe card says he shares a paternal line with a pharaoh. Lucas’s grandmother told everyone she was English and Spanish, Sherida’s family goes back to colonial Virginia, and ReTina thinks the man next door was her mother’s grandfather! Submit your story! https://forms.gle/3FDmEYNerL2Hgn5W8 00:00 - Introduction & Teasers 00:48 - Sharita: Colonial Virginia Free Ancestors & Mysterious 1924 Death 05:40 - JaHorace: Ancient Paternal Lineage & Connection to Ramesses III 10:43 - Lucas: Anglo-Indian Roots, Hidden Origins & Sicilian Mystery 18:30 - Retina: Searching for Truth & The Man Next Door 28:15 - Closing Thoughts & How to Submit Your Story source list: Sherida Library of Virginia, Virginia Untold: free registers Library of Virginia, UncommonWealth blog on Chickahominy birth certificates U.S. Senate Report 115-123 on Virginia tribes’ recognition Bryc et al., “The Genetic Ancestry of African Americans, Latinos, and European Americans across the United States,” American Journal of Human Genetics, 2015 JaHorace Hawass et al., “Revisiting the harem conspiracy and death of Ramesses III,” BMJ, 2012 Gad, Hawass et al., 2020 follow-up on the same mummies Newman et al., “The West African ethnicity of the enslaved in Jamaica,” Slavery & Abolition, 2013 Afrigeneas notice on the British slave registers, 1813 to 1834 Lucas Royal Historical Society blog, “On ‘Passing’: Shifting histories of the Anglo-Indian community” Asia New Zealand Foundation, “Untold stories: Anglo-Indians in NZ” Families in British India Society (database of transcribed primary records) U.S. Reports: United States v. Thind, 261 U.S. 204 (1923), Library of Congress UC Berkeley Library, South Asian immigration timeline SAADA, “Luce-Celler Act Signed in 1946” ReTina Courthouse News / AP, “Story of the Underground Railroad to Mexico Gains Attention” FamilySearch, Mississippi Enumeration of Educable Children MDAH, Series 105 Educable Children Lists Ancestry, ethnicity update FAQ *Amazon links are affiliate links. If buy something through these links, we may earn affiliate commission. Thank you for supporting this project!