Cuban Ancestry DNA Results

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@ESCAGEDOWOODWORKING 2 жыл бұрын

GeneaVlogger, Thank you for the review. You're insightful and nuanced when reacting to videos and I like that. I appreciate you shining a light on this little part of the world, which has its unique history. I might have to make a 2021 update video, since this is out now. I've dug a bit deeper since, but now I dread the editing that comes with that lol. Thank you and I wish you great things.

@GeneaVlogger 2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed the review! I've had multiple comments telling me how much further you dive into your ancestry, so I added a few of your other videos to the list of reactions for the future. It's always wonderful to see someone really using their DNA results to truly uncover their family history! All the best!

@MarkLindsayCNC 2 жыл бұрын

Oh, man, you don't even know what you've stumbled into... I consider the gentleman in the original video (Rock N Woodworks) to be a very good friend of mine, and since the original video was posted, he's basically dedicated his life to researching his family. I'm talking extensive, intense research. He has cousins in Spain who are helping him from over there, and his tree has become enormous. I would highly suggest reaching out to him, as I think his is a fascinating story, and one that I think your viewers would very much enjoy. I've been privileged to witness his discoveries over the years, and the many things he's discovered about his family and himself are amazing.

@MarkVrem 2 жыл бұрын

His history is pretty mapped out, so this probably isn't a reason for the French connection. During the Napoleonic years, when Haiti won its independence from France, French-Haitians left Haiti for Cuba. At the time, both the Spanish and French fleets are destroyed at Trafalgar by the British. Migrating to Cuba, where their agricultural skills are helpful, is a better choice than going to France during the war with Britain. Hate to bring up racism, but this was the 1800s, so French-Haitians being white, were welcomed to mingle with White-Cubans and add to their demographics. Sidenote: Huge reason why Louisiana Territory was sold to the USA by Napoleon was because of the loss of Haiti as a colony. At the time, Louisiana was just a place for collecting raw materials to support agriculture in Haiti. With no Haiti, no raw material business in Louisiana.

@ManuelPerez-dg4mu Жыл бұрын

I'm Cuban and had the AncestryDNA test done. My recent updated results are 97% European, 2% lndigenous and 1% African from Senegal. My European DNA is mostly from Spain and Portugal and a very small amount from Scotland and Sardinia. Two of my grandfathers were from Galicia, Spain and 7 of my great grandparents were from Galicia, Castilla La Vieja (currently Castilla & León) the Canary lslands and Navarre, Spain. My one great grandfather who was born in Bayamo, Oriente Cuba had ancestors from the Canary lslands as well as a Taíno lndigenous ancestor and an African one according to what l was told by my family.

@gg5508 2 ай бұрын

Puerto Ricans are the real and only Tainos. Cubans and dominicans barely have any Taino blood.

@RudyRender Жыл бұрын

I got 6% welsh but we have to remember, Spain has Celtic influence as well, hence the name “celtiberians”.

@karmagal78 2 жыл бұрын

I’ve debunked some of my family lore (we were told that my great grandfather had gotten the divorce from his first wife, because she had been cheating. Turned out that she had divorced him due to him being cruel. I have the documents)

@Rose-ip2xu 2 жыл бұрын

This was great. Thank you! There was a story that my GGG grandpa was from the Island of Sardinia. Turns out he was actually from Genoa, which at the time was a part of the Kingdom of Sardinia. Like you said...it's exactly like telephone!

@Materva-hv6sz 2 жыл бұрын

Cuban culture has a Spanish base, but the West African cultural contribution is far more than a component. I would call Cuban culture a pretty even mix of Iberian (and here we're talking principally about Iberians from the Canary Islands) and West African. Puerto Rico is very similar and it's this mix of Iberian and West African that gives these islands their unique cultures

@sosalty701 Жыл бұрын

Chinese also, which influenced the food as well.

@jeanrafael873 Жыл бұрын

True

@joaokowalski9736 Жыл бұрын

The predominance is Spanish culture though, I think you have to remember that a lot of cultural was forcefully integrated for nationalist purposes in many latam areas to promote to illusion of celebrating diversity. when black music and religion was persecuted or looked down as satanic in countries like cuba and brazil, can you really say that the majority of the population has those things as their culture? Racial differences can also collide with culture, black people obviously more likely to have african cultural remnants more present.

@deadnarko 8 ай бұрын

@@joaokowalski9736 while insightful, the cuban culture isn’t a set thing, it’s a diverse mix. west african contributions to the culture of a spanish country will, evidently, withhold predominantly spanish culture, but are still a sizable factor in our culture. im a new gen cuban and can tell you that one of the biggest religions on the island is afro-cuban/caribbean. i understand your intentions weren’t to downplay the culture but west african cultural contributions are still a large factor in cuban roots despite the strongman argument you presented

@GazilionPT 2 жыл бұрын

16:15 Southern Italy, Sicily, Sardinia, and Corsica were until the early 18th century part of the Crown of Aragon, Aragon being one of the crowns that joined to create the country of Spain. About endogamy, it doesn't seem to be much of an issue in his case: 1 of his gp came directly from Spain, as did 5 out of 8 of his ggp, so clearly his family hasn't been "isolated" in Cuba for many generations. (If there was some endogamy, it would be back in Spain, in the small communities from where his ggp came.)

@MarkVrem 2 жыл бұрын

Can take it even further back. When Al-Andalusia was up there as one of the richest parts of Europe. They would hire a lot of non-Iberian merceneries. This included tons of Slavs, Italians etc. Pretty much anyone who wanted to make some money. These people then would land their roots in Spain. But that is going back 1000 years. lol.. Well then going even further back there is Rome and Carthage, both had colonies in Sicily.

@stopwesterndegeneracy1194 2 жыл бұрын

Wrong

@goodaimshield1115 2 жыл бұрын

They shouldn't distinguish between Spain and Portugal. We're too similar, and actually, "Portuguese" are originally from Northern Spain, Galicia, Asturias and León. It is just throwing all people from former Spanish Kingdom of León under Portuguese, when in any case it would be the opposite.

@you-know-who9023 2 жыл бұрын

Irish ancestry very likely came via Iberia as many Irish left Ireland in 17th and 18th century for Roman Catholic countries in Europe and then of course some of those families would have emigrated as Spanish speakers to Latin America

@mikkiminach9539 2 жыл бұрын

True, it could also be that his family has roots in northern Spain, where many people are of Celtic origin

@raquelfigueroa5539 2 жыл бұрын

My ancestry have been updated my Spanish ancestry went down and Portuguesse went up, my African went up and now I have Northern Africa wish makes sense to me and I was surprise it didn’t come out when I first tested. But I gotta say I got what I expected, with the exception of English that one I didn’t expect.

@raquelfigueroa5539 2 жыл бұрын

Spain 29% Portugal 19% Cameroon, Congo & western Bantu Peoples 10% Benin & Togo 7% Basque 5% Senegal 4% Ireland 4% Ivory Coast & Ghana 4% Scotland 3% England & Northwestern Europe 3% Indigenous Haiti & Dominican Republic 3% Nigeria 3% Northern African 2% Indigenous Americas- Chile 2% Indigenous eastern South America 1% Indigenous Puerto Rico 1%

@QBRikan77 2 жыл бұрын

I am Puerto Rican. I am white with green eyes and am European in appearance. What I noticed is that Cubans who are European in appearance are 90-100% European. Puerto Ricans who do are usually 60-70% European

@Stoicsaiyan 5 ай бұрын

This is because phenotype doesn’t equal genetics. You can be a very white looking person and have TONS of native and African ancestry. And brown skin can look very African but have tons of European ancestry. Also cuba is much bigger so it’s more mixed. But like Cuba is bigger we tend to have a larger white population than DR or PR. Lord of Dominicans similarly to Cubans have lord of white ancestry because originally DR was a very white country. Until they were conquered by the Haitians

@fyanle1382 2 жыл бұрын

German is the largest claimed ancestry in the US but the census bureau usually points out that most English Americans don't claim their ancestry

@briantbmoth6472 2 жыл бұрын

Probably because most Germans came after the civil war.

@francoisdaureville323 Жыл бұрын

Its because angloculture is the norm is like the base of american fundation And society thats why for example in Argentina theres some english ancestry and they claim it because thats not the norm there they dont even claim spanish ancestry that much because thats the norm in argentina obviusly with italian inmigrants as well same in most of latin América they claim the newest inmigrant ancestry or dont claim Anything at all thats why so many english americans just say they have american ancestry southeners

@kikimanchester 2 жыл бұрын

Ancestry DNA has Spanish, Portuguese and Basque replacing the former Iberian category. The map for Portuguese includes Western Andalusia, Extremadura, Leon and Galicia in Spain as well.

@goodaimshield1115 2 жыл бұрын

It was stupid to change it. Basques are supposed to be the most Spanish and now they're a different category.

@Jordi_Llopis_i_Torregrosa96 2 жыл бұрын

@@goodaimshield1115 basques are not "the most Spanish", Basques are a separate group

@kathyastrom1315 2 жыл бұрын

My sister and her Cuba husband had their DNA done a few years ago. When the results came back, they included a world map showing where their heritages were placed. My BIL’s results covered several continents, including the Americas, Europe, and Africa. My sister’s was just Ireland, Britain, France, Sweden, and a touch of Finland. Her stepdaughter called her “the whitest person I have ever met!”

@joaokowalski9736 Жыл бұрын

Finnish people have very high North Asian admixture.. also "the whitest" makes no sense. Spain invented whiteness lol, seeing Scandinavians as more white than other west Eurasians is weird and originates in Nazi thought

@user-lk9wy7hi1d 2 жыл бұрын

I’m Cuban and mine was pretty similar

@brianlewis5692 2 жыл бұрын

English origin is found throughout the US, unlike the other ethnicities such as German, Swedish, French - no matter where you go in the US, there is some form of British Isles DNA there. Not so sure if that can be said of any other Ethnicity.

@judydeutsch266 2 жыл бұрын

Well, most americans have german ancestry. But due to history they don't claim it!

@MsTomas086 2 жыл бұрын

@@judydeutsch266 Until they get a DNA test I'm not believing it because people lie.

@cefcat5733 2 жыл бұрын

Great video from you both. Gracias.👍👍 He communicates so well. The family rumors do hold some truth. 💕It can be motivation, inspiration or an obsession and all are good. He is really getting into the research too. ¡Bravo! Wonder if his Y chromosome is the Italian one, the first to sail to Cuba. A Cuban told me, outside of Cuba, as late as 2010, that education and benefits like healthcare, are for all, but the so-called 'races' experience separation in daily life. That maybe explains a predominant Spanish Cuban heritage, if that is traditional and expected by the family. There were possibly some arranged marriages. Some are even still unaware of the separations between their different population groups. I experienced this, in the US in 1995. It was like going back in time, but that WAS, back in time. The cultures all spoke English but did not communicate with each other unnecessarily. Spanish speakers also lived and opened shops in mostly one vicinity but the whole world is/was not doing this and the Cuban man I met married a German citizen. Yeah, DNA!

@Elke_KB 2 жыл бұрын

I just checked his YT page....he has a lot of videos on his family history.

@Laura.LD. Жыл бұрын

I don’t really get how this interpretations apply to Europeans. I’m Spaniard and got 12% Italian, 5% Irish, Welsh, and 2% Middle East you cannot explain it looking my genealogy for the last centuries. I have all my data going until 1490 in some cases and the only non Spaniard was a French who came here in 1750. Those results must reflect more ancient history.

@katherinetepper-marsden38 2 жыл бұрын

My Cuban side is also from Cienfuegos and Cifuentes and lived in Matanzas. I have a great great grandfather born in Madrid.

@mexicanvanilla8543 2 жыл бұрын

During the last ancestry update my French percentage went down and my Basque went up. It made sense considering that in my region of Mexico we use a lot of Basque words. There is very little regional reference to the Basque people but everyone says they have French blood. Interesting to see the connections.

@Jordi_Llopis_i_Torregrosa96 2 жыл бұрын

The Basque don't have French blood, nor Spanish, some do, but generally as a group they're neither Spanish or French, however sometimes some tests might confuse or lump Basque within Spanish or French results.

@Elke_KB 2 жыл бұрын

Very enjoyable video. He had a lot of great infomation about his family history to start with and he seems to be knowledgeable in European history. I wonder if he's done any update videos?

@klipnity 2 жыл бұрын

Im Cuban and its funny i thought all my life I was at least 80-90% European due to me being lightskinned and when I tested I wasn't even 50% European I was just 20%. This is why I recommend everyone to do DNA test because the results are incredible.

@hamidmajid2687 2 жыл бұрын

Interesting! What was the rest 80%?

@antoniogutierrezjr7471 Жыл бұрын

I agree soo what came out the Taino ??

@lo5182 Жыл бұрын

Light skin color doesn't necessarily = European. Japanese are light skinned, but are not European.

@dawudj2286 8 ай бұрын

yeah but hispanics usually arent Japenese @@lo5182

@mompofelski4191 2 жыл бұрын

very interesting.

@craigistheman101 2 жыл бұрын

So I am AA and on my moms side I have roots in Southampton Virginia and was told by my maternal grandmother that her maternal grandmother was 100% native. I only came back 1%. During my research though I was able to trace my direction maternal line to a woman named Louisa Yellowby. I have a distant cousin on this line that contacted me with information that they believe her to be part of the Cheroenhaka tribe. My maternal haplogroup is L3e3b1 though. All so interesting but frustrating at the same time

@chacesimpson2856 Жыл бұрын

funny so many AA grandparents believed they were native instead of west african,its like they are running from their roots

@bellator-rq1yd 2 жыл бұрын

Those Ancestry DNA tests that differentiate between Spanish and Portuguese are confusing a lot of people about their origins. In most places that were colonized by the Spanish, such high percentages of Portuguese ancestry makes no sense. They should be interpreted as coming from people of Spain's regions bordering Portugal, such as Galicia, Leon, Zamora, Salamanca, Extremadura or western Andalusia, whose genes are more related to those of the Portuguese than to those of the rest of the Spanish.

@goodaimshield1115 2 жыл бұрын

Those genes are actually "originally" from North Spain, Galicia and Asturias. Genetics go in a vertical axis North to South. Portugal was populated by people from Galicia, Asturias and Leon, current Spanish regions, that's why their genetic is Northern Spanish. And of course all Spanish territories of the former Kingdom of León down to Andalucía get the same genetics.

@terra7066 Жыл бұрын

@@goodaimshield1115 The pre Roman peoples of what it is today Portugal and Spain were not the same , Portugal was never populated with Spanish people because most of the time the country was at war with Leon and Castile. The Galician were a mixture of two peoples that also lived in Portugal , the Callaeci and the Lusitani , when the Spaniards get a lot of Portuguese DNA it just means that their ancestors were from Galicia. The pre-Roman peoples. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hpqHoqp_rNOcYI0.html kzfaq.info/get/bejne/geCSeshqqcrJfKM.html

@erikagholston6610 2 жыл бұрын

Interesting

@bryanwolfe6975 2 жыл бұрын

I’m Cuban and I have taken this test and I have a lot of cousins that show up on both sides of my parents 😂 My great grandfather was from Órense, Galicia, Spain 🇪🇸 and I have a 2nd great grandfather that was from Andalucía, Spain 🇪🇸 that I know of and my results were: Spain, Portugal, France, Basque, Germany, Scotland, Jewish, indigenous Cuba, North African, and Sub-Saharan Africa 😁

@MsTomas086 2 жыл бұрын

@Sofia Vega Majority of Cubans don't have native ancestry it's African instead.

@bryanwolfe6975 2 жыл бұрын

@Sofia Vega 4%

@Wilianvv75 2 жыл бұрын

Aborigen cuban o mesoamericana?

@jeanrafael873 2 жыл бұрын

Looks like most Cubans which have Galician ancestry have it from Orense

@dangercat9188 Жыл бұрын

Yoooo I'm half Puerto Rican and Dominican and my Puerto Rican side mainly comes from Asturias, Galicia and Canary Islands. And apparently Valencia, Madrid and Andalucia. Now I wanna visit Spain lol. But I just wanna try their food and see La Sagrada Familia but I'd have to go to Barcelona for that. My DR side has more African than my PR side (like i legit have boricua family members with blonde/red hair, blue eyes and freckles lol) I know gente de el cibao are more European than those from Santo Domingo (my grandpa) but I surprisingly had Italian, welsh and French coming from my DR side and I also had Scotiish from my PR side. 🤔 I wish I had more taino though. It's such a rich culture and I do have it but its not even visible 😔. I haven't been to the PR since 2001! Man I gotta go there son 🤦‍♂️

@JediSimpson 2 жыл бұрын

14:15 - On 23andMe, it just says “Spanish & Portuguese”. On my third and fourth (current) update on there, I have gotten a very small amount of Spanish & Portuguese. It was only 0.1% on the third update (along with 0.3% Italian, 0.3% Broadly Southern European), but 0.5% Spanish & Portuguese on the fourth (with no other Southern European). I don’t know of any Iberian ancestry of mine, and it’s so small, it might be a misreading.

@jamesbon1 2 жыл бұрын

I’m also Cuban American of Cuban parents. Here are my results: 93% Spanish, 3% Lebanese, 3% Native American from Cuba (extinct), 1% Congolese.

@The1ByTheSea Жыл бұрын

I did see an Italian surname in his ancestry Llilardi

@lisapinfold506 11 ай бұрын

Not surprised with the Celt Basque connection😊

@brawndothethirstmutilator9848 2 ай бұрын

There is no connection between Celts and Basques other than living in the same continent.

@claforestrie 2 жыл бұрын

galicia in spain is a celtic part of spain fidel castro is galician on his father s side

@terrayjos 2 жыл бұрын

the update before the latest update split Italy as northern and southern (they may still have broadly Italian, they may even have the islands split out)

@terrayjos 2 жыл бұрын

p.s. many southern Italians have Greece ancestry)

@juliewilliams9441 2 жыл бұрын

My ancestry results has gone up on one of my DNA ancestry from 52 % to 69% plus i have had 2 new DNA Ancestry results added to my chart who has this happened 🤷‍♀️thank you.

@OpinionatedChicken59 2 жыл бұрын

Cuban guys are so hot

@light-beige 2 жыл бұрын

I'm Puerto Rican born and a lot of the people that call themselves Latin, Hispanic, or whatever need to go back and read up on their history as well. My DNA doesn't surprise me because of the stories That I heard coming from my mother's mouth.

@joaokowalski9736 Жыл бұрын

To counter fears of another Haitian Revolution (but in Cuba) the Spanish crown got western European peasants mostly Spaniards from the Canary Islands to settle through out the country side of Cuba. Cuba was also a pretty racist society and racial endogamy, especially among newly arrived Spaniards was quite. Even today Cuba has a much higher racial endogamy among whites than even places like Brazil. So even among solely colonial descended Cuban whites, having no admixture at all wasn't uncommon. Not to mention that after independence Cuba received more than a million immigrants from Europe mostly Spain. Add to this the fact that the bulk of the exile community was white or predominately white, his results are not surprising at all and often expected..

@MarcPagan 2 жыл бұрын

"Mommy, why is half my DNA German, like the Fedex driver, and not Italian, like Daddy's?"

@witchysphynx6174 Жыл бұрын

Hii half cuban half Belgium. In my dna result I got 46% English, 29% Italian, 9% spain/ Portugal, 13% meso American and 2% central asia. I was so shocked that I wasn't actual partial Belgium even though my dad is from Belgium but with a German last (weird I know). After I got the results I asked if something went wrong the clinic cuz they used IVF but he was like nah you guys look to much like me 😂 (I also have a twin brother)

@joaokowalski9736 Жыл бұрын

What is the Cuban sides ancestry? Having such a high Indigenous and such a low Iberian is very odd. Were they Italian Cubans?

@frankscarborough1428 2 жыл бұрын

My mom had her dna done with My Heritage. Her great grandmother according to family lore was 100 percent Jewish. She had 4 percent shepardi Jewish. Everybody laughed and said that's why she feeds all the kids in the neighborhood lol they called her the Jewish mom

@sosalty701 Жыл бұрын

There is a great book by a Cuban woman named Genie Milgrom called My 15 Grandmothers about her journey discovering and documenting her Jewish ancestry, which she used as proof to be declared Jewish by her synagogue.

@thomasspicer4130 2 жыл бұрын

In such a mixed part of the world it’s amazing how European he is .

@viejitoloco4133 2 жыл бұрын

No it's not. It's a bad word, but you're smart boy(your watching this video) you can figure it out.

@OpinionatedChicken59 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah especially because he looks super Cuban

@Alexs.2599 2 жыл бұрын

@@OpinionatedChicken59 No he looks in general what a White European Cuban would look like.

@joannel5074 2 жыл бұрын

what does ethnicity estimate means?

@pamelaanders6286 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your wonderful site. I am struggling with my own family tree and am quite frustrated at the moment by my great grandfather's line where I do not have an original surname. He ran away from Russia at the age of 13. Sent the next three years working his way across Europe, finally hopping aboard a ship in France headed to England. Sadly, when he landed in England (probably Dover), the Immigration Dept. could not spell out his last name and dubbed him down as John Brown. Very very common action in those days. Sadly, despite us having a fair bit of oral history from him, we do not have his original name. Any ideas?

@brawndothethirstmutilator9848 2 жыл бұрын

If the paper trail cannot be recovered, DNA is probably your only option. Use a test that integrates with family trees (Ancestry DNA or something similar). The more of your immediate family that also tests the more likely you will be to zero in on those roots from Russia.

@anaz5918 2 жыл бұрын

You can try by connecting your dna and comparing with your dna matches and look where the similarities comes from idk where ancestry test put Russian since there’s several different ethnicities and sometimes they don’t group them together.

@jaceymartin4739 2 жыл бұрын

I want to be a genealogist but I am even frustrated researcher my family history. New York state is difficult as registering births/death/marriage was not mandatory until the 1910s, and the most the certificate be it birth. death or marriage the information is scant. I have a couple of elusive ancestors, all of whom are the early Dutch from the Hudson Valley, and many intermarry :(

@anaz5918 2 жыл бұрын

Did they belong to a particular religion ? If so some religions such as Catholics been recording everything from baptism to weddings etc.. and those records are easy to search and obtain.

@HotPockets-40k Жыл бұрын

There is always a family story 😆

@karmagal78 2 жыл бұрын

My dad’s majority DNA is English. Mom’s is German.

@rosemarie7705 9 ай бұрын

My parent’s were born in Cuba, but my paternal grandfather was from Spain and so was my maternal grandfather was also from Spain. My great grandmother was English and my ancestry shows a high percentage in Spain giving the Iberia about 74 percent with England at 16 percent and the rest is French, Irish, Sardinia, North Africa and senagal at 1 percent. I did get my community in Cuba, but stating that I had family that immigrated to Cuba from Spain. I must sone grandparents that arrived in cuba in the late 1700’s because I do get five percent indigenous cuba which I would add to Spain because ancestry does not test for tanio. So, this is the only matter that I question on my dna test, since the reference panel is coming from the living with a long history in one place. That 5 percent cuba is divided by both parents. I look very Mediterranean and have very fair skin and my siblings look more English with even fairer skin, so I question how accurate the dna from Cuba really is. I just know that my roots definitely start in Spain.

@terra7066 Жыл бұрын

GeneaVlogger , the Portuguese and Spaniards are far from being as similar as you think , they never separated the DNA results because Portugal with only 10 0000 inhabitants was a smaller market to target. The the pre-Roman peoples that inhabited what it is today Portugal , Galicia and Spain were different. The callaeci and Lusitani inhabited both , Portugal and Galicia and that's why the Spaniards with Galician ancestors appear as Portuguese. A study by the Complutense University of Madrid and Coimbra University in Portugal concluded that the Spaniards that are closest related to the Portuguese are from Madrid region and the Basque country but that their African paternal lineages are completely different. This Cuban friend 26% Portuguese is most likely from his Galician ancestry because the Galician and the Portuguese are very similar and usually considered the same people that speaks two variations of the same language. Take a look at this of the pre-Roman peoples of Iberia. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hpqHoqp_rNOcYI0.html

@devonrocks6 2 ай бұрын

I think German Americans make up the largest group in the USA, so I suppose he could’ve rolled with German as a base 😂. But yes it is really rather regional, here in New England, it’s mostly Irish, with some vestige of Scottish and English from our colonial past.

@claforestrie 2 жыл бұрын

black cubans are mostly from the santiago area

@Myguyver 3 ай бұрын

Wow ! He's 100% white

@JediSimpson 2 жыл бұрын

08:36 - In the US, I think the largest ethnicity is German, then English.

@fyanle1382 2 жыл бұрын

According to the US census bureau, the largest claimed ancestry is German then Irish then English but actual ancestry is English then German then Irish. Most English Americans don't claim their ancestry or fill in "American"

@abcw114 2 жыл бұрын

@@fyanle1382 I've read that, too, and it makes a lot of sense. For many people, their most recent English ancestor arrived in the colonial era. Unless you grew up with your family history, you probably don't know their names, when they arrived or where they were from. You might realize by your grandparents' names that that they're English, but it's not as formative to your identity. If have ancestors who immigrated closer to or in the 20th century, you are more likely to know about it. There were Germans in North America very early, but I imagine the awareness of German ancestry is more common among descendants of 19th century German immigrants.

@thejohnervinshow7993 2 жыл бұрын

This guy is simply 100% White European.

@sosalty701 Жыл бұрын

There is a lot of history between the Irish and the Spanish going back to the 1500s when well-to-do Irish families sought protection from the Catholic Church and the king in Spain, and many of these people ended up in the New World including Cuba very early on. There was also an influx of Irish people in the 1800s during the potato famine. In Cuba there is a very famous street and old Havana called Calle O’Reilly (O’Reilly Street, named after Alejandro O’Riley, who was a senior military official in Cuba). As far as Italian, I’m wondering if there’s some other story behind that as well, because I, as well as many other Cubans, who have taken the ancestry, DNA test, both of my parents included, are getting Italian as part of their results. I personally have 70% Italian and I have no idea where that came from either. It’s probably recombinant DNA but it’s kind of suspicious that a lot of people I know are getting those results. Another thing that’s common for Cubans to get which was not on this guys results is north African ancestry from the moors that inhabited Andalusia. My dad and my mom have a bout close to 10%. Both of them have Galician roots and in 1492 when the moors were being forced to convert or leave Spain, the ones that decide to stay went up to the north west, or into Portugal and the highest percentage of Berber or north African DNA is from those areas, up to 30%. then it’s like a gradient going south east, the average at the most south eastern portion being about 10%.

@lissetteleg9070 8 ай бұрын

Don't forget that a lot of Cubans have Canary Islander ancestors, and so the North African results will come from the Guanches that were the original inhabitants of the Canary Islands. I myself have 6% North African ancestry due to 2 of my great grandparents being from the Canary Islands.

@sosalty701 8 ай бұрын

@@lissetteleg9070 Actually I did some research on that because it came up a lot on my results. There was a study done on Berber and Jewish DNA in Spain, and they found up to 30% Berber DNA in NW Spain (eg. Galicia etc) and as they went east/south there was less and less down to 10%, indicating where the Moors migrated to during the Reconquista. You would think they left, but they went more towards Portugal. Whereas Jewish DNA was pretty equal across the country. Guanche DNA is actually indicated a little differently. Maybe because of the amount of time they were there, their DNA might have been isolated, but not sure of this.

@LifeOfMrBrian 6 ай бұрын

@@sosalty701 Berbers and Moors have nothing to do! Berbers were the original habitants of North africa for centuries and they were mediterranean people, NO african. Later, the moors or arabs come from Middle East/Arabia in VIII century. Also in the north african region were introduced some negros black subsaharian due to the arabs commerce with them for slavery. So the transformation to actual moors magrebies in terms of history is recent. Anywhere the actual north african have majority of berber amazigh origin in at least 70% of their genes, the look as moors maybe is for the mix of 5% black subsaharan, if they don't have this part they will look as european.

@Richard-zm6pt 2 жыл бұрын

Don't you think by base he meant founder culture rather than current composition? The US would not be what it is if it hadn't been for the English and then generally British early settlement. We speak English, and our institutions are British. The ethnic makeup of the country over the past 300 years has become much more diverse. I've seen polls that show German is the majority ethnicity in the US now, but I think people who just identify as American may not identify with an ethnicity from abroad, so English may be underreported. In any case, I don't think the English or British base should be underestimated or dismissed lightly. We are firmly nestled within the rest of the English-speaking world with which we share our values in addition to our language however diverse we may be.

@MarkVrem 2 жыл бұрын

Good point bringing up institutions, laws, etc.

@rickyodom1201 2 жыл бұрын

not for getting dutch Soain had scotts at one time

@Cyberlucy 2 жыл бұрын

There have been ethnicity studies. German is largest ethnicity in the country

@rickyodom1201 2 жыл бұрын

he may have scot

@rasapplepipe 2 жыл бұрын

Germans are the largest white ethnic group in the U.S. But if you combine Irish, English, Welsh, Scottish and Ulster then British are the majority of whites in this majority white country ofcourse very few people are pure anything this is just how people identify.

@MsTomas086 2 жыл бұрын

I want DNA people lie so often. It's cool to claim German blood since they anti Jewd at one point. Plus they destroyed the Romans.

@ascarymorera4082 Жыл бұрын

The majority of Cubans are either of Spanish descent or African brought slaves. The natives were mostly wiped out or were sent to Europe for the slave trade, they won't be any Mestizo mix.

@Myguyver 3 ай бұрын

The largest US base is German

@MarkManuel15 6 ай бұрын

Cuba is a massive melting pot! I myself got 73% Iberian (Portugal+Spain+Basque), 10% Northern Africa, 11% England & NW Europe, 5% other parts of Africa such as Nigeria, Ghana and Bantu peoples, and 1% European Jewish.

@w4ka997 Ай бұрын

In Cuba generally most people are just of African and canarian

@penocruz4981 8 ай бұрын

Wow no north African. Most spanish people from spain usually have 1 to 5% north African dna.

@briantbmoth6472 2 жыл бұрын

His lips are barely moving.

@gg5508 2 ай бұрын

I said it ones and I say it again, the real and only TAINOS are in PUERTO RICO. Cubans and dominicans barely if any have any Taino blood.

@Hialeah1925 2 жыл бұрын

I love how most people this that all Cubans have African in them. 🙄 There are many Cubans that look just like you dude.

@Taty_a_trovejante 2 жыл бұрын

Even the cubans who look like him could have african or other minor admixture in them. It wouldn't be absurd to assume there's an African or Native admixture to the average cuban, just like with Brazilians (like myself) most people assume the common Brazilian would be mixed: Are they wrong? no. but that doesnt mean there aren't lots of Brazilians who are/ look fully European. There are definitely more Brazilians (i cant speak for other latin american countries on this matter) who are fully European than fully African or fully native American.

@MsTomas086 2 жыл бұрын

A huge percentage have African. Plus even in Canada there's even small amount of whites with African. The black population in Canada is like 3% and Cuban has way more.

@anaz5918 2 жыл бұрын

I had a coworker who is Cuban her skin was white but she had dark eyes and dark hair and look Asian , her husband is Mexican and Irish he has brown eyes /brown hair and their kids came out with blonde hair and blue eyes even though they are mix and neither parent is full white or has blonde hair or blue eyes . Genetics can be weird sometimes just because a person looks %100 white doesn’t mean they are especially if you come from countries in Latin America where intermarriage was acceptable even in colonial times.

@footballfan5462 2 жыл бұрын

@@MsTomas086 like that Canadian female wrestler

@capeverdeanprincess4444 2 жыл бұрын

@@MsTomas086 Really?? That’s so interesting. I think that would be more in common with American whites because America had slaves and more black people in general. I also see many celebrities like Steven Tyler, Johnny depp, Megan McCain, and even Obama’s white Mom who have at least one African ancestor from fairly recent times.