Both of my parents are from the Dominican Republic. I am 45%African, 40%European, 8%West Asia, 7%Native American. There are tens of millions of "hispanics" with your same exact DNA percentages!!! So your grandmother could have definitely been "hispanic". Hispanic or latino is not a race. You can be 100% African and be "hispanic" or "latino".

there are black people who were born in hispanic/spanish speaking countries.

well, spanish is a language and a culture, not a race

Hispanic is not a race! God damn.

after paying for my test I am 100% broke

Hispanic is an ethnic group. Not a race. I notice that a lot of Puerto Ricans have Senegal in them.

The grandmother was likely a black person from a Latin country.....

not all Latinos/Hispanics come from Spain. We're mixed people. Some are just black, Some are Dutch, literally you could have any ancestry and be Latino/Hispanic. Don't feel like it debunked what your grandmother told you. It definitely didn't.

yes maybe your Grandmother was afro latin

My results were 95% African, 4% European, 1% Pacific Islander

Hispanic is an ethnic descriptive that has been recently changed to accurately fit who was intended for. Hispanics can be black and can also be white. Think of Puerto Ricans and Dominicans vs South Americans or Mexicans. So it could be that your grandmother was Hispanic, but of African origins, which would explain why it didn't show up on the DNA test.

There are a LOT of African descent people in the Caribbean and in places like Panama so I wouldnt be suprised if u don't have a lot of native or Spanish blood

Hispanic means Spanish is your first language and/or you have a cultural connection to Hispania/Spain.

Nice video. Maybe your dad should do the test, because since he was adopted, they may have some of his closer relatives tested and he may find some cousins. A lot of adopted ppl do the test for this reason, to find matches to actual family members.

Thanks for sharing! Always fun to hear what people feel when they see their results. :)

I posted my results and it was just out of curiosity so I wasn't surprised or not. I was 65% African 1% Asian and 34% European

Hi LaVinnia - There was a Colonial Era wave of Irish immigration to Cuba and Puerto Rico (And possibly other Latino/Caribbean countries). I notice that some Cubans and Puerto Ricans have Irish surnames. Not all Afro-Hispanics/Afro-Spaniards have Iberian ancestry. Also, it's possible that the test is not picking up Iberian ancestry that you've inherited. Going by your test, you're only getting information from maternal lineages (both maternal-maternal and paternal-maternal). So, if your grandmother's father, for example, has the Iberian ancestry, and if you took an mtDNA test, it won't show up. Have you asked your father to take a test?

many hispanic people (spanish speaking) are mostly African. hispanic isn't really a race so you can be white or black or brown and hispanic. So it's quite possible there was a spanish speaking black hispanic in your ancestry. maybe from Dominican Republic is very possible.

There is no Latino DNA, because latinos are a mix of other ethnicities(African, European, native, Asian). There are Afro Latinos like Joseline Hernandez and white Latinos like Jennifer Lopez. Both are Puerto Rican and Latina, but you can clearly see a difference.

The so-called Hispanic DNA is basically Amerindian DNA. There is no such thing as a Hispanic DNA. Hispanic people have ALL kinds of DNA. There are black Hispanics, that is what your grandma meant.

What you are is gorgeous.

Considering your father was adopted from an orphanage in Miami and the information given by your grandmother I would think your biological grandmother was either Puerto Rican or Cuban and spoke Spanish as a first Or second language, many Puerto Rican and Cuban people have a very high percentage of African there are many Puerto Ricans and Cubans who are almost fully African however it's not that common as most are mixed also I've noticed many African Americans use the word Spanish to describe anyone who is Latin/Hispanic due to us all speaking Spanish however "Spanish" is only meant to refer to someone who is from Spain (European) I hope that maybe helps a bit :)

I enjoyed this video; and been wanting to take this test for years.

Well, whoever (God, actually) gave you your DNA gave you beauty, gorgeous teeth and a nice smile!!

Alot of latin women are born in spanish areas and are still black and considered latino. Im a black women and both of parents and grandparents are brazilian. Blacks were brought to those areas during the slave trade. That doesn't mean your grandmother lied 2 you. It just could mean the slaves or non slaves of your family didnt have relations with Spaniards but with the English. Hope that helps

Your Dad could have very well came from a Spanish woman (Spanish is not a race, it's a language/culture, means you probably came from a Spanish speaking country). There are many Black Afro-Latinos from Cuba, Puerto Rico,Panama etc....most Central Americans (Mexico/Honduras) are Native Americans....Latinos like Puerto Ricans have a percentage of Spaniard (people from Spain) in them...but there are many Afro Puerto Ricans/Dominicans/Cubans/Panamanians etc.... look it up Lavinnia! Slaves where shipped to ALL the Caribbean Islands. I almost 100% sure you Dad's birth mom was Spanish, especially coming from Miami back then.

also, if your dad had any Spanish ancestry, it didn't necessarily have to pass to you. DNA is crazy like that. I would recommend he take the test as well.

I like your video, and it raises a very logical platform. Thank goodness that have the freedom to choose (or not to choose) on applications. By U.S. legal definition, I would be Hispanic because of mainland Spain ancestry, but I understand where I am from, so I totally get it.

Your DNA made you into a very beautiful woman! I Love your skin tone!

You could definitely still be part Hispanic, maybe Argentinian - a lot of people from Argentina are from Scandinavian/Dutch/German/British blood.

I love your speaking voice Sistar! You results sound just like those that my dad got- I need to now take my test to see what maybe revealed from my mom's side....It's very interesting of the European side of things because it's all dating back to slavery and how the Europeans intermixed with the Africans, Spanish and the like.....my mom's side is Creole so yeah I need to hurry and take the test which should reveal more African, European, Spanish and Native American..... Thanks for sharing! And go get you a voice over gig girly! Peace&Light

You could get more answers by having your dad test his dna too. I saw a video on this a while back from ancestry.com and they said even test your siblings because even they could have something you don't, and it just gives you a more complete picture of your history.

First of all, when you say Spanish, it only indicates the language and cultures. It has nothing to do with race. People that are from Spain are called " Spaniard".Hispanic people are not Spaniard unless they can at least legitimately prove that either of their parents is Spaniard that is European.Hispanic are highly hybrid folks in terms of their various genetic makeup (predominantly Native Indians and Africans).Most of them don't even possess much of Spaniard blood. So there is obviously a big difference there. We are talking about some difference here. Therefore, technically in order for you to even claim that you are part of Spaniard , you have to possess a significant amount of blood from Iberia Peninsula which you do not.

Spanish would fall under other categories. If your father is Afro-Latino, the DNA would still trace back to Africa (and Europe because that is who colonized those places and brought Africans to work those lands).

it's important to remember with these results that it only tests the DNA you inherited. it's possible the "Hispanic" (native American/Iberian peninsula) just didn't get passed down to you. for example, if your mom was 50% Irish and %50 French, you wouldn't necessarily get 25% of each. it's random. it's possible that you could receive all Irish from your mom and no French. unlikely, but possible. so in your example, your parents could have just not passed the native American/Iberian DNA to you. this is why it's good to get other people in your family tested. they could have inherited things you didn't. hope this helps.

Great Video!

The results of your dna: A beautiful women ;)

There are people who live in Latin American countries that did not immigrate from Spain. Some Latinos aren't of Spanish Ancestry at all, some are Italian, some are English and some are French. In fact some are more African that Spanish.

one thing this girl has to realize, is during the transatlantic slave trade, africans were not just transported to the states, but throughout the americas.she mentioned an orphanage in miami where there is an overwhelmingly large cuban population. a thing about cuba is there especially africans were taken to, and if you listen to cuban music such as the famous singer celia cruz, the african influence is extremely present. i would think this girls grandma is from cuba or somewhere else in the carribean

These comments are so intense lmao I could read more than 4 of them without cracking up lol the energy is just too exciting

The Latin/Hispanic portion of you may be because she or her family moved to Latin/Central/Whatever area she's from instead of her family always being from there.

i, like your father, was adopted. Found out at age of 9, and was committed to finding my ancestry. Got lucky, and got a birth certificate with parents names. From the 1940 census, got a lot of information to track my family back to Boston, and Virginia. It wasn't till i did a dna test, that my European history really fell in place. The thing about blacks, and European history is most slave owners, were not poor, and they were relatives of European nobility. Our European mix are very similar, so you should try to find the connection. I got lucky with a white relative, from dna matching, had a full American tree, which made it easy for me to fill in the European history. My European circles, matches what i am finding with white relatives. Finding black relatives constantly hit dead-ends because few records exists before 1870 census. But i was lucky, again, with a black family i have known my whole life, being related (4th cousins),... never knew... Good luck with your tree, and liked your story. On ancestry, i am pghjack(McNeal tree)... if you would like to check out my tree, or dna profile( if u have access)... Jack

Gone wear that shirt that says, 'Kiss me I'm Irish!' Lol

Excellent video! you are beautiful no matter what you are

Irish actually Do drink Green Beer on St Patrick's Day.

03:40 are the results. you're welcome

hey!! fine thank you! (from London) 😀

Great video

You have two parents so the test pulled your dna from both of your parents just because the Hispanic dna didn't show in your test doesn't mean that your real grandmother wasn't Hispanic all it means is those Hispanic genes didn't get passed down to you. Maybe your father should take the test to if he have any Hispanic genes since that was supposed to be his mom, if he takes the test and Hispanic genes show up then, most likely your grandmother was Hispanic, if Hispanic genes don't show up in his test then, there is a question.

Why do they need a picture to take your DNA?

Wow most of ur DNA comes from Nigeria. I am 100% Nigerian from the yoruba tribe. Welcome home😍😘. I noticed a lot of African Americans doing the ancestry.com DNA test had most of their DNA from Nigeria or maybe it's just the ones I hv seen, and I hv seen a lot on KZfaq. It makes me happy to know that I may be related to some African Americans. You may be from the Yoruba, Igbo or Hausa Tribe. Those are the 3 major tribes, plus a 100 other tribes. Regardless of what tribe you are from, we are beautiful ppl as anyone can see from your video😍😍

Hope you do an updated DNA video.

That DNA sound right. for Black America.

She could have been from Puerto Rico or Dominican Republic

Bless your heart

The Hispanic ethnicity isn't a genetically uniform ethnicity. Hispanic literally means 'Spanish-speaking'. Most Hispanics are primarily of Indigenous American and European descent with smaller quantities of African ancestry.

it is always confusing to non-hispanics , especially whites-americans and african-americans they think Latino is a race and it is not a race, it is a culture. Your dad's mother could have indeed been Hispanic of British ancestry. While many Latinos indeed have even a drop of African we definietely on average are half white and many from south america around 60-100% European. In Argentina, Uruguay and Cuba a lot of the white hispanics do not have spanish european ties they come from families that immigrated to Latin America from England, Germany , Russia and Italy. Many white cubans have Russian blood in them. So yes, your dad's mother might have been culturally Latina but not racially Spanish-European. I hope that makes sense to you. Perfect example: Alexis Bledel from gilmore girls, fully Latina, first language was Spanish , her mom born in Mexico and her dad born in Argentina, both parents are European whites from Latin European countries. Shes like genetically speaking British like your white side.

78% African

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great results

His mom could have been Afro Latino (Spanish speaking but mostly African descent) which would explain why you have no Spanish 👍🏽

you are 21% hispanic, aka european. i am a mix of a crazy amount of stuff, but "hispanic" or "spanish" will not show up. 100% dominican

Upload your DNA result's to Gedmatch!!! That's what I learned to do by listening to other people on KZfaq what they did to see more different ethnicities that they have that is not showing through Ancestry DNA!!! Good luck!!! I enjoyed listening to your result's our percentages broke down pretty much the same as to 78% African so was I and 21% European & I had

Don't be disappointed you may have some Hispanic roots. Your father would have to get tested. According to my knowledge. Female can only test the mitochondrial DNA which is only down the materal line. Your father has to get tested to see determine his ancestry, then that would tell you.

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Hi Sis, I'm also 79% African and 21% European. We have similar DNA! I'm mainly Nigerian 41% and 15% Irish.

OMG but wait! - I just also remembered something. Another possible scenario in your case is that assuming the hispanic side is on your dad side it wouldnt show on your DNA! Your DNA results onky reflect female side not your male side of the family. So a brother or your dad himself can take the test to show the half that doesnt show on your results. Doesnt this have to do because women dont have some chromosome.

Great video and great results.. I would suggest to get ur dad tested. I'm from the Spanish speaking Caribbean and while I do have African ancestry I also have Native American and Iberian peninsula ancestry (Spain/Portugal) I didn't see any of that on your results.. Most likely ur father is not of Spanish ancestry.. Maybe look into ur cousins match results and send them a message. U might track ur father's biological family that way.. Thanks for sharing.

It's weird how similar our names are😲 my mid name is Marie

Really interesting! I mean DNA is like a pandora box, you never know what will come out of it. I was born in a Spanish Speaking country, however, my mother is African American and my father is latin. I know my mother's family better than my father's. As far as I know, my mother's family is a mix of african, french, latin and mayan so I would not be surprised about what my DNA could tell me.

Which DNA test did you use?

A lot a lot Latinos have African blood and European blood my love

Someone in the past told a little white lie .. Pun intended :)

A Hispanic person can be of any ancestry, as Hispanic refers to Spanish speaking populations and has nothing to do with race. A white, Black, Asian, etc, can be Hispanic.

haha i have 13% Ireland. mine has cacasus and asia too! i am doing my kids test . interesting. nice video

I think you're missing 1%. 78 + 21 = 99.

Hispanics are White they come from or originate from Spain which use to be called Hispania and now is called Espana. It sounds the same just spelled different. I think the people you are talking about are from the Caribbean region of the Hispanic Caribbean and most people from their do have African ancestry because of the Atlantic slave trade many of the islands like Hispaniola now Dominican Republic, Cuba and Puerto rico had to import slaves after disease and conflict wiped out the Native Indigenous populations of those islands. I like to call them Caribbean people or Caribbean Hispanics because they are from a region with a similar history. A lot of people think they are from Latin America but they are not. Puerto Rico is a U.S territory in the Caribbean like the U.S Virgin islands. Cuba turned its back on Latin America and became a communist country and caused a lot of harm to Latin America by supporting Leftist communist groups that terrorized Central and South America for many decades. Dominican Republic shares half an island with Haiti and all these islands are in the same region with Jamaica and other Caribbean islands and share basically the same history. A Puerto rican or Dominican saying he is Spanish is like a Haitian say he is French. They are not while they may have some ancestry from these people they basically are very different.

Family is more than blood. Your grandmother sounds like she was a very caring lady! : )

Just for clarification for the girl in the video AND people in the comments section: the words latino and hispanic do not relate to any particular genetic configuration (even though MANY 'latinos' and 'hispanic' people in the USA tend to be brown, bc a great majority of them are mestizos with roots in mexico and mesoamerica etc (mestizo: mixture between european and indigenous, plus sometimes african ancestry) hispanic means "spanish-speaking" latino (at least in the USA) means ANYONE with roots in Latin America. fyi, people from latin america may be indigenous (native), european, african, asian, pacific-islander etc etc. or any combination thereof. it's possible the girl in the video is indeed "latina". maybe one/some of her ancestors lived for some generations in latin america (panama,dom. republic etc) and likely have african ancestry (or even perhaps british isles)

Which test did you use

A lot of Caribbean Blacks came through Miami. Your Paternal ancestor may have come from the British parts of the Caribbean and then moved to one of the Latino parts of the Caribbean. Some of the people in Panama descend from Jamaicans that were used to help build the canal. Latin America has a lot of interrelated history with the Caribbean. There are enclaves in various Central American countries where the descendants came from British West Indian islands.

Did you have Native or Spain/Portugal? Because that would be Spanish/Hispanic

Liked your video, thanks fir sharing. Your Mom could have been Hispanic as your "grandmother" said. All it meant was your Mom spoke Spanish and was from the Americas. Many people forget there is a word called.migration. In the early 1900s many black people moved from the Caribbean to Panama and Costa Rico. Here is my thought: Your grandmother may have known more than she shared. Guyana is a former British colony with a predominately African and South Asian population as you may already know. However, a large portion of the Guyanese black population came from Barbados. I am not at all surprised by your results. As time go by and more people take the test relatives will pop up. Hold tight, good luck and have a happy new year.

The thing with being hispanic is that most of latin countries are extremely mixed! i'm hispanic and my aunt took the test and her result were 42 percent native american 20 from Spain some percent from Africa some great britan and a small percentage turkish and jewish (we were surprised by those small percentage) so maybe your grandmother was afro hispanic? I have two other sisters we all have the same parents i look very native tan skin with dark hair and dark brown eyes, my older sister is so fair! with light brown hair (she was practically blonde as a baby) and my little sister has super curly hair and and fair and both of my parents are dark lol just shows how mixed the gene pool is!

Im supposed to be 8 nationalities, Im going to do the dna test to see if its true. People look at me say Im white but when Im tan Im darker than you. Be proud of who you are and happy that you now know your heritage!!!! Maybe start researching the different ones, and you could get insight into your personality

I'm from Panama and received 44% South American Native, 16% Iberian Peninsula (Spain) , 16% Europe South (Italy/Greece) and I had 5% Europe East, the rest ended up in Low Confidence Regions which include Africa , Europe West, Asia and Great Britain, Russia, Finland, Jewish and Africa North.

If you get a chance look at a video by Masaman about Central America. In the video he talks about some of those groups. But in the end you really need to test your Father because yall would have different maternal DNA most likely.

Beautiful heritage.

wow cool information

how reliable are these results?

maybe ask your dad if he'd want to try it and see how similar they are. not to be skeptical but i am curious if yours and your father's tests would have any huge discrepancies such as if his came back with hispanic blood or anything else that didn't show up on yours

*i need for black people to stop telling latinos and hispanics they are not a race like you are black worry about yo own people and yo own culture no one elses yall out here saying yall the real native americans yall out here telling latinos they are not a race like damn do yall even realize how color obsessed yall look my god leave this girl alone and let her tell her story💕..*

I got Iberian peninsula under mine too. so did my momma and auntie. #teamhispanic lol

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My dad is adopted too. I didn't read all the comments, so if somebody has already mentioned this, let me reiterate. In ancestry DNA tests, Latin American and/or Hispanic people don't get "Hispanic" or "Latin" or even "Spain". The results would say "Native American" and "African" and "European (mostly Iberian peninsula, i.e. Portugal and Spain)" and some other hodge podge of places (our ancestors be roaming and procreatin'). Factor in that Iberia is right next to Morocco, and North West Africa was a Spanish, French AND BRITISH ♩ ♪ ♫ ♬ protectorate. So, a lot of back and forth migration happened there in the old days. And Spanish is still a spoken language in those African territories. And those individuals are therefore, Hispanic, because Spanish is the language they speak. Even though Equatorial Guinea is the only country in the African continent with Spanish as its official language, there's was still some Spanish spoken in Senegal and Mali and that old north western territory as a lingua franca, needed for trade. I could use the example of the German and Spanish spoken in the American Southwest and Pennsylvania, or French spoken in Ottowa Canada, which, borders Montreal. It just helps you get by, day to day, if you speak it. And if you learned it growing up, you just speak it. The ancestral language could also function as item of self-identity. So again, those tests never ever say Spanish or Latin or Hispanic. Even Spanish and Portuguese natives whose family haven't left the Iberia for the new world get "Iberia" and "Africa" because of the proximity in regions and the roamin' and procreatin'. And the tests locate the region of provenance of your progenitors. They just give you regions, not nationalities. They might provide ethnic groups, when ethnic groups are defined by region. And "Hispanic" is a pretty confusing ethnic group which is not defined by either region or nationality. But rather, the question "Were your ancestors Portuguese or Spanish or somehow f**ed by the Spanish or Portuguese? If the answer is "sim" then "Bienvenido al club". I won't go into more detail and start sounding like a dissertation. I already majored in Hispanic studies. lol. So your paternal Grandmother could still be Hispanic, even if not in the most typical way. If she spoke Spanish then, she WAS Hispanic or "Spanish". As, that's a term used in the west coast, still today ,to mean anything from PR to EG. Ex. Few residents of old Spanish Harlem were actually Spanish. By today's definition, they were Hispanic. But, the term stuck arround because West Coast. I'd reach out to the unknown relatives who have also taken the test and get some clarity (if that company provided their profile). If not, I'd take a second test with a different company who does connect related test takers. Some ancestry DNA tests are pretty lazy and vague and raise more questions than answers and leave you thinking "this is wrong". And others are more detailed and have a bigger user database, which means MOAHR relatives to get a hold of!!! Side note: a more expensive DNA test doesn't mean it's better or more detailed. I'd go on user ratings to pick the better ones.

Yes there are a lot of Hispanic people that have sub-saharian african but if she had some hispanic blood , some percentage will show as being either from Iberia, Italy/Greece. That is the composition of native spaniards usually someone native form the iberian peninsula will show at a maximum 51% if she had some some great grandparent it will show up to perhaps at least 2% to 5% from one of those places

Be you, your beautiful just the way you are no confusion. Live young lady

I have noticed with a lot of Dominicans and Latin results on here, they are like in the 50-70 percent range for European so you grandmother was correct about your paternal grandmother. It was shocking to me as well, to see that their results were over half European with like African and Native mixed in. Those people were also shocked as they thought they were more Black than anything.

Interesting DNA ! have your Dad take a test! Ancestry only got maybe your mom's. side! They have to go by your dad's family & he was adopted! Enjoyed your video!

you have to remember that could be so. but how far removed is that from. you could have a certain percentage or not at all.