I don't trust Ancestry, though. They're probably up to some mischief, as brother GM would say. Oprah could certainly help that country of Americo-Liberians, but after a few generations of marriages, one's DNA is descended from all over the place.
I had my DNA done through Ancestry, and they first said I had ancestry in the Senegal area and Nigeria. Well, on Facebook one of my nephews planted a presumptuous story that we were descended from Abdul Rahman a prince from the Senegal/Guinea area, who had been captured and taken to Natchez, Mississippi.
Well, I checked it and ran cold, or luke-warm, I should say. Hmmm, some of his descendants moved to Clarksdale, Miss. 30 miles from my hometown--reminds me; one of the descendant families there had a last name of some of my cousins, or a family we know???
At any rate, Ancestry coincidentally?? changed it from Senegal after I posted that I didn't think we were descended from Rahman. I had communicated with one of his descendants in Natchez, and we didn't have any DNA matches on Ancestry.
Ha, ha, I'm going to check into that Clarksdale connection more, though.
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