So hmmmm, you are possibly a descendent of "Abdul Rahman", I have read his story a long time ago, Les. He was soo brilliant in Arabic writtings since he was a Muslim that his white master at the time had to contact the Moroccan Sultan(I think it was Ismail Ibin Charif) to see Rahman's whereabouts. According to the story I think Rahman ended up returning to West Africa but NOT to Senegal/Guinea but Liberia instead, which was weird.
And yes, a paternity test can be wrong. As with all tests, there is always the chance that you will receive incorrect results. No test is 100 percent accurate. Human error and other factors can cause the results to be wrong. All in all studies have shown that DNA evidence is 99% accurate.
Wonder if Oprah's ever been to Liberia... . Ancestry dot com, according to an Internet story I read, says she's descended from what is today Liberia.
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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