Surnames and Family Research Forum Archive
Re: Amanda Phillips (DNA)
In Response To: Amanda Phillips ()
What type of DNA test did you take? MtDNA (yours) or did you submit a male relatives test?
If you
Surnames and Family Research Forum Archive
Re: Amanda Phillips (DNA)
In Response To: Amanda Phillips ()
What type of DNA test did you take? MtDNA (yours) or did you submit a male relatives test?
If you submitted a test of your own - the match with someone in Puerto Rico means you more than likely have an ancestor in common from a specific part of Africa - not Puerto Rico.
Puerto Rico has a very ethnically mixed population historically - Africans were concentrated in the areas around the coast (lowlands) where sugar cane was planted, and some also worked in the coffee plantations. A majority of the Africans in Puerto Rico came from the Congo areas - and were called "Carabali's". In the slave registry of 1872 Puerto Rico you can see that some slaves are listed as born in Africa:
The results from Spain are 