About me: Networked Genealogist Have KNOWN family living across Africa (Nigeria, Liberia, Ghana and many more countries); America ; UK; Caribbean FACTS OF THE MATTER Black Americans are a part of the historical African Diaspora, whose Ancestors, whom they derive their very blackness, were taken primarily from West, and Central Africa. A tiny fraction were taken from East and Southeast Africa, as well. Please don’t fall for misinformation or misrepresentation, on this app, about “broadly speaking” Africans, African ‘black’ Americans, Afro-Caribbean/West Indie/Latino-a etc… ⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️ So here are examples of people finding their African American and Continental African blood relatives (both ways) 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th cousins • The DNA Results Are In! Is Paul From Ghana Related To Any African Americans? https://youtu.be/5S195qRSIGQ • “Ivory Coast meets America” https://youtu.be/ikkj04h0uMw • African American meets family from Republic of Benin https://youtu.be/ce1D_IzFNV4 ~ • Professional Genealogist, Jerome Spears, presentation at RootsTech (largest genealogy conference in America) “Elusive Distant African Cousins: Using DNA, They Can Be Found!” https://youtu.be/fAr-Z78f_SM • African American met cousin from the Congo. https://www.pri.org/stories/2019-08-05/dna-test-connected-two-distant-cousins-and-fills-out-family-history-slavery ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️ • An excellent easy to understand article that breaks down how Population Geneticist, Molecular Biologist, and Bioinformaticians trace/distinguish Ancestries, across the world: https://www.unlockinglifescode.org/genomics-insights/ancestry-vs-race-implications-society These are professionally peer reviewed population genetic studies explaining the DNA of Black Americans... (Even with our admixtures... we are still Africans. We are genetically and Ethno-linguistically classified as West/Central Africans) Addressing the population growth (for the doubters) • From ‘20. and odd’ to 10 million: The growth of the slave population in the United States https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7716878/ • So many Nigerians: why is Nigeria overrepresented as the ancestral genetic homeland of Legacy African North Americans? Author: Dr. Fatimah L.C.Jackson https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0002929720303682 • Genetic Consequences of the Transatlantic Slave Trade in the Americas https://www.cell.com/ajhg/fulltext/S0002-9297(20)30200-7#secsectitle0010