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cnash
08-26-2019, 12:50 AM
I'm currently waiting for My results from Ancestry, but I did a DNA test for 23andMe came back with

75% sub-saharan
16.3 Great Britain/Irish
3.0 Spanish & Portuguese
1.1 French & German
1.4 Native American.
0.5 Scandanavian

What I find surprising is that I have a few matches, 4th cousins who are from Arecibo, Puerto Rico and some are living in Ponce, Puerto Rico with a common surname Serrano Y Rodriguez. I researched one of them on Ancestry and took a look at her tree and I was blown away by the amount of people i'm possibly related to. Could this mean one of my parents have a Hispanic background?
Adamastor
08-26-2019, 12:51 AM
No, it means these particular Puerto Ricans have strong African ancestry.
Leto
08-26-2019, 12:59 AM
I'm currently waiting for My results from Ancestry, but I did a DNA test for 23andMe came back with

75% sub-saharan
16.3 Great Britain/Irish
3.0 Spanish & Portuguese
1.1 French & German
1.4 Native American.
0.5 Scandanavian

The total adds up to 97.3%. What are the remaining 2.7%?
cnash
08-26-2019, 01:11 AM
the rest is South Asian
Pine
08-28-2019, 04:25 PM
No, it means these particular Puerto Ricans have strong African ancestry.

Then he'd also get Africans in Africa as cousin matches. This implies a closer relationship. OP might descend from a Caribbean black.
Pine
08-28-2019, 04:27 PM
the rest is South Asian

This is a very important detail. And suggests that the connection is from the Caribbean. You might have ancestry from Trinidad.