Sure.Go ahead. Sam Sloan On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 2:13 PM, Stephanie Ray <stephanieray52@gmail.com> wrote: > Mind if I post to FB, Sam? I hv just found out that I too have black > cousins... > > On Saturday, December 19, 2015, Sam Sloan via <genealogy-dna@rootsweb.com> > wrote: > >> Amazing Discovery through Ancestry – My Black 6th Cousins >> >> Ancestry dot com has made a lot of changes lately. I hope they are for the >> better but they require some getting used to. >> >> When I took a look at their new (I think) Ancestry DNA insights page, at >> the top row of their DNA matches, I found the picture of a Black woman >> who, >> it said, has a *Predicted relationship: Distant Cousins **with me. >> Possible >> range: 5th - 8th cousins *Confidence: Moderate >> >> Naturally, I was surprised at this as I am lily white, Swedish and Irish >> and there is no record of my family owning slaves. >> >> However, using the new tools available on Ancestry plus my own family tree >> that I have been working on for the last twenty years, I was able to solve >> this mystery in about fifteen minutes. >> >> My grandfather , my mothers father, was Wesley Jacobson (1877-1963). His >> family on both sides settled Iowa in 1845 arriving from Kisa, >> Ostergotland, >> Sweden . Using the Disbyt Database, a huge Swedish genealogical data base, >> I was able to trace his ancestors back to Sven Bengtsson who had a death >> date of 12 OCT 1729 in Ulrika, Ostergotland, Sweden but no birth date. >> >> You can see him here on my rootsweb family tree >> >> >> http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=samsloan&id=I6668 >> >> Ancestry had another family tree that showed who his father was. His >> father >> was Per Hemmingsson, who was born 1630 in Kisa, Östergötlands Län, Sweden >> >> It appears that in about 1650 Per Hemmingsson, my 7th great-grandfather, >> led a group of Swedes to establish a settlement in *Bandundu *in what is >> now the Democratic Republic of the Congo >> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo>. >> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandundu_%28city%29 >> >> They named the community they established Kisa, Bandundu, Congo, giving it >> the same name as the name of their home town in Sweden. >> >> However, the settlement did not last long, as he died there. However, he >> had a son who was born there by his Swedish wife Gunilla Birgersdottir. >> The >> son was Sven Bengtsson (1650–1729) who was born in Kisa, Bandundu, Congo >> in >> 1650 and died in Kisa,Östergötlands Län, Sweden 1729. He is my 6th >> great-grandfather. >> >> After the death of Per Hemmingsson, it appears that the entire group went >> back to Sweden. However, before leaving for Sweden, being a fair minded >> and >> generous person, Per Hemmingsson contributed his own DNA to the local >> population and, as a result, I have a sixth cousin born in deepest Darkest >> Africa !!! >> >> Please note how early this date was. David Livingstone (1813-1873) was one >> of the earliest European explorers of Africa and he was “found” by Stanley >> in 1871. Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904) is credited with being the first >> European to explore the Congo River, yet, my ancestors were living on the >> Congo River down in Central Africa in 1650 two hundred years before that >> and not long after the *Mayflower* Pilgrims >> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilgrims_%28Plymouth_Colony%29> landed on >> Plymouth Rock. This is proven by the DNA test results. >> >> Indeed, nobody would even believe this incredible story but now we have >> the >> proof unless somebody can figure out another way I could possibly have a >> 6th >> cousin living on the Congo River in Africa today. >> >> Sam Sloan >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> GENEALOGY-DNA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without >> the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >