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 <javascript:;> with the word > 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message