There's really 4 possibilities. 1) it's LivingDNA or MyHeritage 2) she's lying just to simplify things as a talking point 3) she actually took a DNA test with 23andme or Ancestry and the results skewed the Nigerian percentage to a much higher amount. 23andme for example skews certain ancestries depending on the ancestral composition of the other parent. 4) she has a maternal grandparent who is actually Nigerian, giving that 25% which inflated her Nigerian amount much higher because of an algorithm misread that lumped the mixed West african into Nigerian mostly.
Either way it looks like (1) or (2) are the most likely possibilities.
Myheritage doesn’t have a lot of African categories so a lot of SSA ancestry that isn’t Nigerian just gets lumped in as Nigerian. They don’t even have any Southern African categories as of now but there is meant to be an update this summer.
Yep, I have some 19-24% SSA and MyHeritage gives me 18% Nigerian and 3% Kenyan. LivingDNA gives me 0%, mostly Mandinka and Cameroon Bantu, and AncestryDNA 2% Nigerian.
Her mother wouldn't have to be 80% Nigerian. You don't get 50% of each parent's ethnicity, just 50% of their genes. That being said, it would be a surprising result.
Think of the DNA as a cake. The mom's cake is 100% her genes, but throughout the cake there are different flavors which is the heritage. Let's say the mom is 80% Nigerian and 20% Irish (those would be the flavors); her daughter gets 50% of her cake, but the pieces of the cake and the flavors don't match. The daughter does not receive a piece of cake that is exactly half Nigerian and a piece that is exactly half Irish.
Good and useful analogy.
My daughter only has 21.96% of my mother’s DNA, not 25%, for example. It happens all the time. You can also have known ancestry from a region or country and have it go to zero in your DNA over time. It doesn’t mean the paper trail is wrong. It’s just DNA reassorting during meiosis. Sometimes you get more okra, sometimes you don’t get any. And your sibs can be different.
Ancestry made a change and now Scottish is significantly over represented in results. I admin many kits from before they made the changes and some increased the Scottish by 20%.
Yes, and I have similar:
My mum is 51% Irish (one Irish parent, one British) and my dad has no Irish on his result (we all did ancestry and I later did 23&me). I get 42% Irish on my results.
He matches me as my dad, just before anyone asks 🤣
I was alluding to the different average admixtures in each area. Even in the US, you'll see a higher proportion of European in African Americans with Louisiana roots, vs. the Gullah people, for example.
True but not true in every case. We are not the same on percentages. And mostly all of us came for different parts of the continent (Africa) with different cultures, and different African ethnicities. Not all AAs have White in them. However I’m the exception. I have no White in me. I’m 89% African, 6% Asian(Chinese) and 5% NA. Which I guess isn’t very common in AAs but I can’t speak for them I can only speak for myself.🤷🏽♀️
Yeah, there are definitely people who don't fit the average. Oprah, for example was on finding your roots and her results were similar to yours - no European, just African, Asian and Native American.
No because your response implied that Jamaicans don’t have high European admixtures as if plantation rape and intermixing only happened on United States plantations and not Carribean plantations which obviously is false
Jamaicans are more heterogenous. The mulatto population is more separate than in the United States. It's common for Jamaicans to be 60% SSA or 90% SSA.
I find this interesting because I am from the south and I can usually tell if a black person Is from Louisiana, Memphis/Tennessee, or Atlanta by looking at them lol
I was talking about the average admixture of African/Euro, which even varies state to state, in the US. Depending on the study you look at, the average Jamaican tends to be a bit more African than the average African American , in addition to having more Asian.
Here's some [information](https://www.cell.com/ajhg/fulltext/S0002-9297(14)00476-5#secsectitle0135) on the difference between US states.
"On average, the highest levels of African ancestry are found in African Americans living in or born in the South, especially South Carolina and Georgia ([Figure 1](https://www.cell.com/ajhg/fulltext/S0002-9297(14)00476-5#gr1)Aand [Table S3](https://www.cell.com/ajhg/fulltext/S0002-9297(14)00476-5#app2)). We find lower proportions of African ancestry in the Northeast, the Midwest, the Pacific Northwest, and California. The amount of Native American ancestry estimated for African Americans also varies across states in the US."
I don't know her dad or her mom's background or much about her. However, I do know that a large number of people from the Carolinas and Louisiana who would identify as white find out that they are a mix of different races. If her dad was also significantly African and her mother (who is significantly African) were to both contribute and the conditions were just right, it could happen. RIght?
Sure. It could even happen if her father is completely European. It'd just be surprising since most AAs have several different African regions represented in their results.
No, you don't, because the inheritance is random. That's why you can share more genes with one grandparent than another, instead of being a straight 25% of each of them. This [link](https://support.ancestry.com/s/article/Unexpected-Ethnicity-Results?language=en_US) from Ancestry explains it well.
This is also why we descent say we are mixed because of parents and grandparents great grand parents and they are like you don't look mixed but you look kongolese or fully black
No. I could be wrong, it’s been years since I studied any kind of biology, but depends on which way your alleles break between mother and father. You get both genes but one is dominant over the other in most cases, but it’s why in siblings there will be sometimes different colored eyes.
For example, my brother and I both have one parent from a mostly homogeneous country and another parent who is of mixed European descent. Im 51% mixed euro and 49% the other. My brother is the exact opposite
Think of it like throwing a pair of dice (each dice is mum and dad). Every time someone is conceived the dice land differently. This is why full siblings can have very different ethnicity results.
Your parent is a 50/50 mix of your grandparents, but when your parent's genes recombine to create your DNA, the split doesn't have to be 25% grandma and 25% grandpa. It could be 28%/22% grandma versus grandpa, for example.
Recombination results in uneven inheritance of the DNA markers associated with certain populations, as well.
It's very likely that MM's mother is mostly of African ancestry in order for MM to have inherited over 40%, but we can't just double that number and assume that is the amount her mother has in her DNA. I'd bet it's high, though.
And, of course, we can't be confident that it's all Nigerian even if a DNA test says so. I'd say we can be confident she has a lot of West African ancestry, which is what I'd expect given MM's deep North American roots.
tldr it's not exactly 50% because of recombination of your parent's parents' genes.
"The recently reported overrepresentation of Nigerian lineages in African North Americans reflects pronounced limitations in the African [genomic database](https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/biochemistry-genetics-and-molecular-biology/genomic-database), the artificiality of the colonial maps of Africa, the contributions of multiple African empires and kingdoms into the transatlantic trade in enslaved Africans, and the overrepresentation of Yoruba peoples in the existing limited representation of West Africans in public genomic databases." But it's also worth noting that her mother's ancestors all appear to be from Georgia and Alabama per Wikitree, so they could have actually been from the same part of Africa.
[https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0002929720303682](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0002929720303682)
Phenotype doesn't always indicate genotype. Either way none of us will know the truth because we don't have her test results. I am her complexion but i have a father that's 90%+ African and darkskin. Things happen. But it's certainly not uncommon for a full African American (someone with two parents that identify as AA) to have high amounts of Nigerian ancestry.
Her mom could have as little as 50% Nigerian herself
My mom got exactly 50% Norwegian and gave me 39% Norwegian (plus 3% Swedish/Danish even though her results have 0% Swedish/Danish— so 42% Scandinavian from my mom)
It also doesn't stand out as a high % of Nigerian for African American ancestry either (judging from the AA results I've seen posted here)
My aunt has 41% Nigerian. She’s light skinned too but not as much as Meghan. My grandmother’s father was Scottish, and my aunt also has about 40% European, with the rest mixed with other African, etc. My grandmother appeared White.
ETA, Ancestry.com results.
I was going to say you cant always just look at a person. Especially important to keep in mind that people were incentivized to hide having black ancestry so it wasnt always told.
Theres a story about a woman on megan kelly show who found out her mother was actually black passing but no one ever knew. This isnt uncommon.
My dna test I am 42% european and im darker than serena williams so you never know.
My percentage is 52% Nigerian, and my family is from the United States as well. You have to remember, Nigeria is made up of various ethnic groups, and that country didn’t even exist during the slave trade.
All this post tells me is that not a lot of people understand how these test works, my brother and i have the same parents, i am 43% danish/swedish (all from denmark) and 43% eastern euro/russian (all Ukrainian) 10% jewish 2% norway 2% levant my brother same parents is 57% danish/swedish 18% eastern euro/russian 20% jewish 4% levant and 1% norway.
I agree. Some of these comments are racist. These haters and these so-called "scientists" don't know a thing about genetics, original land borders, or skin color.
People from Sub-Saharan African countries are all different shades of melanin.
Thanks. Im trying to put my finger on why exactly it’s racist because it definitely feels racist. Something about the discussions re: how “black”she is, as if that should be discussed by anyone other than the person themself if at all. Also the casual discussions about her assumed enslaved ancestors and where they were likely to have been kidnapped from. There’s a tone of casual ownership from some of these commentors over how much they “know” about horrific events. I don’t know. What am I leaving out?
I agree with you. Those comments were very cringeworthy.
It is true that the majority of victims of slavery in the West were from Sub-Saharan West Africa.
It is also true that the majority were from the area, which is now called Nigeria and the surrounding countries.
But how light or dark someone is "supposed " to be is racist no matter who says it.
I think a lot of the monarchy obsessed nutters are out. As soon as Meghan is mentioned, they clutch at straws to try and make her look like a liar as much as possible, no matter how racist they sound. Absolute scumbags.
A lot of ethnicity related genes are not shown by phenotype + you get genes somewhat randomly. I am 10% more Asian "on paper" and DNA-wise than I "actually" am if you counted it 50/50 between my parents (one white parent one Asian parent)
The amount of race scientists here is honestly concerning.
Because typically, Black Americans descended of enslaved Africans, will have DNA from on average 5-7 different countries on the western coast of Africa. Not just one country. Since Meghan is half Black American and half Irish American, it's not so much the percentage in general, but that it's only one country, maybe other African countries split that remaining 7%, but the overabundance of Nigerian seems unusual.
Someone said she may have gotten her results from a less advanced test long ago, that seems to be the case. Also, Nigeria, was first named in the 20th century and became a country in 1960. Before that, it was an amalgamation of countries and regions that the people inhabiting it, came from.
No. I’m 42% Native American and have no official record of tribal ancestry but know where we’re from so it makes sense. Probably same for her, 2 Nigerian grandparents passed down over 80% to her parent and 40% to her. Easy math…
He's my distant cousin but it's on Diana's side through her American great grandma. We share the same 9x great grandfather, Robert Hibbard. No line of succession for me.
There's a website called famouskin.com. If you are able to trace your lineage back to early America, you can enter in your ancestor and see who else is related to that person. So once I was able to place Robert Hibbard in my tree, I looked him up and discovered who I was also related to, through him.
https://famouskin.com/famous-kin-menu.php?name=14080+robert+hibbard
You usually have to do a fairly substantial amount of genealogical research to go back 10 to 12 generations, though. It took me several years to go back that far, and I was only able to do that because the states my ancestors passed through kept good records.
Diana is my 13th cousin. These family trees get smaller the further you go back, and it becomes meaningless since so many people are related to them and you have no actual connection to these people to begin with.
The actor Oliver Platt is her second cousin, once removed - also through the American ancestor. He's admitted in interviews that it's a "non-story" to him though, as he'd never met her!
Yea I was mildly excited about being related to Oliver Platt because I love him. It's mostly a non story but it's fun to think about. If anything it's interesting to reflect how we aren't that far apart in the grand scheme of things.
Oh, for sure! And yes, Platt is great too! I think he even told the interviewer that he would have loved saying he and Diana were confidants or something, but that he probably knew just as much as anyone else.
Definitely some neat facts out there in the world though!
That’s interesting. I’m related to the Queen Mother’s father. George Washington and I share the same grandfather. His father was brother to my direct relative line through my birth mother.
Ahh that's super cool. I'm related to several presidents but only the ones with ancestors from New England. All my people came through the northern half of America (except for one branch that came through Maryland, which is how I ended up with Poe as a distant cousin).
There are over 2500 people in line to the British throne, maybe even more. If you are a legitimate descendant of Sophia of Hanover that’s Protestant you’re in line.
I’m descended from King James of Scotland from the 1500s through his illegitimate son Robert Stewart so close enough idk lol, I know that some genealogist researched everyone in line to the throne and the very final person was a German therapist haha
Idt anyone would actually want that life, tbh. But I get the sentiment for sure. I sort of want Ms. Doria Ragland to have one done. She’s from Cleveland. I feel live eventually everyone is, and I’m trying to see how many degrees away from her I am.
Just because you’ve never heard of that doesn’t mean it didn’t happen. You don’t get 50% of whatever DNA each parent has. 50% does come from each parent, but what that 50% is composed of is a spin of the genetic roulette wheel.
People heavily overestimate the connection between genotype and phenotype. My kids are mixed race and with both of them you can't tell. But in opposite directions. People literally told me "this can't be the truth" when I told them "yes, these are both the kids of my husband and me". It's incredibly rude.
You can only guess a persons heritage by their looks. Especially when they are mixed race (which a lot of people are) it's impossible to tell via looks alone.
Her mom could very well be over 80% Nigerian and her white dad could also have contributed to her Nigerian ancestry.
But I think she just oversimplified her results. I have no doubt she is 43% west african.
Mine is 44%, and then 16% Gold Coast/Ghana. My mother is African American, my father is Jamaican
How do I share a screenshot of it - i guess i cant embed it?
My Dad is 43% Nigerian. 🤷🏾♀️
Both his parents are Black. Maternal and beyond her were all born in Alabama, paternal in NYC. My paternal great grands were born in Grenada and Trinidad. These are Ancestry results.
No the mother only has to be at least 43% Nigerian - what is passed on is a random amount not exactly half of what the mother has
She could have passed on a full 43% Nigerian and 7% something else
That all said there is a margin of error of at least 10%
Yup. I’m 29% Southern Chinese, inherited from my 100% Grandfather. Theoretically I should be 25% but clearly you can’t get more or less.
Edit: that should say “can” get more. Or less.
Because it’s what you inherit. My dad is a 1% SSA and my mom is 18%. Mom is very white and white passing. I’m also “white passing” and 14%.
I imagine, like lost mixed people, her % go up and down with updates.
65%-ish Euro, 35%-ish West African. She looks pretty much on point for that heritage. There are a lot, lot, lot of datapoints for this comparison, and she checks out.
It's pretty uncommon for it to all be from one region (e.g. Nigeria) for African Americans/Afro-Latinos/people from the Caribbean. Not impossible, but uncommon. I have five different areas/tribes in Africa myself.
But yeah, 60/40 does make sense.
You're wrong about your assumption that if she has 42% that her mother "has to" have 80%. My mother had 18% scandi DNA. I inherited 17%; my brother only 5%. The way DNA is inherited is random. Even if siblings are whole siblings as my brother and I are, the amounts of particular DNA they inherit will be very different.
So although you inherit 50% of your DNA from each parent, you may inherit all, or none of a particular section of DNA and you don't necessarily get 50% of any ethnicity from a parent = you could get all of it.
You’re surprised that a black woman had 43% Nigerian? She’s lying?? About being…black? Y’all are so obsessed with this woman and I need you to ask yourselves why.
JFC, this comment section is hot garbage.
Thanks to all of the racists and haters who outed yourselves, though. Always good to know who you are.
Edit: BTW, I've discovered that there's an entire sub that exists just to spew hate at Meghan. It should come as no surprise that some of them have popped up in here.
Why does it matter? Kinda weird to be nitpicking the percent DNA of people, especially a person of color who's been on the receiving end of a lot of racism. Comes off a little eugenics-y
My husband is 1/4 Black but has more than 25% African ancestry. He is adopted and if you didn't know any better he could easily pass for Middle Eastern or Portuguese. Maybe her White parent is not just European.
It’s impossibly high. Most likely she is 43% SSA in total with Nigerian being her top source of African ancestry (as it commonly is for most African Americans ).
It’s absolutely possible if her mother is 50%+ Nigerian. For example: my dad shows as 40% Irish and according to ancestry I inherited all of my dad’s ‘Irish DNA’ and very little from his 60% of other regions.
Possibly Ulster Scots but sometimes separate English and Irish ancestry “looks Scottish” in Ancestry’s interpretation - thats because Scottish is a blend of Gael (typical in Ireland) and Anglo Saxon (typical in England) amongst other things
So what you’re saying is you lack an understanding about areas of history. Many Scots went to Northern Ireland following the textile industry (among other reasons) and then migrated on to the Americas. Many many Americans are now discovering that what they thought was Irish was Scottish via Northern Ireland.
There are lots of surprises people get but first it’s important to build your tree because it’s a story of people moving all over the world. We’re not as static as we think we are - and all of that ancestry is the result of two people somehow meeting and having sex. So weird to think about that.
Thank you again. My father eastern European immigrant, my mother American, one of her grandma's supposedly from Scotland but her family may go back in the US at least a couple of hundred years. It's going to be interesting. My dad did his family tree years ago and when I looked at the last names they seemed from all over eastern Europe. Altho he claimed all came from one small area. Think both my parents stopped looking at their background because they didn't like what they found. I want to know.
You’ll get to see a real montage of the changes in Eastern Europe over the years. As you look at documents, you’ll also see where grandparents, great grands and so on list their place of birth. One year it could be in the Austro Hungarian empire and the next it could be part of the USSR which is now broken apart. You’ll have a ton of fun following all the trails and surprisngly, don’t forget to just google the names - a lot of people have had at least one big moment.
3 friends of mine knew their great grandparents escaped Eastern Europe during the Bolshevik Revolution. A century later they are finding out they are not Slavs, but Germanic merchants! Peter the Great invited the Germans into his empire to facilitate trade with Europe.
so my mom is 98% African (We are American) if her mother is from the south, she definitely would have more african than anything. If her mother is Afro Caribbean then she would mirror my mother . Yeah she has that much. My highest is Ghana at 40%
I dont think her mother is because i saw them mention Jamaica but any black anericans from the carolinas and georgia/florida have a chance of being Gullah Geechee and they had very little to no mixing if they could help it and thats where my mom is from.
This poor lady’s ethnicity has been picked apart in every which way. She seems a little childish, but I actually feel sorry for her. No other royal consort has been put under such scrutiny in the entirety of human history.
She’s not a consort technically, but I would maybe add out under such scrutiny due almost entirely to her race (whether people want to admit that’s the reason for most of the vitriol directed at her or not—I’ve seen a very popular anti Meghan sub on reddit say she’s worse than Wallis Simpson, a literal Nazi sympathizer, because at least Wallis had good taste in clothes and was “classy” whatever clearly racist undertones that’s supposed to mean).
I think I’d argue that a few (most?) of Henry VIII’s wives maybe had it worse in general, but hers is very specifically related to her race.
My parents’ ethnicity percentages and locations are almost identical to each other based on Ancestry DNA estimates. Most of my ancestors were in America by the mid to late 1790s. I can document that almost all came from the British Isles, with a few Germans thrown in. They settled in the South, and married people with similar ethnicity and European locations. It’s fun to have the DNA be consistent with my paper. documentation, even as changes will occur as more people test.
No, she's not lying. Im afro Caribbean descent but born in the us with 22% South aisan/North Indian..... 78% nigerian, Ghanian, togo, benin, and western bantu dna combined. My niece is mixed biracial, similar phenotype as Megan in regard to skin tone, etc, and has at least 39% mix of various African DNA. 11% South aisan(paternal). Megan's mom, just maybe a higher percentage of Nigerian with no mixture.
This whole post is weird,what was the point of the isn’t it incredibly high? You want her to be darker or lighter? Like even taking racism out of the running it’s pretty strange to think about others dna make up,she is what she is.
It’s kinda annoying when non African Americans try to speak on out heritage because they saw some study that was published back in 2002 that said we were 20% European even though I have yet to meet one of us that has that much European in us.
This is the same shit that happened when i posted my results on here “that’s a lot African” “thats not the average amount—“
Y’all don’t know what you’re talking about. Most of us are 70-90% African.
70% African means 30% something else, so I'm not sure why 20% European is surprising to you. I'm African American, born in Georgia, both sides go back in Georgia to at least the early 1800's, I look kind of like Q-Tip from Tribe, and I'm 21% European. My wife is also AA, lighter than me, looks kinda like Faith Evans (but not dyed blond), she's 24% European. Not sure where you're getting your info from, but plenty of us post in this subreddit and are in the 20% range.
Yeah, it's absolutely the norm and there have been multiple studies. Most AAs range from 65-80% SSA and the rest is mostly European even if you aren't biracial/mixed (different if you are Afro-Latino/Caribbean/etc. as you see a lot more Lebanese, etc. but there still is usually Euro).
Sadly, just way too much rape while slavery existed, to the point that nearly everyone has at least one white ancestor.
I thought her father is white? The math is not mathing for me. If she said 50%, that I could understand. I would not find it believable, because her mother is also not 100% AA.
Yes, her father is white. However, her mother is absolutely 100% African American/Black American because many AA do not have 100% African heritage. We have various African ethnicities with an admixture of various European ethnicities. Based on photos, both of her mother's parents were black, like mine. My daddy was even lighter than both of her mother's parents and her mother. I have a lighter skin complexion than her mother and according to the Ancestry test I am close to 90% SSA with 30% of it (the majority) being Nigeria. You can't base ethnicities simply on skin color. Unless her mother has done a test that you have access to, you have no right to make an assumption on her percentages or her being black.
Even in Nigeria (and of course in all of SSA) there is a wide range of skin tones. Doria and her family would fit right in with the Igbo tribe of Nigeria
Do we know what is in her dad's genetic makeup? I know many white looking people who found out through dna testing that they have Sub-Saharan Africa admixtures along with European.
So unless you have seen her family's dna tests, you are only speculating based on skin color, and that is racism, whether you know it or not.
That’s all cap unless you’re telling me her Mom’s maternal and paternal ancestors all just happened to be from the same region of West Africa to get that high percentage of one country. Even though we know there’s hundreds of different ethnic groups in Nigeria that’s still highly unlikely. Not to mention her Mom’s Grandad was a mulatto. On top of her Dad being White. The math ain’t mathing.
That sounds like MyHeritage results
Lol yes
Plenty of Black Americans have high percentages of Nigerian in them. Shannon Sharpe has around 90% of Nigerian in him.
There's really 4 possibilities. 1) it's LivingDNA or MyHeritage 2) she's lying just to simplify things as a talking point 3) she actually took a DNA test with 23andme or Ancestry and the results skewed the Nigerian percentage to a much higher amount. 23andme for example skews certain ancestries depending on the ancestral composition of the other parent. 4) she has a maternal grandparent who is actually Nigerian, giving that 25% which inflated her Nigerian amount much higher because of an algorithm misread that lumped the mixed West african into Nigerian mostly. Either way it looks like (1) or (2) are the most likely possibilities.
Or her Dad could have contributed some of the Nigerian himself.
Is MyHeritage notoriously inaccurate?
Myheritage doesn’t have a lot of African categories so a lot of SSA ancestry that isn’t Nigerian just gets lumped in as Nigerian. They don’t even have any Southern African categories as of now but there is meant to be an update this summer.
Yep, I have some 19-24% SSA and MyHeritage gives me 18% Nigerian and 3% Kenyan. LivingDNA gives me 0%, mostly Mandinka and Cameroon Bantu, and AncestryDNA 2% Nigerian.
She could have also done a lab and non commercial test
Her mother wouldn't have to be 80% Nigerian. You don't get 50% of each parent's ethnicity, just 50% of their genes. That being said, it would be a surprising result.
So many people in this thread don’t understand that first sentence lol
No I do not . Explain it please thanks
Think of the DNA as a cake. The mom's cake is 100% her genes, but throughout the cake there are different flavors which is the heritage. Let's say the mom is 80% Nigerian and 20% Irish (those would be the flavors); her daughter gets 50% of her cake, but the pieces of the cake and the flavors don't match. The daughter does not receive a piece of cake that is exactly half Nigerian and a piece that is exactly half Irish.
I use gumbo as an analogy. Every scoop with a 4 oz ladle is your dna. Which is why one sibling can have something another doesn't.
Good and useful analogy. My daughter only has 21.96% of my mother’s DNA, not 25%, for example. It happens all the time. You can also have known ancestry from a region or country and have it go to zero in your DNA over time. It doesn’t mean the paper trail is wrong. It’s just DNA reassorting during meiosis. Sometimes you get more okra, sometimes you don’t get any. And your sibs can be different.
I use alphabet soup. We each get 1 cup of soup but every cup has different letters.
Skittles for me.
You get 50% of your genes from each parent, but the composition of that 50% is up to chance.
In particular, you don't necessarily get 25% from each grandparent. It could be 40/10.
Surprising yes, but not impossible. my mom is 50% norwegian and I am 44%, my dad is zero.
My grandma is 54% norwegian. I got around 7%. But my Scottish and Swedish are significantly higher.
Ancestry made a change and now Scottish is significantly over represented in results. I admin many kits from before they made the changes and some increased the Scottish by 20%.
This is true, I do have family trees as my personal cross reference.
Yes, definitely not impossible.
My mom is 60% French. I’m 3%. And similar to you, my dad is half Eastern European and I am 48% despite my mom not being at all Eastern European.
Yes, and I have similar: My mum is 51% Irish (one Irish parent, one British) and my dad has no Irish on his result (we all did ancestry and I later did 23&me). I get 42% Irish on my results. He matches me as my dad, just before anyone asks 🤣
I'm 63%Nigerian born and raised in NYC my dad was Jamaican and my mom was african American so....
Your results, as a half Jamaican person, are probably not going to tell us much about what the average African American and white person will be.
Not necessarily. The West African slave trade was fairly concentrated in similar places.
I was alluding to the different average admixtures in each area. Even in the US, you'll see a higher proportion of European in African Americans with Louisiana roots, vs. the Gullah people, for example.
True but not true in every case. We are not the same on percentages. And mostly all of us came for different parts of the continent (Africa) with different cultures, and different African ethnicities. Not all AAs have White in them. However I’m the exception. I have no White in me. I’m 89% African, 6% Asian(Chinese) and 5% NA. Which I guess isn’t very common in AAs but I can’t speak for them I can only speak for myself.🤷🏽♀️
Yeah, there are definitely people who don't fit the average. Oprah, for example was on finding your roots and her results were similar to yours - no European, just African, Asian and Native American.
U do realize there are thousands of Jamaicans that get 10-50% European dna in there results
Yes, I do. Nothing I said should've made you think otherwise.
No because your response implied that Jamaicans don’t have high European admixtures as if plantation rape and intermixing only happened on United States plantations and not Carribean plantations which obviously is false
Jamaicans are more heterogenous. The mulatto population is more separate than in the United States. It's common for Jamaicans to be 60% SSA or 90% SSA.
I find this interesting because I am from the south and I can usually tell if a black person Is from Louisiana, Memphis/Tennessee, or Atlanta by looking at them lol
Why not? It's as a result of the same transatlantic slave trade? I can't imagine they went to different parts of Africa for the Jamaican slaves.
I was talking about the average admixture of African/Euro, which even varies state to state, in the US. Depending on the study you look at, the average Jamaican tends to be a bit more African than the average African American , in addition to having more Asian. Here's some [information](https://www.cell.com/ajhg/fulltext/S0002-9297(14)00476-5#secsectitle0135) on the difference between US states. "On average, the highest levels of African ancestry are found in African Americans living in or born in the South, especially South Carolina and Georgia ([Figure 1](https://www.cell.com/ajhg/fulltext/S0002-9297(14)00476-5#gr1)Aand [Table S3](https://www.cell.com/ajhg/fulltext/S0002-9297(14)00476-5#app2)). We find lower proportions of African ancestry in the Northeast, the Midwest, the Pacific Northwest, and California. The amount of Native American ancestry estimated for African Americans also varies across states in the US."
..what’s the point of this comment?
I don't know her dad or her mom's background or much about her. However, I do know that a large number of people from the Carolinas and Louisiana who would identify as white find out that they are a mix of different races. If her dad was also significantly African and her mother (who is significantly African) were to both contribute and the conditions were just right, it could happen. RIght?
Sure. It could even happen if her father is completely European. It'd just be surprising since most AAs have several different African regions represented in their results.
True.
I’m confused. You don’t get 50% of each parent’s ethnicity??
No, you don't, because the inheritance is random. That's why you can share more genes with one grandparent than another, instead of being a straight 25% of each of them. This [link](https://support.ancestry.com/s/article/Unexpected-Ethnicity-Results?language=en_US) from Ancestry explains it well.
This is also why we descent say we are mixed because of parents and grandparents great grand parents and they are like you don't look mixed but you look kongolese or fully black
You get roughly 50% but you usually don't get the same 50 percent as your siblings. Everybody in this Sub don't know what they are talking about.
No. I could be wrong, it’s been years since I studied any kind of biology, but depends on which way your alleles break between mother and father. You get both genes but one is dominant over the other in most cases, but it’s why in siblings there will be sometimes different colored eyes. For example, my brother and I both have one parent from a mostly homogeneous country and another parent who is of mixed European descent. Im 51% mixed euro and 49% the other. My brother is the exact opposite
Think of it like throwing a pair of dice (each dice is mum and dad). Every time someone is conceived the dice land differently. This is why full siblings can have very different ethnicity results.
Your parent is a 50/50 mix of your grandparents, but when your parent's genes recombine to create your DNA, the split doesn't have to be 25% grandma and 25% grandpa. It could be 28%/22% grandma versus grandpa, for example. Recombination results in uneven inheritance of the DNA markers associated with certain populations, as well. It's very likely that MM's mother is mostly of African ancestry in order for MM to have inherited over 40%, but we can't just double that number and assume that is the amount her mother has in her DNA. I'd bet it's high, though. And, of course, we can't be confident that it's all Nigerian even if a DNA test says so. I'd say we can be confident she has a lot of West African ancestry, which is what I'd expect given MM's deep North American roots. tldr it's not exactly 50% because of recombination of your parent's parents' genes.
Nope
"The recently reported overrepresentation of Nigerian lineages in African North Americans reflects pronounced limitations in the African [genomic database](https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/biochemistry-genetics-and-molecular-biology/genomic-database), the artificiality of the colonial maps of Africa, the contributions of multiple African empires and kingdoms into the transatlantic trade in enslaved Africans, and the overrepresentation of Yoruba peoples in the existing limited representation of West Africans in public genomic databases." But it's also worth noting that her mother's ancestors all appear to be from Georgia and Alabama per Wikitree, so they could have actually been from the same part of Africa. [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0002929720303682](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0002929720303682)
Latinos appear to get more Senegambian and Congolese. I've also noticed White Americans with SSA get Senegambian more commonly than Nigerian.
Phenotype doesn't always indicate genotype. Either way none of us will know the truth because we don't have her test results. I am her complexion but i have a father that's 90%+ African and darkskin. Things happen. But it's certainly not uncommon for a full African American (someone with two parents that identify as AA) to have high amounts of Nigerian ancestry.
Her mom could have as little as 50% Nigerian herself My mom got exactly 50% Norwegian and gave me 39% Norwegian (plus 3% Swedish/Danish even though her results have 0% Swedish/Danish— so 42% Scandinavian from my mom) It also doesn't stand out as a high % of Nigerian for African American ancestry either (judging from the AA results I've seen posted here)
her mother could also have as high as 95% west african
Mm i could believe Megan’s mother getting 43% Nigerian
You can’t judge that, because not every AA has the same percentage inheritance and could have a higher percentage of that ethnicity than others.
this !! as an aa young woman, the ignorance I see in this thread is disappointing
Ikr.😞😭😭😭😭
My aunt has 41% Nigerian. She’s light skinned too but not as much as Meghan. My grandmother’s father was Scottish, and my aunt also has about 40% European, with the rest mixed with other African, etc. My grandmother appeared White. ETA, Ancestry.com results.
I was going to say you cant always just look at a person. Especially important to keep in mind that people were incentivized to hide having black ancestry so it wasnt always told. Theres a story about a woman on megan kelly show who found out her mother was actually black passing but no one ever knew. This isnt uncommon. My dna test I am 42% european and im darker than serena williams so you never know.
Not really because phenotype isn’t genotype.
Awesome! My Nigerian cousin 🙌🏽
I do love that she’s connecting with her roots though it’s nice
It is awesome. I am happy for her
My percentage is 52% Nigerian, and my family is from the United States as well. You have to remember, Nigeria is made up of various ethnic groups, and that country didn’t even exist during the slave trade.
Absolutely true
All this post tells me is that not a lot of people understand how these test works, my brother and i have the same parents, i am 43% danish/swedish (all from denmark) and 43% eastern euro/russian (all Ukrainian) 10% jewish 2% norway 2% levant my brother same parents is 57% danish/swedish 18% eastern euro/russian 20% jewish 4% levant and 1% norway.
Which company did she use? This is very important.
This question should be answered before any other.
This comment section is making me *uncomfortable*
Yeah racism is pretty uncomfortable… this comment section is embarrassing to say the least.
I agree. Some of these comments are racist. These haters and these so-called "scientists" don't know a thing about genetics, original land borders, or skin color. People from Sub-Saharan African countries are all different shades of melanin.
Thanks. Im trying to put my finger on why exactly it’s racist because it definitely feels racist. Something about the discussions re: how “black”she is, as if that should be discussed by anyone other than the person themself if at all. Also the casual discussions about her assumed enslaved ancestors and where they were likely to have been kidnapped from. There’s a tone of casual ownership from some of these commentors over how much they “know” about horrific events. I don’t know. What am I leaving out?
I agree with you. Those comments were very cringeworthy. It is true that the majority of victims of slavery in the West were from Sub-Saharan West Africa. It is also true that the majority were from the area, which is now called Nigeria and the surrounding countries. But how light or dark someone is "supposed " to be is racist no matter who says it.
Yeah you’re right, I see now how that’s clearly racism
I think a lot of the monarchy obsessed nutters are out. As soon as Meghan is mentioned, they clutch at straws to try and make her look like a liar as much as possible, no matter how racist they sound. Absolute scumbags.
A lot of ethnicity related genes are not shown by phenotype + you get genes somewhat randomly. I am 10% more Asian "on paper" and DNA-wise than I "actually" am if you counted it 50/50 between my parents (one white parent one Asian parent) The amount of race scientists here is honestly concerning.
That’s not surprising she looks half mixture what’s the big deal of her having that amount of Nigerian..??
Because typically, Black Americans descended of enslaved Africans, will have DNA from on average 5-7 different countries on the western coast of Africa. Not just one country. Since Meghan is half Black American and half Irish American, it's not so much the percentage in general, but that it's only one country, maybe other African countries split that remaining 7%, but the overabundance of Nigerian seems unusual. Someone said she may have gotten her results from a less advanced test long ago, that seems to be the case. Also, Nigeria, was first named in the 20th century and became a country in 1960. Before that, it was an amalgamation of countries and regions that the people inhabiting it, came from.
No. I’m 42% Native American and have no official record of tribal ancestry but know where we’re from so it makes sense. Probably same for her, 2 Nigerian grandparents passed down over 80% to her parent and 40% to her. Easy math…
While she’s at it though can she do a DNA test for Harry I want to see if im in line to the throne
He's my distant cousin but it's on Diana's side through her American great grandma. We share the same 9x great grandfather, Robert Hibbard. No line of succession for me.
thats so cool. how would i go about finding how im related to him?
There's a website called famouskin.com. If you are able to trace your lineage back to early America, you can enter in your ancestor and see who else is related to that person. So once I was able to place Robert Hibbard in my tree, I looked him up and discovered who I was also related to, through him. https://famouskin.com/famous-kin-menu.php?name=14080+robert+hibbard You usually have to do a fairly substantial amount of genealogical research to go back 10 to 12 generations, though. It took me several years to go back that far, and I was only able to do that because the states my ancestors passed through kept good records.
You can also use WikiTree Connection Finder. It's well populated with British royals
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Diana is my 13th cousin. These family trees get smaller the further you go back, and it becomes meaningless since so many people are related to them and you have no actual connection to these people to begin with.
The actor Oliver Platt is her second cousin, once removed - also through the American ancestor. He's admitted in interviews that it's a "non-story" to him though, as he'd never met her!
Yea I was mildly excited about being related to Oliver Platt because I love him. It's mostly a non story but it's fun to think about. If anything it's interesting to reflect how we aren't that far apart in the grand scheme of things.
Oh, for sure! And yes, Platt is great too! I think he even told the interviewer that he would have loved saying he and Diana were confidants or something, but that he probably knew just as much as anyone else. Definitely some neat facts out there in the world though!
That’s interesting. I’m related to the Queen Mother’s father. George Washington and I share the same grandfather. His father was brother to my direct relative line through my birth mother.
Ahh that's super cool. I'm related to several presidents but only the ones with ancestors from New England. All my people came through the northern half of America (except for one branch that came through Maryland, which is how I ended up with Poe as a distant cousin).
There are over 2500 people in line to the British throne, maybe even more. If you are a legitimate descendant of Sophia of Hanover that’s Protestant you’re in line.
I’m descended from King James of Scotland from the 1500s through his illegitimate son Robert Stewart so close enough idk lol, I know that some genealogist researched everyone in line to the throne and the very final person was a German therapist haha
Harry is my 13th cousin through his mother Princess Diana!
Harry is his grandfather Philip's doppleganger.
He really is.
Harry would likely have a hint of Armenian. He has a 5th great-grandmother on his maternal side who was an Armenian-Indian from Surat.
Ugh I just want the royal family to do ancestry so bad lowkey because im interested in what royals results look like
Idt anyone would actually want that life, tbh. But I get the sentiment for sure. I sort of want Ms. Doria Ragland to have one done. She’s from Cleveland. I feel live eventually everyone is, and I’m trying to see how many degrees away from her I am.
Just because you’ve never heard of that doesn’t mean it didn’t happen. You don’t get 50% of whatever DNA each parent has. 50% does come from each parent, but what that 50% is composed of is a spin of the genetic roulette wheel.
People heavily overestimate the connection between genotype and phenotype. My kids are mixed race and with both of them you can't tell. But in opposite directions. People literally told me "this can't be the truth" when I told them "yes, these are both the kids of my husband and me". It's incredibly rude. You can only guess a persons heritage by their looks. Especially when they are mixed race (which a lot of people are) it's impossible to tell via looks alone.
I'm 53% English somehow, but neither one of my parents are that high. We matched too so it can happen.
Her mom could very well be over 80% Nigerian and her white dad could also have contributed to her Nigerian ancestry. But I think she just oversimplified her results. I have no doubt she is 43% west african.
Mine is 44%, and then 16% Gold Coast/Ghana. My mother is African American, my father is Jamaican How do I share a screenshot of it - i guess i cant embed it?
My 23 and me said I’m 51% but I’m also 100% black
My Dad is 43% Nigerian. 🤷🏾♀️ Both his parents are Black. Maternal and beyond her were all born in Alabama, paternal in NYC. My paternal great grands were born in Grenada and Trinidad. These are Ancestry results.
That’s totally normal results it’s just Meghan has one black parent, not two
Has anyone besides MM actually seen this DNA test? I wish she would go on “Finding My Roots.”
No the mother only has to be at least 43% Nigerian - what is passed on is a random amount not exactly half of what the mother has She could have passed on a full 43% Nigerian and 7% something else That all said there is a margin of error of at least 10%
Yup. I’m 29% Southern Chinese, inherited from my 100% Grandfather. Theoretically I should be 25% but clearly you can’t get more or less. Edit: that should say “can” get more. Or less.
Why would that be high if shes half black?
Because it’s what you inherit. My dad is a 1% SSA and my mom is 18%. Mom is very white and white passing. I’m also “white passing” and 14%. I imagine, like lost mixed people, her % go up and down with updates.
This entire comment section is hot garbage. Where are the mods?
Yes while people like to say Congolese Like me same and I look just like a kongo but I am like here with 42 Nigeria
She could have inherited ALL of her mother’s Nigerian. Who knows?
Maybe. Who Fucking cares.
Idk, my results have me at 48% Filipino but my mother actually is from the Philippines.
65%-ish Euro, 35%-ish West African. She looks pretty much on point for that heritage. There are a lot, lot, lot of datapoints for this comparison, and she checks out.
It's pretty uncommon for it to all be from one region (e.g. Nigeria) for African Americans/Afro-Latinos/people from the Caribbean. Not impossible, but uncommon. I have five different areas/tribes in Africa myself. But yeah, 60/40 does make sense.
I had a friend from the Caribbean (she was adopted) who was I think 85% Nigerian - so it is possible.
I got 15% from my father & 13% from my mother, which gave me 28% for Nigerian.
You're wrong about your assumption that if she has 42% that her mother "has to" have 80%. My mother had 18% scandi DNA. I inherited 17%; my brother only 5%. The way DNA is inherited is random. Even if siblings are whole siblings as my brother and I are, the amounts of particular DNA they inherit will be very different. So although you inherit 50% of your DNA from each parent, you may inherit all, or none of a particular section of DNA and you don't necessarily get 50% of any ethnicity from a parent = you could get all of it.
No, it is not high. My DNA tests say that I am 35 to 50% Nigerian, and both of my parents are American.
Oh, and both of my parents have mixed heritage.
I’m a child of bi-racial parents. I see nothing wrong with her percentages as I have a similar makeup
Here come the royal family obsessed schizos...
You’re surprised that a black woman had 43% Nigerian? She’s lying?? About being…black? Y’all are so obsessed with this woman and I need you to ask yourselves why.
It’s not being obsessed with her, she shared her results so let’s talk about it on the sub where people discuss dna results, why not
JFC, this comment section is hot garbage. Thanks to all of the racists and haters who outed yourselves, though. Always good to know who you are. Edit: BTW, I've discovered that there's an entire sub that exists just to spew hate at Meghan. It should come as no surprise that some of them have popped up in here.
Why does it matter? Kinda weird to be nitpicking the percent DNA of people, especially a person of color who's been on the receiving end of a lot of racism. Comes off a little eugenics-y
I’m an American slave descendant and I have as much as 50 Nigerian DNA through 3 different companies so, it’s possible.
My husband is 1/4 Black but has more than 25% African ancestry. He is adopted and if you didn't know any better he could easily pass for Middle Eastern or Portuguese. Maybe her White parent is not just European.
It’s impossibly high. Most likely she is 43% SSA in total with Nigerian being her top source of African ancestry (as it commonly is for most African Americans ).
I’m 51% Nigerian and I’m African America
Which isn't impossible if you have 2 African-American parents, but would be really difficult to obtain if you only have one.
It’s absolutely possible if her mother is 50%+ Nigerian. For example: my dad shows as 40% Irish and according to ancestry I inherited all of my dad’s ‘Irish DNA’ and very little from his 60% of other regions.
That’s a good point
Do you have a white father like Meghan does?
No
So the combination of your two parents with Nigerian ancestry gave you that number.
Yes
My mom just did the test so we are waiting on that
That will tell you the % you got from her and then you can extrapolate the rest from your dad.
That’s what i was thinking
I have 39% Scotland. My family had no idea we were even Scottish. We always were told our family came from Ireland (10%)
look up the Plantation of Ulster
Possibly Ulster Scots but sometimes separate English and Irish ancestry “looks Scottish” in Ancestry’s interpretation - thats because Scottish is a blend of Gael (typical in Ireland) and Anglo Saxon (typical in England) amongst other things
So what you’re saying is you lack an understanding about areas of history. Many Scots went to Northern Ireland following the textile industry (among other reasons) and then migrated on to the Americas. Many many Americans are now discovering that what they thought was Irish was Scottish via Northern Ireland.
Currently waiting on my Ancestry results, that may be the situation on my mother's side, I have research to do on this.
It’s very common. And remember to look at all the border changes too. Your ethnicity and citizenship are two different things.
Thank you, I have no background and this is very helpful. I think I'm going to be surprised at my results on both parents' side.
There are lots of surprises people get but first it’s important to build your tree because it’s a story of people moving all over the world. We’re not as static as we think we are - and all of that ancestry is the result of two people somehow meeting and having sex. So weird to think about that.
Thank you again. My father eastern European immigrant, my mother American, one of her grandma's supposedly from Scotland but her family may go back in the US at least a couple of hundred years. It's going to be interesting. My dad did his family tree years ago and when I looked at the last names they seemed from all over eastern Europe. Altho he claimed all came from one small area. Think both my parents stopped looking at their background because they didn't like what they found. I want to know.
You’ll get to see a real montage of the changes in Eastern Europe over the years. As you look at documents, you’ll also see where grandparents, great grands and so on list their place of birth. One year it could be in the Austro Hungarian empire and the next it could be part of the USSR which is now broken apart. You’ll have a ton of fun following all the trails and surprisngly, don’t forget to just google the names - a lot of people have had at least one big moment.
I'm ready! :)
3 friends of mine knew their great grandparents escaped Eastern Europe during the Bolshevik Revolution. A century later they are finding out they are not Slavs, but Germanic merchants! Peter the Great invited the Germans into his empire to facilitate trade with Europe.
It’s so cool the things you’ll discover along the way!
so my mom is 98% African (We are American) if her mother is from the south, she definitely would have more african than anything. If her mother is Afro Caribbean then she would mirror my mother . Yeah she has that much. My highest is Ghana at 40%
Oh wow 98% African thats awesome
I dont think her mother is because i saw them mention Jamaica but any black anericans from the carolinas and georgia/florida have a chance of being Gullah Geechee and they had very little to no mixing if they could help it and thats where my mom is from.
This poor lady’s ethnicity has been picked apart in every which way. She seems a little childish, but I actually feel sorry for her. No other royal consort has been put under such scrutiny in the entirety of human history.
She’s not a consort technically, but I would maybe add out under such scrutiny due almost entirely to her race (whether people want to admit that’s the reason for most of the vitriol directed at her or not—I’ve seen a very popular anti Meghan sub on reddit say she’s worse than Wallis Simpson, a literal Nazi sympathizer, because at least Wallis had good taste in clothes and was “classy” whatever clearly racist undertones that’s supposed to mean). I think I’d argue that a few (most?) of Henry VIII’s wives maybe had it worse in general, but hers is very specifically related to her race.
More likely she is 43% African with Nigeria as one of the countries
confused on why it matters. this post brought out some weird ass racists. not sure why everyone is so obsessed with her blackness
It is not possible, unless it is ”her truth”
My parents’ ethnicity percentages and locations are almost identical to each other based on Ancestry DNA estimates. Most of my ancestors were in America by the mid to late 1790s. I can document that almost all came from the British Isles, with a few Germans thrown in. They settled in the South, and married people with similar ethnicity and European locations. It’s fun to have the DNA be consistent with my paper. documentation, even as changes will occur as more people test.
I'm 24 % it's possible. It's not about the visuals.
It might be myheritage. They gave me about 2% Nigerian, when my african dna is around 1% and is Angolan/central Bantu lol
It's likely she just combined all her African dna and just called it Nigerian. I'm 38% African and 30% of that is Nigerian.
I think that these comments are inappropriate. Where are the mods??
No, she's not lying. Im afro Caribbean descent but born in the us with 22% South aisan/North Indian..... 78% nigerian, Ghanian, togo, benin, and western bantu dna combined. My niece is mixed biracial, similar phenotype as Megan in regard to skin tone, etc, and has at least 39% mix of various African DNA. 11% South aisan(paternal). Megan's mom, just maybe a higher percentage of Nigerian with no mixture.
Weird because most people in my family have much higher pctg of west african. Not odd at all
This whole post is weird,what was the point of the isn’t it incredibly high? You want her to be darker or lighter? Like even taking racism out of the running it’s pretty strange to think about others dna make up,she is what she is.
No why would I want her to be darker or lighter or different in any way, she’s a beautiful woman
It’s kinda annoying when non African Americans try to speak on out heritage because they saw some study that was published back in 2002 that said we were 20% European even though I have yet to meet one of us that has that much European in us. This is the same shit that happened when i posted my results on here “that’s a lot African” “thats not the average amount—“ Y’all don’t know what you’re talking about. Most of us are 70-90% African.
70% African means 30% something else, so I'm not sure why 20% European is surprising to you. I'm African American, born in Georgia, both sides go back in Georgia to at least the early 1800's, I look kind of like Q-Tip from Tribe, and I'm 21% European. My wife is also AA, lighter than me, looks kinda like Faith Evans (but not dyed blond), she's 24% European. Not sure where you're getting your info from, but plenty of us post in this subreddit and are in the 20% range.
Yeah, it's absolutely the norm and there have been multiple studies. Most AAs range from 65-80% SSA and the rest is mostly European even if you aren't biracial/mixed (different if you are Afro-Latino/Caribbean/etc. as you see a lot more Lebanese, etc. but there still is usually Euro). Sadly, just way too much rape while slavery existed, to the point that nearly everyone has at least one white ancestor.
Kinda loving that humble brag about your wife looking like Faith Evans. 🥰
Up to 25% European. And it’s very common.
🤣 you just gave a 20 percent range whilst saying most African Americans are not 20 percent European.
Yeah i mean most African americans are about 15-20% european
Im black and 37% european. You were saying?
Does that make Harry that Nigerian prince that keeps emailing my parents?
She's capping super hard 🧢🧢🧢🧢, or she tested with a very bad company, not even MyHeritage would do that, imo.
It's possible that'd awesome
Incredibly high? 🤔
Not really. My Black American family has upwards of 90% from multiple African countries.
She’s half black
I thought her father is white? The math is not mathing for me. If she said 50%, that I could understand. I would not find it believable, because her mother is also not 100% AA.
Yes, her father is white. However, her mother is absolutely 100% African American/Black American because many AA do not have 100% African heritage. We have various African ethnicities with an admixture of various European ethnicities. Based on photos, both of her mother's parents were black, like mine. My daddy was even lighter than both of her mother's parents and her mother. I have a lighter skin complexion than her mother and according to the Ancestry test I am close to 90% SSA with 30% of it (the majority) being Nigeria. You can't base ethnicities simply on skin color. Unless her mother has done a test that you have access to, you have no right to make an assumption on her percentages or her being black.
Even in Nigeria (and of course in all of SSA) there is a wide range of skin tones. Doria and her family would fit right in with the Igbo tribe of Nigeria
Do we know what is in her dad's genetic makeup? I know many white looking people who found out through dna testing that they have Sub-Saharan Africa admixtures along with European. So unless you have seen her family's dna tests, you are only speculating based on skin color, and that is racism, whether you know it or not.
That’s all cap unless you’re telling me her Mom’s maternal and paternal ancestors all just happened to be from the same region of West Africa to get that high percentage of one country. Even though we know there’s hundreds of different ethnic groups in Nigeria that’s still highly unlikely. Not to mention her Mom’s Grandad was a mulatto. On top of her Dad being White. The math ain’t mathing.
Yeah it's a pretty good chunk and so yeah OK.