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Recently looked at ethnicity breakdown of all the people whose  DNA I manage on ancestry

Usually I only look at ethnicity of shared matches but I see that the divisions are getting more and more accurate
And there is a way of comparing ethnicity of a group of people

6 of the people whose DNA I manage are relations so great to look at the shared Scottish in my father's side .

I'm lucky to have such a wide data base which helps understand others results

I can  see matches my mother's 2nd cousin thru mutual Latvian great grandfather her ethnicity is 99percent Jewish and 1 percent Welsh !

A descendant of Welsh great grandfather didn't know his bio father but we've narrowed it down to 2 brothers ( ethnicity wasn't a huge help on that one ) managing his DNA

Nephew s DNA shows how ethnicity amounts can be passed thru 3 generations

From my cousin's I got to look at African ethnicity from his other side

My in law is very Essex with a bit of Scandinavian from both parents
The more I learn to use the information that is there the more I respect it

Tho I do have 2 gripes with ancestry 1 is that theyve grouped channel Islands with isle of man with Cornwall

+ I'm still making sense of Haiti and Benin Togo classification
The DNA may make sense but when searching for documents
The classification for all black people  in search bar seems to be African American

The Bahamas was not American in 1850s and
But that's how to find the records

Oops that's not the pic I meant to post

 

Bear with me on this one as I'm dealing with 2 countries I know little about .

I'm trying to work out  connection between

1 Willie Johnson
b 1911 Androas Island Nassau Bahamas
He changed his surname to LIGHTBOURN after arrival in Miami Florida USA  1916

2) merchant seaman Jacob JOHNSON b 1887 Sierra Leone d 1954 Wales
Father named on marriage  Joseph Johnson ship chandler deceased before 1926

There is a distant  DNA match and there are many connections to Ghana

Including surnames of lodger in Wales top DNA matches with African ethnicities
& Some surnames from trees
 which are typically Ghanaian

Have some possible relatives to add to Willie's tree who also came from Nassau Bahamas + lived nearby on 1935 + 1940
Census

Including Thomas L JOHNSON b 1879 a gardener who gives mother's name as Sarah  back  in Bahamas on arrival in  USA

Any theories about era s the Ghanaian s might have moved to Sierra Leone or Bahamas would be appreciated

The link to Ghana is probably from 1850 s

Has anyone who has long Cornish Ancestry tested on ancestry ?

What does your ethnicity state
My friends father was from Cornwall and tne paternal line has been trace back to. 1700s
His results  27,%english +north European  ancestry breaks down his community as specifically from Devon and Cornwall
Sub division of kerrier Cornwall+eas Cornwall
Just From his father's side he has inherited
24 % Scottish  8%irish +2%swedish

27 march 1875
William Binglow a.23year old earth extractor father (George Binglow railway labourer ) deceased
married
Elizabeth Ann JANE 22yr old  machine wool comber
Father John JANE tin miner

In Parish church of Bradford
I think their respective addresses are
 Clayton Heights Claughton
+ Sandbeds Claughton

Their witnesses were Frederick Christmas + Elizabeth Kendell all 4 left their marks

17 Feb 1876 their daughter Mary Jane Binglow was born in Queensberry Yorkshire

In 1881 Elizabeth Ann JANE returned to Cornwall and is living with her father and Mary
Jane JANE  (not using Binglow surname )

3 more Binglow children are born in Cornwall before 1891

She is then listed as married with all 4 Bingalow children and her father

By 1901 she is head of household still in Cornwall listed as widow with William.H 19 John A 16 + Sidonia L Binglow 11

But where was their father all this time .?
Every time I search I get BINGLEY suggestions