DNA Testing through ancestry.com
 01DNA-PieChart.png: values to the left were my estimates prior to testing; values to the right are the actual results through DNA testing. I am 60% European, 13% Asian and 13% African. |
 EthnicityVenn.jpg: A venn diagram showing the percentage of each continent: Asia, Europe and Africa. I am represented by the star. |
 02DNA-PieParents.png: My father contributed 12% from Wales and my mother 22% from England & Europe. Both contributed 6-7% from the Ivory Coast of Africa. I thought I was 6% Irish, but the tested value is 1%. I thought I was of German descent through my father, but I am probably less than 10% through my mother. Spain is a surprise! |
 03DNA-Map.png: Ethnicity based on the world map shows all three continents converged in the Caribbean: Europe, Asia and Africa. |
 04DNA-EnglandEurope.png: England and Europe with most from western England. Alsace Lorraine (German-French) can be seen here as a tail stretching toward Switzerland. |
 05DNA-Wales.png: I had a great uncle (Dominique Furlong) who arrived in New York from Ireland. Perhaps he was not Irish; rather, he may have been Welsh! |
 06DNA-BeninTogo.png: African slaves were brought to the Americas using the trade winds off the coast of Africa which moves toward northern Brazil and the Caribbean. |
 07DNA-SwedenDenmark.png: This is a real surprise! I have no one in my family with blonde hair and blue eyes. This may help explain why Eva has fair features: through recessive genes. |
 08DNA-Scotland.png: You can see part of northern Ireland along with Scotland. Perhaps I should buy a kilt! |
 09DNA-China.png: This is consistent with my great grandfather (Jacob W Corsbie) arriving from China during the Taipei Rebellion during the 1860s or 1870s. His original name was Chinese, but he adopted the name Corsbie. |
 10DNA-China.png: see above. |
 11DNA-Spain.png: This is a surprise! I often describe myself as genetically Hispanic, but Ethnically English. I often wondered why I was drawn to Spanish as a second language? |
 12DNA-Community.png: We had a great-great grandfather (Khan) who came from India. I always assumed that he was Pashtun, which is near Pakistan and Iran. Now I realize that he may have been from northern India. This makes me truly Indo-European. |
 13DNA-Trinidad.png: This is obvious, through both parents. All of my grandparents were born in Trinidad, near San Fernando & Port of Spain. |
 14DNA-BWI.png: the diaspora extends to all of the British West Indies (BWI). In the 1800s, British ships often sailed from British Guyana through the Lesser Antilles and back to Trinidad and Venezuela. In addition, they would sail to Mexico; then the ships would sail past the Bahamas and catch the trade winds north from the Carolinas to England. |
 15DNA-India.png: I always wondered why so many of my cousins (Furlonges &: Gaines lineage) looked East Indian. Now I know! Mona Baptiste, my distant cousin, had a grandfather (Kahn) from India. |