One advantage: If you are male and do the Y chromosome test, and match someone else male on 67 points, it means you and he share a common male ancestor in the last 200 years, which can break down brick walls, especially if his ancestors stayed in one place, like Maryland, while yours turned up 6 ridges west of the law in what is now West Virginia and discouraged questions about his parents.

Another: having or not having native American markers will prove or disprove the rumor about "Indian Blood".

The company that did mine said 2% - 4% of the people who have their DNA tested find a surprise due to "infidelity or hidden adoption". That would be a huge shock, and you'd never look at your parents the same way again.

If you aren't finding much, you could post a second question here, with the name, birth place and date, death place and date and marriage date and place of someone alive in 1930, and one of us might be able to find his/her parents.

From the way you worded your question, nothing. You didn't mention a common ancestor, so the assumption is that they don't have one.

To answer you properly we'd need to know:

- If the nephew is by blood or by marriage; if by marriage, the answer is "None" and you should skip the rest of the questions.

- If your brother or sister, whichever one is mother or father to your nephew, is also cousin once removed to CiQ (Cousin in Question).

- If CiQ is 1st, 2nd, 3rd or 4th cousin.

- If CiQ is cousin to one of your parents, or the child of one of your cousins.

If CiQ is 1C to your parent, 1C1R to you and 1C1R to the nephew's parent, then CiQ is 1C2R to the nephew, as user "Bond" guessed.

Living people have privacy rights which is why you can't easily fin her as unlike genealogy where old records of people who have died many years ago are available to view, so you have limited options

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Hi Gwen. We get a lot of questions from people who were adopted trying to find their birth parents. Those adoptions usually require a court order to unseal them. However in your case since you know your birth name maybe your situation is different. Do you know if Kitterman was your birth mother's maiden name or your father s name. If it is her maien name and she did not name the father then you have a problem of finding o his name.

Finding your foster parents should not be so hard as there should be a court order giving them custody of you as foster parents and I don t think that would be sealed.

If you could edit your question and give more details then someone answering questions tomorrow can be of better help. I hope you find Jewel and Mark. Foster parents as a rule of very good and kind people and they probably would be delighted to hear from you.

An African person is a person who is in or was born in Africa. An African American person is a person who is from Africa but living in America or a person living in America who has African or African American ancestry.

I sense from your question, however, that you really have not done much research on your ancestors. But if you are looking towards Africa first, it is like looking through a telescope the wrong way. There is for example, no such thing as "African culture." Africa is a huge place with many different peoples and cultures in it, and often there are several different groups with different languages, lore, customs, and so forth within a hundred miles of one another. The art of one group may be entirely different from the art of the group that lives across the river from them.

Don't use a flat map -- most flat maps distort the sizes of the lands so northern countries look disproportionately large in comparisons with equatorial countries. Look at a globe. Compare the size of Europe to the size of Africa. Europe is very small compared even to the area of West Africa where the ancestors of most African Americans came from.

You can make generalizations about European cultures, just like you can make generalizations about African cultures. But if you went to a museum to the European cultures room and saw a copy of a Renaissance painting next to a diorama with guys in kilts next to Greek pottery, when you leave the room you won't really have a very useful idea of what any real European culture was about. So in this (imaginary) museum there may be an African room, and there you may see a dummy modeling a dashiki, a Nok figure, and a Zulu shield. Yeah, these are cultural artifacts, they are from Africa, but you won't learn more about African culture from the African room in this museum than you learned about European culture in the European room.

And that is what I mean by looking through the wrong end of the telescope. You don't start with Africa. You start with you. You have a culture. You may not notice it much because you are surrounded by it all the time. Then you look at what you know or what you can find out about your parents and your grandparents. Researching African American ancestry is not easy, but it is not impossible. You may or may not ever be able to jump the ocean, but after many years of looking at European lines, I can tell you, many European American lines do not jump the ocean with firm evidence either.

Hi everyone, i have been trying so hard to find my family from Mississippi for a while on familysearch.org. Well i got as far as 1910, 1930, 1940 census but i cannot find them in the 1920 and previous census records. Its almost like they vanished. Is it possible that you guys can trace them back to 1870? I would really appreciate it and be really thankful if you did. I am specifically looking for Frank Carter from 1910, but want to find him in 1900. Here they are:

https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VBSP-J65 (1940)

https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X9MS-B76 (1930)

https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MPDX-QNV (1910)