Genetic history of the Dutch Caribbean - Haplogroups & Autosomal DNA
For quite a while now I have been interested in the Genetic history of the Dutch Caribbean, Aruba, Bonaire, Curacao, Saba, Sint Maarten, Sint Eusatius. For now I am interested in the haplogroups of the Dutch Caribbean. The mtDNA is our oldest female ancestor, it isnt more important than autosomal, but it very interesting to see that someone could be descendant from a African female, but after generations and generation her descendants would be white looking. etc. For example, your great-grandmother could be very African looking, but yet her female line could traced to a European female. Only males can have a yDNA, women can not. Just mtDNA, yDNA dont always match with autosomal results. For example, due to slavery there are many Black men in the Caribbean/Latin America and USA who have a paternal line which can be traced to a European male, especially in areas or islands where racial mixing happend very often. Both African and European population was very diverse, many ...