Ancestry: A Personal Experience

There are times, out of nowhere, when people would ask me what my race is. I have heard people say that they thought I was mixed, white, Mexican, Asian, and even Spanish. Unfortunately, they are all wrong, because I am mostly African American. When I ask my family what else am I mixed with, they don’t really know that well either. However, I tried to get as much information as I could. I asked my mother about my dad’s side of the family and my grandmother for my mother’s side of the family. There is limited knowledge because no one really thought to dig deeper and there is really anyone else I can ask except for my mother and grandmother. I guess this would have been the perfect time to use Ancestry.com. When I asked my grandmother about my ethnic background, she that I am mostly African American. However, she said that her grandmother has some Cherokee in her. Her grandmother was the one who raised her and she loved her very much. My grandmother said that her grandmother had beautiful long, silky hair. Indians all have long and beautiful hair. Maybe having some Cherokee in me is the reason that I have long and nice hair. I never met my great great grandmother, but I heard that she was an amazing woman. I wish that I got …show more content…
However, she did say that my father is half Portuguese, so that makes me part Portuguese. When most people say that they are Spanish, Asian, or Portuguese, you would expect them to know how to speak the language a little bit. I think that it is funny when my mother says that he doesn’t know how to speak Portuguese in the slightest. The closest it is from my family speaking a foreign language is my three years taking Spanish in school. Even then, I still barely know how speak the language. My father’s side of the family lives in Cincinnati, so I could ask them myself because I don’t have their number. I only met them twice before as far as I