part of me is fine with just being given regions where my people were generally from *to start*, and also to see if there's any surprises (although their probably won't be.) But maybe I need to rethink that.

Ancestry gets *a little* more specific than just a general "Subsaharan", at least when it comes to West Africa. So it wasn't them, at least not recently.


>the other thing is the black companies are matching to tribes,
>not countries
>
>some pros and cons to each i guess.
>but the country match is to a place that didnt even exist 100
>hundred years ago, much less during middle passage
>
>so being "40% nigerian" when nigeria has dozens of tribes and
>the tribes crossed current national borders
>is kinda like if your match was 40% american. beyond the
>surface its not saying a whole lot
>
>but blk ppl collectively know like 5% of our background so
>they making money selling us another 6%
>
>a friend, not sure what company he used but his report just
>said '85% subsaharan'. lol wtf
>
>also some ppl get into finding their haplogroup and
>researching that, etc
>
>
>i wanna do it but i dont wanna do it.
>or send samples to all the companies and see what they say
>when results dont match
>
>