A woman's DNA test results reveal a surprising truth about her ancestry, challenging her long-held beliefs about her family history.
Friday morning began at the Los Angeles International Airport. I was preparing to board my flight to go visit my father in Seattle. This would also be the first time that my partner of three years would meet my dad. I was nervous and excited, but both feelings would be replaced by something entirely different just moments later. I heard a chime on my phone and looked down to see an email from Ancestry .com. My fingers flew to open the email.
I had been waiting two painfully long months for the results of my DNA test. While on my mother’s side I knew I was thoroughly European, I felt there was something missing from my paternal genealogy. I had been waiting for this test only a few months, but this was a mystery I’d wanted to solve my whole life. As with many families in the Southern U.S. with ancestry originating in the slave trade, I was eager to see where my ancestors had migrated from on the West Coast of Africa. While there were many unknowns that I was eager to uncover through my DNA, one thing I was certain of; I was Puerto Rican. My name was CubaI opened my results right as pre-boarding was called, scanning the percentage breakdowns below the multicolored world map. Cameroonian. Congolese. A lot more than I was expecting of them. British. Scottish. A lot more of that, too. My partner was the first to call it out. “There’s no Spanish. No Taino.” I didn’t realize what she was saying. I checked the map again. None of those fun little migratory circles even touched Spain or the Caribbean. I had my grandfather’s birth certificate. There was no doubt that Luis Jimenez-Cruz was born in Arecibo, Puerto Rico. A military man who was assassinated in Panama during the Martyr’s Day riots and buried in Arlington cemetery. His records were everywhere. My father’s were not. Then and there it clicked that Luis couldn’t be my grandfather. I triple-checked to make sure my father’s maternal ancestry was in line with my own. Ye
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