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    Do a DNA test to 'find out my roots'? That's complicated for a black woman like me | Derecka Purnell

    I’ll never use a service like AncestryDNA or 23andMe. Here’s why
    by Derecka Purnell Feb 24, 2020 3 minutes
    ‘Contrary to these ancestry trees, DNA ancestry tests can be problematic.’- Photograph: Cultura/REX/Shutterstock

    When my cab driver learned that I was rushing to the airport for a flight to Mauritius, he asked whether I knew where I really came from. I did. It was St Louis, Missouri. I shared that some black Americans look to Africa to find a sense of identity and homeland. Not me.

    During the transatlantic slave trade, Europeans kidnapped millions of people from different parts of African for chattel slavery in the Americas. One to five million Africans died during the

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