Good job with the latest "Communities" update, Ancestry!

I could describe how closely the latest Ancestry "Communities" update mirrors my father's deep Eastern Shore / Chesapeake Bay / Delmarva origins (through his Brown, Disharoon, Bounds, Ball, and related ancestors) and my mother's earliest Northeastern / Atlantic Canada roots represented by her wide-ranging Acadian-Amerindian (including Genevieve Hebert, Michel Hebert, Marguerite Gautreau, and Angelique David) and East Coast Beville families.

Even better, by using Ancestry's "DNA compare" feature, I could describe how  easy it is to find DNA COUSINS who share the same "Communities," as well as long-ago and recent common ancestors!

So, how about this: Rather than talking about the latest Ancestry "Communities" update, and how well Ancestry's maps pinpoint the geographic locations of my mom's and my dad's earliest and recent ancestors, I'll simply share an image snip or two from my latest Ancestry communities report, and say, "Spot On!"

After all, isn't it true, that "a picture is worth 1000 words?"

Happy to receive so many nice emails and kind words from individuals who are basing their 2021 summer travel plans to Maryland on information they have learned from the Acadians Were Here website.  It is great to be able to enjoy some of the most picturesque, outdoor locations in the State of Maryland while walking the paths of Acadian exiles who were deported to Maryland by the British, in 1755.  Click the image below to visit the Acadianswerehere.org website and learn more about how to plan your next travel by ancestry trip -- to Maryland! And don't forget to visit the Acadians in Maryland sign in Princess Anne when you do!

Well, let's see. I knew about my Native American and my European ancestry -- and now, my latest, revised, Ancestry report tells me about my "Mali" heritage out of Africa too! DNA testing frees the history we carry within ourselves!

From Ancestry: "Primarily located in: Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Sierra Leone.
About this Region: Mali’s modern boundaries were drawn in 1890, when French Sudan was created, and united two very different regions: the Sudanian savannas in the south and the Sahara Desert to the north. These man-made borders make our Mali region a mix of diverse peoples, but geography has always played a key role in Mali’s history and people. The savannas at the edge of the desert made the area a natural center for trans-Saharan trade, which connected western Africa with Europe and Asia in precolonial times. For centuries, Mali was a fabled land of gold, scholarship and empires."

Ancestry always makes our family origins sound so romantic -- when in fact, my African ancestry came into my family lines through the slave trade as it took place in Colonial Maryland.

See also:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_slavery_in_Maryland"

References:
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Ancestry.com