Looking into shared matches with roots in Bainet on My Heritage has been interesting, too. What became immediately apparent when looking at surnames is the shared ancestry of multiple families with roots in the valley sections of Bainet and Jacmel. This is no surprise, but it was intriguing to see how we are related to different people with the last common ancestors living in the 1700s or 1800s. For instance, our parent, born in Bainet, has a match with a surname common in the valley section of Bainet. Moreover, they share 34.9 cM of DNA on a segment of the fifth chromosome assigned to "Spain" and "Western Bantu" peoples. The very same segment overlaps with shared DNA with another person from Bainet, who also has roots in the valley section of Bainet.
Our Haitian parent likewise matches a number of other people through shared European ancestry classified as "Spain" by Ancestry. Indeed, that shared segment connects myself, our parent, and 5 others with roots in Bainet. However, this shared segment of common European ancestry is usually rather small, ranging from 12.3 cM to 18.5 cM. Looking at the surnames in posted genealogies, they all point to families from the valley who must descend from free people of color in the 1700s. Surnames like Boursiquot, Payen, and Dure support this. Naturally, on 23andme, this segment is more correctly identified as "French & German" rather than Spain. Similarly, a shared match with roots in Bainet has a segment of shared DNA on Chromosome 20 that is identified as "French & German" on 23andme instead of the "Spain" category used by Ancestry.
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