27
Jan
Win FREE African Ancestry Test Kits And Prizes During Black History Month!
In 2010, African Ancestry is focused on connecting with our African Ancestry family, the black community and the continent of Africa in even more meaningful ways!
To get the fun started and celebrate the first Black History Month of the new decade, African Ancestry is offering ways to WIN FREE test kits and prizes—all month long!
WIN A FREE TEST KIT ON OUR BLOG (4 chances to win)!
Each week in February, we’ll post a new question here on the African Ancestry blog about ancestry and heritage. The most thoughtful answer wins a free MatriClan or PatriClan test kit! A new question will be posted every Monday starting on February 1st.
All winners will be selected by President, Gina Paige and Scientific Director, Dr. Rick Kittles, and announced the Friday following the last day of the contest.
Week 4 Question now posted! Answer it here for your chance to win!
WIN GREAT PRIZES ON FACEBOOK AND TWITTER!
Throughout February, we’ll be randomly posting quiz questions about African American and African history on our Facebook and Twitter pages. The first person to answer the question correctly wins prizes like PBS’ African American Lives DVD, The Black Book 35th Anniversary Edition, African Ancestry gift certificates and more.
We’ll keep you posted about our blog contest on Facebook and Twitter too, so add us today!
Sign up for our mailing list throughout February and you’ll also be entered to win a free MatriClan or PatriClan test kit!
SPECIAL BLACK HISTORY MONTH PRICING: $275 per kit
Plus, we’ve discounted all African Ancestry MatriClan and PatriClan test kits down to $275 throughout February. You save $75! Order your test starting Monday at shop.africanancestry.com.
See Black History Month Sweepstakes Terms and Conditions.
Social comments and analytics for this post…
This post was mentioned on Twitter by geneabloggers: Win FREE African Ancestry Test Kits And Prizes During Black History Month! http://bit.ly/9DvW0T #genealogy…
Knowing my roots shapes my identity because it fills in the gaps. Just like a person who is adopted desires to know about where they came from, I too desire to know where I am from. My husband was born and raised in Liberia, he can trace his family back to Nigeria and he knows the clan, I am envious because he can connect his familial ties. I would like to be able to present the rest of my family with this knowledge so that they too will know their roots and maybe we can dig more to find more. I would like this to be a steeping stone to more knowledge because knowledge truly is power.
Knowing my roots shapes my identity because only living with my father since i was 6(im 19 now) in a way it would bring me and my mother closer. My mother hasnt been in my life that much and i really dont know much about her. Also Whenever i ask my father where we are from he always says “New York” when i say thats not what i mean he says “there is no possible way to know where in Africa we are from.” I want to show him that it is possible. That there is a way.
Finding out the family history would answer questions that I have had for years. Being over sixty I grew up in a household of two parents where a child didn’t ask questions(you were being grown).Well just two years ago my father and I was sitting around the kitchen table, while mother was in hospital. I begin to ask questions my father was excited to tell me stories of his childhood and young adult life.My mother has many secrets that I would like to learn about her side of the family.When as a child I would ask
the older generation questions and received some answers and other time I would not.
Kowing your roots is everything and its a gift we have DNA test to show where we
come from in africa because slavery took away our heritage and our culture and
our identity and we need to reunite as africans and celebrate our heritage that our
ancestors celebrated for they had great strenghth survived through hard times.
And I have always had that longing where I come from and I think every body has
that longing its like a set of twins that has been seperated at birth and then one day
they finally reunite.
I feel that it is important to know where you come from to have a foundation to build on in helping our families understand our culture better and to hopefully travel to the area and learn our cultures. I am trying to research my own family genealogy and winning would be a great gift to my parents.
I think it is vital to know who you are to be able to be “fully you.” Many people who don’t know their heritage feel somehow left out. I know when I discovered my own Hispanic heritage, it was truly life-changing. My husband is African American/Native American. We have three daughters. I would love to give him such an opportunity to determine his roots, and provide him with information that will carry down through our daughters, grandchildren, and beyond.
It is critical for me to know my roots and where I come, because this knowledge helps me to embrace my true identity and walk in my destiny. For a walk toward in destiny, I must know, accept and embrace all that I am, all that my family is, all that my community was and presently is. I must take this knowledge of my roots and heritage left for me and be true to me and those ancestors that still dwell in me. Because of this knowledge of survival, endurance, faith, love and the terrifying moments of my family’s history, a mantle of responsibility has been placed on my shoulders. It gives me a greater sense of responsiblity, that it is just not enough to “know” but now I must “do”. Do something for the progress of family, for the progress of my community, for the progress of my race and for the progress of my country. Duty calls in my knowledge of my roots. “To whom much is given, much is required,” is not only true with the material things of life, but with the knowledge of who I am. Roots carry vitamins of knowledge. It is in my digging out the knowledge of the root, examining the root and becoming one with the root, that I can truly know, embrace and accept who I truly am.
I really hope I can win a FREE African Ancestry Test Kit during this Black Emphasis Month! Doing so would make it possible for me to continue collecting data regarding my family’s history that I can then pass down to my children. To quote from Alex Haley, “In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage, to know who we are and where we came from.” I have this hunger and this year I hope to be fed by obtaining the MatriClan test kit which will bring me closer to KNOWING.
D. Washington
I was online looking for DNA kits and thought why not look in an African-American area of expertise. Winning this Patriclan kit would be excellent because my mother, aunts and uncles are no longer alive. My father is the only near relative left and he is in a nursing home. I would love to know where my family history starts. I have been in search of the truth since I was a child. Knowing would allow me to reach and teach the youth in my family, in my community. Knowledge is key to becoming the whole spiritual being that this journey in life leads us to.
I would like a dna kit to find out about where i came from, my mother passed away on mothe r ‘s day 2009 and my father passed away in 2000. I have one son and would very much like to have this information to pass on to him. thank you. dianne dodson coleman
To receive an African Ancestry Test Kits and Prizes during Black History Month would be an honor and a blessed continuation of our search to reunite with our rich African Heritage. Though various genealogical records are at our disposal to assistant with some closure from American Slavery and the Atlantic Slave Trade, none can compare to the DNA services offered by African Ancestry which has allowed the incubated off-springs of our ancestors (us) to bring a more definitive closure culturally, spiritually, historically and individually from the psychological impact that has affected all African Americans to this day. My pursuit to ride the new underground railroad of the twenty first century with African Ancestry is inevitable, I must know. Through the power of our mother’s mitochondria may the rememberance of our ancestors drum beat always continue to resonant within our Melaninated DNA, “Know Thy Self”. Thank You and Happy Black History Month AfricanAncestry.com.
my name is Libby clarke…and i am an aboriginal person and i believe that my great grandfather is african American…and came over here in Australia about 1880′s but we feel he may of gave him self another name his name is William Smith Rawlings….I would of loved to know who his mother and father is and if he had brothers and sisters…i would not know and he came over on a boat ship…with out know one known about him been on the boat really….that is all for now i do hope you will write soon… from elizabeth ” Libby ” Clarke…..
Beautiful photos! I love the post so much! xoxo
OK nice to see- interesting blogs are always helpful! See yas.
OK nice to see- new blogs are always welcome! Blessings.
Stunning images! I love the post so much!
hello there and thanks in your info ? I have certainly picked up something new from right here. I did on the other hand experience some technical issues the use of this website, since I skilled to reload the website many instances prior to I could get it to load properly. I had been wondering in case your hosting is OK? Not that I’m complaining, however sluggish loading cases times will very frequently impact your placement in google and could damage your high-quality score if advertising and marketing with Adwords. Anyway I’m including this RSS to my e-mail and could look out for a lot extra of your respective exciting content. Ensure that you replace this again very soon..