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They have a thousand years of cells connecting them to other Africans.
OK... You are totally right.. so the shared genes is according to you making some African American parents give their children -esha names that are "sweetly African sounding"
What else can I say but I guess we humans are all chimpanzees.. after all we share common genes from millions of years ago according to the quote from the national history museum below
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Human and chimp DNA is so similar because the two species are so closely related. Humans, chimps and bonobos descended from a single ancestor species that lived six or seven million years ago. As humans and chimps gradually evolved from a common ancestor, their DNA, passed from generation to generation, changed too.
I had a great Aunt Fannie, her real name was Crucifies, the feminine for Crucifix in Italian. Her parents were from Sicily.
I had another great aunt who went by Jennie, her real name was Giovaninna, I think similar to Joanne. Her parents came from the Naples area.
In Italian American families of NYC, everyone had nicknames
Same with the Dutch. My great-grandmother was Hendrika, or the nickname for that, which was Henje. In the US she became Henrietta. But then...my grandmother was named Anna Petronilla. She was called Nellie. She had a younger sister who was named Henrietta for the mother, but she was "Aunt Anna". My Uncle Whitey's real name was Albert (Whitey because of the white-blond hair.)
A lot of them Americanized their names. Johannes, Hendrika's husband, has "John" on his gravestone. My mother's name is Charlotte, as was her aunt, as was her grandmother, as was her great-grandmother, who came to the US as Gertje and somehow translated that to Charlotte. Pietje, a Dutch female form of Piet/Peter, became Pearl.
My sister the family genealogist had a party untangling all those names, but there is actually a system of who the first, second, third, etc., baby got named after. So you gave the second daughter the paternal grandmother's name, but then you called her whatever you really wanted the name to be. This could get interrupted if a previous child had died, so therefore, I had an Uncle Marinus named for the sister Maria (a/k/a Mimi) who died before he was born.
I didn't say they sounded sweetly African I was just glad that something distinct has sprung amongst only people of African descent in The US.
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OK... You are totally right.. so the shared genes is according to you making some African American parents give their children -esha names that are "sweetly African sounding"
What else can I say but I guess we humans are all chimpanzees.. after all we share common genes from millions of years ago according to the quote from the national history museum below
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