[Brown Deer]

and how is John Punch related to Joseph Kearney?

“A careful consideration of the evidence convinces me that the Y-DNA evidence of African origin is indisputable,” said Elizabeth Shown Mills...

So, what you said about him being Irish is bogus?

but of course, once again, you have absolutely nothing that links him to this person either.

Two scholars dispute assertions that a 17th-century forebear was one of the first documented slaves.

As professors of history and African-American studies at Boston University, we have been unraveling the story of the first African arrivals in Virginia over the past decade, and despite suggestions to the contrary in the New York Times article, we can assert that Africans were not indentured servants as Europeans were....

The Times article also mentioned that Punch had a DNA haplogroup common in the Cameroon. We consider this extremely unlikely. Our research shows clearly that the overwhelming majority of Africans brought to America on Portuguese ships before 1640 were enslaved in Angola. At that time, there was no slave trade at all from Cameroon.

John Punch, therefore, was likely an Angolan, not a Cameroonian.

[Fred Nerks]

Seems the source of all the BS is Henry Louis Gates who has turned ancestral research into a form of entertainment.

FINDING YOUR ROOTS WITH HENRY LOUIS GATES