Two Maryland Church Congregations Trace their African Ancestry through DNA

Ebenezer AME and Mount Ennon Baptist set aside four church calendar days to participate in this partnership with African Ancestry. The kickoff event was an African roots reveal of the pastors and first ladies to generate interest from their congregations. Next, there was a day designated for a workshop called “Where Are You From?” that was conducted, where people learned more about the company African Ancestry and about the process determining their roots. There was a Web site page created on the African Ancestry site for each church so members could reserve a paternal and/or maternal ancestry test to be taken on the scheduled community testing day.

On the designated Community Testing Day, each person picked up their reserved kit and was given instructions by the African Ancestry staff on how to conduct the DNA test using a painless oral swab to retrieve a DNA sample.

Eight weeks from the testing day a designated reveal day was set to culminate and celebrate the African root results. On the reveal day, Paige called the names of individual groups to stand and then announced the African country the group shared. Paige pointed out interesting facts about the countries and shared connections of celebrities and leaders who had the same ancestry results. Each person received their individual results package including a letter stating their African county, specific tribe and other interesting documentation such as a membership to the large online African Ancestry community.

To find out more information about partnering your church or group with African Ancestry or to obtain an ancestry test kit online you can go to www.africanancestry.com.

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