Ancestry has released an update for their Communities in the Caribbean.
I received an email telling me that I had two new Communities.
As we add people to our database and keep developing the science behind AncestryDNAⓇ, we’re able to continue adding new communities to provide more insight into your family story.
With more communities from African American Communities and Afro- Caribbean Communities, you could uncover new connections between your family story and other parts of the world.
Email from Ancestry
I couldn’t really tell you what they added because I haven’t been keeping an eye on the different communities just the two I had. They did remove the Afro-Bahamians and Afro-Bermudians which didn’t apply to my family history.
I really didn’t notice what was updated at first but then I realized, they added Dominica.
I was curious so I went through the feature where you can compare Communities with your DNA Relatives and saw that they also added Virgin Islands but I didn’t receive it. Which makes no sense to me as my father and his maternal line is from the Virgin Islands and has been for generations. I myself was born in the Virgin Islands and most of my DNA Relatives are from the Virgin Islands and have family still there.
It is very similar to 23andme not assigning Saint Barthélémy to either my father, myself or our many cousins with ties to St. Barts.
I guess all I can do is wait for their next update and see if either my brother or myself gets assigned to the Virgin Islands Community.
Every year I get to experience another birthday I am awed at the fact that at 16 I never expected to live to see 20 and here I am 36, a wife and a mother. I never really take notice or consider it but I am highly blessed and fortunate to have made it out of those dark days and experienced so many things that seem fantastical.
My birthdays are never really good days for me, I’ve spent so many years depressed and feeling ignored on a day others are celebrated. I don’t always get a cake or gifts, but if I get birthday greetings it always feels like an obligation, if people didn’t know my birthday they absolutely wouldn’t go out of their way to say Happy Birthday, I just wanted to feel special, for someone to be happy that on this day I was born. It seems egotistical but who doesn’t want to feel like they matter?
I could write for hours about the birthdays I felt like the dirt on the floor but I want to talk about this one, this birthday that I felt so happy for the first time in a very long time.
What made this birthday so different?
Well, I got to talk to my mother, I know you probably don’t understand why this has such an impact on me but my mother is my everything, and living in different countries with a time zone difference means that we don’t always get to talk, sometimes several months pass before I hear from her and it wasn’t like I could call her, she was always busy, didn’t have a smartphone just a basic flip phone and I didn’t have a long-distance calling phone plan. So just the fact that I got to talk to her on my birthday made me very happy.
I was expecting to stay home and do nothing, you know the same thing we did every year since I don’t even remember but my husband asked if I wanted to go out and I said yes, so we went out as a family for my birthday. We went to a restaurant I’d never been to before and I had a meal I’d never had before, it was nice all I really ever want is to do things as a family and have good memories. I know it’s directly related to how I grew up, we didn’t really do things as a family and I want different for my children.
Here’s my birthday meal, a beef tataki, I also had a mojito, I was feeling adventurous knowing that I would be drunk before I even finished that one glass.
I took some pictures of the children but none of me, not at the dinner anyway, I came home in such a good mood, this had already been one of the best days I’ve had for the year but it was about to get even better.
My husband gave me my birthday present, a bottle of my favorite perfume. L’Interdit Rouge by Givenchy, I was lucky to receive samples before and fell in love with the scent but as you guys know those perfumes are not cheap and I just kept finding reasons why I didn’t have the funds to buy it even though I loved it. I even told my husband he could buy the cheapest smallest bottle and I would be fine with it but he got me a 50ml bottle and it means so much to me. It’s not so much the perfume but the thought behind it, the knowledge that he could have gotten the cheapest option but he got me a bigger bottle because he knew I loved it. I immediately pushed aside my Alien Goddess Intense perfume that I wore every day to put my L’Interdit Rouge at the very front of my shelf so it would be the first perfume I reach for and the first anyone would see.
Crucianize 