I’m Indian and British-Pakistani from Azad Kashmir, Pakistan.
My fourth great-grandfather’s name was Vival Townes; Vival is a Sanskrit word that translates to “turn away”.
Vival is often misspelled as Vinal or Vivle by the AI that Ancestry uses to scrape census records.
My 1st cousin, 3 generations removed, Harold Morris Jefferson, received Northern Indian & Pakistani as a result on his 23andMe DNA results.
We’re both Thomas Jefferson’s grandsons. There’s talk of Thomas being both Egyptian, and a Sephardic Jew by way of Italy, France and Portugal. Moreover, his y-chromosome is Canaanite in origin, despite his family immigrating from England.
Harold shows markers of having Spanish and Portuguese DNA. I have Egyptian markers. And Thomas had an Egyptian corner at his home in Monticello.
My possible 12th great-grandmother, born in 1600 in Whalley, Lancashire, England, Sara Gale Bond was buried on 3 April 1651 in Azad Kashmir, Pakistan.
My ancestors were the indigenous (zambo, mestizo) and mulatto children of white men. So, my connection to Sara hinges on my Colored third great-grandmother Rachel Johnson being the bastard of the Rappahannock family of William F. Johnson.
Due to Rachel Johnson being descended from enslaved persons, there are no documents — that I could find — available to prove a connection other than their surnames matching in a remote, unincorporated community in Virginia called Powhatan.
Sarah Gale Bond’s biography can be found here: https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/LT8N-KZN/sara-gale-bond-1600-1651
