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MPACT: Josina Calliste says it was hard to connect to her Grenadian roots
Stephen Ismail Thomas, from Hackney in east London, said that he now feels more complete since finding out more about his lineage after a holiday to Ghana. He then took an ancestry test to dig deeper into his family tree.: “I got quite upset when I went to Elmina and Cape Coast Castles, even before I got in, it felt like I had been there before.
Five per cent of his results pointed to indigenous Caribbean ancestry, which he believes is from his great-great grandmother who was a Carib Indian from St Vincent. Josina Calliste is mixed-race and was born to a white mother with Irish, English and Scottish heritage and a black father from Grenada. , her family history on her mother’s side was “well documented” but she struggled to find out about her father’s side, as much of it was passed on through “oral history and traditions.”
“But my family don’t live in Grenada anymore and I only have very distant relatives, so it is hard to connect.”
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