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This is an AncestryDNA ethnicity estimate chart for an individual named Carter. At the top, a world map highlights regions with colored outlines corresponding to ancestral origins. The primary ancestry regions are located in West and Central Africa, with additional regions in Europe and other parts of the world.
The ethnicity breakdown lists 17 regions with associated percentages:
- Cameroon/Congo: 18% (yellow)
- Benin/Togo: 17% (light green)
- Ivory Coast/Ghana: 17% (teal green)
- Europe West: 16% (blue)
- Ireland/Scotland/Wales: 13% (light blue)
- Great Britain: 7% (dark blue)
- Nigeria: 4% (purple)
- Senegal: 3% (orange)
- Mali: 1% (red)
- Scandinavia: <1% (light teal)
- Native American: <1% (pink)
- Africa South-Central Hunter-Gatherers: <1% (light green)
- Africa Southeastern Bantu: <1% (green-blue)
- Iberian Peninsula: <1% (gray-blue)
- Asia Central: <1% (light purple)
The pie chart in the upper left summarizes the ethnicity regions with corresponding segment colors. The large green and gold segments indicate the strongest ancestral ties to regions in Africa. No specific migration route is listed below the ethnicity summary.
Carter Wilson was born in Detroit, Michigan, on May 31, 1950, with the name Carter Andrew Smith. Just after his birth, his mother divorced his biological father, Benjamin Koyton. Carter Smith's name was legally changed to Carter Wilson in 1963, after he was adopted by his stepfather, Julian Bryce Wilson. Carter grew up in a family of educators. His mother, Beulah Smith Wilson was a teacher at St. Philip's Lutheran School. His grandfather, Cornelius Smith and his step-grandfather, Frank Bryce Wilson, were also educators. Carter Wilson graduated from high school in 1968. He earned his B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Wayne State University, and over twenty years at the University of Toledo. In 2013, he was hired by Northern Michigan University as a professor and department head of the Department of Political Science and Public Administration.
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Ancestral Chart Details
This is a four-generation ancestral chart centered on Carter A. Wilson, who was born on May 31, 1950, in Detroit, Michigan, and married Khadijah F. Rasheed on May 18, 2013, in Toledo, Ohio. The chart traces Carter’s lineage back through both paternal and maternal lines.
Parents:
- Beulah D. Smith Wilson – Born January 17, 1928, in Detroit, MI.
- Benjamin Koyton – Born December 19, 1924, in Alabama; died November 26, 2008, in Detroit, MI.
Maternal Grandparents:
- Sally Moton – Born in 1909 in Alabama.
- Cornelius Smith – Born in Alabama; no additional data listed.
Paternal Grandparents:
- Pascal Koyton – Born December 7, 1888, in Dallas, AL; married on October 14, 1913; died September 1968 in Detroit, MI.
- Mary Myers – Born July 1, 1893, in Alabama; died February 1986 in Detroit, MI.
Paternal Great-Grandparents (via Pascal Koyton):
- Henry Koyton – Born May 1829 in South Carolina; died 1918 in Dallas, AL.
- Georgia Reid – Born December 1848 in Mississippi.
Other fields for the great-grandparents on the maternal side and some paternal lines are blank. The chart includes several locations in Alabama, South Carolina, Mississippi, and Detroit, reflecting migration patterns within the U.S.
