LIJSBETH ARABUS PRINCESS VAN ABYSSINIA and her sister CORNELIA

Wow! Fascinating stuff.

I'm adding her & you to the http://www.geni.com/projects/South-African-mtDNA-Female-Progenitors... project

Private User adding her haplogroup to the Curator Note usurped you as Curator. Please revert, doll. :-)

Lijsbeth Arabus, SM/PROG

My 8x G Grandmother but please hold onto Curatorship Sharon

My 10th :-)

wow - amazing .. she is my 9th great grandmother on dad side .. I just love to see how the fact comes from all over and the picture of yesterday be more clear ... thank you -

Mine as well - 8th.

Lijsbeth Arabus, SM/PROG is your 8th great grandmother.
You → Pieter Frederick Ernst Marais, b2c1d6e5f2g7h7i12
your father → show 7 relatives → Lijsbeth Sanders, SM
her mother → Lijsbeth Arabus, SM/PROG her mother

My 9th... I have changed her place of birth from Madagascar to Abyssinia

Ok June sorry if there is usurpation I did what I thought was allright.

Lijsbeth Arabus, SM/PROG Barbara as far as I know L3b is most common in West Africa and L3 is most common in East Africa.

Hi Veronica you are right L3b is found in West Africa but also in East.
Keep in mind that slaves came also from the West and central west Africa..Woman slaves were used you know how. Unfortunatly we don't know much of the slaves history if nothing at all !! All we can do is make hypothetic guesses.

Based on the travels of Gilles de la Roche-Saint-André. We have a number of options for the origins of Lijsbeth.

1) From the Arab dhow that was captured off the Horn of Africa in August 1656.

2) Socotra

3) St. Mary's island in Madagascar

4) Fort-Dauphin, Madagascar (today called Tôlanaro.)

Lijsbeth is from Abyssinia her haplogroup is L3b which is from
there and a black woman. So I think she was taken in slavery by the Arabs
and on route to be sold in a slave market. Read the story of Abyssinia in 1656 on Wikipedia. Cheers Barbara.

My 9 gggm through my 3 gggm Johanna Catharina Magdalene Lucas.All women up to Lysbeth