aggie-master said:aggieforester05 said:Yeah, she grew up in Veracruz, Mexico, so that mixture makes a lot of sense based on the history of the area.aggie-master said:aggieforester05 said:
I've been told my whole life that my great grandmother was half cherokee indian. My DNA tests showed I was 69% Irish/Scottish, and 31% English/Northern European. So pretty much as honky as you can get. I'm not sure I believe it, because I recall being shown a picture of my great grandmother when I was young and she definitely looked native American from what I remember. It did correctly identify one of my second cousins as my second cousin, but that was the only family member I recognized.
My wife was 81% native american, 6% African, and the rest
was a mixture of Irish/Scottish, Italian, and Spanish.
Is your wife Mexican? I'm just wondering if that is the DNA profile of someone that claims to be Mexican or some other latin country or native american.
I know someone that had the same story where the great grandma was full blooded cherokee and came back 0% Native and all European. This guy is a really dark white guy so I wonder if someone assumed it and passed it along as the truth or if the test is just wrong.
That's what I'm wondering as well, because it's been talked about in my family since I was a child. The picture I saw looked like an elderly native American woman. I need to try to see if one of my cousins still has the pic.
It's crazy how Mexican DNA is all over the place. My dad did it and came back with the same places as your wife but the percentages were a lot different and he was 75% Euro and the rest native and a tiny bit African.
I wonder if the African in Mexicans comes from escaped slaves or if the people that left southern Spain already had it in them.
Most Mexicans are a sliding percentage scale between European and native. Some have blonde hair and blue eyes and others look very native in appearance. Just look at the history of Mexico, and most of Latin America and it's easy to see. As far as the African DNA, there were some slaves imported to Mexico, so my guess is that is where it comes from. A lot depends on where in Africa his DNA come from though. My ancestry results showed me as 4% African from the Cameroon area. The Moors who invaded Spain were not Sub-Saharan genetically. If it's showing sub Saharan DNA, then my guess would be intermixture with slaves or former slaves in the new world.