Old RV Ag said:

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aggie-master said:

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aggieforester05 said:

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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.

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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.

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This is what is always so full of it. I've heard so many people claim to have Native American blood and they ALWAYS say they're part Cherokee. Never part Cheyenne, never part Mohawk, never part Navajo, etc. I know the history of the Cherokee so there may have been slight more inclination for mixing with whites, but seriously? Only Cherokee? I think everyone just likes saying Cherokee.

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I think as DNA tests become more popular and increase in sales, dream catcher's sales will decrease.

The dude is 37, has always lived with his mom, and now has questions for her? He has no right to question what she keeps in her own damn freezer. She has neither the time nor the inclination to explain herself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very shelter that she provides and then questions the manner in which she provides it. She would probably rather he just said "thank you, " and went on his way. Otherwise, he should pick his ass up and get a job. Either way, even if she were still alive, she probably wouldn't give a damn what he thinks he is entitled to.

Charpie said:

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Surprised that I'm mostly Spanish. I thought it would be something like a 50/50 split. Nope. 60/30 with the rest being French, Irish and Ashkenazi Jew.

For those of you disappointed about the whole Native American thing, remember that lots of whites wound up becoming part of various Indian tribes. I know. I watched Outlander.

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Sweetheart, you're still missing 10% - drum roll......

Old RV Ag said:

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aggie-master said:

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aggieforester05 said:

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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.

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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.

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This is what is always so full of it. I've heard so many people claim to have Native American blood and they ALWAYS say they're part Cherokee. Never part Cheyenne, never part Mohawk, never part Navajo, etc. I know the history of the Cherokee so there may have been slight more inclination for mixing with whites, but seriously? Only Cherokee? I think everyone just likes saying Cherokee.

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There is some oral history in our family of an American Indian in our ancestry, but we can't prove it. Besides, I don't want to be Cherokee. I want to be whatever tribe where the casinos pay out the most to its members. That's the tribe I want to belong to.

It is a very long story so I will just go with the Cliff's Notes:

Took DNA test
Got 3 new half siblings and a new father
Yay me!

Gyrene said:

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It is a very long story so I will just go with the Cliff's Notes:

Took DNA test
Got 3 new half siblings and a new father
Yay me!

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Whoa. You serious?

Gyrene said:

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It is a very long story so I will just go with the Cliff's Notes:

Took DNA test
Got 3 new half siblings and a new father
Yay me!

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Long version, pllease.

Long(er) version:

In 2017, I took the ancestry dna test. My mother and siblings had already taken it. When I got my results back, It showed my mother, my sister, my half sister, my mother's siblings, etc. There was a mystery guest that showed to be the same level of relation to me as my half sister. I was a bit confused by it but had a lot of other stuff going on and didn't give too much thought to it. Just thought maybe it was some kind of mistake.

Later that year, my dad had a spinal cord stroke that left him paralyzed and he was declining very quickly due to the stroke and heart failure. He wanted to do a DNA test as well so I got one for him. My dad was not a tech savvy guy so I had to create an email for him to sign up for an ancestry account. So the results of his test come back while I am sitting in the hospital with him. I walk him through his DNA makeup and all that good stuff. Then I get to the DNA matches part. I scroll down and I see that I am not on his list of matches. Nor is my sister. I make an excuse to change the subject and I don't mention anything to him about it. As I leave the hospital, I call my mother and ask her if there is something she needs to tell me. She asks what I mean and I tell her about getting his DNA results back. She goes completely silent. After a very long pause she asks me to come by the house so she can talk to me. You can imagine the things going through my head during the 45 minute drive to her house. When I get there she has a completely terrified look on her face. She proceeds to tell me that my sister and I were both conceived via artificial insemination. She and I are full sibling matches so we know it was the same donor. I then think about the mystery guest that is the same relation as my half sister. I message her and she messages me back. Same story, her and her brother were conceived through artificial insemination using the same donor. She and her brother are my half siblings. A few days later another mystery guest pops up in my DNA match list. Another half brother. My sister is the oldest (born in 1972). My two half brothers and I were all born in 1974 and my half sister was born in 1977. So it was the same donor in west Texas over a 5 year period. You would think we could track that down pretty easily, but to this point we haven't solved the mystery of who the donor is.

My sister refuses to accept the fact. The rest of us all talk to each other and have met. One of the half brothers lives in the same area as me and we met for lunch not long after we found out. There is zero doubt that we are brothers. Same beard, hair, etc.

That is the truncated long version.

Gyrene said:

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Long(er) version:

In 2017, I took the ancestry dna test. My mother and siblings had already taken it. When I got my results back, It showed my mother, my sister, my half sister, my mother's siblings, etc. There was a mystery guest that showed to be the same level of relation to me as my half sister. I was a bit confused by it but had a lot of other stuff going on and didn't give too much thought to it. Just thought maybe it was some kind of mistake.

Later that year, my dad had a spinal cord stroke that left him paralyzed and he was declining very quickly due to the stroke and heart failure. He wanted to do a DNA test as well so I got one for him. My dad was not a tech savvy guy so I had to create an email for him to sign up for an ancestry account. So the results of his test come back while I am sitting in the hospital with him. I walk him through his DNA makeup and all that good stuff. Then I get to the DNA matches part. I scroll down and I see that I am not on his list of matches. Nor is my sister. I make an excuse to change the subject and I don't mention anything to him about it. As I leave the hospital, I call my mother and ask her if there is something she needs to tell me. She asks what I mean and I tell her about getting his DNA results back. She goes completely silent. After a very long pause she asks me to come by the house so she can talk to me. You can imagine the things going through my head during the 45 minute drive to her house. When I get there she has a completely terrified look on her face. She proceeds to tell me that my sister and I were both conceived via artificial insemination. She and I are full sibling matches so we know it was the same donor. I then think about the mystery guest that is the same relation as my half sister. I message her and she messages me back. Same story, her and her brother were conceived through artificial insemination using the same donor. She and her brother are my half siblings. A few days later another mystery guest pops up in my DNA match list. Another half brother. My sister is the oldest (born in 1972). My two half brothers and I were all born in 1974 and my half sister was born in 1977. So it was the same donor in west Texas over a 5 year period. You would think we could track that down pretty easily, but to this point we haven't solved the mystery of who the donor is.

My sister refuses to accept the fact. The rest of us all talk to each other and have met. One of the half brothers lives in the same area as me and we met for lunch not long after we found out. There is zero doubt that we are brothers. Same beard, hair, etc.

That is the truncated long version.

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Boring. We were expecting that you mom was a hoar not that your dad couldn't get it done.

Duncan Idaho said:

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Gyrene said:

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Long(er) version:

In 2017, I took the ancestry dna test. My mother and siblings had already taken it. When I got my results back, It showed my mother, my sister, my half sister, my mother's siblings, etc. There was a mystery guest that showed to be the same level of relation to me as my half sister. I was a bit confused by it but had a lot of other stuff going on and didn't give too much thought to it. Just thought maybe it was some kind of mistake.

Later that year, my dad had a spinal cord stroke that left him paralyzed and he was declining very quickly due to the stroke and heart failure. He wanted to do a DNA test as well so I got one for him. My dad was not a tech savvy guy so I had to create an email for him to sign up for an ancestry account. So the results of his test come back while I am sitting in the hospital with him. I walk him through his DNA makeup and all that good stuff. Then I get to the DNA matches part. I scroll down and I see that I am not on his list of matches. Nor is my sister. I make an excuse to change the subject and I don't mention anything to him about it. As I leave the hospital, I call my mother and ask her if there is something she needs to tell me. She asks what I mean and I tell her about getting his DNA results back. She goes completely silent. After a very long pause she asks me to come by the house so she can talk to me. You can imagine the things going through my head during the 45 minute drive to her house. When I get there she has a completely terrified look on her face. She proceeds to tell me that my sister and I were both conceived via artificial insemination. She and I are full sibling matches so we know it was the same donor. I then think about the mystery guest that is the same relation as my half sister. I message her and she messages me back. Same story, her and her brother were conceived through artificial insemination using the same donor. She and her brother are my half siblings. A few days later another mystery guest pops up in my DNA match list. Another half brother. My sister is the oldest (born in 1972). My two half brothers and I were all born in 1974 and my half sister was born in 1977. So it was the same donor in west Texas over a 5 year period. You would think we could track that down pretty easily, but to this point we haven't solved the mystery of who the donor is.

My sister refuses to accept the fact. The rest of us all talk to each other and have met. One of the half brothers lives in the same area as me and we met for lunch not long after we found out. There is zero doubt that we are brothers. Same beard, hair, etc.

That is the truncated long version.

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Boring. We were expecting that you mom was a hoar not that your dad couldn't get it done.

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My father and his biological sister were adopted. Closed adoptions were common and as a 67 year old man he didn't really have a way of finding anything out. Through Ancestry.com we got hits of genetic first cousins that were not related to each other. We took those cousin's family trees and scoured public records (census, phone books) and found 2 individuals from each family tree that lived together in Abilene, TX when he was born. Th were married for 3 years, then divorced. He and his sister were given up from adoption around when the divorce occurred.

Through message exchange from a 1st cousin we confirmed that the woman who appeared to be his biological mother had indeed given up 2 kids for adoption, later remarried and had another kid and lived happily ever after. We were able to get photos of his biological parents and it was a dead ringer. His biological father died in the 60s, his mom in the early 2000s, and his half-sister passed a few years ago.

My father had always had a curiosity about his adoption and was thankful to at least know the who and what details and have closure on that open thread in his life.

I got to be the surprise in someone else's family tree. I always knew I was adopted, and I sort of knew the back story my adopted parents told me (dad banged wife's sister, and oops ...). I was told I was of Irish and Cherokee ancestry by my adopted parents, but just wanted to be sure. The test showed I was more English than Irish, so that was wrong. I'm about 18% Native American, but they can't really tell you anything more specific.

So I had a couple of close relatives show up maybe a year after I took the test. On a whim, I decided to reach out to a cousin after trying to do some digging on my own. The person I talked to put me in touch with an aunt, who I guess it the matriarch of the family. They definitely didn't know about me. We were able to piece together who my father probably was (he's deceased). He did have a Native American wife (also deceased), who had four sisters, so there's that. They are Cherokee. And I have found links to her family in other folks I'm matched with family trees. I never really planned to track all that down, but it was sort of interesting.

Rusty GCS said:

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I found out I'm just really white. I was something like 35% French, 31% English, 34% Irish. Not a trace of anything else

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There are BLM Collection Boxes in every community where you can turn yourself in.

jickyjack1 said:

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Rusty GCS said:

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I found out I'm just really white. I was something like 35% French, 31% English, 34% Irish. Not a trace of anything else

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There are BLM Collection Boxes in every community where you can turn yourself in.

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He shouldnt worry. He is 1/3 irish, so it isnt like he can consider himself to be a REAL white person.

Drifter. said:

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aggie-master said:

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aggieforester05 said:

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aggie-master said:

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aggieforester05 said:

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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.

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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.

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Yeah, she grew up in Veracruz, Mexico, so that mixture makes a lot of sense based on the history of the area.

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.

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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.

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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.

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Most people don't realize that the majority of African slaves did not end up in the U.S.
Latin and South America brought in more people by far, not to mention the Arab countries to the east.