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MrsJoe 76F
17309 posts
10/16/2018 7:43 am

I, for one, never cared about people's ancestry. However, I think it is wrong to use it to gain privileged or cry victim. Now, when we see that she has not only used her alleged ancestry to gain privileges, but that ancestry is greatly exaggerated if even at all, it really is a fraudulent scheme.
I actually feel sorry for her. Perhaps she has told her lie for so long that she actually believes it, and to cling to such a minute percent possibility and broadcast it is, in my opinion, the act of a desperate person.


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starwomyn 70F
8871 posts
10/16/2018 8:13 am

When I first did a DNA Test, it turned out that I was 93 percent British, 3 percent Western Europe, 2 percent Irish and maybe 2 percent Indian. They updated the test, I gained more Scot/Irish (which goes along with my research) lost the NA and gained Norway.

I also found a solid paper trail leading to a black ancestor for my younger son but it didn't show up in his DNA. His cousins asked me about the Bantu in their tests and I had to tell them about their Granddaddy Abraham. Bantu showed up in my son's updated test.



Abracadabra


MrsJoe 76F
17309 posts
10/16/2018 12:17 pm

    Quoting starwomyn:
    When I first did a DNA Test, it turned out that I was 93 percent British, 3 percent Western Europe, 2 percent Irish and maybe 2 percent Indian. They updated the test, I gained more Scot/Irish (which goes along with my research) lost the NA and gained Norway.

    I also found a solid paper trail leading to a black ancestor for my younger son but it didn't show up in his DNA. His cousins asked me about the Bantu in their tests and I had to tell them about their Granddaddy Abraham. Bantu showed up in my son's updated test.


So those kind of DNA tests aren't really accurate and reliable? More for fun and games?

Be a prism, spreading God's light and love, not a mirror reflecting the world's hatred.


starwomyn 70F
8871 posts
10/16/2018 2:01 pm

    Quoting MrsJoe:
    So those kind of DNA tests aren't really accurate and reliable? More for fun and games?
The testing has hooked me up with quite a few cousins and I learned quite a bit from about family history. I think people are so mobile that ethnicity is difficult to prove. The updated ancestry test makes more sense with the research of my family history. I actually had a third cousin from England contact me trying to figure out where we were related. I have a great grandmother who migrated from England and another one who migrated from Ireland. It turns out we were related from the Irish Great Grandmother.

Abracadabra


MrsJoe 76F
17309 posts
10/16/2018 2:20 pm

    Quoting starwomyn:
    The testing has hooked me up with quite a few cousins and I learned quite a bit from about family history. I think people are so mobile that ethnicity is difficult to prove. The updated ancestry test makes more sense with the research of my family history. I actually had a third cousin from England contact me trying to figure out where we were related. I have a great grandmother who migrated from England and another one who migrated from Ireland. It turns out we were related from the Irish Great Grandmother.
I could see where there might be similar markers on some people who have used the same service, and relatives could be found that way.............. but to say that someone is this percent this nationality, etc. seems to be stretching credibility a lot to me.

Be a prism, spreading God's light and love, not a mirror reflecting the world's hatred.


sparkleflit 76F
10271 posts
10/17/2018 1:29 pm

    Quoting MrsJoe:
    So those kind of DNA tests aren't really accurate and reliable? More for fun and games?
The tests are informed by DNA records. Different companies have access to varying numbers of records and some different records. You can find out from the companies where their information is most complete. Some groups are so mixed, or their original DNA so diluted, that it's impossible at this stage of development of these tests to clearly identify where it originated. They are building their information all the time and the more people who do these tests, the more information is in the system and the more research can be done.......It's incredibly complicated.

From the what I've gathered, there aren't enough DNA samples of Native-Americans to tell for sure if a person has Native blood. There are a few tribes that they can be pretty sure about, but mostly they are relying on samples from people from Mexico and South America, who mixed with Native people many generations ago. If your DNA doesn't show the DNA pattern of these Southern tribes, even if everyone in your family for generations have all the other signs of being full-blood Natives.....physical features, generations of forebears that grew up on the reservation family history, etc........That's why the Tribal Councils don't accept DNA as evidence when deciding who belongs to the tribe.

Warren could have way more Native blood than the current information can say for sure, I have many full Native friends who have a blonde, blue-eyed kid and a kid that look totally Native with the same White father.


hobsonschoice 75F
3600 posts
10/18/2018 9:46 am

"Analysis: Just about everything you read on the Warren DNA test is wrong." by Glenn Kessler of the Washington Post

Explains the DNA testing and the results, if one would like to take the time to read it
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