Doesn't mean anything much yet. Ancestry.com a few months ago had me 51% Scottish, and I just checked just now and I am down to 26%. I think it was going off geneology, because I am partially descended from New England Blue Bloods, and alot of Scot was mixed in and paternal names carried. But this was all on the frontier.
23andme.com wasn't ever claiming I was 51% Scottish. It won't even bother to list scottish.
@Motzu I only know what they were told by both outfits inquiring why this known great great aunt by tride trace show up no where in any of the families DNA submissions.
@Gibbon You wrote that a bit weird. My trace DNA for native american is colonial period. It's a stupid small amount, but if a "real Native American" got pissed off at my meager claim and went back in time and eliminated that ancestor, I would not exist today. That ancestor matters that much.
Most of your ancestors have left you no genetic heritage. As Europeans, we all have some Roman in us, but it never pops up in commercial DNA tests (you can use your DNA profile and submit it to see how much you have of african pygmy and ancient kurdish- ancestry and 23andme doesn't scan for this). Most of your ancestors DNA is gone. I'm ststistically 100% certain I am a ancestor of Confucius and of Muhammad. You will not find them in my DNA. You build a time machine, kill either, 99.99% of whites and blacks would dissapear. A good number of native americans too.
You also gotta factor in who Indians considered Indians. The local tribes from my area, Mingo (a fairly new tribe, started in 1700s) and Wyandot heavily adopted white and blacks. Your aunt's ancestor could of been one of them. Due to soverign issues, most indian tribes don't want to reach out and sleuth these claims, especially those with casino dividens.
@Motzu It's Vickies family not mine. I only know what she and her daughter told me. I found late in life I was adopted and my natural parents are most likely both French Canadian. I have no interest in my own heritage or them. I am the son of the parents who raised me. I couldn't have selected better myself. That's all I need to know about myself.
Full Scottish of any generation before you would mean
1/(2^g)
for the g-th generation:
50% for a parent, 25% for a grandparent, 12.5% for a great-grandparent, etc.
Remember that these results are based upon samples which might not lead you in the right direction. The specific numbers might be off.
But that's a significant result, just like the comment that your combined Scottish, Irish, Welsh is around 25%, which suggests a grandparent (or the equivalent) from the British Isles.
Those ancestry banks aren't very accurate or based on much good science. The human population is far to mixed at this point in time for them to have any reliable co trolls. It's a lot of woo mixed with a smidgen of basis.
