anyone had their dna checked?

@ProdigalSummer well i thought i was African and Cherokee and i am neither...weird, huh?

@LILY61 What did you turn out to be ? 😃

@LILY61 it's my understanding that not all ancestry shows up. If it's too far removed, the chances of having the genes passed on becomes less likely. It doesn't necessarily mean you don't have that ancestry, it just show which genes have been actually been passed along thru the generations.

@bijouxbroussard polish, slovakian, hungarian, ukranian?????????

@ProdigalSummer Ancestry.com couldn’t find my mother’s Native ancestry but found her Native family members.

@LILY61 Whoa ! Which test did you use ?

@ProdigalSummer i am the tiny percent Native American and African that every person in the world could be but i don't count that. i thought i was Irish cherokee african. i am a small part Western europe, but who cares? it isn't enough to ponder about. It is all so mind blowing

@LILY61 Didn't they mix something up? xD

@LILY61 it really isn’t that easy to be Native American.

Considering most of us came to the USA in the 1800’s.... that doesn’t allow a Native American to sneak in there.

@bijouxbroussard yeah, i am supposed to not be AFrican but alot of my ancestors are part African.

@bijouxbroussard 23 and me.

@CrazyMusicLover i thought my mother had real red hair. i thought she was irish. i only have a small percent of western europe mix. the man i thought was my father was African Cherokee but apparently he wasn't my father. i am not related to anyone i was raised by since i was 4. truth be told, i only assumed they were my parents because they told me they were.

@LILY61 It seems like you have some strong Slavic genes. Some central European ancestor.

@CrazyMusicLover yeah, crazy huh? i had no idea.

@LILY61 I used MyHeritage and Ancestry.com. for my family and tried 23 and me for myself. The latter found minute traces of Native Ancestry. But I have large amounts of African ancestry, which I knew I would.

@SW-User My grandfather was born on a reservation in 1901. You’d think there would be some connection.

@CrazyMusicLover why?

@SW-User there are plenty of jokes to be made here but i won't. but i have a cousin who has a cousin that traced his heritage back to the Mayflower...so it could have happened in the 1500's

@LILY61 Think of it though.... you don’t get sneezed on and have “a little Indian in you.” Two people had to fornicate, get pregnant, and keep the baby.

That kind of thing would probably make it into the family history.

@SW-User But in many cases it [b]is[/b] part of family lore.

@bijouxbroussard I know. I guess it’s easier for me. My mom did such a great job on our family tree.

Once you see your own legacy on chart, it’s easy to see it would be near impossible (my family came in the early 1800’s) to have American Indian in there.

@SW-User Like I said, my maternal grandfather was born on a reservation, and Ancestry.com matched several of his Native family members to me. How would the DNA be a match if I have no Native DNA ?

@bijouxbroussard maybe they haven’t figured out what in that DNA makes a person “Native American.”

Do you think the analysis is making them French?

@SW-User Perhaps so, that seems to be the connection they’re making.

@bijouxbroussard I would maybe write the company. It could just be something they haven’t discovered yet.

You could be a genetic pioneer. :-)