re: Just found out this brotha is 12% Russian/Finnish and Scandinavian

I was always told I am black from the waist down. Turns out, I am <0.1% black. Been lied to all of my life

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ha, nothing wrong with that. my kids will be half dutch and my mixture. hell, they may not even look black, that would be weird.

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Mom is dark skin and our son is very light skin. He doesn't look black so don't be surprised lol.

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I'm no expert on genetics but I'd guess it came from one of your ancestors fricking someone from Russia or Scandinavia.

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Interesting theory. Hmm...

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This could have come through a Scottish ancestor, lots of mixing when the vikings were invading there, some even stayed.

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True. I know up north in the remote Scottish isles they have lots of Norwegian ancestry.

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But for the concern about cloning and other nefarious shite being done with my DNA, I would like to give this a shot. I know I have two full blooded Indians in my family tree (Cherokee and Choctaw great-great grandmothers)

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One of my friends has always said his great grandmother was 100% Cherokee, they recently did the test, zero, zip, nada, Native American. I read somewhere that 99% of those that always thought there was Native American heritage in there family turn out to be wrong.

How much did it cost and what do they test (hair, saliva, blood, semen...)?

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That's a pretty surprising smorgasbord

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I see what you did there!

Well I pretty much guessed the percentages correctly, except for the lack of native which was zero. But I did not expect the Russian and Scandinavian at all.

Right at a hundred bucks. Saliva

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and 0% Native American

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Doesn't mean there is no Natuve American in you lineage, just that none of those chromosome pairs made it down to you. You have 23 pairs of chromosome. One of each of those pairs come from one parent, on from the other. So it is theoretically possible (though highly unlikely) just 2 generations down (grandchildren) would have zero chromosome linked to a grandparent. Though, mitochondrial DNA passed along the female lineage is consistent.

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True. I know up north in the remote Scottish isles they have lots of Norwegian ancestry.

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That is part of your answer right there. I likewise was surprised when I had 4% Scandinavian DNA in my mix, but then I found out one of my Irish ancestor's family name of McCabe was from a clan that were descended from Vikings.

Very likely your Scandinavian genes came from your Irish heritage. Vikings founded the city of Dublin and a lot of other Irish cities with access to the sea, so they could have a base of operations for the raiding season and not have to go back to Norway or Denmark for the winter. They stayed for hundreds of years trading, mixing and fighting with the Irish. My ancestor McCabes were among the other Norse that were finally forced out of Dublin when the Anglo-Normans came over in 1170 to take sides in an Irish dispute.

Irish historical sources record that they then went up to the Scottish Hebrides Isles in the NorthWest where the Norse were already settled and eventually came back to Ireland when they were hired as mercenaries called, "gallóglaigh ~ foreign warriors," (galloglass) by the native Irish. Many of the galloglass families were of mixed Scandinavian and Gaelic Scottish descent.

In the mid 1300's, the McCabes were hired by Chiefs of the O'Rourkes, O'Reillys and MacMahon clans to fight their rivals and the English. Then of course, got lands, settled in and intermarried. The family motto is, "either conquer or die." They probably ended up doing a lot of dying when they were on the wrong side of the Civil War between the Catholic King James II and William III of Orange in the 1690's.