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Posted on 2/7/25 at 2:47 pm to baldona
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I would almost guarantee this is the case. If you know who your great grandparents are, and they are all white then the chances that you had a black relative in the early 1800s is hell a slim.
I think every person I've talked to has "1%" black. Seems like complete bullshite and makes you distrust any of the other details.
When you dig deeper you see verbiage like this:
Your ancestral region estimate is 1%, but it can range from 0 to 1%
Posted on 2/7/25 at 2:49 pm to morganwadefan
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I haven’t personally, but do remember the Canadian reporter that submitted her own DNA last year to a company that tests pet DNA. She was told she is 40% Alaskan Malamute.
Posted on 2/7/25 at 2:50 pm to Dtbtiger
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Found out I'm half Jewish
Posted on 2/7/25 at 2:51 pm to _Hurricane_
I gave away DNA last night on a blonde broad’s back
This post was edited on 2/7/25 at 2:56 pm
Posted on 2/7/25 at 3:22 pm to _Hurricane_
Imagine willingly putting your DNA in a database. I don’t plan on murdering anyone but it’s nice to know I have the option if necessary.
Posted on 2/7/25 at 3:39 pm to _Hurricane_
23andme tried to tell me I am a quarter Puerto Rican....
Posted on 2/7/25 at 4:02 pm to PCRammer
quote:Many folk from Ireland think their families came from Cork or Galway because that was where many of their ancestors embarked from (specifically) when coming to America.
She has a very Irish name, her dads parents immigrated from County Cork,
It was pretty common that Irish immigrants’ Port of Embarkation became erroneously accepted as their ancestral hometowns as that was normally what our lazy customs/immigration folks listed on their official US documents.
They didn’t know how to (or care to) spell Skibbereen or Gneeveguilla.
Possibly your wife’s (any pics?) people are actually from Cork but I’d wager against it.
Fun Fact:
Ireland’s population was over 8 million in 1841, 100 years later it was half of that amount. Even today it’s around 7 million.
Posted on 2/7/25 at 4:26 pm to sta4ever
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I did one a couple months back and am mostly Ashkenazi Jewish but says my people came over to America from Eastern Europe. Shows Slavic land is where they’re from, but nothing in my DNA says I’m Russian, Polish, or anything like that. I find that a bit odd.
There is nothing in DNA marking countries that were made up by people (and some of them within the past couple of hundred years).
When you take a DNA test, it shows you a percentage reflecting what your DNA shows in common with "other people who have also taken the test and joined the data pool" in various places today. Get that... a rather limited data set, and considering history, complicated.
Then the various companies have different strengths and weaknesses depending on what they decided to concentrate on...
If the test tells you someone is your cousin, they are your cousin...
but the "35% German" etc. thing is just an abstract kind of thing... and that's why people got confused and weirded out when they'd check back a year later and all of that had changed as the data set grew and grew...
So you can be Ashkenazi Jewish but have no remaining relatives in those areas in the present day - who have bothered to take the test - that you share DNA with... get it?
And the existence of things like the Ottoman Empire just a little over 100 years ago, which sublimated local identities and saw people migrating within this huge area that was functionally one state... all the other Empires during and before that one that worked the same way and stretched wide... things get blurred on the level and identities get adopted that are not biological in nature... there's Black British people who are descendants of Romans who were Africans, who've been there longer than a lot of modern white Brits.
This post was edited on 2/7/25 at 4:28 pm
Posted on 2/7/25 at 4:35 pm to MyNameIsNobody
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yes, my mother's father was a Frenchman...but neither of my parents show any French?
maybe Northwestern Europe is considered France?
Northern France is considered "Northwestern Europe," yes. But it's also not hard to imagine families or entire communities from Belgium or The Netherlands, etc., migrating down into France at various points... it would be like people from Mississippi ending up in Louisiana, really... and to this day the border between France and Belgium is a line that cuts through some towns and even houses, unguarded and just marked with signs or decorative road lines.
Posted on 2/7/25 at 4:39 pm to CAD703X
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What are they going to do with my DNA?
perhaps match it to a discarded slurpee cup somewhere within 5 miles of the US capital on J6 to use to bust your door down and throw you in jail for 4 years without bringing charges?
just that.
They have solved some crimes by matching DNA with the results from these tests
https://www.foxnews.com/us/golden-state-killer-caught-using-relatives-dna-from-genealogy-websites-prosecutors-say
So if you've done some heinous crimes, yes, best to avoid...
Posted on 2/7/25 at 4:42 pm to Figgy
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My Mom's side is Italian. Dad is Scot / Blackfoot Indian.
Turn's out my Mom's side is in fact Italian but also with some Egyptian and Levant too. My Dad's side is in fact Scot but also Irish and British and absolutely no Blackfoot Indian.
I'm not sure where it came from but there is also a little bit of French and German.
54.7 % Italian.
40% Brit (Scot) / Irish
2.6% French / German
2.0 Egyptian
.7 Levantine
This actually happens a lot... someone I knew is a member of a tribe, whose dad grew up on the reservation with his parents who were born there... but his test returned no Native American... and he questioned that... and it was because no Native Americans were in the database for him to match with at that time. It only shows you who you match with who have also taken the test... and some companies have a more limited pool of clients.
This post was edited on 2/7/25 at 4:44 pm
Posted on 2/7/25 at 4:47 pm to _Hurricane_
Have a 'free woman of color'; native American; Jewish; signer of the US Constitution; governor of the State of Louisiana....I would say; 'yes' to your question
Posted on 2/7/25 at 4:48 pm to _Hurricane_
Are you sure? These companies got in hot water a while back for putting that in results to make people feel more culturally enriched.
Posted on 2/7/25 at 4:51 pm to The Mick
98% NW European Mutt
1% Native American
1% Basque
My pop always said his grandmother was Choctaw. We tease him because he has blond hair and light skin...but, slapped this report down on his desk and said "so you're saying there's a chance!"
1% Native American
1% Basque
My pop always said his grandmother was Choctaw. We tease him because he has blond hair and light skin...but, slapped this report down on his desk and said "so you're saying there's a chance!"
Posted on 2/7/25 at 5:02 pm to G Khan
Always knew I was 8% black by bodyweight.
Posted on 2/7/25 at 5:19 pm to _Hurricane_
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Turns out I’m 1% black
Aren’t we all? If not our pubes would be straight.
Posted on 2/7/25 at 5:23 pm to _Hurricane_
Yes, I was surprised to find out that I am your father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roommate.
Posted on 2/7/25 at 5:24 pm to _Hurricane_
Found my wife's birth family and reunited her with some of her siblings, which was pretty cool.
Posted on 2/7/25 at 5:50 pm to _Hurricane_
I’m afraid to look..but I do have high calves and can run like the wind.
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