I smile at this. My census entry is disqualified each time because I cannot establish an ethnicity and my kids can’t either because of me. My father was adopted and we do not know who the parents were as records from the 1920’s were incomplete. If I do a check on a tracking company it will show my adopted grandparents and not his real parents. So each year, I leave this one blank and a few times they have come to my house to find out why and try to get me to commit to a race. And when I didn’t, they told me they couldn’t count me. Okay, so what. I’m here, I was born in this country, I am a citizen by birth and have never changed that....count me. But they claim the form is incomplete and can’t be finished so it isn’t counted. Government thinking, again.
rwood
There are DNA tests at Ancestry.com, which help define ethnic background, and will connect you to living relatives who share those same DNA markers. Here is a link:
The living relatives would be a good place to see, if there are shared physical characteristics with your DAD, or maybe pics of other ancestors that will clear up mystery.
There are some claims that DNA tests aren’t accurate, however that would seem like those fly by night labs. Ancestry.com can trace your family back as far as you have information, DNA being a part of that. Best wishes.
When the Obama census came around, I filled it in, sent it back. Got a phone call from the census worker a few weeks later asking more questions. I hung up on her. I’m not going to make a profession of answering their questions. If they can’t ask the questions the first time, then don’t call me back. Later they called my house when only my wife was there. They wanted to talk to me, and my wife said I wasn’t there, but that she could answer any questions they might have. “Oh, no. We can’t do that. We need to talk to the person who filled out the form.” Criminey. I bet Obama used illegals to collect the census.