Those DNA tests are questionable. The only good test is genealogical research.
They’ve had German Shepherds declared to be Chihuahuas. Completely unreliable.
I was thinking of trying the ancestry.com DNA test, now that the price has come down. Bad idea?
Yeah, but that doesn’t invalidate the fact that many people have mixed ancestry. Whether the tests are faulty or not, the facts are going back many thousands of years and large groups of different people moving from place to place, obviously many people are going to have a variety of ancestors.
Geneological research is full of fraud because people have a vested interest in lying about who is their daddy.
I vote for the DNA every time.
But there is something to be said for geneology, if conducted in an unconventional manner. Pieter Bothna, leader of the Oxcart wing of the Nationalist Party of the racist Republic of South Africa was found to be descended from a promenent Zulu woman.
The researcher began with her, and traced her 11 children. Although some of her descendants had covered their tracks from them to there ancestry, they hadn’t covered it from their ancestors to them.
And so, by the laws of that time and place, he was not eligble for his office, and could only vote as “colored”.
South Africa as a racist republic died soon afterwards.