This might explain why/how some of us have African DNA identified down to 1%. My African DNA is 3 to 6%.
Yet, I/we have many standard Genealogy paper documentations with so called Native Americans, usually a member of one of the civilized tribes with zero/no Indian DNA.
These ancestors often had documented births, weddings, birth of children, even military service and death certificates again without any documented Native American DNA.
Below is one of many of my possible Native American ancestors, my 6th Great Grandmother: Yet, I supposedly have no American Indian DNA in my total DNA package.
Ani GaTage Wi ‘Woman of Deer Clan’ Cherokee Cherokee Woman
1690–1730
BIRTH 1690 • Cherokee, Washington County, Tennessee, Colonial United States of America
DEATH 1730 • Cherokee (Washington County), Washington County, Tenn, Colonial Americaessee, USA
She is listed as my 6th great-grandmother but there is supposedly no DNA to prove it.
I have over 50 supposedly Native Americans like Ani GaTage Wi ‘Woman of Deer Clan’ Cherokee Cherokee Woman with standard genealogy records and yet no DNA to back up that documentation.
BIRTH 1690 • Cherokee, Washington County, Tennessee, Colonial United States of America
DEATH 1730 • Cherokee (Washington County), Washington County, Tenn, Colonial Americaessee, USA
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Confused. TN became a State 1 June 1796. Never heard of “Colonial United States of America”.
No offense intended Grampa, but the dates don’t jive.
My son had his DNA checked by 23 And Me or Ancestry.com (the one that does not identify Neanderthal DNA), and back checked to me and my late husband. Husband’s mother told him she was 1/8th Cree Indian yet our son had no labeled American Indian although my husband’s Scotts ancestry was well identified. In addition my blue eyed, red haired, very mesomorphic, hairy and very strong bodied self strongly suggested 4% or more Neanderthal DNA, which I look forward to being discovered at a site that checks for that. In my case my Prussian German ancestry on my maternal grandmother’s side was clear from the Baltic German traces that my son had, and it was also predicted that I was probably 6 to 9% far, far eastern Eurasian. Since family history said we had robber barron ancestry, and that family was of the Prussian petty nobility, that blood may have come from the “Golden Hoard” of Tatar or Mongol origin. Anyone know who does the best Neanderthal information? I don’t think I have DNA from my husband, but I do have two sons of his and 4 grandsons.