If they swabbed Lizzy Warren’s High cheekbones what would they find? Her DNA would show she is a dummy with the distinct proclivity to lie.
>> If they swabbed Lizzy Warren’s High cheekbones what would they find? <<
If one of her GGG-grandparents had 100% Cherokee blood, then a test of Libby’s autosomal DNA actually would stand a pretty good chance of picking up tiny a trace of Indian ancestry.
But:
By the time her GGG-grandparents lived, most of the Cherokee already had partial-European ancestry, thanks to the many English and Scottish traders who began “marrying” Indian women during the 1600’s and who continued to father mixed race children up through the early 1800’s.
Bottom line:
Even if Libby truly had N. A. ancestors (and maybe she did — just like me and almost everybody else with connections to 19th century Oklahoma, Arkansas and Texas) the odds are AGAINST finding that ancestry in her DNA, because after about four or five generations, the “Indian DNA” becomes too diluted to be detected by today’s technology.