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To: Defiant
that's ok a lot of us confuse Geneticist and Genealogists.
I was just responding to your post 1843 "Her DNA test with a private geneologist is the equivalent..."

People I know who are definitely part Indian, maybe 1/8th but had a living ancestor who was Indian, are coming up with bupkis when they get their DNA done." " again, tracking ancestry and DNA are 2 different things.

Check it out here...(though I'm pretty sure DNA doesn't track to the tribe level)

https://genetics.thetech.org/ask-a-geneticist/same-parents-different-ancestry

should be interesting to see how the other RAT contenders will handle it, if she runs.
1,874 posted on 10/15/2018 11:33:19 AM PDT by stylin19a ( Best.Election.Of.All.Times.Ever.In.The.History.Of.Ever)
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To: stylin19a
again, tracking ancestry and DNA are 2 different things.

Again, you are super determined to make that distinction. No one cares.

I do research on Ancestry all the time. I have done that for about 13 years. That kind of work is called geneology. Thank you for pointing that out.

I have also been a keen follower of advances in genetic research, have read for 25 years books by Brian Sykes and people like that. I am interested in the movements of people that led to the creation of nations and peoples, and which continues to change and mold the people of the world. Tracking the Celts and Germans across Europe leads to, for me, interesting insights into the places where they ended up and into historical tales that on the surface involve kings and events instead of civilizations. Going farther back, and tracking the Aryan tribes from their origin eastward, southward and westward into Europe, Indo-Iranian and east Asian areas is also interesting. Following the debate about origins of the American Indians also interests me, and is fraught with political repurcussions that infect the scientific research. The discussion about Warren brings some of that into focus.

So, while it is certainly true that genetics and geneology are different things, the point you seem to be trying to make is more pedantic than informative. I am talking about Warren's DNA, and also about her geneology. She is trying to use her DNA to prove her family claims about geneology, and I am saying that I don't believe her DNA analysis, nor do I think that her family geneology would show any Indian ancestor. But this discussion has become a slide of a slide of a slide.

Interesting article on Cherokee DNA posted here: http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3696751/posts.

1,898 posted on 10/15/2018 12:35:59 PM PDT by Defiant (I may be deplorable, but I'm not getting in that basket.)
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