[blam]

GGG Ping.

[ARridgerunner]

ping

[Strategerist]

Loy says if all the people in this country who claim to have Cherokee blood do, "There must be 100 million Cherokees."

I run into this a lot too - almost certainly BS in most cases. I can't figure out why people want to be Cherokees, particularly, though.

[Zuben Elgenubi]

Big Brother ping.

Once the Feds have your guns, they go for your DNA and heritage.

Somewhere, a scientist is laughing like Frankenstein.

[LiteKeeper]

YEC INTREP

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Blam. I did this. Turned out I was half Scotch and half soda. [rimshot! in honor of my late father]

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[GovernmentIsTheProblem]

I did this a year ago, the results were very neat and confirmed my expectations. The whole endeavor was pretty fun and educational.

[bert]

.....In the case of his own family, he says there was also a belief that there was some "Black Irish," Moorish, blood in the past......

This is a Melungeon reference. There are strong ties of the East Tennessee Melungeons to various Mediterranean peoples via inherited traits and rare disease. DNA analysis is certainly underway to sort it all out.

The way it goes is the Portuguese sailors were marooned in South Carolina or Georgia or North Carolina or all of the above, bred with local tribes and were pushed westward by the pressure of incoming Europeans.

[Palladin]

bookmarking for a later read...