According to our family lore, we’re all Cherokee and we’ve always taken some pride in that.
In recent years, though, several of us have taken the test and not one drop of Native American blood among us. Not one.
We’re all a bit mystified, where did the family stories come from? We didn’t expect high percentages, but none was a surprise.
I found the same thing! According to what a late uncle had told me, I should be 1/16th Cherokee - it was zero.
I will up the ante on Don Jr’s bet and bet 10,000 that Warren has zero Native American ancestry.
I read that different tests give difference results.
Maybe your family had Cherokee in-laws.
You might have Cherokee relatives through a mutual white ancestor.
Family lore also went down my history as well. The story led to the great-great-grandmother who was dark-skinned, brought to southern Tenn by the husband, and claimed her mother was raped by Cherokee Indians (would have been in the 1770s-1780s).
Well, I took the DNA test and no Indian DNA came out of the results.
But that’s not really the end of the story. What did come was DNA results (.7 percent) from western Africa (probably the region of Gambia to Ghana). So the relative’s story was faked up by herself to avoid saying that she was a slave-child product with some plantation owner.
But that wasn’t really the end of the DNA business. There is a small bit of Ashkenazi Jewish blood (.5 percent showed up). That was not anticipated either. But I went back in family history, and there is this line of the family that lived ‘forever’ in France, and left in the 1650 time period....spending two generations in central Germany, and then leaving for Maryland. Somewhere in this two generation period, one of them married some local German, who probably was a product of some Ashkenazi Jewish family.
Your family lore may still be correct. These tests look for marker genes that are more common in certain populations. You could have Cherokee ancestors but none of the marker genes came down to you. Each generation halves the genetic contribution of the previous generation. You don’t know what genes get left behind in each mating.
the tests are likely off. Can’t account for all DNA strands because God is God and science and testing is miniscule in it’s knowledge (even though it has advanced some at times over history).
DNA tests are just a money maker for LDS and other groups that want to collect as many people’s DNA sample as possible.
A relative of mine expected to be mostly italian due to both his parents are overwhelmingly italian heritage (came to USA from that country and have researched generations back in that country) yet their DNA test shows more english/irish than italian. The tests are bogus imo.
#6 It happened during the 1950’s when all the westerns were on tv. Stores were selling indian costumes and photos were taken of the kids wearing them and handed down the generations and the descendants thought they must have indian blood in them....
A million others are thought to be descendants of Danial Boone due to wearing coonskin caps.....
Happened to me too. My mom’s family lied to her about who her father actually was. We still don’t know.
Not a drop, and we thought we were 1/16th Blackfoot.