Autosomal DNA - Native American Heritage
[QUOTE .....Follow the paper trails if you can. Don't depend totally on this autosomal testing. If one is lucky the autosomal test can confirm, but a negative result (of your expectations) doesn't mean it never was there.[/QUOTE]
My father told my brothers and me that we were part native american and I have located a third cousin who says her grandfather was 1/8 Cherokee (that's probably what my father said but he's been gone for 40 years so I can't ask him to retell his stories) and had been taught to count in the Cherokee language. This would make my 3rd cousin and me 1/32 (3%) Cherokee. Somewhere I read that this is the smallest percentage for which results can be obtained with Autosomal DNA testing, and that is "iffy." The line switched between female to male to female so mt and Y are not an option.
The person who I suspect was my ggg grandmother (and supposedly 100% Cherokee) had a father who had emigrated from Hungary which means this woman was not full-blooded Cherokee (UNLESS she was adopted!!!!).
Does anyone feel the Autosomal DNA could be of any value under these circumstances? I don't know of anyone left in the (6%) generation before ours.
[QUOTE .....Follow the paper trails if you can. Don't depend totally on this autosomal testing. If one is lucky the autosomal test can confirm, but a negative result (of your expectations) doesn't mean it never was there.[/QUOTE]
My father told my brothers and me that we were part native american and I have located a third cousin who says her grandfather was 1/8 Cherokee (that's probably what my father said but he's been gone for 40 years so I can't ask him to retell his stories) and had been taught to count in the Cherokee language. This would make my 3rd cousin and me 1/32 (3%) Cherokee. Somewhere I read that this is the smallest percentage for which results can be obtained with Autosomal DNA testing, and that is "iffy." The line switched between female to male to female so mt and Y are not an option.
The person who I suspect was my ggg grandmother (and supposedly 100% Cherokee) had a father who had emigrated from Hungary which means this woman was not full-blooded Cherokee (UNLESS she was adopted!!!!).
Does anyone feel the Autosomal DNA could be of any value under these circumstances? I don't know of anyone left in the (6%) generation before ours.
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