"Grandma Was... " Why It's Not Showing Up In Your DNA Results
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- čas přidán 24. 08. 2024
- Is something missing from your percentages on your DNA test results? Is what your family says not matching up with what you got back? Watch to learn the top 3 reasons why this happens.
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I broke this myth with the DNA test of my great aunt. My family said that we had NA Ancestry and that my aunt’s mother (My Great Grandma) was part NA. DNA has proven that there is relatively no NA Ancestry in the family or that the less than 1% is so far back that its virtually non existent. So that proved that her Mom was not part NA or even part European per se. My aunt had results over 90% African, my Mom over 95% and my results are also over 95%. We BLACK! 😊😁
I honestly didn't know what to expect from my first test, so all results were great. An uncle became irate when I stated ancestry dna didn't report native American, but a great amount of Scandanavia. Paper trail revealed all of my great grandparents were "mulato". 23andme did report a small amount of native and Asian, but clarified the British Isles and Germany. He stills talks about "long hair and cheek bones". I had to tell him go look at white people again lol.
On my maternal line found both slave owners, one German one Irish, our family surnames from west Georgia were the same as slave owners. DNA circle is with Northern Ireland, same ancestral homeland as slave owner. I'm going to Ireland in September
Lmao black and white people seem to want to be both Cherokee like just let the natives be native like damn
Great video! More people have claimed “Cherokee grandmothers” than is demographically possible.
Thank you for posting this!! I've seen people get so upset with the DNA results and complain about the company because they showed very little or none of the DNA that they were supposed to be. Like you said, may be family legend, due to recombination or too far back. Hopefully lots of people see this video. 👍🏾
Great video. Bottom line., if someone says that their Grandmother or Grandfather Great- grandparents etc., was Indian. 9 times out of 10 , that Individual was half white and half black. Some people , not all, who were mixed back in those days were ashamed of that.... I knew a elderly mixed black lady and her Dad was white but her mother was raped by him. Her father nor his family had nothing to do with her when she was growing up, nor her children. She is now 85 years old. She did say that people thought that she was Indian or part Indian but she said she told people she was Black. Then if people looked curious , she would then tell them she was mixed with white heritage. But she felt uncomfortable with that because of how she got here. No one wants to be told that they were a product of a rape. You didn't talk about it. You left it alone. She taught all of her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren her correct heritage. So there would not be any confusion when it came to her and their heritage.
I believe this story is more common than anyone wants to admit,how often we have met or seen biracial person of(African n European)mixing that could easily pass as "native lookin" or other ethnicities esp Asian ancestry...and now with so many cheap dna testing this is showing a lot in their results.(and exposing the TRUTH! cause dna don't lie people do.
Tracie R sad but true
This happens to a lot of Filipinos. They hear that so and so was part Spanish. But when it comes down to it, it could have been a great great grandparent who was only 1/3 Spanish when they thought that person was full Spanish.
Great video more people need to watch. My story is the opposite. Both sides of my family came from Eastern Europe. My DNA shows 92% Eastern Europe, 5% Great Britain, 1% Irish, Iberian, Native American. A lot of people think they have Native American, but I figured no way did I have any.
I told my Mom this same thing. I only have 1%. I'm just going to buy her a kit.
Nicka Sewell-Smith Very true. See who I get what from. Keep up the good work & have a great extended weekend.
Thanks for the information! Also The Dna Tests Only Include The Civilized Tribes although there are about 573 federally recognized tribes. Also depending on the test, your test only includes your maternal or paternal lines but not all of your great-grandparents in-between. Just FYI. I realized that these tests can tell you where your grandmother/father,great-grandmother/father etc but not the spouse's side dna.Great video!
You did that...I've been trying to explain this to people..They don't want to believe it!
Just found your channel! I love to see people sharing on this topic. I'd like to add to your list. I've personally learned another contributing factor is "NPE" situations. This refers to non paternity event, not parent expected. This is adoptions, infidelities, donor conceived and so forth. The statistics on NPE frequency are staggeringly high. If someone is shocked with the ethnicity I always recommend to take a good look at their matches and sourcing for ancestry. It's highly likely that most of us have any area of our tree or even ourselves that has misattributed parentage .
Very informative video. Thank you for posting it.
So true! My great-great grandma was Apache. My ancestry DNA put me at
Thank you so much for talking about recombination! My sister kept insisting I didnt need to do a test because our results would be identical. I am going to show this to her
Good vid! you should've also added that dna companies have a reference population that they compare your dna to and companies like ancestry dna only test natives from mexico, south america, the Caribbean, and for usa its only natives from California so that's also a reason why people who have usa native american tribe heritage cherokee, seminole, sioux, etc it might not come back as native american at all. If you check 23 and me reference panel they test absolutely no natives Americans from the USA. So for everyone who has the your "great great grandmother was a Cherokee indian" story in the family I recommend using ( MyHeritage and ged match MDlP genesis beta world 22 project raw dna upload) because they test more tribes and native americans in the usa it worked for me, With ancestry dna i had a small amount of native and i was like WTF and then i did the raw dna upload to myheritage and it showed significantly higher native american percentages. And if ancestry dna or 23 and me says no native american and you go to myheritage and it says 0 you either have no native blood and heritage, to far back, or the rolling of dice genetics happened.
Very well put, simple and to the point.
Everybody that says 'My grandma said that We re native american' talk like their grandma was born in 1700 or something
Great info, I’ve traced my family history back 7-8 generations from North Carolina, all black people were not slaves and all black people didn’t not come from Africa, there were free black people in America before slavery, those DNA tests give you your ethnicity which the meaning of that word is the similarity in a culture to another culture. I never was told I was African until Jesse Jackson had blacks & colored change to Africa-Americans when I was about 12 years old, now I’m 44, I have a question were is all these African people at? Because 400 hundred years ago was not that long ago, and this is not a disrespect to your research, there is a lot of unanswered questions??? Keep up the great work😊
P.S. this is just my personal opinion & research 😉
useful to know and explained very well
OMG you are the bomb!!!!!!! So articulate and concise, and you really explain these complicated scientific issues in a down-to-earth way so that anyone can get it. You need to get your own show. I've been talking about recombinatory DNA for years. I don't understand it as well as you, but a geneticist explained it to me years ago and it explained the incredible variation in skin color, hair texture, features, etc. in African American families. My mom came from a family of 16 kids who spanned the gamut in terms of skin color. Someone who grew up with them said they were called the jelly bean kids because they were all the different colors. On another point, I was one of those people whose Native American DNA = 0%. Just plain old 64% black folks and 34% white folks. Henry Louis Gates said years ago that most African Americans do not have Native American ancestors, despite the near universal claims to "Indians" in the family that most of us have heard. I didn't want to believe him, but I think he was right. Haven't we all heard these things: Got high cheekbones? Most be the "Indian" in you (despite that many Africans have high cheekbones).Got a kind of reddish/orangish hue to you skin color? Must be "Indian." Got wavy or straight hair? Must be "Indian." Sorry folks, it's just white folks showing up in your history and genotype. Just plain old white folks. Thanks Nicka. I'll keep watching.
Yes best video ever. Great Job!
Good points. So many of us got that story, but it isn't true, and instead, great grandma was heavily mixed with white - a much more likely (and well known) reality. Found that in my own line (only 1% NA), but what I can't figure out is where the "3% West Asian" and "1% East Asian" come from????
Nicka Sewell-Smith can it also show up as Central Asian?
Jesse Cartwright That fits more within my family's oral tradition and makes an bit more sense to me.
Also have to remember that most of these Natives in the Southeast were already mixed. Just because a great grandparent belonged to a tribe doesn't mean that they were full blooded, even if the enrollment card(in the case of the 5 Civilized) says they were in some cases. Native Americans were also enslaved at one time in Va. and the Carolinas, as well as New England and some Northern states.
While I do agree that oral history has its shortcomings I also feel that often times it's too easily regarded as false when DNA results aren't as expected. For example my cousin took an Ancestry DNA test and only showed 4% Irish. Some would have said oh... this is a minimal part of your heritage and likely due to slavery but she knew this was not correct as her grandfather was almost full Irish. Her mom later took the test (51% African, 41% Irish and the other 8% was trace Euro). To make it more interesting my cousin's father also has some Irish heritage (much smaller %). So in one generation - my aunt to my cousin (just looking at the %s we have "proof" of) the Irish bloodline decreased from 41% to 4% and it's highly plausible that one or more of my cousin's children may not inherit any markers associated with Irish lineage at all.
So this would be a case where their grandmother is 41% Irish and they didn't inherit any of that DNA. Without the "proof" of the Ancestry DNA test people might one day say they were also "lied to". Just food for thought...and yes I know you acknowledged the possibility of recombinational impacts but I find that others are too often unwilling to consider this as a plausible cause.
Magnificently outstanding video! Question: Since DNA tends to "reshuffle" or scramble, does this also mean that if a great great grandparent was full blood Cherokee (or any other), and one of the siblings 4 or 5 generations removed shows Native American characteristics and tests high on the DNA scale and the other siblings do not that the so-called recessive gene has appeared, so to speak in that sibling? Thanks in advance for your response.
Thank you so much! Excellent points!!!
Most African American people may have Melungeon in their ancestry but they were called Native American.....
Thank you I agree with you it is interesting the DNA and what we think we are I was surprised to find south Asian in my DNA then when I looked up my never met in ancestry it indicates he was of this background
I want to know what do these companies do with your DNA samples after testing it? If it only takes a drop of blood to test sugar levels why so much saliva?
Thanks!
Thank you for this video
What sources do you have to state that Diana Fletcher wasn't mixed Native?
About a year before her death, my mom told me that my black hair (it's also wavy/curly/frizzy) is a result of my great great great grandfather (apparently from India)--which explains my rather frequent approachment by people of Indian/Sri Lankan/East Indian descent when I was working in retail.
My dad side is blackfoot Native and black and my mom is Cherokee Native and black. Of course I mark the black box on paperwork because I have no proof of being mixed with native. I've seen pictures of my great aunts, grandmother and great great grandmother who have Cherokee features but my mom has course hair. My dad is very dark skin with course hair. Both of my parents identify black and they'll mark the black box as well.
My children are mixed and most the women i grew up with have mixed children..this is a beautiful thing. But othet races apparently have a problem
My family had no problem..qj