Anyone done an Ancestry DNA test?

I've noticed that since moving here. If they can tan and have dark hair then its almost automatically assumed someone way back was Cherokee. I think it's more wishing for something unique than knowing anything factual in my experience

Very cool. You'll have to bump this thread when you get your results back. I haven't ran the information through any other sites up to this point. She just ordered the standard Ancestry kit fwiw.

Brief history of what I knew of my parents background prior to the test : My Old man is Native American/Meditteranean and my mom is mostly Scotch/Irish.

My results came back (roughly):

20% Native American (Chumash)
20% Mediterranean (15% Italian/ 5% Spanish)
20% Irish
20% British (Welsh, Scottish, English)
15% Western European (French, German, Netherlands, etc.)
5% African (Mali/Togo/N. Africa)

There were several that popped at less than 1% that I didn't include like Scandinavian and Nigerian.

The biggest surprise for me was seeing the African heritage and the 15% Italian and the 5% Spanish. My great grand father Maximiliano was from Leon Spain and we thought the hit rate would be much higher for Spaniard. Unfortunately nobody knows anything past him so it's possible that he himself may have only been a first generation Spaniard and his parents actually came from other regions in the Mediterranean or N Africa.

The majority of the matches that they have found for me on Ancestry are from my American Indian side and are cousins (some of which I know but haven't spoken to in a very long time that are still out in California and Oregon).

It's obviously far from a perfect process, but cool to get a picture of who you are none the less.

He's what the KKK would call a mongrel .

But on a serious note, how accurate could those tests be? I thought Spain was at one point ruled by Northern Africans and Muslim Emirates? I'd imagine that would throw off results a bit.

My sister (no pics) took one.
Not sure how much I buy it. Our grandmother was a Lebanese immigrant. We've traced her family back a couple hundred years in the Middle East. She was without a doubt full blooded Middle East, unless some small dilution several, several generations back. So logic would say that us, the grandchildren of a full blooded Middle Eastern woman would be somewhere in the realm of 25%, surely no lower than 15% at the extreme. But her test came back something like this:

91.7% European (35% British/ Scottish/ Irish. 25% Italian, 15% German, 16.7% Scandinavian)
(The bit about the Italian and Scandinavian was surprising. The other side of the family is German, but those countries are close enough that it's believable)

8% Middle Eastern

0.3% North African


I'm just not sure how the Middle Eastern came out so low. Unless the traits from those other areas are just so dominant that it's drowned out that part of us.
I'm curious to take it myself and see if I don't come out different than her.

95% Irish
5% Scandinavian (Norwegian)

I did when i found out my GF was pregnant and she did hears as well. I knew my grandmother was caddo indian but I have more indian in my blood than anything else. explains my skin tone and hair

If the Cherokee is more than 7 generations back he probably inherited no Cherokee features. That doesn't mean he doesn't have any Cherokee ancestors.

My mother in law did it and she was disappointed bc she thought it would tell her what TOWN her French ancestors came from. Gaaaaaaaa

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claim to be part Cherokee

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