Whole Genome DNA testing will reliably tell you about ethnicity and/or Native American or other Asian ancestry back to about the 3rd great-grandparents. Beyond that, it can be iffy whether it shows up. Y-DNA and mtDNA testing, of course, only tell you about the top line of the pedigree and the bottom line...and there can be other ethnicities along the other lines. My genome testing shows that I'm 100% Northern European but beyond that you can't really break it down to specific countries based upon DNA because even in ancient times our ancestors migrated from place to place. For example, even though I'm 100% Northern European I have a non-ABO blood antigen that is very rare and only found in 8% of Northern Europeans. It is rare in ALL populations but where it originated is in the Arab population in the Middle East where 25% of the Arab population carry it. So someone migrated from the Arab population who carried the mutation and that is where all of the 8% of Northern Europeans who carry the antigen inherited it. So far, everyone I've talked to who also has 100% Northern European heritage plus carries this particular antigen has some Scotch-Irish blood...and that is the only thing we have in common...so some ancestor traveled from the Middle East many years ago and brought the mutation into a small portion of the Scottish and Scotch-Irish population. Joan In a message dated 1/6/2012 1:05:25 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, skeezicks1957@mchsi.com writes: My family had one of those rumors. Our DNA test showed no Native American but a strong line of Eastern European while I had been able to find mostly Western European in my paper trail. But I was going back to only immigration and if you think about it, lots of migration has taken place in Europe over history. I still haven't found any Hungararian/Romanian people but Pennsylvania Dutch and Irish could be quite a mixture in general. I have read about those "Dark German" that no one knows exactly why they are dark. So my high cheek bones have another origin that time will tell as I continue to dig.

Just remember that a Y DNA test only tests you father's father's father, etc. And the MtDNA test only tests your mother's mother's mother's line. This leaves most of your genealogical ancestor lines untested--so, you could still have Native American blood there someplace. Nancy Welty Ross Researching:Welty,Whaling,Allen,Buck, Lovelace,Doyle,Taylor,Greer,Ruble,Tyler,West,Rankin IL/TN/NC/VA/KY/MD/PA > From: JYoung6180@aol.com > Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2012 15:14:22 -0500 > To: palancas@rootsweb.com; lumackie@gmail.com > Subject: Re: [PALANCAS] Conrad Hoak 1711 Strasburg > > Whole Genome DNA testing will reliably tell you about ethnicity and/or > Native American or other Asian ancestry back to about the 3rd > great-grandparents. Beyond that, it can be iffy whether it shows up. Y-DNA and mtDNA > testing, of course, only tell you about the top line of the pedigree and the > bottom line...and there can be other ethnicities along the other lines. > > My genome testing shows that I'm 100% Northern European but beyond that you > can't really break it down to specific countries based upon DNA because > even in ancient times our ancestors migrated from place to place. For > example, even though I'm 100% Northern European I have a non-ABO blood antigen > that is very rare and only found in 8% of Northern Europeans. It is rare in > ALL populations but where it originated is in the Arab population in the > Middle East where 25% of the Arab population carry it. So someone migrated from > the Arab population who carried the mutation and that is where all of the > 8% of Northern Europeans who carry the antigen inherited it. So far, > everyone I've talked to who also has 100% Northern European heritage plus carries > this particular antigen has some Scotch-Irish blood...and that is the only > thing we have in common...so some ancestor traveled from the Middle East > many years ago and brought the mutation into a small portion of the Scottish > and Scotch-Irish population. > > Joan > > > In a message dated 1/6/2012 1:05:25 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, > skeezicks1957@mchsi.com writes: > > My family had one of those rumors. Our DNA test showed no Native > American but a strong line of Eastern European while I had been able > to find mostly Western European in my paper trail. But I was going > back to only immigration and if you think about it, lots of migration > has taken place in Europe over history. I still haven't found any > Hungararian/Romanian people but Pennsylvania Dutch and Irish could be > quite a mixture in general. I have read about those "Dark German" > that no one knows exactly why they are dark. So my high cheek bones > have another origin that time will tell as I continue to dig. > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PALANCAS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message