Nancy- Reread my message...that is PRECISELY what I said, but whole genome testing WILL identify all lines in your ancestry as to ethnicity/Race. Joan In a message dated 1/6/2012 4:18:57 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, nlwross@hotmail.com writes: 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 ------------------------------- 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