While it is true there is no test that will determine which tribe you might descend from--DNA testing can be used to determine whether you might have Indian ancestry. http://www.allthingscherokee.com/faq_genetics.html<http://www.allthingscherokee.com/faq_genetics.html> Debbie ----- Original Message ----- From: tnanders-request@rootsweb.com<mailto:tnanders-request@rootsweb.com> To: tnanders@rootsweb.com<mailto:tnanders@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2008 9:21 PM Subject: TNANDERS Digest, Vol 3, Issue 123 Today's Topics: 1. Re: Moore's Chapel (Ron Evans) 2. Re: Heritage of Anderson County, TN - 2000 (Ron Evans) 3. Re: Native American Heritage (Jerry Bryan) 4. Heritage of Anderson County, TN - 2000 (HelenD1939@aol.com<mailto:HelenD1939@aol.com>) 5. Native American Heritage (HelenD1939@aol.com<mailto:HelenD1939@aol.com>) 6. Re: Heritage of Anderson County, TN - 2000 (Ron Evans) 7. Heritage of Anderson County, TN - 2000 (HelenD1939@aol.com<mailto:HelenD1939@aol.com>) 8. for the person who has a Kesterson kinfolk (HelenD1939@aol.com<mailto:HelenD1939@aol.com>) 9. Re: Moore's Chapel (MPiros1120@aol.com<mailto:MPiros1120@aol.com>) 10. Re: Heritage of Anderson County, TN - 2000 (Phyllis) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 3 Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 20:35:27 -0500 From: "Jerry Bryan" <c24m48@hotmail.com<mailto:c24m48@hotmail.com>> Subject: Re: [TNANDERS] Native American Heritage To: <tnanders@rootsweb.com<mailto:tnanders@rootsweb.com>> Message-ID: <BAY138-DAV8A67EFFFDA0A00687A603CB1F0@phx.gbl<mailto:BAY138-DAV8A67EFFFDA0A00687A603CB1F0@phx.gbl>> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original > .... and have completed the full > DNA test program. There is no Native American blood in our family as > proven > by those tests. My understanding of DNA testing is there are only two kinds of testing. A male can test his paternal line (father, father's father, father's father's father, etc.). A male or a female can test their maternal line (mother, mother's mother, mother's mother' mother, etc.) I don't think it's possible to test for any other ancestors because the DNA essentially gets too mixed together for all your other ancestors. Paternal line testing is possible because Y-DNA is only passed down father to son, never from the mother, and never with any mixing. Maternal line testing is possible because mitochondrial DNA is only passed down mother to child, never from the father, and never with any mixing. Is there some other kind of testing for Native American ancestry that can test for ancestors other than paternal line or maternal line? Jerry Bryan