@Baldimo,
Quote:Since I have .1% Nigerian in my DNA, can I claim to be black? I'm way more African than she is Indian.
If you were in the south before the civil rights era, you wouldn't have a choice if it were known or obvious.
Moreover, the DNA report is not as simple as it seems. The following is from the link in my post of which you responded to in the above quote.
Quote: But the generational range based on the ancestor that the report identified suggests she’s between 1/64th and 1/1,024th Native American. The report notes there could be missed ancestors.
Quote:There were five parts of Warren’s DNA that signaled she had a Native American ancestor, according to the report. The largest piece of Native American DNA was found on her 10th chromosome, according to the report. Each human has 23 pairs of chromosomes.
Quote:Bustamante also compared Warren’s DNA to white populations in Utah and Great Britain to determine if the amounts of Native American markers in Warren’s sample were significant or just background noise.
Warren has 12 times more Native American blood than a white person from Great Britain and 10 times more than a white person from Utah, the report found.
In any event, an unbiased person can easily see how this all played in Warren's family. It is where stories gets passed down and information gets lost along the way. For instance, my husband grandfather's brother looked like a full blooded Indian and so do some of the other relatives which I have seen as well, yet, my husband grandfather looked nothing like an Indian. In fact, my husband grandmother wouldn't let her brother-in-law in the house on account of it. Yet, my husband don't know the exact connection with him or even if he (the brother of my husband's grandfather) was an Indian. I guess it wasn't talked about if he was, thereby making my husband's grandfather a Native American (sorry for saying Indian above). No telling how many genealogical secrets there are in families in the south.
