Loading ...Being aware of the database abuses, I was very reluctant. But a friend’s daughter was working for a (relatively) small lab in the Pacific Northwest and I got assurances that my self-copyright on my DNA would not be abused, and the lab did not keep records or share data. So I went for a broad, generalized test of racial content. Simple and cheapest.
I know my father’s side well. The family has geneology records going back to 1845 when the immigrant came from Germany. We have his immigration record, and have located family back in the home village in Germany. My mother’s side is less distinct. Mom was of French Canadian descent, and her father’s records were lost in a church fire in Quebec. The family story is that our four-greats grandmother was a Chippewa indian. The French explorers intermarried with the natives in the new world. I was interested in learning the indian content of my DNA.
So the generalized racial content came back caucasian with 3 to 5% asian… which is what American Indian racial content consists of. (There is no other possible asian content in our family to skew the result.) So I have documented proof of my slight indian ancestry. Not enough to claim BIA rights… but I have self-claimed religious Nemenhah Medicine Man rights as old timers here know.