Family lore also went down my history as well. The story led to the great-great-grandmother who was dark-skinned, brought to southern Tenn by the husband, and claimed her mother was raped by Cherokee Indians (would have been in the 1770s-1780s).
Well, I took the DNA test and no Indian DNA came out of the results.
But that’s not really the end of the story. What did come was DNA results (.7 percent) from western Africa (probably the region of Gambia to Ghana). So the relative’s story was faked up by herself to avoid saying that she was a slave-child product with some plantation owner.
But that wasn’t really the end of the DNA business. There is a small bit of Ashkenazi Jewish blood (.5 percent showed up). That was not anticipated either. But I went back in family history, and there is this line of the family that lived ‘forever’ in France, and left in the 1650 time period....spending two generations in central Germany, and then leaving for Maryland. Somewhere in this two generation period, one of them married some local German, who probably was a product of some Ashkenazi Jewish family.
Interesting story. I took the test and it just confirmed what I already expected. English 33%, Scottish 30%, Kraut 25% and Irish 11% in that order with less than 1% east Europe, south Europe and Iberia. You don’t get much whiter or more European than that. And I’m a heterosexual male to boot. I’m doomed.
I strongly doubt, given the current State of the Art, that these DNA tests are truly that precise.
Regards,