[alexander_busek]

What did come was DNA results (.7 percent) from western Africa (probably the region of Gambia to Ghana). [...] But that wasn’t really the end of the DNA business. There is a small bit of Ashkenazi Jewish blood (.5 percent showed up).

I strongly doubt, given the current State of the Art, that these DNA tests are truly that precise.

Regards,

[Verginius Rufus]

Yes, very low percentages of a certain ancestry may be meaningless. I have taken the DNA test with several companies and received wildly different ethnic breakdowns (some of which bear little resemblance to what I know from genealogical research).

If you go back several generations, you have ancestors from whom you have inherited no DNA at all. So lack of any Native American DNA would not conclusively prove that Liz Warren is lying. Even though we know that she is.

No American Indian ancestry myself, but I had cousins in the 19th century who married Cherokees and went with their families on the Trail of Tears to Indian Territory--while Liz Warren's white ancestors were prodding them along.