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Big Ass On Fire
Jun 16, 2023

My family had the Native American ancestor too- even a very early picture of her looking vaguely Indian and family rumors about how you didn’t come out and say you were when marrying back then but no, 0 dna.

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Big Ass On Fire
Jun 16, 2023

It's funny because my mom is huge on genealogy. She's pretty much done with it now but she'd visit courthouses and pull wills and stuff to piece together a very comprehensive tree.

The Native American claim was just based on family gossip.

Also I have a deceased relative that was "Native American", grew up in a NA orphanage, had some fine NA bead art, grandkids went to school partially on scholarships etc. He really did have a lot of features you'd associate with Native Americans. Anyway his grandkids did the test not long ago , after he passed away and it turns out his ancestors were from some Pacific Island. I guess when he was a boy he was put up for adoption, looked like an Indian so the gov. put him in the orphanage and history unfolded from there.

Big Ass On Fire
Jun 16, 2023

Extra Large Marge posted:

My great-grandfather Ansel came to this country from Bohemia to make horse carts, but became a dairy farmer after that rear end in a top hat Henry Ford started making model Ts

My father-in-law found out he's 3% Ashkenazi Jew and brings that up quite a bit now.
I had a 1 or 3% AJ dna for a spell but Ancestry shuffled it out. Temporary Jew.

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