anyone get unexpected / surprise results in DNA test?

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Anonymous wrote:Black African American surprised to find my results were European and African split right down the middle 50/50. The other shock was for my entire life I’ve heard that we also have Native American ancestry. My DNA proved otherwise.

Widespread DNA testing has show. That many of the family stories of having a NA ancestors is false. There’ was very little mixing between the Native Americans and the settlers.
At least in North America.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My DH had almost 10% Native American ancestry. No family knowledge or even legend - was a complete surprise.

Is he Hispanic?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Black African American surprised to find my results were European and African split right down the middle 50/50. The other shock was for my entire life I’ve heard that we also have Native American ancestry. My DNA proved otherwise.

So you’re 50% white and didn’t know you had any white relatives/ancestors?

[Anonymous]

I’m mainly British, but I have a Hispanic grandmother. I found out I was 7% sub-Saharan African, which was a total surprise.

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Anonymous wrote:My results were fascinating, and when combined with genealogy research, I learned things I wouldn’t have otherwise known. My great-grandparents were immigrants from Eastern Europe and Italy, and on my other side I have other ancestors from Ireland, England and Germany. All of my results lined up with what we knew, but they even revealed things I did not know.

Germany is currently offering dual citizenship/passports to US citizens who can trace back and prove their relative came from Germany after a certain year. It's a short term program that will only be in effect for a couple years I believe. You should see if you qualify. An EU passport would be an awesome travel or retirement asset.

Do you know what it's called? It must be very new.

There is a longtime program that gives German citizenship to descendants of Holocaust survivors and Germans whose citizenship was canceled due to Nazi era laws. The information is on the Germany embassy website. My spouse did it and now he and our kids have German / EU citizenship.

What are the tax implications for having dual citizenship?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m mainly British, but I have a Hispanic grandmother. I found out I was 7% sub-Saharan African, which was a total surprise.

That is because that's where the original nomads started walking to Northern Europe were from.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m mainly British, but I have a Hispanic grandmother. I found out I was 7% sub-Saharan African, which was a total surprise.

That is because that's where the original nomads started walking to Northern Europe were from.

The tests only show your ancestry within the last 500 years. Most white people don’t get any sub Saharan ancestry in their results.

[Anonymous]

My good friend found out that her dad was not her biological dad. His best friend was her real dad. It really shook her up.

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Anonymous wrote:Black African American surprised to find my results were European and African split right down the middle 50/50. The other shock was for my entire life I’ve heard that we also have Native American ancestry. My DNA proved otherwise.

So you’re 50% white and didn’t know you had any white relatives/ancestors?

Correct!

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Anonymous wrote:Black African American surprised to find my results were European and African split right down the middle 50/50. The other shock was for my entire life I’ve heard that we also have Native American ancestry. My DNA proved otherwise.

So you’re 50% white and didn’t know you had any white relatives/ancestors?

Correct!

I am sure the one drop rule is applicable here. I don’t think this is uncommon. There are plenty of blacks especially in VA that are fair skinned and look white but are considered black. My grandmother looked like a white woman but was black.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m mainly British, but I have a Hispanic grandmother. I found out I was 7% sub-Saharan African, which was a total surprise.

That is because that's where the original nomads started walking to Northern Europe were from.

The tests only show your ancestry within the last 500 years. Most white people don’t get any sub Saharan ancestry in their results.

I did. I'm part Somalian apparently. So that was exciting.

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Anonymous wrote:Black African American surprised to find my results were European and African split right down the middle 50/50. The other shock was for my entire life I’ve heard that we also have Native American ancestry. My DNA proved otherwise.

So you’re 50% white and didn’t know you had any white relatives/ancestors?

Correct!

I am sure the one drop rule is applicable here. I don’t think this is uncommon. There are plenty of blacks especially in VA that are fair skinned and look white but are considered black. My grandmother looked like a white woman but was black.

+1 I have bunch of acquaintances who are from ROVA who are like Karen's complexion from RHOP and they would not call themselves anything but African American. I don't see this as much in MD or even where I from in the northeast.

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What people forget is that every family tree has some lies in it
In other words people who lived in different times didn’t view dna and genetics the same way as the modern man
Disease and pestilence, war and natural disasters wreaked havoc on family trees
People really did live in an adoption type of community, society
It was not uncommon at all for a 23 year old woman to have 7 children, and all those kids would not have been hers.
Families raised their own orphans, sometimes the neighbors orphan
Occasionally the family farm was passed down to the servant boy who had lived on the farm his entire life
Perhaps the farm hand had been the owners illegitimate son, perhaps not
Either way, the family trees are more a record of property ownership. Not necessarily blood relatives

[Anonymous]

DH got 2% West Africa. He always heard he had Native American ancestry.

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Ok this thread has inspired me to possibly blow up my family based on results. I just ordered the test, it's arriving in a few days. I know that both my grandpa and my dad have had multiple affairs so let's see if there's any surprise family members walking around