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My picture is on the site and I have never experienced anyone not wanting to communicate with me due to my race. Matter of fact, I sometimes get people reaching out to me to see if we are related or for general genealogy chat.
What I don't understand is why being related in some way to royalty is such a big thing.
The way I see it, British royal lines have been well-traced and very well documented, written about in books, and researched by countless historians.
Personally, I would love to be related in some way to any famous line; not because it is "cool" to have a famous royal connection, but because you will be able to explore so much more of your bloodline through documented accounts.
Who wouldn't want to be able to read countless historical novel depicting their ancestors in great detail?
The way I see it, British royal lines have been well-traced and very well documented, written about in books, and researched by countless historians.
Personally, I would love to be related in some way to any famous line; not because it is "cool" to have a famous royal connection, but because you will be able to explore so much more of your bloodline through documented accounts.
Who wouldn't want to be able to read countless historical novel depicting their ancestors in great detail?
Right. Also, if your ancestors immigrated to North America from Great Britain before about 1750, you have more of a chance of being related to European royalty than someone living IN Great Britain now. That's because many younger sons of noble lineage, who had limited inheritance benefits in GB, migrated to North America for the land opportunities (not to mention other opportunities). So...many wealthy or well connected families in GB were represented in the early settlers of America.
Back to the point the OP made, my wife is like 99.9 Northern European with .1% Unknown according to 23andme. She never logged into 23andme again after discovering that the rumors she was part American Indian were possibly untrue.
The absence of Native American DNA as tested by current methods does not exclude native American ancestry. It just means that the alleles in the test bank are not present in your DNA. So while the presence of those alleles is confirmatory, the absence of them is not exclusionary. You may have a Native American in your tree but just did not happen to inherit one of the genes that 23AndMe associates with Native Americans from him. In fact, you may have no contribution to your genome from him at all. it may have completely disappeared from his descendants before your generation.
How long ago did she get her results? I have a DNA relative with initial results questioning her NA heritage. At that time 23andMe was still using the Ancestry Painting and X chromosome info did not factor into your breakdown. Once they switched over to Ancestry Composition that included X chromosome painting my relative's NA ancestry was revealed.
Also, her NA segments may be so small that they are just not detected at 23andMe. She could have many small segments that add up. She should either upload to Gedmatch or send her results to Dr. McDonald.
Wow you guys really took this and ran with it lol. I posted it more as a vent from all of the posts on 23andme. Didn't mean any offense. Also not sure what's going on in the post above this one lol
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I think it's a matter of so many generations of so many "white people" DENYING even the most remote possibility that "any other kinda blood" just might have snuck in there. I mean, I am a "white person" with very dark eyes and very dark, coarse, thick, curly hair. As a plain ol' white girl growing up, I actually received Afro Sheen as a gag gift several times in high school. I often heard jokes of "who snuck into the woodpile" or "Did your mama get jumped taking out the trash one night?" - that sort of thing. I mean, it just "wasn't done." Even when it WAS done.
I think people are delving into it with some relish and curiosity now that it's not considered something to be hidden or to be ashamed of now. Personally, I think it's healthy.
The pendulum has swung too far in the other direction for too long - time for some correction and more openness about the histories and lifestyles of the people who ALL contributed to who we each are today.
My 23andme results might be lily white for all I know - but it really won't matter to me one way or the other. I am simply curious, and of COURSE if something previously undiscovered makes it's way to the light, I'll be excited about it - no matter the color of the skin involved.
For instance, who on earth would have thought that my extremely Aryan looking husband would be nearly 2 percent subSaharan African? LOL you can bet I got a kick out of telling his mother that! (Is that bad?)
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