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What makes me curious, why do so many white Americans claim "my great great grandmother grandmother was a Cherokee princess"
It's basically a punchline at this point
I thought the headline was "99% of us are European NUTS"
I highly recommend the 23andme DNA tests. Lots of info and they constantly send you updates on research, ask you to take medical surveys, you can contact distant relatives.
My little Godson has Leukemia. He is 100% white. Race only matters when it comes to bone marrow transplants. If you are mixed race, you perhaps cannot donate your bone marrow to the pure raced people.
People get interested in genealogy for a lot of reasons, but for me it really boils down to connecting with history. I have learned so much history by investigating my forebears, much more than I absorbed in high school history class.
So true. I found history in school boring -- names, dates, battles. Went to Colonial Williamsburg and got hooked. Started reading biographies and got a more personal view. My uncle did the legwork into our ancestry and found a war hero from a European war.
My DNA test confirmed a family 'rumor' about an ancestor, too.
My little Godson has Leukemia. He is 100% white. Race only matters when it comes to bone marrow transplants. If you are mixed race, you perhaps cannot donate your bone marrow to the pure raced people.
Wow, I didn't know that. Interbreeding would be a disadvantage then.
Wow, I didn't know that. Interbreeding would be a disadvantage then.
In a way, yes.
My little godson is German, Irish. Even his dad is not a match for him. His mother is nowhere to be found. He has no siblings.
I am mixed, so not a match. I can give him blood, we both have rare blood type. Bone marrow? No
add: Even with full-blooded siblings, the possible combinations of HLA-antigens make the chance of a match about 35%.
Because tissue type is inherited, patients are most likely to match someone of their same race or ethnicity.
Let's say you are German and Irish, your best chance is to find somebody with the same ethnicities.
What makes me curious, why do so many white Americans claim "my great great grandmother grandmother was a Cherokee princess"
It's basically a punchline at this point
To be fair, the legend of the Cherokee Great Grandmother is very common among African-Americans too. The fact of the matter is, a vast majority of Americans who are not of Hispanic heritage do not have significant NA ancestry.
I read somewhere that the average white American is over 99% white, with the greatest admixture(racially speaking) being concentrated in the deep south. Even looking on youtube, I seen a few that even had 100% European for their DNA results. There are also some African-Americans who are as much as 97% Sub-Saharan African, although the average is about 82% SA(predominately of West/Central Africa).
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