The folks at AncestryDNA just sent me this information. I was told, while growing up, that I was part Cherokee, on my father’s side, but that is apparently not the case. My mother’s map has nothing from Africa, so I can logically deduce that my recent African ancestors are on my father’s side. Of course, if you go back even further, we’re all Africans, since that is where human beings first evolved.
For decades, I have been told that one of my great-grandmothers was half-Cherokee, making me at least 1/16th Native American. Recently, though, I sent a DNA sample to AncestryDNA, and these are the results — no Native Americans of any kind. I was also told that I have no Irish ancestors, and that’s not supported by the data, either. Here are the numbers that go with the map above.
The results do support a less precise estimate of my ethnicity: I’m an American mutt. No surprise there.
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