Who Do You Think You Are?

[carnation]

Originally Posted by Munchkin03

Have you read One Drop? It's a book about a man who passed as white (was Louisiana Creole), and his kids didn't find out until they were adults and he was on his deathbed. At the end, there's a discussion of the tests and how they'll skew wildly even among siblings. A blond, blue-eyed man had a higher percentage of African ancestry than his phenotypically "Black" aunt. It's pretty interesting stuff.

That is so wild! You just never know what DNA will do. This brother is more phenotypically non-white than I am, yet we had the same results. Our sister is the most phenotypically non-white but I suppose if she got tested, she could end up with either more or less Caucasian DNA. There doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to it!

All of our ancestors who weren't white came from Louisiana. I know that my great great grandmother was NA (the DNA tests only confirmed what we already knew) but all attempts to find out which tribe have come to a dead end. She was probably Coushatta.