Doctor CamNC4Me wrote:Real question, what percentage of DNA would you need to be considered x-y-z, or that you're of x-y-z heritage?
For example, I have 3% Scandinavian DNA (down from 17% when they revised their technique, I guess). How much of a claim to Scandinavian heritage would make sense to claim?
As an aside, I'm fine with not being Scandinavian, I'm just curious if there's some sort of standard that applies when claiming heritage.
- Doc
I don't know. But I do know that my great-grandfather on my Mom's side was married to an Indian. I saw family photos and you can clearly see she is a Native American.
My Mom has always had darker skin, dark eyes and dark hair. My brother and sister look a lot like her, dark hair and dark eyes. I, however, took after our father. I have his green/blue eyes and when I was younger I had platinum blonde hair and freckles and my hair gradually got darker over the years. You just never would have guessed I had any Native American blood. For most of my life people joked that I must have been adopted because I looked so different from the rest of the family. Parents divorced when I was 10 so it was usually just the four of us.
Anyway, I took the Ancestry.com test and it says I'm 2% Native American, 1% European Jew, and the rest is basically a mix between Scotland/Ireland and Germany.
I would have thought more than 2% given that my grandfather was supposedly 50%.
This is us at Olan Mills, 1978.
