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Geneology/DNA testing (2167 hits)

My sister (we have the same parents) did a DNA swab. She's on BWC as NurseNessa I believe. Anyway, we wanted to trace our african roots. The goodnews, is that we know our ancestral roots trace back to ANGOLA and some Equitorial Guinea in west africa. It makes sense. Looks like my father's side. What surprised me was some of the other stuff that showed up. Like German. . Is this from my mother's side? I doubt from my father's. Unless I am reading this wrong. This was not the DIRECT ancestral roots, but our DEEP ancestral roots. See the link below for how it panned out. My sister paid only 260 dollars for this test if you want it done....

Here's just a part of the results, tracing our deep ancestral roots:

Part B: Native Population Match: These results are your Top 20 matches in a database of 661
native populations that have experienced minimal movement and admixture in modern history
(approximately, the last 500 years). Individual matches do not necessarily indicate recent social
or cultural affiliation with a particular ethnicity. Instead, your Native Population Match results
identify populations where your DNA is most common, reflecting your deep ancestral origins.

This would mean that the tribes these results are based on
have had little exposure to intermixing with other people
but at some point in history, someone ventured out
of said tribes and were exposed to other gene pools... the dna traced our DNA back to those groups, in the percentages on that page below:

HERE IS how ours turned out:

http://ehughesbooks.com/images/ancestrydna...