All parts of your DNA is a part of you, no matter how big or small a particular heritage percentage.
Currently, I believe Ancestry’s DNA test only goes back something like 6 or 7 generations back. They say they update the results every couple months, so your results will probably change.
Have you tried to research the line and verify the Native American heritage? Just curious.
That’s really cool.
Have you tried to research the line and verify the Native American heritage? Just curious.
The paperwork says 7 to 8 generations. Given men on my father's side tended to wait to have kids until age 40, that could take me back 320 years. That is a huge step forward because records on that side of the family don't exist/vaporized/were destroyed before 1912, when my dad was 2 and my grandfather was 43.
Thanks for using this terminology.
Is Aboriginal considered a negative term?Thanks for using this terminology.
If your DNA is registered, you may be able to find cousins who have the missing documentation you are looking for.
Not negative, no, and neither is indigenous. Both terms are used in some official contexts but the people do refer to themselves as "First Nations" and that's what you'll hear here in media, public speeches by politicians and the like. Slight difference in how it is here-to-there. The term "native" is seldom used, "Canadian Indian" is never used. Although they belong to "bands", not "tribes", their "tribal lands" are referred to as "reserves", not "reservations". I live 1/2 a mile from the largest urban reserve in Canada with over 12,000 residents. It's called the Tsuut'ina Nation. There's another large one, but more rural, about 25 miles east of the city called the Siksika Nation. Both peoples are descended from Plains Indians, and are various lineages of the Blackfoot band.
In the US most prefer to be referred to by name. Which is why I said that DH,DS, and DD are citizens of the Cherokee nation. If a general term is needed, indigenous or first peoples is preferred.
