holy cow. i sent a message to my nearest dna match. she is adopted.

[csziggy]

40. Learning the history and stories of my ancestors was what got me hooked on geneaology

I did my DNA as did my sister and our Mom. The only really startling bit was the both my sister and I have a trace of American Indian. Now, my paternal grandmother and my Mom did a lot of research on their family trees and no trace of Indian is in either. My mother's ancestor was reputed to have married an Indian woman, but Mom's DNA showed no native trace at all.

As little as shows - less than 1% - the Indian ancestor had to have been about eight generations back. By that far back,my grandmother's lines have a lot of women whose parents are unknown and in many cases, not even their surnames are known. I suspect that is where our trace comes from but it will be almost impossible to prove.