My family oral genealogy history squashed by DNA results

[GrymJack]

It became very popular in the sixties to discover you had some American Indian ancestry. Most of those claims were pretty specious and the claimant was often pursuing an agenda. That said, the many Indian groups did have a habit of kidnapping and enslaving folks, often women and children, regardless of race. These captives were often assimulated into the tribes by marriage or adoption as full fledged members. So it entirely possible that an individual of European or African DNA could be considered a fully acceppted member of an Indian family, tribe. There is also the forcing of the Civilized tribes in Oklahoma into accepting into the tribe all slaves they held. If this is a subject you are interested in pursuing I reccomend the 'Historical Sketch of the Cherokee' written by James Mooney of the Native American Library.

Jack

[KMCMICHAEL]

The YDNA research will soon tell us everything.
My father, rather dark skin claimed Indian ancestry. None showed up on DNA. I found one that was born in 1676.
DNA indicates mine weren’t from the highlands but Dumfries. Appearing in Virginia around 1650. Likely sold by Cromwell to a plantation. It did point me in a direction and unearthed some Revolutionary military records from South Carolina.

[Ninehostages]

My YDNA put me into a "High Kings of Ireland" cohort. You do know that the Roman "Scoti" referred to the inhabitants of Ireland, not of Caledonia?
Truth is that the Irish and Scottish are pretty much the same people (waaay too much Viking in both! ... but not in I.)