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From: Ernie hurst <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Which mtDNA test for insight into ethnic origins?
Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 06:58:54 -0700 (PDT)
In-Reply-To: <20060930090653.43247.qmail@web30502.mail.mud.yahoo.com>


James

Check out
www.ancestrybydna.com

Their test gives you percentages, but don't expect to
find much further back than a "full blooded" great
grandparent, in your "minority" ethnicities. With a
3rd ggm said to be Cherokee & a 4th ggf, in another
line, listed as "mulatto" in late 1700s tax records,
mine came back 100% European.



--- James Blair <> wrote:

> To tell the truth that's what I thought. But my
> sister is
> under the impression (saw something on tv about it)
> that
> it's possible to get a DNA report which will say
> (for
> instance) that a person is 70% European, 20&
> Sub-Saharan
> African, and 10% Native American. Is there any
> test, or
> combination of tests, that could produce such a
> report?
>
> James


Ernie Hurst

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