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Demonaut

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11. I did the 23andme and the Ancestry DNA...like I said, probably not the tribe

Reply to pnwmom (Reply #8)

Thu Jun 30, 2016, 05:36 PM

Jun 2016

and the test results differed somewhat, 23andme gave me a 21% native american but I think the ancestry is more accurate as they have checked a larger pool of dna samples globally

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Liz Warren. Why the Cherokee rolls can be used to prove but NOT to disprove heritage. [View all] pnwmom Jun 2016 OP

How about DNA testing? kimbutgar Jun 2016 #1

I would assume that has an error rate, too, and she only thinks she has a pnwmom Jun 2016 #2

a DNA test would prove "Native American" percentage but probably not the tribe Demonaut Jun 2016 #6

But how accurate is the test? Are you sure it can reliably pick up the small pnwmom Jun 2016 #8

I did the 23andme and the Ancestry DNA...like I said, probably not the tribe Demonaut Jun 2016 #11

It makes a difference between quaint family story and solid public identity Bad Thoughts Jun 2016 #3

She wasn't ever trying to establish a "solid public identity." She was attacked pnwmom Jun 2016 #4

If she identifies as part Cherokee then that is good enough for me mwrguy Jun 2016 #5

Elizabeth Warren was born in Oklahoma. Most people born in that state assume that somewhere back Arkansas Granny Jun 2016 #7

Oh good grief Motley13 Jun 2016 #9

Some branches of my family claim Native America blood csziggy Jun 2016 #10

To understand how the rolls can be so incomplete Runningdawg Jun 2016 #12

Thank you so much for this information, Runningdawg. It makes perfect sense pnwmom Jun 2016 #13