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In reply to the discussion: Here's the deal with Elizabeth Warren's Native American heritage [View all]Ms. Toad
(33,915 posts)44. for a while she did -
and her siblings do.
And - it is partly a result of self-protection on my sister's part. Her mother has a fantasy that my sister is wealthy. In reality, my sister is living paycheck to paycheck, and her birth mother is withholding acknowledgement because my sister isn't sending her money.
There will be more options after she dies - not that I would wish it on her - but it is hard to see my sister denied a relationship with her birth mother becasue of the same kine emotional trauma that resulted in her children being taken from her in the first place.
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Since, as you correctly say, someone could have a NA ancestor but no DNA from that person
pnwmom
Nov 2017
#24
I've taken the test and it's very unreliable for amounts under 6%. It was fun to see that the
pnwmom
Nov 2017
#39
The poster is right. Just as two siblings can inherit very different mixing of genes --
pnwmom
Nov 2017
#40
Climate change will wipe us all out soon and this is what THEY want to talk about
Eliot Rosewater
Nov 2017
#5
Suuuure. Just like Obama's citizenship was "put to rest" by the release of his birth certificate
Hekate
Nov 2017
#15
Don't give in to the ratfcking. It never, ever stops, and nothing will satisfy the haters
Hekate
Nov 2017
#17