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The knew which Jewish tribe my grandmother was. They knew exactly what tribe Jillian belonged to. She is a poster here.I know they can't identify a tribe or a nationality, but they can identify Native American DNA. They were able to identify the general areas where the first Native Americans came from, based on DNA from a 5,000 year old skeleton found in a cave in Central America (I think it was Central America--it was on a PBS show a month or so ago).Not to take this too far off course, but really? Ancestry DNA test they try to keep selling me for $69 isn't going to tell me where my heritage is from? Like Warren, there is a persistent rumor on my mom's side that there is an Indian in the woodpile.We get that you're not the sharpest tack, but Pocahontas has already taken a DNA test.Or more correctly another experienced parrot.
It's stupefying how people will continue to parrot the same debunked myth ("DNA test") after they've already been proven to be mythological. It's as if reality has no meaning and wishful thinking fantasies carry the day.
That's just bizzaro.
Just as ludicrous if not more so is the unmitigated arrogance of some klown like the OP who thinks he can just swagger around demanding people he doesn't know have to take a "DNA test" to disprove a myth only he himself has swallowed in his abject gullibility, which wouldn't be able to prove or disprove his pointless point anyway.
This board is not a political forum. It's a mental institution.
I have too.
Mine told me that my closest genetic community would be around Serbia --- a place where I have no family history whatsoever, ever. However I doubt Pocahontas ever took such a test. They weren't invented yet in her time.
DNA tests can't distinguish nationalities, let alone races. Everybody knows that but the mythologists continue trying to sell bullshit. Hence the existence of this thread. The OP's daily exercise to dump his name all over all the new threads, and this is the best he could come up with. Guess there wasn't a "World Toilet Day" available.
What do you mean, exactly, Pogo, that these tests don't tell you any of that?
They cannot determine racial content, let alone a tribe or a nationality.
LiveScience:
>> A common misconception about genetic ancestry testing, Bolnick said, is that it can reveal information about an individual's ancestry. It cannot.This whole "DNA test" charade is a pathetic crutch the fake news mongers lean on to try to make what they must know is a lost cause argument. Not only is there no such test that would make such a determination, more to the point nobody on earth owes somebody else a test of their own body just because some inquisitor won't drop the myth propping up his bullshit argument.
"People assume these tests can tell you your race or ethnicity and reveal exactly where your ancestors lived or exactly what social group they identified with," she said.
Recently, the Web site Ancestry.com rolled out a new service that allows people to mail in DNA samples to see if they have "genetic cousins" in the company's database and reveal their ancient origins.
One problem with this approach, scientists say, is that because such tests analyze less than 1 percent of a person's genome, they will miss most of a person's relatives.
"If you take a mitochondrial DNA test, you learn something about your mother's mother's mother's lineage," Bolnick said. "If you go back 10 generations, that's telling you something about only one out of more than a thousand ancestors."
Such tests also cannot account for recent migrations of peoples from their ancient homelands. "Present-day patterns of residence are rarely identical to what existed in the past, and social groups have changed over time, in name and composition," the scientists write.<<
The level of that kind of arrogance is just way off the damn scale.
I myself am Irish, and the reader can believe that or not believe it as they choose, but I damn sure don't "owe" anybody a frickin' DNA test to prove it, even if it COULD do that.
So your results didn't include any Northern European ancestry? I'll bet it did. You don't know who everyone's Daddy was, Pogo. I don't mean yours, but maybe a great grandmother took a fancy to a neighbor or someone was adopted. They didn't talk about those things. It's an interesting result, actually.
So you can be mad at me.
I do agree with you about Warren. Saying the tests wouldn't show she's Native American though aren't necessarily true.