[Kamama]

We did my fathers with DNA Tribes and it has 15 MTR marker systems. It was over $200. It shows our lowest European Dispora and our higest Native American Disporia.

I still dont understand all the stuff in it. Just that at the beginning, my father is apx. 1/4 Native American.

I am excited for you to see what your markers come up with.

At least, it has verified what was said in the family from the start. There are too many genetic markers to avoid.

I would also like to do my mothers side. Her grandmother was a Redman, and and my mothers gr gr was out of Virginia. But it takes $$$ to do that.

I am just trying to understand the DNA trivia better.

[techteach]

That is a different kind of DNA test (called autosomal) than we had done on the Green line and are doing on Nancy’s line. It looks at genetic markers that are not male and female. As such, its results are estimates of native American ancestry. It is the only one that people with broken lines can take to get at the native American. I had this kind of test done also that came back showing the native American in amounts that matched who I thought was indigenous in my ancestry. FamilytreeDNA is only beginning to do this kind of testing, and they do not do it as a service unless you request it. I did mine through Genetree, although I did a straight female one through familytreeDNA also. I started off matching lots of people and then did additional markers. Now, I only match 2 people. Each time we do a test on a line, we become more Irish/Scotch Irish.

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[Kamama]

Well, I am glad we did the right one. Because it goes from my father, to his father to his father, to his mother to her mother.

Maybe I will have to check into FamilyTreeDNA.?

I tried hard to find a direct line from her, The girls from the family that remained did not have a female heir. Thats what you have to do when you are in that kind of a fix. I have no idea where the rest of the family went to.

I also have Green/Greene in my family. Its my 6th greats that were Greens from Rhode Island. I met a friend of mine who is a Green, and we are related, and he said that brothers had an argument and thats where the e on the end of Green dropped off.

Any Green/Greene relatives from around Rhode Island?

[techteach]

My Greens started in MD in Port Tobacco and Baltimore. They went up the Potomac to Shepherdstown, WV and then to Licking County, OH. My branch of that family ended up in NEIA, although most were not surnamed Green by that time. They came as a group of Hustons, Sinkeys, and Potters. The Ralstons joined them later from Western PA. We are fairly sure that they knew one another. I walked a cemetery in central PA looking for the Sinkeys. I did not find their headstone (It either fell or was not readable.) but I found lots of Greens, so I think that they were related to the Greens who followed the Potomac River (I also found lots of chiggers in that cemetery!).

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