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Hi, My name is Peggy Faulkenberry and I am new to this site. My grandfather was Robert Christian Hathcock from Rockingham, North Carolina and Anson Co. His parents were J. H. Hathcock and Nellie Page. His first wife’s name was Laura and second wife was my grandmother, Doshie Johnson Pettigrew Hathcock. Her parents were Middleton Johnson and Rachel Hicks ( who was Cherokee.) If anyone could help me I will certainly appreciate it. My e-mail address is peggy1937@comporium.net. Thanking anyone in advance who will reply to this. Peggy Faulkenberry
Welcome to SaponiTown Peggy!
Those specific Hathcock ancestors are not familiar to me. I do see other Hathcock anestor’s in the lines of DNA cousins. Jessie Hathcock b1780 Granville Co – 1849 Montgomery with Catherine Elizabeth Whitley b 1784 Gaston – 1850 Stanley Co who had Jesse A Hathcock 1810 NC – 1890 TX.
Have you tested your DNA?
Marc: I did have my DNA done and the strangest thing is that it says I have 0% Native American. I believe a mistake has been made. If you could have known my mother, Uncle Jesse and my grandmother Docia you would have known they had Indian blood in them. I have irish and English according to their report. Can Ancestry retest my results or do you know if they keep any of the test tubes sent in. This is so frustrating. I have traced my great grandmother Rachel Hicks to her dad and mother (Catherine Roundtree) but I am at a dead end at this point. Thank you so much for replying back to me. It really meant a lot. Peggy
Ethnicity tests are very broad brush. The fact that it did not identify DNA as Native American is not proof that you don’t have that blood. These tests are based on very small sample sizes and shouldn’t be taken as gospel. Finding cousins by DNA is reliable but ethnicity results are not (especially from the Big 3 testers). For example one genealogist published the results for her and her three full siblings which were wildly different. As she put it these tests “are not soup yet”. My own tests just between different companies show different results. If I were you I would download your results from where you tested and upload to GedMatch. There are multiple admixture/ethnicity calculators you can use there to compare results – MDLP, Eurogenes, Dodecad. It will let you look at the percentages by chromosome, and do chromosome painting – to show exactly what parts of what chromosome it thinks are each ethnicity.
If you are looking for more info on a specific line in your family known to be Native American – try to figure out which DNA cousins are on that line. Look at their results, compare oral history with what you know about your family. Don’t let DNA ethnicity results discourage you. If these tests come up with Native American ethnicity that is a good clue, but if it doesn’t don’t let that stop your search.
Ethnicity tests are very broad brush. The fact that it did not identify DNA as Native American is not proof that you don’t have that blood. These tests are based on very small sample sizes and shouldn’t be taken as gospel. Finding cousins by DNA is reliable but ethnicity results are not (especially from the Big 3 testers). For example one genealogist published the results for her and her three full siblings which were wildly different. As she put it these tests “are not soup yet”. My own tests just between different companies show different results. If I were you I would download your results from where you tested and upload to GedMatch. There are multiple admixture/ethnicity calculators you can use there to compare results – MDLP, Eurogenes, Dodecad. It will let you look at the percentages by chromosome, and do chromosome painting – to show exactly what parts of what chromosome it thinks are each ethnicity.
If you are looking for more info on a specific line in your family known to be Native American – try to figure out which DNA cousins are on that line. Look at their results, compare oral history with what you know about your family. Don’t let DNA ethnicity results discourage you. If these tests come up with Native American ethnicity that is a good clue, but if it doesn’t don’t let that stop your search. 🙂
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