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In reply to the discussion: I am Latina but pass as White [View all]artislife
(9,497 posts)I love watching the videos of African Americans getting their DNA results. It means something different from most of the other DNA results. There is a saying by some Native American tribe, because very rarely is anything attributed to a specific one--except the Lakotas--but I digress, they call this earth experience The Great Mystery.
It must be for AA, adoptees and other's who have lost their ancestral ties.
In high school, I had to do my genealogy for a research class.
Try being part of the unrecorded. I got to great grandparents only on the Mexican and Native American sides. The Irish, we got back to 1848 and coming from county Kerry to landing in North Carolina.
The teacher didn't really believe me that I tried hard enough. Who were my grandmother's grandparents? I do know that my Ojibwa blood relatives are thought to have lived on the Great Lakes for 10,000 years. And still they didn't farm. They just got the wild rice and the squashes and mushrooms that grew willdly,fished a bit and caught small animals. I don't know why, but I love that.