DNA data offer evidence of unknown extinct human relative

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4. Yes, I think there is a lot more work before DNA analysis for individuals is trustworthy

I do have one branch which goes back to the birth of the husband and wife to about 1796 in which a lot of people claim the wife was American Indian. Not one of the people who make that claim has ever come up with one scrap of documentation - but a photo of my great-grandfather (who would have been their grandson) makes him look very much like a Cherokee.

The problem with that branch being the source of my sister's trace is that it is on my mother's side and she showed no trace of Native American DNA.

Our father's side is extremely well documented very far back except for two more recent branches that are documented as coming from Wales and Lincolnshire. Unless one of the Millikens who appeared in Cayuga County, New York in the 1790s was part Indian, there is no Native American blood in Dad's genealogy. We have not been able to trace those Millikens and I suspect they came over not long before showing up in New York State.