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To: i-node who wrote (98939)	10/16/2018 8:17:51 PM
From: combjelly	Respond to of 365141

Have you ever heard before of a person with such a distant connection to a DNA pool using that connection to qualify as a quasi member? I suppose it depends on what you mean by "as a quasi member". I know plenty who talk about having Native Americans in their ancestry. Especially if their people have roots in North Texas or Oklahoma. Now, I don't know of any why claim tribal affiliation based on that, but... If someone is 1/64th black, their ancestors likely were trying very hard to pass for white. I doubt seriously if anyone even knows they had a black ancestor. I do know of a few people who tried the 23andMe approach and got surprised with some sub-Saharan African in their genome. I imagine there are a fair number of people with Stars and Bars stickers on their pickup truck who would be in denial over that. Given that my grandfather came out of Appalachia, I am sort of surprised my mom didn't have any in her report. If great-great grandma had real Black Irish ancestry, that could have been the case, also.