German surprised by her Native American DNA

[Peterski]

Fascinating story, I found it on another forum:

I made a DNA Test in November 2018, just to find out more about my family history.

I already had a nearly complete family tree about several generations back, I knew that my ancestors were from South Germany and from my father's side partially from around Berlin. When I received the results, I was totally surprised - 67% Central Europe, 16% French, etc., and... 9% Native American! My first thought was, that the test must have been mixed up [with someone else's test]. So I asked my dad for another Test with his DNA and he scored 18% Native American - we are definitely father and daughter, so the results must be correct! I checked it with GEDmatch too, with the same results. I also found a lot of matches, most were living in New Mexico, Albuquerque, this is the region where Ancestry located some of my native heritage. After a little bit of research it turned out that my birth grandfather must have been an American GI from New Mexico who was stationed in the city where my grandmother lived during WW2. I studied the military documents on Ancestry and found a unit where he could probably be in, the time and the port of registry fit with the birthday and city my father was born. I also contacted some of the closest matches (second cousin, over 400cM with my dad). But at the moment my research stagnate, not enough trees, not enough information. I really hope we can find out more, a place to visit someday or people we can ask questions about my granddad. I was always curious why we have these black hair, darker skin tone and another shape of eyes than our relatives, but I never questioned my ancestry. My father was surprised, but not as much as I thought, maybe he already guessed something.

[PrettyFarFromOkay]

Aw man. I doubt I would be posting that on a forum if I found that out about my grandmother.

[Peterski]

If it was 9% Siberian then it could be from the Red Army.

But 9% Native American could only be from U.S. Army.

Edit:

Well, Canadian forces also fought in Europe and included some First Nations, Inuit and Metis soldiers.

[Rædwald]

If it was 9% Siberian then it could be from the Red Army.

But 9% Native American could only be from U.S. Army.

9% Sounds about right if she had an American ancestor with Amerindian from this period.

[CommonSense]

Baboon's long lost sister.

[Peterski]

Maybe her grandmother was reading Karl May's novels:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_May

[Creoda]

Aw man. I doubt I would be posting that on a forum if I found that out about my grandmother.

Only a typical soulless, dead-inside woman would post that as though it's something to be proud of.

[Dick]

Polish propaganda.

[Peterski]

Only a typical soulless, dead-inside woman would post that as though it's something to be proud of.

^^^ How do you know she was cheating on someone? She could be single at that time.

I guess that they attributed that black hair to Jewish ancestry before doing the DNA test.

[luc2112]

If it was 9% Siberian then it could be from the Red Army.

But 9% Native American could only be from U.S. Army.
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Some Native Americans came from Siberia.