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Question by Kristin♥: How did family myths of having Native American ancestry start?
Why did people start claiming that and telling their kids they have it when they don't? I know a lot of people today say they have NA blood when they don't because that's what their family believed and told them.
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Answer by Dan
I think that anyone who has family going all the way back to the colonies probably has some (like me).
For each generation you go back, the ancestors multiply by 2. So if you go back 8 generations to the mid/late-1700s you have about 256 ancestors available. Their grandparents 2 generations earlier quadruple your ancestors to 1,024. Their grandparents in turn bring your ancestors to 4,096 chances of having a Native American ancestor back in the early settlements. Why not? (That early on, some of the 4,096 ancestors probably overlap where their various descendants met and married.)
Added Edit:
By the way, for all those who gave me thumbs down because they think I just wanted to imagine NA ancestry, I have a genetic Maternal Haplotype B2, and also a genealogy that traces back, among other things, to a marriage (a real marriage in 1533) of the conquistador Juan Munoz de Collantes, one of Francisco Pizarro's soldiers at Cuzco, to Francisca de Palla, who was Atahualpa Inca's cousin, both grandchildren of Tupac Inca Yupanqui, son of Pachatutec Inca, of the line of Manco Capac. Is that Native American enough for you?
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