#2 Ronan thanks so much for giving me the opportunity.

J Nelson-Seawright #3, Lamonte #4 and Kevin Barney #15- I have always been big fans and appreciate your kind comments.

John Mansfield #6- Thanks for your wonderful data and knowledge. You have given me areas to study.

Mark IV #11 and CJ Douglass #12, Kevinf #26, and Whitney Johnson #43- I have made copies of your comments and have taped them to my bathroom mirror. Now when I have a bad hair day; your comments will make my day.

Jill Johnson #33 what little us vs. them that there once was in my mind, I think it is gone now. Thanks dear friend.

Margaret #37- You have such a “big tent of humanity soul” I am sure that you have lots of other soul as well.

Thanks Woodboy #41 for your much needed scientific knowledge

John Taber #52- I am glad that you looked at your lines. I think that this was the purpose of my post. We need to be open-minded when we come to our genealogy. I do not know what to say about your German- French family. My Polish family lived on the very edge of Poland near Russia. The ancestor(s) who left here were probably under Russian rule at the time. I have learned that to be Polish is a people. Whether they were ruled by Germans or Russians, they always were Polish. Perhaps the Germans and the French felt the same way. Or maybe that were proud to be either. Your comments show just how diverse Europeans can be.

Thanks CBiden #53. I think like you that Switzerland was probably a very tolerant place. Mike’s Indians did not have to change their names to fit in and also it tells me that there was a big East Indian community there too.

Yes, I’ve found that a good bit, English ancestors having French, Welsh, Scottish, Portugese or Greek ancestors; Dutch ancestors having German or Norwegian. One great-grandfather’s parents and grandparents came to Utah from Switzerland, and while all the ancestors I’ve found have German given names, some of the surnames look more Italian or French.

I don’t know how to classify a bunch of ancestors who were born near the present French-German border. Some of them were in France but had German names, some were in what is now Germany but used both French and German forms of their names.

Quoting from DNA Tribes lab is University of New Mexico:
“These results are your Top 20 matches in a database of 445 native populations that have experienced minimal movement and admixture in modern history (roughly, the last 500 years). Individual matches do not necessary indicate recent social or cultural affiliation with a particular ethnicity. Instead, the geographical distribution of your Native Population Match results indicates your most likely deep ancestral origins.”

It is not “silly” that my husband has a lot of East Indian ancestors. 1) Photos of ancestors that are obviously not all that Western European. 2) I found in Family search names like Wassem, Zagli, Dubi, Kohli, and Mani. 3) There is a community of east Indians in Bern, Switzerland who have been there a long time. 4) Current family members have the hair, skin tone and facial features of non-western Europeans.

All you have to do is watch The History Channel to see the vast migrations of people through out the world. My point is that God directed his people to “gather every nation, Kindred, Tongue and people.” God used world events to gather those people to Western Europe especially Great Britain so that people in far flung places like Iran or India would be found by LDS missionaries.

It may be something as silly as your husband has one (more likely few) tamil ancestor(s) way back, but from him/them your husband (but perhaps not many of his cousins) still has reasonably identifiable genetic material in the background of standard european traits. Because this is identifiable, it will give a very high odds ratio, but it is does not appear to suggest anything about whether he is predominantly Tamil in extraction. These are not, according to what you’ve posted, relative weights of your percentage ancestry, it’s how identifiable certain individual DNA segments appear to be, and those, depending on the algorithm, could be quite different things.

Still the basic point that 100% racial purity is a cultural myth is absolutely valid.

The downside of course is that you only get info about two of your ancestors (or one if you are female) because Y chromosomes are strictly paternally inherited and mtDNA is overwhelmingly maternally inherited.

https://www3.nationalgeographic.com/genographic/participate.html

I am not a math person, but I will try to from the information given to us from DNA Tribes.

All matches can be compared against each other as odds ratios. Population Match results can be interpreted in terms of their likelihood scores and geographical patterns. Each Native Population Match is listed with a Match Likelihood Index score that indicates your odds of belonging to that population relative to your odds of belonging to a generic human population.
Higher scores indicate your genetic profile is strongly represented in a population, while lower scores indicate marginal representation in a population.
Anyway clear as mud. What this means to me is that Mike is very Tamil, Nadu Indian and not so much Calabria, Italian. I am very Podlasie, Poland and not so much South African.

The higher the numbers the closer this individual is to us. The Tamil Indian probably mixed with some Swiss is Mike’s grandmother. The Swiss doesn’t show up because it has not been a stationary population. The Podlasie, Polish is probably my Great (or Great Great) Grandfather. I am basing my identifications on the appearance of current relatives and looking back at the earliest photos I have of our ancestors. I have also looked at related lines and have found the same traits in these family members as well.

http://www.hapmap.org