DNA updates
I'm still thinking about the ethnicity breakdown. I meant to do a follow-up months ago to the last post. I got thinking more about my probable African ancestor and the probability of that DNA showing up in my test results.
Here's kind of the breakdown. The percentages do not exactly work like this because you don't get exactly half or a quarter of DNA from your parent and grandparent, etc. But you get the idea.
Me: 100%
from father: 50%
Granville Dula Morrison (Jim): 25%
Granville Dula Morrison, Sr.: 12.5%
Amanda Jenkins: 6.25% [she is the first one listed as mulatto in some childhood censuses]
Alexander Jenkins: 3.125%
Francis Jenkins: 1.56%
Francis Jenkins: .78%
Francis Jenkins: .39% [described as "mustee"]
If we could say that a parent to Francis Jenkins was 100% African, that would make the percentage of DNA I could have gotten as .19%. Very small. And "mustee" was an archaic term used to describe someone 1/8th black. So we're talking an even small percentage.
So it makes complete sense that it would not show up on my DNA results. Now, to get my dad tested...
Here's kind of the breakdown. The percentages do not exactly work like this because you don't get exactly half or a quarter of DNA from your parent and grandparent, etc. But you get the idea.
Me: 100%
from father: 50%
Granville Dula Morrison (Jim): 25%
Granville Dula Morrison, Sr.: 12.5%
Amanda Jenkins: 6.25% [she is the first one listed as mulatto in some childhood censuses]
Alexander Jenkins: 3.125%
Francis Jenkins: 1.56%
Francis Jenkins: .78%
Francis Jenkins: .39% [described as "mustee"]
If we could say that a parent to Francis Jenkins was 100% African, that would make the percentage of DNA I could have gotten as .19%. Very small. And "mustee" was an archaic term used to describe someone 1/8th black. So we're talking an even small percentage.
So it makes complete sense that it would not show up on my DNA results. Now, to get my dad tested...
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