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This question is for people who have experience Ancestry genetics or general genealogy.?

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This question is for people who have experience Ancestry genetics or general genealogy.?

Posted: 19 May 2014 11:03AM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Shepard,Shepherd,Dillard,Taylor,Thomas,Read,Reed,Mitchell
My question is how can a Black American (Myself) have Near Eastern and Southwest and South Asian.
Various runs of my Raw Dna from ancestry.com shows North African,South Asian,Mediterranean and General Middle Eastern ancestry which i was excited about because i love middle eastern and East Indian culture.

I get results like 5.95% Moroccan , Gedrosia 1.04% , Baloch 1.99% , East African

Could this come from my Saharan- African or European ancestry ?

My European ancestry comes from my maternal great grandfather which is mostly West European Irish British. I know at on point Britain had colonies in India.

My Paternal 3Greatgranfather was from South Carolina my dad spoke about American Indian Ancestry in our family but never specified what tribe or state it came from. I theorized my paternal line may have some connection to the Turks of South Carolina who married American Indians who married Black Americans.My Paternal great grandmother was listed in the census as Basim Read but later it was Betsy and then Bessie.

Gedmatch Oracle Calculator gave me results of 5.95% Lumbee and 6.04% Aleut.
But other calculations listing for American Indian are 1.96% Athabask , 1.09% Pima , and 2.82% Mayan.

I also on test my Ancestry.Com got 1% Polynesian.
But on Gedmatch i get tiny percentages of East Asian, South Asian,Australian, Melanesian,Siberian and South East Asian.

I also Prometheus report which said i carried a rare Gene that is responsible of Native American Myopathy

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