Well, well, well - I am not the great, great, great grandson of Chief 2 dogs humping. Like many on here I was told over and over that my great, great ______ was Indian, blah, blah, blah

NOT A DROP of American Indian genetics:

On the positive side:
I can now make jokes about
7/11 workers - Indian (dot not feathers)
Vikings
Irish Drunks
and an occasional polish & Holocaust Joke

In addition I can use the term "Nigga" 3 times a year.

Make that 2 times....

Looks like about of third of your genome comes from the Atlantic Ocean between Ireland and the mainland. Atlantis maybe?

which DNA service did you use? i am busting a gut to get this done ...

Would love to get this done too, but I don't want my information put out there on their site for all the other people to try and make DNA matches with.

Damn, Kelly, you're 1/3 saltwater fish!

Definitely not unusual. I have been doing genealogy for a long time and have helped others with their research. If I had a dollar for everyone who had that story "my great, great so and so was full blooded Choctaw/Cherokee/etc" I would be able to pay for my Ancestry membership every year for free. We usually find no evidence of Native Americans in most all instances. The reality is that by the time that most people's European ancestors arrived here to the New World, the Native population had already decreased greatly and it was a rare event for a Euro to take a Native as a spouse. My own genetic profile has 2% Native American, but I know of two individuals in my family tree from my French Colonial ancestors who took a Native American wife, so that makes sense for me.

I just sent off the DNA kit for wife, so I am anxious to get the results back as her grandfather makes the same claims that his grandmother was "full blooded Choctaw", but I have found no documentation of this. If it is true, it should show up in her DNA, but I am not expecting it to be.

"Indian" is code word in the older generations for, your great great granddaddy was black.

Or grandmomma

Everybody in the whole state is dang "Indian" (feather). It really cracks me up that every guy thinks his great grandpa was running through the woods killing deer with a homemade bow and arra.

I had a great great granddaddy who was full blooded Slapaho.

I was hoping for more Africa, so that I could join the BLM movement.

I have had small kids try to push me back in the water at the beach...........

Had a crazy uncle that if he saw an attractive black gal would say "she'd be Cherokee Indian on a Friday night".

Gonna call my mom at lunch and give her shucks.

If your part black (and there's reparations), would you pay it or get it???
Huh...

You'd obviously have to buy yourself a new rifle!

My grandmother always claimed that she was mostly Scottish. She did the DNA test and she isn't Scottish at all. It's all English. She found out that there were Lords and Ladies in her lineage.

She may have very well been told the same thing, your great,great,great, grandmother/grandfather could've had an affair. Folks may not have gotten divorced back in the day, like they do now. But it wasn't un-common for a spouse to just leave and start a new family elsewhere..Never know what you'll find when you start digging in your past, that's why a lot of folks don't do it....