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Arts & Humanities: Genealogy: “Question: My genetics? please don't post any answer that is not relevant to what I want to know.?” plus 5 more

Arts & Humanities: Genealogy: “Question: My genetics? please don't post any answer that is not relevant to what I want to know.?” plus 5 more


Question: My genetics? please don't post any answer that is not relevant to what I want to know.?

Posted: 15 Aug 2014 05:41 PM PDT

My genetics? please don't post any answer that is not relevant to what I want to know.?

I'm 12.5% Puerto Rican 12.5% Native American 25% white and my mom is 50% black and my dad is 50% black am I biracial or only black?

Question: What nationality is the last name kondoff?

Posted: 15 Aug 2014 09:10 AM PDT

As Nationality is reserved for people and not the word they use as a surname and means country of their birth and/or where they hold citizenship, where as words come from languages not countries...so bearing that in mind the only country that there are records of people of this surname is American generated records, now some of those people claim that they were born in Greece ( however there are NIL records in Greece of this surname)

Question: Is being Native American an ethnicity?

Posted: 15 Aug 2014 08:07 AM PDT

Being native American is a NATIONALITY. We are citizens of our own native nations. We've lived in America over 50,000 years. (which is 14,000 years LONGER than people have inhabited Europe, btw)

And we are no more related to Asians, than Europeans are related to Africans.

Science has proven these things, it isn't a matter of opinion.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/200...

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/200...

Question: Who am I to my 1st cousin twice removed?

Posted: 15 Aug 2014 08:03 AM PDT

That one guy she saw at a family reunion once.

You're not her nephew, and she's not your aunt in any way, those other people are dumb.

If we assume that your great grandmother's sister shared parents (Not half-siblings or step-siblings), then you are also her first cousin twice removed.

Your great great grandparents are her grandparents.

You could also say her mother is your great-great-aunt. (Your parent's great-aunt)

Question: If surname is last name, what is first name?

Posted: 15 Aug 2014 07:58 AM PDT

It is also called a given name and is usually the name you are called by in your family, unless you have a nickname, which can be something you are called that has nothing to do with your name. I in my family we have three "Sonnys" a "Scooter". a Paulie whose real name is Eugene; and a Bell, whose actually is Gertrude.(go figure)

Question: What percent of each ethnicity am i ??

Posted: 15 Aug 2014 04:09 AM PDT

Well first: Japan, Korea, Burmese and Germans are countries, or Nationalities.. Hawaii is a state in the US and therefore anyone who is born there is referred to as a Hawaiian, just like anyone born in California is a Californian.
Second: DNA test results are presented in a percentage, because computers function in a decimal format and not a fractional one.
Third You are 1/2 that of your parents, which is why in Genealogy we use fractions.
Your Father is 3/4 Japanese and 1/4 Mexican (which is a mixed race of indigenous native and European) Your Mother is 1/2 Japanese, that may be correct. However that is where the DNA and Genealogical representations of human ancestry come into conflict. 20% is the fraction 1/5; 10% is 1/10; 5% is is less than 1/100th, which is not possible. Genealogy and DNA are not the same and cannot be presented. Genealogy is about ANCESTRY not chemical compositions.
Using the accepted GENEALOGICAL method of presenting ancestry you are 1/2 that of yorur parents. Example: convert the percentages to fractions. Divide your fathers ancestry by 2.
( 3/4 Japanese = 3/8ths and 1/4 Mexican = 1/8) then do the same with your mother and add the two Japanese fractions together ( 3/6+ 2/8=5/8) do the remaining the same. Those are the fractions that would represent your ANCESTRAL make up. Which from a Genealogical perspective means absolutely nothing.

Source(s):

Genealogical researcher 40+ years, Anthropologist & retired Instructor

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