Yes, knew what dna results to expect and the results pretty much matched what 40 years of research had lead me to believe. The surprise were the trace amounts found in the middle east and in Asia. There are two family stores I had hoped would be totally disproved and they are not. So for me the tet was worth the price. But I knew what to expect and that the tests would not provide ANY specific information about my lineage.

YOUR ethnicity is YOUR cultures, customs, affiliations and associations in YOUR home and the country where YOU were born, brought up, live, so the foods YOU eat the language YOU speak, so YOU are American as an ethnicity unless you know something else you have not said, ie do you speak Lithuanian?

Your ancestry may or may not be Lithuanian, you will have to research and prove that
Your ancestors surnames have little to do with researching your ancestry, apart from using them as one identifier of the individual and it doesn't tell you what country they were from, at best the language spoken, heard or influenced the person when taking that surname.
Your dad is repeating a myth, peoples surname were NOT changed or shortened at Ellis Island, records were NOT generated at Ellis Island the records were generated in the country the people originated from, Ellis Island just processed the people as in customs/immigration officers do at the airport now they do not change peoples names, in fact if the records didn't match the persons ID then the ship had to return the people back to their country where they came from at the ship companies cost, so names were not changed, your ancestors once they had arrived in the country may have decided to change their own names, but that was their choice to make and nothing at all to do with Ellis Island.

Mexico did have that, but the law changed. Good thing really as otherwise the bodies may have been put in a museum in one area.
http://www.mummytombs.com/mummylocator/g...

Yes it is a question but posted in the wrong category...polls and surveys

Genealogy is about researching dead ancestor written records in order to prove our ancestors and build a family tree

Which Cherokee tribe? There are three. The Keetoowah Cherokee require a minimum of 1/4. The eastern Cherokee require 1/16th. There is no blood quantum for the Cherokee nation, but you must have at least one parent already a citizen, and enroll before the age of 18.

btw...all of them require proof by a CDIB (certificate of degree of indian blood) issued by the BIA. If you actually had any documented native ancestry, you would have been issued that at birth.

Maybe.

If you have one set of grandparents in common, you're first cousins. If not, you are not. First cousins can marry in 26 states and most foreign countries. Second, third, fourth and so on cousins can marry in all states.

Most of us who have traced our ancestry have found first cousins marrying; it used to be common.