Can DNA reveal racial or even ethnic ancestry?

Question

Winston Churchill claimed that he was descended from an American Indian, through his American mother, about four generations before he was born. Though I myself am apparently pure Irish, I suspect that I have Viking blood, as many Europeans have through rape or abduction (as in the Charlton Heston film, "The War Lord."

I don't identify with the Irish, whom I judge to be dreamy cowards. I'm more like their hero Michael Collins, which means I suspect he too must have had dominant genes from a non-Irish ancestor.

The Nordics aren't Aryans. Their stupid, slavish behavior, compensated by subhuman savagery, indicates that, except in language, they were predominantly related to the Neanderthalian European aborigines. I wonder if DNA can go back far enough to show this second White race, which was conquered by and interbred with Indo-European invaders around 2,000 BC.

Language itself has a DNA. The Ancient Greek "haplos" used in HAPLOGROUP is, I'm pretty sure, related to the English SIMPLE through the common Indo-European mother language. Even more relevant to my theory about our aboriginal ancestors is that words that are not related to other European language groups came from the languages of the aborigines. Second, that sound changes, such as the above "s" for "h," were not adopted over the course of time, as Grimm's Law would have us believe, but were made because the aborigines had no "s" or "h" in their own languages and so changed the pronunciation of their specific Indo-European conquerors.

Answer 1

Hey iqstrike,

There is a lot to know about DNA, and not all the tests look at much of the completed DNA. Only a partial marker list is used. With that partial look the scientist can determine if you are decendant from Native American Indians, Chinese, Irish, etc. if that is what you mean by racial. Read some of the information at these sites it is very informative.

Answer 2

According to a book I just read called What it Means to be 98% Chimpanzee, tracking your racial ancestry by blood is impossible. The author was a geneticist who got questions like that all the time. Basically the reason is that race is such a poor indicator of anything important in our genes. There is however a project in National Geographic where you can mail in for a kit and give them a blood sample. They take it and try to map the migrations of the people in your ancestry. I'm not sure how well this works, but I'm totally trying it.

Answer 3

Yes. I've read articles about this There are labs that will do the DNA testing and give you results.... for a price of course. For a few hundred dollars, you can find out what African or Native American tribe you descend from, as well as any other ancestry. They give it by percentages I believe.

You should find something about it by doing a Google search.

Sue

Answer 4

Absolutely. The researchers have discovered a limited number of basic DNA strains that can source all of us to a particular part of the world. You might find the Celtic Nordic project to be of interest!

Answer 5

Yes, DNA ( Dina) does reveal the real you !

Answer 6

i was looking for that answer too,if you find it pls email me.

Answer 7

ABSOLUTELY