Understanding and misunderstanding Ancestral DNA findings. I respectfully contend that the meaning of the results of various DNA studies is both misunderstood and misconstrued. The finding that your DNA is consistent with a population found today in Turkey, for example, or North Africa, does not mean that your immigrant ancestor came to America from Turkey and was Turkish, or came from North Africa and was a Moor be it a White Moor or Blackamoor. It means that a population of people living in Turkey or North Africa today shares the same ancestry with you, not that your ancestor, or theirs for that matter, was a Turk or a Moor. I referenced this fact in a posting a few days ago with regard to the early American Gypsies, a race of East Asian people who migrated to the Levant, North Africa, and through the Anatolian region of Turkey into Europe. In Europe they were known as Little Egyptians or Egyptians, ergo Gypsies. 17th century Virginia records and 19th century South Carolina records persist in referring to these Americans as Egyptians. Their ancestors left their DNA around half of the world. As the study and understanding of DNA and its implications matures, this understanding will become more apparent. The state of the art of understanding and correctly interpreting DNA findings is not yet there.
Posted on: Tue, 09 Dec 2014 12:48:14 +0000
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