FAMILY FINDER GENEALOGICAL TEST (FAMILY TREE DNA)

Larry Vizenor test results

Recently ordered the Family Finder genealogical test from Family Tree DNA.

Family Finder test examines all of one's chromosomes in terms of their geographic origins.

A few interesting and unexpected results:

(1) Legally I am 5/32 (16%) Native American. However, since I actually only possess 6.52% Native American chromosomes, it seems my father's Native American chromosomes, due to recombination in gametogenesis, were largely excluded from the sperm cell from which i originated.

(2) Many French Canadian families are descended of Sephardic Jews and it appears I got my fair share of Hebrew chromosomes.

(3) The 71.83 % Finnish - Russian conection mostly derives from my Scandinavian mother. Scandinavians are a part of the Finnish - Russian continental population sub-group.

Since my mother constitutes 50% of my genetic makeup the remaining 21.83 % ( 71.83 % - 50.00 % = 21.83 %) would be from my father's French and English ancestry.

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Family Finder test results for Larry Vizenor:

The Population Finder program determines your biogeographical ancestry — the story of your personal genetic history — by comparing your autosomal DNA to that of our world DNA population database.
Your Population Finder results consist of up to four out of seven continental groups.* For each, the percentage of your genome that matches is shown. You may view your results as either a stacked bar or pie chart.
Where possible, we list specific subgroups such as Basque and Bedouin or subregions such as Western Europe. More Info.
* The seven continental groups are based on genetic similarity and do not precisely match geographical continents.

(1) Europe:

Finnish, Russian

71.83%

±6.48%

(2) Native American:

Surui, Columbian, Maya

6.52%

±0.75%

(3) Middle East (Jewish):

Jewish

21.65%

±5.96%