Hey, nice to meet you. The more entrepreneurs the merrier!
But something is sticking in my mind like an advertising jingle that won't let go:
"I am 1/3 Native American of the Cocopah Indian in AZ."
How does that work unless you have three parents, or three set of grandparents? I can see you be 1/2 or 1/4 or 1/8th of something .... but 1/3? I lived in Arizona for a number of years and everyone seemed to have just the normal two parents etc.
Maybe I'm just having a brain fart. Anyway, Happy Birthday!
Yeah weird huh! I consulted a genealogist and this is what I was told:
"Based on your admixture some of your ancestors were Native and some were European [sp. Italian, Greek, and Spanish]. You are more than one quarter and slightly less than one third Native, which suggests admixture from several lines. One full Native grandparent would equal 25%, and very few people have been full Native for generations."
I shared my DNA file with several projects online and was able to get matches for nine different tribes with Cocopah having the largest percentage of markers.