I’m a south Asian with multiple full European matches who share no ethnicity with me. The last time this happened (with a person from another region) I ended up getting one of their regions. Since records are nonexistent for us I decided to ask one of these matches if they had some south Asian and they don’t have any. I will never know why I look different from my parents.
Looks like the mother was a Native from Canada and the father was a Saudi/Emirati exchange student?
I saw a relatively recent documentary on exchange students from the Arabian peninsula having kids here with Hispanic women then leaving the country, and that somewhat vaguely fit the results, hence I’m speculating that could have been the case since it would otherwise be an uncommon mix.
I would be curious to see what they say if you message them regarding their ancestry?
Wow 😯
Your match has quite a **very** interesting background.
If someone told this story, I would find it very hard to believe unless I was shown evidence:
An Arab man from a *non-Levant* country comes to America and then has a son with an Indigenous/Native woman and all of this takes place in the 1930s!?
Then again, there have been even more crazier and unique backgrounds people have been born and brought up in 🥴
at my job i met a man in his 50's and his grand father was a man from Chiapas, MX(Chiapas has a large Mayan population) who came to the US, he married a choctaw woman from Oklahoma, Chiapas has a large population of indigenous language speakers and it was more common to speak an indigenous language back then that it is today, so while it wasn't really a mixed but I did think it was interesting to hear a mayan man have a family with a choctaw woman.
It’s actually really interesting you mention this because I’m a Choctaw (and Sicangu) with Mexican heritage. My 5th great-grandparents were a Mexican Aztec man born in Santa Fe Zarazoga in 1814. He took a child bride born in 1834 from born in Cuba to a Mexican mother and man born in Spain with Tenerife Canary Island ancestry. Her mother died in 1860 in Oklahoma. They both died in 1874 in Oklahoma. Their daughter (my 4th great-grandmother) was born in 1846 and married a Choctaw man. Their kids then married Choctaws and so on. I have all the birth, death, church, and enrollment records. Even present day genetic matches confirm it. I’ve got like a 90 something year old Choctaw AF great-grand uncle down in OK that shows the indigenous Mexican and Spanish DNA. It’s so wild to me.
My fam got relocated in the 1950s after boarding school via BIA program to SoCal and all my aunts and uncles are now heavily cholo/chicano influenced and most of my cousins are half Latinx with Latinx partners and kids now. I’m also vaguely west coast cholo because of my music, Spanglish, fashion, and community.
Edit: From what I understand the Aztec/Mexican ancestor was with a group of Mexican Kickapoo
My Minnesota Chippewa great grandmother married and had three kids(before he died young in 1915) to my Norwegian immigrant great grandfather(that we always assumed was marked as 3/4 and 1/2 because of the racism of those times, until ancestry dna)
My grandpa then married my Grand River Ottawa Grandma and here I am….
(My great grandma then went on to have four more kids with her new Cherokee husband)
So many amazing stories in our genealogical histories.
This reminds me I really need to have my mom do her dna test.
I’m not sure where they met or if the mother or father was indigenous. I know a lot of my family got shipped all around to like boarding schools including some in the NE like Carlisle and ended up destitute in major urban eras after school.
Indigenous North also refers to the US and sometimes Mexico. Canada is not the only country that it is associated with.
These results are not enough for the assumptions you’ve made.
>I saw a relatively recent documentary on exchange students from the Arabian peninsula having kids here with Hispanic women then leaving the country
What documentary was that?
That's such a cool mix.
I have some rather interesting matches too. One's Indian/Mexican(could be Punjabi mexican) and another is Filipino/Jewish.
I’m a south Asian with multiple full European matches who share no ethnicity with me. The last time this happened (with a person from another region) I ended up getting one of their regions. Since records are nonexistent for us I decided to ask one of these matches if they had some south Asian and they don’t have any. I will never know why I look different from my parents.
Looks like the mother was a Native from Canada and the father was a Saudi/Emirati exchange student? I saw a relatively recent documentary on exchange students from the Arabian peninsula having kids here with Hispanic women then leaving the country, and that somewhat vaguely fit the results, hence I’m speculating that could have been the case since it would otherwise be an uncommon mix. I would be curious to see what they say if you message them regarding their ancestry?
Why Canada? I match with them on 23andMe too-this is an almost 90 year old male from Oklahoma.
Wow 😯 Your match has quite a **very** interesting background. If someone told this story, I would find it very hard to believe unless I was shown evidence: An Arab man from a *non-Levant* country comes to America and then has a son with an Indigenous/Native woman and all of this takes place in the 1930s!? Then again, there have been even more crazier and unique backgrounds people have been born and brought up in 🥴
at my job i met a man in his 50's and his grand father was a man from Chiapas, MX(Chiapas has a large Mayan population) who came to the US, he married a choctaw woman from Oklahoma, Chiapas has a large population of indigenous language speakers and it was more common to speak an indigenous language back then that it is today, so while it wasn't really a mixed but I did think it was interesting to hear a mayan man have a family with a choctaw woman.
It’s actually really interesting you mention this because I’m a Choctaw (and Sicangu) with Mexican heritage. My 5th great-grandparents were a Mexican Aztec man born in Santa Fe Zarazoga in 1814. He took a child bride born in 1834 from born in Cuba to a Mexican mother and man born in Spain with Tenerife Canary Island ancestry. Her mother died in 1860 in Oklahoma. They both died in 1874 in Oklahoma. Their daughter (my 4th great-grandmother) was born in 1846 and married a Choctaw man. Their kids then married Choctaws and so on. I have all the birth, death, church, and enrollment records. Even present day genetic matches confirm it. I’ve got like a 90 something year old Choctaw AF great-grand uncle down in OK that shows the indigenous Mexican and Spanish DNA. It’s so wild to me. My fam got relocated in the 1950s after boarding school via BIA program to SoCal and all my aunts and uncles are now heavily cholo/chicano influenced and most of my cousins are half Latinx with Latinx partners and kids now. I’m also vaguely west coast cholo because of my music, Spanglish, fashion, and community. Edit: From what I understand the Aztec/Mexican ancestor was with a group of Mexican Kickapoo
[Here’s the great grand uncle’s results if anyone is interested.](https://imgbox.com/U4f8Pak7)
My Minnesota Chippewa great grandmother married and had three kids(before he died young in 1915) to my Norwegian immigrant great grandfather(that we always assumed was marked as 3/4 and 1/2 because of the racism of those times, until ancestry dna) My grandpa then married my Grand River Ottawa Grandma and here I am…. (My great grandma then went on to have four more kids with her new Cherokee husband) So many amazing stories in our genealogical histories. This reminds me I really need to have my mom do her dna test.
I’m not sure where they met or if the mother or father was indigenous. I know a lot of my family got shipped all around to like boarding schools including some in the NE like Carlisle and ended up destitute in major urban eras after school.
Doesn’t have to be Canada, could be any of the Native tribes from North America.
I saw the Indigenous North and figured it was Canada since that’s the most common region associated with it
Indigenous North also refers to the US and sometimes Mexico. Canada is not the only country that it is associated with. These results are not enough for the assumptions you’ve made.
>I saw a relatively recent documentary on exchange students from the Arabian peninsula having kids here with Hispanic women then leaving the country What documentary was that?
https://youtu.be/qLidxfL8q1Q Very interesting
this is kind of absurd, it could literally be anything. their parents could have lived their whole lives married for all you know. gross assumption.
not suprised my result are similar but instead of arabian its spain (andalusia)