I saw mention of this on ancestry.com and we also had family lore, but so many families from these regions do and I’ve never found an actual ancestor (we even have pictures of very suspiciously native looking people with my great grandmother and she carries features, but the Pettits are her husband’s family.
Anyway, even with DNA, be aware, when you have very small amounts of something, it doesn’t always pass down. Like, I am 1% Spanish (sometimes it switches to Basque), but my child has no Spanish. My dad had Roma and Han Chinese show up. Neither I or my daughter do. You get a random 50% of what your parents have, and the smaller things get knocked out first for the next generation. Clearly, it’s really still a technology that’s being developed, because they constantly update it, but also, when you’re talking tiny percentages, they disappear first from the next gen. So, it’s more reliable to use DNA to attach yourself as related to others in the line (like forever we were trying to determine if we were descended from one wife or another and then DNA hits confirmed which one was right), but it’s all chance what gets passed down, so the only real confirmation is to find the ancestor on the rolls/paper trails to confirm your actual lineage. But I haven’t even come across where the rumor they have Native roots is from? It would have to be someone who married in (a woman) in some line, because Joshua was from the North and moved South already married. So, it would be someone after him if anyone, but someone on ancestry.com has him tagged as a native ancestor? (Shrug.) I’m like my dad. I need
hard proof! But just a note that it doesn’t show up in DNA and I’ve even seen people say they knew for a fact their family was native and they came up as not having any DNA. I believe it seeing that certain things were lost just from my dad to me to my kid.
Good luck!
Amaya
