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Like many Virginians, the family legend is that the Cabells are descended from an Indian Princess daughter of one of the Chiefs of the time. Risking a response from such a test of 'maybe you don't want to know as much as you think you do', I wonder if DNA has been recovered from bodies of people like Pocohontas, Powhatan, Opechecanough, Nikitti, etc. Somewhere on the Internet, I recall a firm which will tell you how close kin your sample is to another sample
My wife and I and a couple of children had our DNA tested through a rather simple test some years ago, but found that for whatever reason, the probability percentages trickled out at our Great-great-grandfathers' generations. i.e. nothing back further than about 1750 was trackable.. The firm identified characteristics in four categories:
- European
- Sub Saharan African
- Native American
- Oriental
My DNA was about as boring as you can get -- 100% European. They had a follow-up offer for another $200 or so whereby good European Stock could further narrow it down to specific areas, but I did take them up on that.
Randy Cabell
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