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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