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What percentage am I if my great grandparents?
Average Percent DNA Shared Between Relatives
| Relationship | Average \% DNA Shared |
|---|---|
| Parent / Child | 50\% (but 47.5\% for father-son relationships) |
| Full Sibling | 50\% |
| Grandparent / Grandchild Aunt / Uncle Niece / Nephew Half Sibling | 25\% |
| 1st Cousin Great-grandparent Great-grandchild Great-Uncle / Aunt Great Nephew / Niece | 12.5\% |
How much of my ancestors DNA do I have?
Everyone inherits 50\% of their DNA from their parents, but not everyone inherits half of each of their ancestors’ DNA from a parent. Sometimes, the child will inherit all of a segment of DNA from an ancestor, and in other cases, the child will inherit none.
What percentage of Native American DNA does my great-great-grandmother have?
If your great-great-grandmother was ¼ Cherokee, then it was her grandparent that was 100\% Native American. And that would be your 4th-great-grandparent. Now your great-great-grandmother would get 50\% of her DNA from her mother and 50\% from her father.
Was my great-grandfather a full blood Cherokee?
Say a modern American of middle age hears about a great-grandfather that was supposedly “full blood Cherokee.” However, the family didn’t pass down much info on him otherwise. For example, maybe he died young or there was a divorce and the family lost touch or was split.
How much Native American ancestry do I have?
Going back one more generation, each of your 16 great-grandparents has contributed 6.25 percent. If seven of those great-grandparents were Native American and one was not, your percentage of Native American ancestry would be 94.75 percent.
What percentage of the US population has Cherokee blood?
That’s for people who legitimately descend from the very small full blood Cherokee population within the last few generations. However, the reason I said the likely is 0\% is because there are more Americans with straight-up bogus claims of Cherokee blood than there are Cherokee tribal members or legit descendants.