My 92 Year-Old Grandma's DNA Results

 Well, it looks like my dad didn't get his blackness from his mother. It must have been on his father's side because Grandma Helen has actually been the whitest person in the family that has been tested thus far!

My dad is clearly his mother's son since 35 of the 50 nationalities on her list are on his list also.

It was good to finally see some Hungarian and Romanian on the list since those are two languages that I have studied extensively.

Also, look at #1 on the list: Ashkenazim! 80% of the world's "Jews" are Ashkenazi Jews. They are descendants of the Khazars who were a nation of people who converted to Rabbinical Judaism about 700 years after Christ. People are under the delusion that today's so-called Jews descend primarily from Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, but in reality, they are primarily the descendants of European converts to Judaism! They have very weak familial ties to the Israel of the Bible, and are no more or less Israelite than anyone else in the world. Yet Zionist Christians consider them "God's chosen people" based on their ethnicity alone! Maybe these Zionist Christians should look up Ashkenaz in the Bible, and they will realize that today's "Jews" are a fraud. Genesis 10:

² The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.
³ And the sons of Gomer; ASHKENAZ, and Riphath, and Togarmah.
⁴ And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.
⁵ By these were the isles of the GENTILES divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.

"I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan." - Revelation 2:9 

In the New Testament, we are told to "avoid genealogies" because being a so-called "ethnic Jew" is meaningless in the eyes of God. He is not a respecter of persons! He does not favor one "race" above another. The Bible teaches that we are all of one blood, and the only thing that matters is whether or not we are in Christ. Galatians 3: 


¹⁶ Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.
²⁸ There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
²⁹ And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.

White - 41
Hispanic - 9

Shared with my Dad - 35

1. Hungarian - Ashkenazim Jewish
2. Polish - Central
3. Russia - Vody
4. Polish - Northern
5. Polish - Southeastern
6. Polish
7. Romanian - Transylvanian - Szekler
8. Slovenian
9. White - Canadian
10. Russia - Belgorod
11. White - Canadian
12. Romanian - Transylvanian - Csango
13. Russian
14. Hispanic - Florida
15. White - Florida
16. Slovac - Presov
17. Romanian - Transylvania/Banat
18. Polish - Northern
19. White - Florida
20. Macedonian
21. Polish
22. Albanian - Kosovo
23. White - Canadian
24. Belarusian - Northeastern Poland
25. Russia - Saratov
26. Brazilian - Bahia
27. German
28. Portuguese - Azores Archipelago
29. Hungarian - Romany - Baranya/Debrecen
30. Polish
31. Croatian
32. White - Michigan
33. Belgian
34. Hispanic - Florida
35. Argentinian - Buenos Aires
36. White - Marion County, Indiana
37. White - California
38. Belarusian
39. Polish - Podlasie
40. Polish - Podlasie
41. White - North Carolina
42. Brazilian - Non-black - Florida
43. Albanian - Italy
44. Greek - Northern
45. White - New York
46. Iberian Peninsula - Catalans
47. White - U.S.
48. Spanish - Galicia
49. Bosnian
50. Hispanic - Arizona

I'm North African!

I've been doing a lot of research about genealogies and DNA lately while working with Paul Wittenberger on a new documentary film "Marching to Zion," so I decided to get my DNA checked for ethnicity. In the past, when I had studied my genealogy, the only nationalities I had ever been able to come up with were English, Irish, Swedish, Danish, and Swiss, as I reported in a previous blog post. The results of my DNA testing, which are reported to be 99.99% accurate, showed how little I know about my ancestry, even having done a lot of research. Many people think they know exactly what nationality they are, but things are much more complicated than that. I thought of myself as being 100% white European, but it turns out that more than anything, I am ethnically a Moroccan Berber from Northwest Africa and a Spaniard!

Why do we know so little about our ancestry? First of all, just because a person is from a certain country or has a certain last name, that doesn't mean that they have that ethnicity. For example, just because your ancestors are from England, that doesn't mean they are Anglo-Saxons. Spain and England are very close together, and most Spanish people are white, so people from Spain could easily end up in England and vice-versa. The reason we think of Hispanic people as being brown is that we are thinking of Mexicans who are a mixture of Spanish and American Indian. Also, Morocco is very close to Spain, and all of these countries were very heavily involved in sea trade, which would involve a lot of people moving back and forth from place to place.

Not only that, but looking at your family tree does not take things like adoption and adultery into account. How in the world could you know if your ancestors from 200 years ago were adopted or were the product of an adulterous affair by your great great great great great great grandmother? Stranger things have happened.

My DNA was tested against 400 people groups, and I was given a list of the top 50 matches in order of prominence. The reason that certain people groups are repeated (for example, I am a Moroccan Berber 7 different ways) is that there are different subgroups within each ethnicity, and I had genetic ties with various types of Moroccan Berbers. Not only was Moroccan Berber listed 7 times in my results, 5 of them were in my top 10!

My #2 most prominent ethnicity came out as Spanish. Not only that, but Spanish was repeated a total of 7 times. Polish showed up a little lower on the list (#5) but was repeated 8 times. 9 of my ethnicities are simply labeled as "white," meaning a homogenous mixture of white people from the U.S. and Canada (this would encompass a lot of English, Irish, Swedish, Danish, etc., basically, everything I thought I was!). Some of the other things on the list that were interesting are Romani (Gypsy), Arab (I'm a son of Ishmael! haha No wonder I defended him in a sermon recently!), Egyptian, Native American, etc.

Once you learn about this, it become silly to be so hung up about "race." We are all mixed! I guess I can start calling myself an "African American" now! The Bible was right when it said that all nations are of one blood. If anyone hasn't heard it already, I would strongly recommend my recent sermon that proved that all of us are direct descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, one way or another.

Here is the full listing of my results followed by my "Certificate of Ethnicity:"

1. Moroccan Berbers
2. Iberian Peninsula - Andalusian Spanish
3. Moroccan Berbers
4. Romani - Presov, Slovak Republic
5. Polish - Northern
6. Polish - Podlasie
7. Spanish - Balearic Islands
8. Moroccan Berbers
9. North African - Maghreb
10. Arab - Moroccan
11. Polish - Podlasie
12. White - U.S.
13. Belgian - Flemish
14. Spanish - Majorcan
15. White - Canadian
16. Spanish - Valencian
17. Moroccan Berber - Asni
18. Russia - Pskov
19. Egptian Copts - Adaima
20. Belarusian - Northeastern Poland
21. Portuguese - Azores
22. Portuguese - White
23. Bosnian
24. White - Canadian
25. White - North Carolina
26. Slovenian
27. Polish
28. Polish
29. White - Swiss
30. Serbian - Serbia/Vojvodina/Montenegro
31. White - U.S.
32. White - Virginia
33. Belgian - Flanders (Dutch)
34. Serbian
35. Polish - Central
36. Spanish - Andalusian
37. Polish
38. White - Virginia
39. Brazilian - Sao Paolo
40. White - California
41. Polish - Southeastern
42. Slovac - Presov
43. Spanish - Canary Islands
44. Spanish - Minorcan
45. Native American - Michigan
46. Moroccan Berber - Bouhria
47. Portuguese - Northern
48. Portuguese - Azores Archipelago
49. Belarusian
50. Portuguese - Northern

In case anyone is interested, the company that tested my DNA is at dnaspectrum.com.

Ancestry Map

100% of my known ancestors came from the circled regions.

93.75% from the big circle, and 6.25% from the little circle (Switzerland).

25% of my known ancestors from the big circle are Danish and Swedish. The rest are from the British Isles.

What am I doing in Phoenix, AZ?! My ancestors were all from a cold, sea-faring place, and I live in a scorching hot desert! hahaha