Could Jewish DNA mean you are Cherokee?

Big Chief Rabbi: Why Cherokees could be Jewish. A Cherokee Indian. If one American geneticist is correct, the list of groups known to make up the ... who is of Cherokee descent himself, runs a Colorado-based, for-profit website called dnaconsultants.com, which lets people track down their DNA profiles. read more

As DNA tests became more sophisticated in the first decade of the 21 st century, some people who thought they were of Cherokee descent begin getting reports that told them they carried Jewish, Semitic or Middle Eastern DNA, but made no mention of Native American DNA. read more

You could consider yourself Jewish if your DNA test showed only 1% Ashkenazi, for instance, if you had undergone a lawfully recognized conversion into Judaism. Imo. (Note: not every single type of conversion is necessarily completely legally recognized by every single type of Jew worldwide). read more

The substantial presence of Jewish, Middle Eastern and North African DNA in Cherokee descendants has been highly publicized, but several POOF members were also surprised to learn that they had Jewish or Middle Eastern ancestry. read more