Calculating genealogy percentages?? IDK? lol?

How do i calculate how much (percent) I am of a race?
for example, my grandmother was german, sioux indian, and french.

Let’s figure this out with this empirical method.

You represent your 4 grandparents. Two of those grandparents were obviously Swedish…. per your paternal line.

That leaves the other grandparents.If your mother is an **equal mix** of 4 things….. then I would want to go back in time so that each of these is represented by a **single** person.

So…. you are telling me (by listing your mother…and I’m assuming equal amounts of each background), that your mother’s grandparents, or your great grand parents, were German, sioux-indian, french-canadian, and irish.

So now we are dealing with all your great grandparents…. all 8 of them…… 4 of whom are swedish, and one each of german, sioux-indian, french-canadian, and irish.

Ok so far?

That means that 4/8 of you are Swedish (50%). …. and 1/8 of you are german, 1/8 are sioux-indian, 1/8 french-canadian, and 1/8 are irish.

Note that this idea of “blending” inheritance was disproved in genetics a long time ago, although people talk in these terms and in “blood lines” and blood “%”. It has no basis in modern genetics. Given the mobility of humans, one could equally say you are 100% African since modern humans originated from that area.

You could equally say you are 100% of the country that you were born in when talking about these terms. In fact, “German” could mean anything in the past and could be Austrian, Polish, or even French.

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