Has anyone had a DNA test that revealed their racial admixture which surprised them?

There are many companies performing these tests now including http://www.ancestrybydna.com, which is the company that analyzed my DNA. As a lightskinned African American with roots in the South and the implications of master-slave rapes and miscegeneation, some friends assumed and assured me that I must have some European ancestry. The test revealed that I am 95% African and about 5% East Asian. I was surprised by the Asian genes because there are no Asian people in my family that I know of....but it means that one of my great, great, great, greats could have been. There have been several documentaries on PBS that show people getting their DNA tested -- some of whom are very surprised by the results. I wonder if any of you were raised as one "race" but DNA test results revealed something you didn't know?

Has anyone had a DNA test that revealed their racial admixture which surprised them?opera score

Another woman posted here that she found that she was approximately 35% West African, and she identified as Black, while a guy who tested 31% West African had always considered himself white. Both were surprised. I think we all would be.

To the guy who says Blacks are keeping race alive: Wanting to know your ethnic heritage is pretty normal. Most of us can ask our parents, who asked their parents and so on, or we can search genealogical records. People who were kidnapped from their families, then sold to the highest bidder, lost their heritage. They couldn't tell their children about their clan history, because they didn't know where their children were.

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Has anyone had a DNA test that revealed their racial admixture which surprised them?

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