>My Father who was born in 1934 and adopted in 1940, was told by his
>adoptive parents that he had Native American Ancestry on his Mothers
>side. For years he was curious as to his ethnicity. What we found was
>that his MTDNA is L0a1 and he is African and European (haplogroup I1a).
>In my Fathers case he was excited and delighted to know at the age of
>71 what he was.

But he could have Native American ancestry. Remember that mtDNA is not his total ancestry and in fact represents a small part of it.

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