How would I go about finding out if this DNA was correct, though I have to say the paperwork looks handmade, but I don’t what to publicly out them without knowing for sure can I use extracts from this forum?
Regarding the use of our research: the forum is public, our research may be used freely.
The other issue is somewhat more difficult. I'm not an expert regarding genetics and English is my second language, but I'll try my best...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup#Human_mitochondrial_DNA_haplogroupshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_mitochondrial_DNA_haplogroupThere are several companies selling DNA tests. Some, or probably most of them advertise their test with the argumentation it could tell the client which ethnic affiliation(s) they had, and at least one company also includes a religion by claiming they could establish whether a client's ancestors were Jewish, or Vikings, or German, or Scandinavian.
Of course this is something the tests cannot do. E.g. where is the difference between Viking ancestry and Scandinavian ancestry, what is the difference between the two of them? Vikings were Scandinavians, too, albeit just one goup - but a social, not an ethnic group.
Persons of Jewish heritage can be found in most or even all European countries. However, their being a religious entity, their genetic make-up does not differ from the one of persons of other faiths in the same country or region. (Interestingly enough, the Hungarians, Estonians, and Finns, although speaking a non-Indo-European language, do not differ genetically from their European neighbours, either.)
The test usually establishes the client's mt-DNA, i.e. the so-called haplo group every human inherits from their mother, as it is passed in the female line. This on its own does not allow to come to any conclusion regarding the client's ethnic affiliation or descendence.
Some time ago, I read an article that in tests in Iceland, they found mt-DNA which had definitely haplo groups found in Native Americans. But this is the most that can be established from knowing a person's mt-DNA: that somewhere in the line of that person's ancestry, a native woman came into the family. You cannot tell of which nation this woman may have been, nor even the region she originally came from - and last not least: the ancestor passing this mt-DNA may have lived centuries ago (as was most probably the case with the persons found in Iceland).
So if Mr Billington brags about a DNA test having confirmed Tanja was native - that's BS. It only means that at the beginning of her ancestral line, the female involved was a Native American. This does not make her ndn.
According to our research, the Billingtons at one point in time apparently had duped a Creek heritage group into believing their claims and that heritage group seems to have given them a honorary membership or adopted them honorarily; they may even have obtained membership cards. Again, this does not make Tanja a Native. Plus that this group claimed descendance of Creek ancestors, while Tanja says she is Cherokee.
