How can i have 3 percent of white ancestry if my ancestors had family?

Question

how can i be 3 percent of white ancestry if my white ancestors had a white family does it count in your family tree

Answer 1

If your 3rd great grandfather was white had a white wife and 12 white children kids, but fooled around with a Black lady on the side

(or he owned her and promised she could be a house slave instead of a field slave if she had s*x with him)

(or he raped her)

and her descendants married 100% Black people,

you would be 1/32nd white, which is 3.125%, even though one of your ancestors was white.

You migh ask whoever gave you the 3% figure what it means and where he/she got it. Some family legends are true, some are false, some are based in truth but embellished over time.

An awful lot of male white slave owners had children by their slaves. More women that you might imagine got  divorced for "bearing a mulatto child".

If you are doing a family tree, this fellow is your 3rd great grandfather. His children are your ancestor's half brothers and half sisters, which makes them your third great half aunts and half uncles. You have 4th cousins who are white. Your FOURTH great grandparents, his white parents, are your full parents. If this white man was Thomas Jefferson, there is a society you can join. The DAR may quibble over admitting you, because most white slave owners did not admit that their mulatto children were theirs. You would have to get a male descendant (son of a son of a son . . .) to take a DNA test.

Answer 2

well, really, the only folks you count when deciding how much white/black/purple you are, are those who made a physical contribution into your ancestry.  i.e., a sperm or an egg.

I sounds like 1 of your 32 gggggrandparents was caucasian.  If you are actually 3% white, then the white ancestor or ancestors can't be very close, generationally.

Answer 3

who cares about color anyway, it's more important to know where you come from, what part of the world, and so on.!! white, brown, black, what ever you will call it, we are all the same, just from different parts of this world.