Does the last sentence of the previous answer mean that if there is a Native American relative that isn on the direct lines that test Y-DNA and mtDNA, then the test can pick it up?
Yes, the test will not pick it up unless it is the source of the father’s father’s father’s line. The haplogroup of that line will not have changed from Q to R1b. If there is a Native American with haplogroup Q somewhere in the family tree but not on the direct paternal line, the Y-DNA was not passed down from that person to your paternal line and the test does not pick up the Native American ancestry at all.
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