Have you ever taken an Ancestry DNA test? What was your result?

[#TheShadowyAbyss]

I have. I got interesting results. It told me I was 60% European [31% Southern European (25% Iberian, 6% Italian) - 20% British and Irish, 9% French and German]

38% Arab and 2% East African. I am kind of surprised since my father's family has no record or verbal stories of any relatives coming from Europe.

[#TheShadowyAbyss]

I care way more about the narrative aspect of genealogy than attempting to isolate some sort of blood quantum or whatever.

I somewhat agree with this. I only took mine because as is common in the Arab world, written records of family history and members is a fairly recent phenomenon, I only know up to the name of my great-great-grandfather, but yet have records of my mothers family going back 9 generations on Ancestry.com.

My father's family were Arab Christians who converted to Islam from Greek Orthodox Christianity about 3 generations ago with my great-grandfather.

[#TheShadowyAbyss]

I care way more about the narrative aspect of genealogy than attempting to isolate some sort of blood quantum or whatever.

I somewhat agree with this. I only took mine because as is common in the Arab world, written records of family history and members is a fairly recent phenomenon, I only know up to the name of my great-great-grandfather, but yet have records of my mothers family going back 9 generations on Ancestry.com.

My father's family were Arab Christians who converted to Islam from Greek Orthodox Christianity about 3 generations ago with my great-grandfather.

Do you know for certain that the conversion was not coerced or caused by societal or economic pressure?

My grandfather says his dad converted because he wanted to marry his mother and non-Muslim men can't marry Muslim women so he converted to marry her and it split the family into the Christian half and the Muslim half (my half of the family).