Baby's Nationality?????

Question:The mother does not know who the father is....is their a way to find out the nationality of the baby?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: The mother does not know who the father is....is their a way to find out the nationality of the baby?

A DNA test would do it, but they are expensive; $149 (US) for the basics. Write if you'd like the name of the company I used.
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Added later:

I didn't mean a Paternity DNA test. I meant a genealogical DNA Test. Here is a sample report from mine. It shows where the people I am closest to are from. There are some notes at the bottom. It is long. It is in order of the most matches. For instance, 66 of the people I am close to genetically are from England, or at least their ancestors were.

66 England
44 Ireland
38 Scotland
24 United Kingdom
15 Germany
13 France
7 British Isles
7 Great Britain
7 Wales
3 Belgium
3 Netherlands
3 Spain
2 Italy
2 Norway
2 Puerto_Rico
2 Sicily
2 United_States
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It isn't perfect. DNA tests are expensive and many poor people aren't that interested in genealogy. So, there are not as many Blacks or Hispanic people in the data base as there are Americans of European origin. It would be nice if economic opportunity was color blind, but it isn't, in the USA today. That in turn means that you won't find as many matches to African-Americans or Hispanics as I did to, for instance, people with English roots. I found 66 matches.

Note also that different people spell countries differently - "British Isles", "United Kingdom", "Wales", "Ireland", "Scotland" and so on are the same basic ethnicity, compared to, for instance, Chinese or Zulus.

I know I'm mostly American of English/Scot/Irish and German roots, with BeNeLux and Huguenot mixed in. This confirms it, more or less. They didn't test my mother or father, just me. Then they compared my DNA sample to the other 150,000+ samples they have in their data base.

It would be cheaper to just wait and see what the child looks like.

A DNA test would sort the problem of paternity out, which in turn will sort out the other questions you have to ask.
Hope this helps.

I'm guessing you want ethniticity, not nationality. Nationality is where he's born.

You could do an ancestral dna test here is one site http://www.dnatribes.com
They aren’t cheap though and the prices seem to vary I’ve seen up to 500$. If you friend is interested just have her browse some different sites just type in DNA Ancestry into a search engine.