Thank you for answering the 1 percent Jewish DNA question. I thought it was strange too having Jewish DNA myself. I thought they may be misreadings but I feel sad to think of how many Jewish people there would be today if we were not persecuted almost out of extinction.
Imagine the gut punch I felt when I found out my grandfather was a Macedonian/Crete Jew who's father came to Mexico around 1912. Reading about what would happen to those people sends chills down my spine and leaves me with a strange sense of bereavement.
I thought it was strange too. Especially because to my knowledge, no one in my family is or seems to be, ethnically/religiously Jewish. However, because he said people with Iberian ancestry also have a small % of Jewish DNA it made more sense. A Huge % of my DNA is from Iberia. Haha.
@@AlphaDal-if9vvsame I’m from the DR lol my family’s religious beliefs are 100% Jewish even though we’re Catholics we never knew why it was a tradition. we just got our 23andMe back and my whole family has a little bit of Jewish, even at it’s highest confidence level. Makes so much sense considering half our dna is Iberian(Spain) and it’s history of forced conversion to Catholicism
My sibling and several first cousins have also gotten Basque (2% is average) on the last ancestry update...BUT for us it makes sense as we had expected it to show up due to 4 times great grandmother, who did come from that region, and had previously figured it hadn't shown up because she was several generations back and it had died out in our line. So for us Basque fits with what we know from paper trail and family diaries.
As Puerto Rican I have 9 % Basque, also another 17 more different regions. Our DNA doesn't match any history source in specific. So, I opted to use the movies of Pirates of the Caribbean as historic facts.
My daughter did her DNA, we are ethnically Bengali from Bangladesh, with no marriage outside our community, my daughter has Jewish ancestry and matched with a 8th cousin in Isreal. It also said that she has Indian Jewish ancestry, so we understood the decent. My husbands family have Turkic, Mongolian features in some relatives, while one of my daughter looks Iranian/ Moroccan, I look 100% Bengali/ south Asian. My husband looks like a carbon copy of Pictures of Genghis Khan and his family name is Khan.
Did you ever find out if you have grandfathers or grandmothers of that ethnicity? It is really interesting, but understanding how to discover the documents to prove ligneage could be difficult. But still it is very fascinating
I wouldn't get too excited about any unexplained 2% reading on the mass market tests. That said, there were very many Basque fishermen and sailors travelling the world at one point in time. It's inevitable that their genes washed up on random shores now and then. 😉
My grandma got both Askenazi, and Sephardic in her test, she’s got matches from different Jewish communities. She looks Northern European but was born in Yucatan
Those that are Ashkenazi Jews were not forced to intermarry with Gentiles. The Ashkenazi Jews almost always married other Jews. The Ashkenazi Jews and known Sephardi Jews are very close genetically.
Us Ashkenazi Jews* are the least genetically distinct. There is a big genetic bottleneck of some ~350 people going back several centuries. So it's very easy to tag Ashkenazi DNA, but most Jewish populations are more internally diverse, and that's not because they intermarried more, they didn't. Jewish intermarriage is basically not a significant historical phenomena outside the US. *Italki Jews don't count as Ashkenazi, Ashkenazi Jews are an off shoot of them.
20:15 That's why it's necessary Portugal, Spain and Iberian American countries do their own research and database, there's a significant of Certified Sephardi descent people, at least in Northeasterrn Brazil. (I don't know if there is some American company in the former Mexico territory offering tests)
In the Middle Ages Italy was part of the kingdom Aragon before the unification of Spain this corresponds to the region of Catalonia and Valencia today. Where they still speak a different language that has similarities with standard Italian. The basques were also part of the Aragonese kingdom.
Ok I love when total weird videos show up on my list this is really cool now I am sucked in and going to have to watch a few videos to understand what ya are doing 😊
I'm portuguese and my dna test results came with 6,7% Ashkenazi jew. The jewish heritage wasn't surprising at all (I do know a lot about my country history), but I was confused about the Ashkenazi part. Thank you for helping me confirm that, in fact, those are, probably, markers of Sephardic jewish heritage. By the way, in sec. XVI Portugal, Jews were given the option to convert or leave. Some did convert and the majority chosed to leave. The king made this law because it was a condition imposed by the Spanish king to give his daughter in marriage, and obviously make a peace with the (bigger and imperialist) neighbours. He was not full convinced and later he closed the borders to prevent the Jews from leaving, but it was too late. I can't tell you exactly the reason (can't remember), but the royal authorities also kidnapped lots out jewish children and give them to be adopted by christian familys and educated as one. The departed of the portuguese Sephardic Jews was a sad episode of our history and a irreparable loss for Portugal.
Certain population groups are MUCH easier for DNA tests to accurately identify. Usually groups either isolated geographically (Finns, Koreans, Icelanders, etc.), or ethnicly/religiously (Jews, Romani, etc.)
I had my DNA done at Ancestry few years ago. My mother and her sisters were abandoned during the Depression so all I know about her family is that they were French Canadian. Plus there was always the rumour that some where in her ancestry there was Native Canadian. My Dad’s ancestry is mostly Irish with some Pennsylvania Dutch thrown in. Two things about my results: 1) there was nothing for Native Canadian and 2) 1% European Jew. My Dad did some family genealogy on his side and he had no idea who our Jewish ancestor might have been. One more thing - 9% Scandinavian. My Dad had no idea who that might have been either. I’m guessing Vikings who raided Ireland. I’m interested in your comments on this.
The 1% European Jew could be from your French Canadian side, either from genuine Jews fleeing Spain who converted to Catholicism at some point, or an Neolithic artefact from South Western Europe which is comparable to what can be found among modern Jew population, but doesn't come from them.
On 23 and Me my son had about 1% Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry. My husband hasn't been tested but his ancestors are ALL from Poland - every single one. I thought that probably meant he was maybe 1-1/2 to 2-1/2 percent Ashkenazi himself. I have done his family tree and his great grandmother and great, great grandmother (different lines) both had Jewish names. I knew they may not have been 100% Jewish. But now, the Jewish ancestry has completely disappeared from my son's results. They show 47% Eastern European and the rest seems to mostly all come from my side as I have never shown any Eastern European or Jewish in my results so son's must all be from husband. I don't know if I have a question here. Just a bit confused.
2% will likely go back 5 or 6 generations, and with the number of ancestors that far back, it will take a while to pinpoint specific Jewish individuals.
Hello, can you please help me understand whether my 30% Mizrahi Jewish heritage is a real Jewish heritage or some type of mis categorization. I will be happy to share myheritage results for my and my dad. My dad has slightly higher 35% Mizrahi Jewish heritage. Please let me know how to contact you. Thank you.
It would be interesting to have the access to trace DNA for those of genetically Jewish, had villages like Ilya, Belarus were not completely eradicated of it's people to show the markers necessary towards following the migration of a people.
Are you able to upload a video today on Ethiopian Jews and their DNA ancestry? As it is understood, those living in Israel do not WANT to acknowledge the history that has been told for 2000 years.
I found out who my great grandfather was by Ancestry. I found the son of my grand father’s half sister who was born less than a year apart from and my great grandfather had died before she was born from Typhus. My grandfather was put up for adoption to a farm and was listed on the 1900 census as a servant. Oddly enough my great grandmother is a wall in my family tree I haven’t broken. She claimed to have been married to someone else but I don’t have any surname match’s other than My great Great grandmother has the same first and last name as my sister. I know that there are methods to break that wall but I get frustrated with people who match but don’t do trees.
I know someone who is Jewish (of the Jewish faith and ethnically) with ancestors with Yiddish family names, but the DNA does not show any Jewish percentage. Why?
That's pretty strange. I would assume testing error. Ashkenazi Jewish DNA is one of the most distinctive because its not particularly genetically diverse. I guess theoretically it could adoption or family drama, but more likely it's testing mistake. These sites are hardly infallible.
Either they are adopted and not actually of Jewish ancestry (though they could still be Jewish religiously and culturally), or there was an error during the testing.
Hi, Jarrett. New subscriber. Love your videos. I'm a British woman, Yorkshire born and bred and I have been researching my ancestry since 1984, taking all lines back at least 6 generations and in some cases as far back as the 16th century when English parish registers began. I recently got my DNA test results from AncestryDNA and these are my ethnicity results. 53% England and Northwestern Europe (mostly England) 35% Scotland 8% Sweden and Denmark 3% Norway 1% Basque There are a few things that puzzle me about my ethnicity results. All my mother's ancestors were born in England. They mostly had surnames of Anglo-Saxon or Norman origin. They can be found in northern England, all three Ridings of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire (between North Lincolnshire and Lincoln) which my ethnicity results have picked up. However, I get more Scandinavian DNA from my mother's side than my father's and my father was of Anglo-Scottish-Swedish descent. My paternal grandmother was one quarter Swedish. I also have a good percentage of Scottish DNA from my mother, but it's my paternal great grandmother who had the Scottish father and Anglo-Scottish mother. The biggest mystery to me is the 1% Basque from my mother's side. None of my identifiable DNA matches on my mother's side (none of them closely or too distantly related) have Basque DNA, but I realise it could be further back in time. The odd thing is that I share my maternal 1% Basque DNA with an unidentified DNA match who lives in Alaska and a man with the name Muhammad who has 7% Basque DNA. These two are shared DNA matches with each other. None of the other people that I am matched with these two people (a total of 36 people inc. the two mentioned) have Basque DNA inc. two matches who are thought to be closely related to Muhammad with the surname Bradbury. None of these 36 people are closer in relationship to me than an estimated half third cousin, once removed. Most of them don't have family trees and those that do don't have any names or surnames on their family trees that I can identify. A few of them are "unassigned". My late parents were born in a city that was a dockland many years ago and the city had many ships visiting from overseas and many a foreign sailor. If I have 1% Basque DNA, it could've come from a sailor from that region and perhaps one of my ancestresses had a brief relationship with him, but it doesn't look like any of them admitted to it. I haven't a clue which side of my maternal ancestry that it comes from and I have matches with all of my maternal great grandparents's families. I have relatives in the USA and Canada, but I know of no one in Alaska. Most of my DNA test results didn't deviate from what I already know through genealogical research, but the 1% Basque is a complete mystery and surprise. I am also aware that DNA test results can only tell you your ethnicity within a few generations of yourself. Why do so few of my matches have Basque DNA?
Hi Jarrett, I don't know if you still look at coments since video is 3 months old. I don't have Jewish ancestry in my results but I have Middle Eastern in my DNA. My mother though has about 5% of Aschkenazi Jewish as well as my grandparents around 2-3% each. As you said they also have some Iberian and Estern Europe as lot of other Jewish people. I would like to explore that part of my mother's heritage and in sense mine as well. Test that I have done is from MyHeritage. Thank you for interesting video, Best regards.
any time you get weird results involving irish (black-irish) or italian (southern/sicilian) ask yourself "can these numbers be explained through events be explained by migrations caused by the franco-prussian invasions, and/or the Punic Wars". the answer is almost always "yes"
Black Irish is a misnomer and there is no factual evidence of it. Ancient British dna aka welsh component links to Iberia and to the basque going back 6000 yrs ago. This is before you add recent migration.
Regarding the difficulty in separating out Sephardi from Ashkenasi, one possible way might be to actively search for people with as verifiable as possible ancestry from just one of the groups? Ask if they would do these tests? It'd be interesting. And while finding very old grave sites and testing very old bones is a thing, I feel way less comfortable suggesting that being done to a minority that was so consistently persecuted as European Jews. That's a very different vibe from testing bones from Viking grave sites here in Sweden.
In reaction to the first part. My 25% coastal Italian came back as 15% Italian and a mix of Middle Eastern, Iberian and Albanian on various tests as well as some family members. It showed up as 1 or 2% Basque in my uncles' tests. Conversely, my wife's 100% inland Basque grandmother showed up as 99% Basque and 1% Irish on Ancestry.
I'm Ashkenazi. Just an observation; so many of us have red hair (even in my own family). I read that after Scotland and Ireland, Israel has the highest incident of natural redheads. Then I read King David was described as a red head. One thing odd about my DNA test is that there is Norwegian on BOTH maternal and paternal sides. I've had a few DNA test and previously they indicated "scandinavian". Now it is being more specific. That in itself is not so weird but having it on BOTH sides is very odd. It's just a small amount but equal from each side.
The problem with King David is 1. He might not have existed. He may be legendary like King Arthur and 2. He might not have been Hebrew. His memory may have been glamorized and appropriated by the writers of the bible.
Hi. I just find this video. I’m a Central American. I have Jewish matches from all over the place, Sephardic from Syria, Tunisia, Algeria, France, Ashkenazi from other difference places and also matches from Israel and a couple from Turkey. All these are distant connections. My mom happens to have similar results. Someone told me once that there’s a link with Jewish people somewhere in my maternal side of the family and I wish I can solve this puzzle. My mtdna seems to be European, which is something that I didn’t expect since most the people of my country descends from a Native American female ancestor. I know have some ancestors that belong to the group of Jews who converted because of persecution back in the Iberian Peninsula. I can see this piece of history reflect in the matches that I have. Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to find much genealogical info in my maternal line (woman to woman). I know my maternal line customs are recorded as being practiced by conversos or secret Jews. What would you recommend? Thanks
Basque area was in the Kingdom of Aragon, which existed approx 1000-1700AD. It covered Italy and eastern Spain. So there would have been a lot of mixing between the two parts of the kingdom
Not necessarily. The Kingdom of Navarra was a Basque kingdom from the time of Sancho the Third, around the mid-Ninth Century. Seven different Basque regions were combined into the Kingdom. Aragon was on the eastern side of Navarra and was primarily what we would call Catalonian. It had no common boundaries with the seven territories other than the territory of Navarra itself. Aragon didn’t attain control of the Navarresa and Basque lands until the late Fifteenth Century.
A lot of Latin American Jewish DNA also comes from the Spanish Inquisition. European Jews, that being Dutch, German, Spanish and French, basically split into two subgroups due to expulsions from the Western European nations. There were communities in Western Europe throughout history and they were eventually forced East, before being allowed back West. For the most part, we stayed in our own communities, but sometimes we mixed, though infrequently. The only case where we didn't mix into the local population to some extent is in Russia, and even so there are still mixes of Polak and Litvak DNA, and other Eastern Slavic and Baltic. Due to historic isolation, the genetics for that particular group became pretty streamlined and the stereotypical 'Jewish' look, that being the black coat / black hat wearing big bearded Jew, developed due to hundreds of years of effective isolation under the Russians. Thus the 'Ashkenazi' genetics came to be, separating distinctively enough from Sephardic genes to be considered it's own sub-group. The Spanish and Southern French fled to Morocco, and the German and Dutch fled to Poland. Some eventually returned but significant communities remained in the places they fled to. The ones who stayed in Morocco and went back to Spain became the Sephardi. Of course, there were many Jewish communities in Spain who also sought refuge in the New World, as it was far away from Christian oppression. Many Jews settled in the Caribbean fleeing persecution, there are ancient synagogues there. Yes, the Spanish and Portuguese did bring some Jewish ancestry with them, but the Christians suppressed and isolated us. If there is Jewish DNA somewhere, it's evidence that we went there, not that somebody brought our genetics there by chance. one of many reasons but jewish history has so many layers it's incredible.
Hello Sir, there's an issue already prolonged in Indonesia since March last year involving a community claiming to be descendant of Ishmael but rejected by another organisation as invalid, for the reason that they belong to a different Haplogroup based on DNA testing. 100 plus volunteer of Yemenite descents claiming as Ishmaelite belong to G Haplogroup based on public record. Whereas the other Ishmaelite who lived in Iraq (supposedly from same line from 40th tier progenitor) has a coherent set of Haplogroup of J type similar to the Cohanim (descendant of Aharon the Levite) which is also J type. Whenever I look it, I believe that descendant of Abraham Peace Be upon Him and His Family, should inherit the same DNA through paternal line and not otherwise. Which is within J haplogroup. My question is, can a Y chromosomes from father's side ( paternal line) mutated from J to G group within a span of 1100 years? If yes, how did that happen? Thank you.
Do you not know that less than 200 years ago almost all of latin America was part of the Spanish empire? It wasn't an ancient time ago .The people that lived there were not subjects , the lands were considered part of the kingdom of spain with the exception of slaves all people were considered Spanish citizens . The spaniards did not just colonize they settled and intermarried with local populations in mass .
The Celts are Celtiberians from Spain, they invaded Ireland and pushed the native britians to northern Ireland and western Scotland. The Scots are Scythians and are likely to come to Ireland from Spain at the same time.They mixed with the native Britain's.
Im Puerto Rican and 9% Basque and 3% Jewish but the Jewish is Ashkenazim and Sephardim tho I believe my grandfather family were from majorca and were Xuetas
could you maybe discuss being jewish ancestrally, mixed, and your dna not coming up jewish at some point? i'd like to hear your perspective on this. i know various things can affect it when you're mixed, especially sephardic. we believe my mother's sephardic dna came up as iberian peninsula on ancestry dna. could this be report groups and just inaccuracy?
A good way to determine Sephardic origins is high DNA percentage from Spain Portugal etc also you can look up the names of Sephardic in the registry , family can sometimes be helpful as well it could be grandparents or great grandparents I have high percentage for Ashkenazi then the rest is from Spain ,on both sides the last name is Sephardic I didn't get the chance to know my grandparents well but my grandma still tried to keep some of the customs(they were converted to Catholicism )what i have left of her is a star of david necklace
Completely disagree. None of these are actual ways to determine Sephardic ancestry, they are only indications of POSSIBLE Sephardic ancestry. Admixture percentages for Sephardic Jews are all over the place, not even considering the massive differences in readings between companies, so not reliable in determining Sephardic ancestry. High percentages of Iberian may just represent Iberian ancestry and not specifically Sephardic. As well, those lists of Sephardic surnames do not mean that every family with that surname is/was Sephardic, so you cannot guarantee Sephardic ancestry if you find a family name (or many) on these lists. The vast majority of names adopted by Sephardic families were names that were commonly used and adopted by non-Sephardic families. The only good way to determine Sephardic origins is through proper research that adheres to the Genealogical Proof Standard which shows a direct tie of the family to a Sephardic community. If you don't have that, at best you just have a hypothesis of Sephardic ancestry.
@@ProfessionalGenealogistReacts I'm not an expert this was just the case in my family my aunt did significant research and went to Spain and connected with family there
I’m half Puerto Rican and I also took 23 and Me and I’m only 12.6% Spanish and Portuguese which is weird I expected more but I’m 8.1% Italian and 2.9% Broadly Southern European? Would you say that 8.1% Italian is just more Spanish since Spain and Italy had a history together?
People from all over Europe came to South America looking for a better life, in many different waves while others were “brought” their. So I would say having diverse ancestors is kind of normal.
@ce7133, Not likely. 23andMe does a pretty good job of separating the Iberian gene pool from the Italian one. Which regions of Italy were your top matches? I know a fair amount about Italian history and the Italian diaspora. I might be able to suggest some logical answers.
@@brawndothethirstmutilator9848 Funny thing is it didn’t show any region of Italy despite the fact I had nearly 10% that’s what I’m lead to believe that these dna test get confused when it comes to Spanish and Italian, unless it’s Corsican ancestry since Corsican immigrants went to Puerto Rico in 1815.
I’m curious why 23 and me would even bother telling me I have .2% ashkanzi jewish ancestry? Not that I have any problem with that ancestry but it’s not even 1% so what does that even mean? No other ancestry’s I have are below 3-5%.
"Ashkenazi Jewish" is something a lot of people would like to see in their results for some reason (even if it's just 0.1% or less, even if it is not even real). I don't understand why. Apparently, an "American Indian" has the same issue among USA citizens (at least based on RUclips videos). It feels sort of wired, to be honest. And there is another strange thing when people are truly upset with their results because "they are boring" and as expected.
A lot of white people want to get DNA of an oppressed minority, so they don’t feel like they are totally white. You get Anglos who want to get Irish DNA so they feel less English. It’s all rapped up in Identity politics. They think if they have a small percentage of DNA from an oppressed population they can feel more akin with such groups. My DNA is Ashkenazi because that’s my ancestry, but someone who gets a tiny percentage with no Ashkenazi ancestors can’t claim to be Ashkenazi, just like I can’t claim to be Chinese. In short it sounds cool at parties to say I am 1% of this or that.
How do you know... what a lot of people would like to see? I have some AJ in my mix of estimates and match people who are 100% AJ at all testing sites. I just want to know why this is so. I am more interested in uncovering details from the lives of my ancestors, as found in records. Meanwhile... I have read many comments telling people who have some distant Jewish ancestry that it's nonsense or unimportant... just generally a blanket denial or dismissal. I wonder about that! It's usually people who are more or less 100% Jewish.
It’s just because a lot of Anglo Americans want something “interesting” in their DNA, which means something other than typical European ancestry. These guys are desperate, so even having a wee smidge of Ashkenazi seems cool to them.
My paternal grandfather was Jewish. 25 percent of me came back a Mediterranean mix of mainly Spanish and Italian. There was no middle eastern ancestry. Didn't Abraham come from Ur office the Chaldees?
My issues are that my family has been in America since the 1600s, so finding my ethnicity from my 1 - 6th grand doesn't really work for me. I know I'm not Native American
percent _country_ and/or _region_ is meaningless with genetics. We each have 46 chromosomes + mitocondrial DNA, and they _each_ have some common ancestory with every other human's equivalent segment of DNA. The question is, _who_ was that common ancestor? But the answer is actually an array of 47 _different_ answers _per other human_. What's the _significance_ of that common ancestry? None. We're all human, and we all have the opportunity to do _good_ by our neighbors or do harm.
I'm a bit confused. I was a foster child at 1yr on the east coast in conn. for 16yrs. Never knew my mother but saw a pic of her. She was dark brown American black, she died when I was 10. My Dad, who I look like, visited me a few times and then died when I was 16. He looked like lol, the late actor Adolf Caesar, short, light skin American black. I was always told by family I met later that there was native American in my mother's side and Portuguese in my Dad's side. I'm light skin, not short, with soft kinky hair, full lips, small nose. So made sense to me. So after all these years at 62 I do a DNA test. Comes back 32% Nigeria, 22% Jewish, 16% Ghana and some small percentages 2% to 5% Mali, European, German, Scottish, Irish. Funny cause I love to wear kilts. But wtf. How can that 22% Jewish be there! No native American or Portuguese. How in the world can I have that much Jewish in me? Funny thing is I always felt like I was a seed of Abraham. But it was just a fantasy....until now.
So if an ancestry test says 60 percent Spanish, would that mean within that 60 percent there could be Sephardi Jewish and Arab genetics right? according to a study, 20 percent of Spain has Jewish genetics and 8 percent has Arab
The most recent geo-location DNA study shows Ashkenazi origins in (not surprising) a region called Ashkenaz in eastern Anatolia and western Iran. Very little connection to the Levant. Those Anatolian/Iranians then migrated to the Rhineland and Slavic Europe. Until recently, no one, including the Ashkenazis, knew the origin of their name. The DNA geo-location pointed to that region and a review of old maps and texts revealed the town name of Ashkenaz and several very similar sounding names. That distant memory no doubt gave the European Jews their name.
A LOT of Catholics in eastern Poland and western Ukraine descend from Jews who converted to Catholicism in the 1700s and 1800s. And a LOT of Latin Americans descend from Jews who converted to Catholicism in the 1300s and 1400s.
20 generations ago we all have 1 millon ancestors...Now keep going...And alot people have hebrew blood.... The choosen aint just the so called choosen.
I read that Jews from Jerusalem took ship after the time of King David and Solomon to what is now Spain (northern) and what is now France (near the Basque area). Later they immigrated to Ireland and what is now U.K. I've researched for 60+ years and still do not know where in Scotland my Stewart ancestors came from. Argh!
Jewish DNA: our origin story is we, collectively are from the land of Judah, which the Romans conquered and renamed Palestine in an early act of antisemitism. Our ethnicity relates back to our country of origin. Perhaps add this to your information so people understand it is like Italians are from Italy, Germans are from Germany, Jews are from Judah ( which reverted back to our historic name, beloved Israel)
Jews not only come from the land of Israel genetically. For a large part they are Europeans. An American with one distant Italian ancestor cannot claim to be Italian either.
the arabs are semitic. The palestinian are people with the highest canaanite genome distinct from other arabs tribe. How the name of palestine is anti semitic?
@@MaximediusThat’s blatantly false. Firstly, the majority of Jews living in Israel are either Sephardi or Mizrachi. Secondly, any group that is taken out of its original land will experience mixing with other groups. Genetic tests don’t show that Jews aren’t just distant relatives of ancient Jews but the direct descendants with some admixture from other groups along the way.
Lots of near eastern influence on Iberia outside of just Jewish influence. From the Carthaginians/Phoenicians to various Islamic groups migrating in after the Conquest. Jews are just one of multiple near eastern influences on Iberia. It's an option but not the only one. If you could trace the family back you could maybe tell.
Why can’t you find Sephardic dna by Sephardic Jews in Israel? There are a lot of people who’s ancestors are coming only from north Africa, Levantine, Iraq, Persia
Why don't they get the Sephardic DNA from XV-XVIII century cemeteries? I know you are not supposed to disturb Jewish interments but there were plenty of conversos.
You could just or you could just stay out of Jewish cemetery is altogether and just not actually say things like that like not even entertain them please like for heaven's sake
.2% is such a small amount that there is a very low confidence whether that reading is true. Although, if it is true, your most recent Jewish ancestor would like be a 4th-great grandparent or further distance.
I am from a group of people who left the middle east in AD 345. 75 families settled in southern India. It is said that we were Jewish Christians. I have just applied for a myheritage kit. Curious to see what comes up as it was a very long time ago...wondering if ancestry or 23me would have been better as they look more detailed
Ciao sono Kevin ho fatto test due anni fa adesso ho greco e italiano meridionale era 84,5% adesso 84% poi sardo 11,7% e medio orientale era due anni fa 3,9% adesso 4,3%.io sono italiano sud Puglia Campania e basilicata.ho molte corrispondenze tra persone del sud come me ma ho molte corrispondenze da persone di altre nazioni ma che hanno molto Europa orientale e balcanico con greco.
Myheritage is founded in Israel and has an Israeli headquarter. I think thats why people are suspicious. Me being from afghanistan i wonder how its possible for me to have a small percent ashkenazi jewish DNA. Its suss to say the least.
Basque are not related to anyone. I watched a video on them. They are in basque country, in Spain and France but have always been separate. Also some of them are almost in Italy, nobody knows where the ancestors were, language is specific to Basque. Interesting side note, crooked little fingers are a tell.
No you can't your mother have to be jew ..basically Abraham had a son called Ishmael and the son had to leave and went to marry an Arab that's why arabs love religion so much maybe a little too much truly warship god and not chasing money and wealth and power like prophet Jacobs kids 😂😂😂
Thank you for answering the 1 percent Jewish DNA question. I thought it was strange too having Jewish DNA myself. I thought they may be misreadings but I feel sad to think of how many Jewish people there would be today if we were not persecuted almost out of extinction.
Imagine the gut punch I felt when I found out my grandfather was a Macedonian/Crete Jew who's father came to Mexico around 1912. Reading about what would happen to those people sends chills down my spine and leaves me with a strange sense of bereavement.
I thought it was strange too. Especially because to my knowledge, no one in my family is or seems to be, ethnically/religiously Jewish. However, because he said people with Iberian ancestry also have a small % of Jewish DNA it made more sense. A Huge % of my DNA is from Iberia. Haha.
@@AlphaDal-if9vvsame I’m from the DR lol my family’s religious beliefs are 100% Jewish even though we’re Catholics we never knew why it was a tradition. we just got our 23andMe back and my whole family has a little bit of Jewish, even at it’s highest confidence level. Makes so much sense considering half our dna is Iberian(Spain) and it’s history of forced conversion to Catholicism
didn't God promise Abraham that his seed would be numberless as the sands and be found in all nations?
Exactly
it was meant to Christians, who believe in jesus
@@YonasButta😂 No it was not
Ishmael 😂😂 it makes sense
ABRAHAM IS A MYTHICAL FIGURE
My sibling and several first cousins have also gotten Basque (2% is average) on the last ancestry update...BUT for us it makes sense as we had expected it to show up due to 4 times great grandmother, who did come from that region, and had previously figured it hadn't shown up because she was several generations back and it had died out in our line. So for us Basque fits with what we know from paper trail and family diaries.
As Puerto Rican I have 9 % Basque, also another 17 more different regions. Our DNA doesn't match any history source in specific. So, I opted to use the movies of Pirates of the Caribbean as historic facts.
Many conquistadors where basque
Sound legit to me haha
My daughter did her DNA, we are ethnically Bengali from Bangladesh, with no marriage outside our community, my daughter has Jewish ancestry and matched with a 8th cousin in Isreal. It also said that she has Indian Jewish ancestry, so we understood the decent. My husbands family have Turkic, Mongolian features in some relatives, while one of my daughter looks Iranian/ Moroccan, I look 100% Bengali/ south Asian. My husband looks like a carbon copy of Pictures of Genghis Khan and his family name is Khan.
Wow, what a unique combination of ethnicities you have! I’ve never known someone with Turkic or Bangledash background! 👍
Im african american and I have 3% Ashkenazi Jewish
When I did my Ancestry DNA test 6 years ago I was surprised to learn I was 18% Jewish.
Did you ever find out if you have grandfathers or grandmothers of that ethnicity? It is really interesting, but understanding how to discover the documents to prove ligneage could be difficult. But still it is very fascinating
Genealogy is so fun, enjoying your channel I‘ve been on my own dna journey your videos have helped
I wouldn't get too excited about any unexplained 2% reading on the mass market tests. That said, there were very many Basque fishermen and sailors travelling the world at one point in time. It's inevitable that their genes washed up on random shores now and then. 😉
My grandma got both Askenazi, and Sephardic in her test, she’s got matches from different Jewish communities. She looks Northern European but was born in Yucatan
The Jewish ethnicity is so interesting. I would think the Ashkenazi ethnicity would have the same problems as the Sephardic.
Those that are Ashkenazi Jews were not forced to intermarry with Gentiles. The Ashkenazi Jews almost always married other Jews. The Ashkenazi Jews and known Sephardi Jews are very close genetically.
Us Ashkenazi Jews* are the least genetically distinct. There is a big genetic bottleneck of some ~350 people going back several centuries. So it's very easy to tag Ashkenazi DNA, but most Jewish populations are more internally diverse, and that's not because they intermarried more, they didn't. Jewish intermarriage is basically not a significant historical phenomena outside the US.
*Italki Jews don't count as Ashkenazi, Ashkenazi Jews are an off shoot of them.
20:15 That's why it's necessary Portugal, Spain and Iberian American countries do their own research and database, there's a significant of Certified Sephardi descent people, at least in Northeasterrn Brazil. (I don't know if there is some American company in the former Mexico territory offering tests)
In the Middle Ages Italy was part of the kingdom Aragon before the unification of Spain this corresponds to the region of Catalonia and Valencia today. Where they still speak a different language that has similarities with standard Italian. The basques were also part of the Aragonese kingdom.
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I'm portuguese and my dna test results came with 6,7% Ashkenazi jew. The jewish heritage wasn't surprising at all (I do know a lot about my country history), but I was confused about the Ashkenazi part. Thank you for helping me confirm that, in fact, those are, probably, markers of Sephardic jewish heritage. By the way, in sec. XVI Portugal, Jews were given the option to convert or leave. Some did convert and the majority chosed to leave. The king made this law because it was a condition imposed by the Spanish king to give his daughter in marriage, and obviously make a peace with the (bigger and imperialist) neighbours. He was not full convinced and later he closed the borders to prevent the Jews from leaving, but it was too late. I can't tell you exactly the reason (can't remember), but the royal authorities also kidnapped lots out jewish children and give them to be adopted by christian familys and educated as one. The departed of the portuguese Sephardic Jews was a sad episode of our history and a irreparable loss for Portugal.
Certain population groups are MUCH easier for DNA tests to accurately identify. Usually groups either isolated geographically (Finns, Koreans, Icelanders, etc.), or ethnicly/religiously (Jews, Romani, etc.)
I had my DNA done at Ancestry few years ago. My mother and her sisters were abandoned during the Depression so all I know about her family is that they were French Canadian. Plus there was always the rumour that some where in her ancestry there was Native Canadian. My Dad’s ancestry is mostly Irish with some Pennsylvania Dutch thrown in. Two things about my results: 1) there was nothing for Native Canadian and 2) 1% European Jew. My Dad did some family genealogy on his side and he had no idea who our Jewish ancestor might have been. One more thing - 9% Scandinavian. My Dad had no idea who that might have been either. I’m guessing Vikings who raided Ireland. I’m interested in your comments on this.
The Viking element is more likely a gene shared by the Dutch and Nordic peoples.
Vikings settled in Ireland, hot assimilated
The 1% European Jew could be from your French Canadian side, either from genuine Jews fleeing Spain who converted to Catholicism at some point, or an Neolithic artefact from South Western Europe which is comparable to what can be found among modern Jew population, but doesn't come from them.
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On 23 and Me my son had about 1% Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry. My husband hasn't been tested but his ancestors are ALL from Poland - every single one. I thought that probably meant he was maybe 1-1/2 to 2-1/2 percent Ashkenazi himself. I have done his family tree and his great grandmother and great, great grandmother (different lines) both had Jewish names. I knew they may not have been 100% Jewish. But now, the Jewish ancestry has completely disappeared from my son's results. They show 47% Eastern European and the rest seems to mostly all come from my side as I have never shown any Eastern European or Jewish in my results so son's must all be from husband. I don't know if I have a question here. Just a bit confused.
2% will likely go back 5 or 6 generations, and with the number of ancestors that far back, it will take a while to pinpoint specific Jewish individuals.
Hello, can you please help me understand whether my 30% Mizrahi Jewish heritage is a real Jewish heritage or some type of mis categorization. I will be happy to share myheritage results for my and my dad. My dad has slightly higher 35% Mizrahi Jewish heritage. Please let me know how to contact you. Thank you.
I’m Mexican and AncestryDNA says I have 3% Jewish dna lol
Most Mexicans do have a percentage of Jewish DNA. Possibly due to coming the Spanish conquers.
Me too! I have 4% Jewish Dna
It would be interesting to have the access to trace DNA for those of genetically Jewish, had villages like Ilya, Belarus were not completely eradicated of it's people to show the markers necessary towards following the migration of a people.
Are you able to upload a video today on Ethiopian Jews and their DNA ancestry? As it is understood, those living in Israel do not WANT to acknowledge the history that has been told for 2000 years.
Isn’t DNA tests illegal in Israel? For, reasons….
I found out who my great grandfather was by Ancestry. I found the son of my grand father’s half sister who was born less than a year apart from and my great grandfather had died before she was born from Typhus. My grandfather was put up for adoption to a farm and was listed on the 1900 census as a servant. Oddly enough my great grandmother is a wall in my family tree I haven’t broken. She claimed to have been married to someone else but I don’t have any surname match’s other than My great Great grandmother has the same first and last name as my sister. I know that there are methods to break that wall but I get frustrated with people who match but don’t do trees.
I know someone who is Jewish (of the Jewish faith and ethnically) with ancestors with Yiddish family names, but the DNA does not show any Jewish percentage. Why?
Adopted?
That's pretty strange. I would assume testing error. Ashkenazi Jewish DNA is one of the most distinctive because its not particularly genetically diverse.
I guess theoretically it could adoption or family drama, but more likely it's testing mistake. These sites are hardly infallible.
Either they are adopted and not actually of Jewish ancestry (though they could still be Jewish religiously and culturally), or there was an error during the testing.
Hi, Jarrett. New subscriber. Love your videos.
I'm a British woman, Yorkshire born and bred and I have been researching my ancestry since 1984, taking all lines back at least 6 generations and in some cases as far back as the 16th century when English parish registers began.
I recently got my DNA test results from AncestryDNA and these are my ethnicity results.
53% England and Northwestern Europe (mostly England)
35% Scotland
8% Sweden and Denmark
3% Norway
1% Basque
There are a few things that puzzle me about my ethnicity results.
All my mother's ancestors were born in England. They mostly had surnames of Anglo-Saxon or Norman origin. They can be found in northern England, all three Ridings of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire (between North Lincolnshire and Lincoln) which my ethnicity results have picked up.
However, I get more Scandinavian DNA from my mother's side than my father's and my father was of Anglo-Scottish-Swedish descent. My paternal grandmother was one quarter Swedish.
I also have a good percentage of Scottish DNA from my mother, but it's my paternal great grandmother who had the Scottish father and Anglo-Scottish mother.
The biggest mystery to me is the 1% Basque from my mother's side. None of my identifiable DNA matches on my mother's side (none of them closely or too distantly related) have Basque DNA, but I realise it could be further back in time.
The odd thing is that I share my maternal 1% Basque DNA with an unidentified DNA match who lives in Alaska and a man with the name Muhammad who has 7% Basque DNA. These two are shared DNA matches with each other. None of the other people that I am matched with these two people (a total of 36 people inc. the two mentioned) have Basque DNA inc. two matches who are thought to be closely related to Muhammad with the surname Bradbury.
None of these 36 people are closer in relationship to me than an estimated half third cousin, once removed. Most of them don't have family trees and those that do don't have any names or surnames on their family trees that I can identify. A few of them are "unassigned".
My late parents were born in a city that was a dockland many years ago and the city had many ships visiting from overseas and many a foreign sailor. If I have 1% Basque DNA, it could've come from a sailor from that region and perhaps one of my ancestresses had a brief relationship with him, but it doesn't look like any of them admitted to it. I haven't a clue which side of my maternal ancestry that it comes from and I have matches with all of my maternal great grandparents's families.
I have relatives in the USA and Canada, but I know of no one in Alaska.
Most of my DNA test results didn't deviate from what I already know through genealogical research, but the 1% Basque is a complete mystery and surprise.
I am also aware that DNA test results can only tell you your ethnicity within a few generations of yourself.
Why do so few of my matches have Basque DNA?
Hi Jarrett,
I don't know if you still look at coments since video is 3 months old. I don't have Jewish ancestry in my results but I have Middle Eastern in my DNA. My mother though has about 5% of Aschkenazi Jewish as well as my grandparents around 2-3% each. As you said they also have some Iberian and Estern Europe as lot of other Jewish people. I would like to explore that part of my mother's heritage and in sense mine as well. Test that I have done is from MyHeritage. Thank you for interesting video, Best regards.
any time you get weird results involving irish (black-irish) or italian (southern/sicilian) ask yourself "can these numbers be explained through events be explained by migrations caused by the franco-prussian invasions, and/or the Punic Wars". the answer is almost always "yes"
Black Irish is a misnomer and there is no factual evidence of it. Ancient British dna aka welsh component links to Iberia and to the basque going back 6000 yrs ago. This is before you add recent migration.
Regarding the difficulty in separating out Sephardi from Ashkenasi, one possible way might be to actively search for people with as verifiable as possible ancestry from just one of the groups? Ask if they would do these tests? It'd be interesting.
And while finding very old grave sites and testing very old bones is a thing, I feel way less comfortable suggesting that being done to a minority that was so consistently persecuted as European Jews. That's a very different vibe from testing bones from Viking grave sites here in Sweden.
At 5:34 is everything. 😂🤣. Well done. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Hi, on the basque heritage: my heritage displays Iberian... Same territory. I know is a different ethnic group, but same territory - Spain.
In reaction to the first part. My 25% coastal Italian came back as 15% Italian and a mix of Middle Eastern, Iberian and Albanian on various tests as well as some family members. It showed up as 1 or 2% Basque in my uncles' tests.
Conversely, my wife's 100% inland Basque grandmother showed up as 99% Basque and 1% Irish on Ancestry.
IMPORTANT: Only two generations ago, almost all European families had been in their village for at least 1,000 years.
I'm Ashkenazi. Just an observation; so many of us have red hair (even in my own family). I read that after Scotland and Ireland, Israel has the highest incident of natural redheads. Then I read King David was described as a red head. One thing odd about my DNA test is that there is Norwegian on BOTH maternal and paternal sides. I've had a few DNA test and previously they indicated "scandinavian". Now it is being more specific. That in itself is not so weird but having it on BOTH sides is very odd. It's just a small amount but equal from each side.
The problem with King David is
1. He might not have existed. He may be legendary like King Arthur and
2. He might not have been Hebrew. His memory may have been glamorized and appropriated by the writers of the bible.
When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
Hi. I just find this video.
I’m a Central American. I have Jewish matches from all over the place, Sephardic from Syria, Tunisia, Algeria, France, Ashkenazi from other difference places and also matches from Israel and a couple from Turkey. All these are distant connections.
My mom happens to have similar results.
Someone told me once that there’s a link with Jewish people somewhere in my maternal side of the family and I wish I can solve this puzzle.
My mtdna seems to be European, which is something that I didn’t expect since most the people of my country descends from a Native American female ancestor.
I know have some ancestors that belong to the group of Jews who converted because of persecution back in the Iberian Peninsula. I can see this piece of history reflect in the matches that I have.
Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to find much genealogical info in my maternal line (woman to woman). I know my maternal line customs are recorded as being practiced by conversos or secret Jews.
What would you recommend?
Thanks
Basque area was in the Kingdom of Aragon, which existed approx 1000-1700AD. It covered Italy and eastern Spain. So there would have been a lot of mixing between the two parts of the kingdom
Not necessarily. The Kingdom of Navarra was a Basque kingdom from the time of Sancho the Third, around the mid-Ninth Century. Seven different Basque regions were combined into the Kingdom. Aragon was on the eastern side of Navarra and was primarily what we would call Catalonian. It had no common boundaries with the seven territories other than the territory of Navarra itself. Aragon didn’t attain control of the Navarresa and Basque lands until the late Fifteenth Century.
@@patriciaaturner289 so 1400-1700AD?
A lot of Latin American Jewish DNA also comes from the Spanish Inquisition. European Jews, that being Dutch, German, Spanish and French, basically split into two subgroups due to expulsions from the Western European nations. There were communities in Western Europe throughout history and they were eventually forced East, before being allowed back West.
For the most part, we stayed in our own communities, but sometimes we mixed, though infrequently. The only case where we didn't mix into the local population to some extent is in Russia, and even so there are still mixes of Polak and Litvak DNA, and other Eastern Slavic and Baltic. Due to historic isolation, the genetics for that particular group became pretty streamlined and the stereotypical 'Jewish' look, that being the black coat / black hat wearing big bearded Jew, developed due to hundreds of years of effective isolation under the Russians. Thus the 'Ashkenazi' genetics came to be, separating distinctively enough from Sephardic genes to be considered it's own sub-group.
The Spanish and Southern French fled to Morocco, and the German and Dutch fled to Poland. Some eventually returned but significant communities remained in the places they fled to. The ones who stayed in Morocco and went back to Spain became the Sephardi. Of course, there were many Jewish communities in Spain who also sought refuge in the New World, as it was far away from Christian oppression. Many Jews settled in the Caribbean fleeing persecution, there are ancient synagogues there. Yes, the Spanish and Portuguese did bring some Jewish ancestry with them, but the Christians suppressed and isolated us. If there is Jewish DNA somewhere, it's evidence that we went there, not that somebody brought our genetics there by chance.
one of many reasons but jewish history has so many layers it's incredible.
Christopher Columbus was from a Celtic family that only recently had come out of the woods.
Hello Sir, there's an issue already prolonged in Indonesia since March last year involving a community claiming to be descendant of Ishmael but rejected by another organisation as invalid, for the reason that they belong to a different Haplogroup based on DNA testing. 100 plus volunteer of Yemenite descents claiming as Ishmaelite belong to G Haplogroup based on public record. Whereas the other Ishmaelite who lived in Iraq (supposedly from same line from 40th tier progenitor) has a coherent set of Haplogroup of J type similar to the Cohanim (descendant of Aharon the Levite) which is also J type. Whenever I look it, I believe that descendant of Abraham Peace Be upon Him and His Family, should inherit the same DNA through paternal line and not otherwise. Which is within J haplogroup. My question is, can a Y chromosomes from father's side ( paternal line) mutated from J to G group within a span of 1100 years? If yes, how did that happen? Thank you.
Spain invaded and ruled southern Italy for centuries. Lots of Basques in the Spanish army.
You have to do an South-African Afrikaner one
Do you not know that less than 200 years ago almost all of latin America was part of the Spanish empire? It wasn't an ancient time ago .The people that lived there were not subjects , the lands were considered part of the kingdom of spain with the exception of slaves all people were considered Spanish citizens . The spaniards did not just colonize they settled and intermarried with local populations in mass .
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The Celts are Celtiberians from Spain, they invaded Ireland and pushed the native britians to northern Ireland and western Scotland. The Scots are Scythians and are likely to come to Ireland from Spain at the same time.They mixed with the native Britain's.
Im Puerto Rican and 9% Basque and 3% Jewish but the Jewish is Ashkenazim and Sephardim tho I believe my grandfather family were from majorca and were Xuetas
Keeping in mind that 6000 years of political and religious choices have nothing to do with DNA and the ancient steps of our forefathers and mothers.
yep...just 20 generations ago we all have 1 million ancestors...I dont know why people cant do simple math and think.
could you maybe discuss being jewish ancestrally, mixed, and your dna not coming up jewish at some point? i'd like to hear your perspective on this. i know various things can affect it when you're mixed, especially sephardic. we believe my mother's sephardic dna came up as iberian peninsula on ancestry dna. could this be report groups and just inaccuracy?
A good way to determine Sephardic origins is high DNA percentage from Spain Portugal etc also you can look up the names of Sephardic in the registry , family can sometimes be helpful as well it could be grandparents or great grandparents
I have high percentage for Ashkenazi then the rest is from Spain ,on both sides the last name is Sephardic
I didn't get the chance to know my grandparents well but my grandma still tried to keep some of the customs(they were converted to Catholicism )what i have left of her is a star of david necklace
Completely disagree. None of these are actual ways to determine Sephardic ancestry, they are only indications of POSSIBLE Sephardic ancestry. Admixture percentages for Sephardic Jews are all over the place, not even considering the massive differences in readings between companies, so not reliable in determining Sephardic ancestry. High percentages of Iberian may just represent Iberian ancestry and not specifically Sephardic. As well, those lists of Sephardic surnames do not mean that every family with that surname is/was Sephardic, so you cannot guarantee Sephardic ancestry if you find a family name (or many) on these lists. The vast majority of names adopted by Sephardic families were names that were commonly used and adopted by non-Sephardic families. The only good way to determine Sephardic origins is through proper research that adheres to the Genealogical Proof Standard which shows a direct tie of the family to a Sephardic community. If you don't have that, at best you just have a hypothesis of Sephardic ancestry.
@@ProfessionalGenealogistReacts I'm not an expert this was just the case in my family my aunt did significant research and went to Spain and connected with family there
I’m half Puerto Rican and I also took 23 and Me and I’m only 12.6% Spanish and Portuguese which is weird I expected more but I’m 8.1% Italian and 2.9% Broadly Southern European? Would you say that 8.1% Italian is just more Spanish since Spain and Italy had a history together?
People from all over Europe came to South America looking for a better life, in many different waves while others were “brought” their. So I would say having diverse ancestors is kind of normal.
@ce7133, Not likely. 23andMe does a pretty good job of separating the Iberian gene pool from the Italian one. Which regions of Italy were your top matches? I know a fair amount about Italian history and the Italian diaspora. I might be able to suggest some logical answers.
@@brawndothethirstmutilator9848 Funny thing is it didn’t show any region of Italy despite the fact I had nearly 10% that’s what I’m lead to believe that these dna test get confused when it comes to Spanish and Italian, unless it’s Corsican ancestry since Corsican immigrants went to Puerto Rico in 1815.
Irish nobility came from Basque region,
Evidence? Because that's not true.
I’m curious why 23 and me would even bother telling me I have .2% ashkanzi jewish ancestry? Not that I have any problem with that ancestry but it’s not even 1% so what does that even mean? No other ancestry’s I have are below 3-5%.
"Ashkenazi Jewish" is something a lot of people would like to see in their results for some reason (even if it's just 0.1% or less, even if it is not even real). I don't understand why. Apparently, an "American Indian" has the same issue among USA citizens (at least based on RUclips videos). It feels sort of wired, to be honest. And there is another strange thing when people are truly upset with their results because "they are boring" and as expected.
Because in American versions of Christianity there is something magical about being Jewish. It's the whole idea of being Chosen by God.
A lot of white people want to get DNA of an oppressed minority, so they don’t feel like they are totally white. You get Anglos who want to get Irish DNA so they feel less English. It’s all rapped up in Identity politics. They think if they have a small percentage of DNA from an oppressed population they can feel more akin with such groups. My DNA is Ashkenazi because that’s my ancestry, but someone who gets a tiny percentage with no Ashkenazi ancestors can’t claim to be Ashkenazi, just like I can’t claim to be Chinese. In short it sounds cool at parties to say I am 1% of this or that.
How do you know... what a lot of people would like to see? I have some AJ in my mix of estimates and match people who are 100% AJ at all testing sites. I just want to know why this is so. I am more interested in uncovering details from the lives of my ancestors, as found in records. Meanwhile... I have read many comments telling people who have some distant Jewish ancestry that it's nonsense or unimportant... just generally a blanket denial or dismissal. I wonder about that! It's usually people who are more or less 100% Jewish.
I am 1% Ashkenazi and I was shocked. I just want to know who my Jewish ancestor is. I would love to research that far back and know who it is.
It’s just because a lot of Anglo Americans want something “interesting” in their DNA, which means something other than typical European ancestry. These guys are desperate, so even having a wee smidge of Ashkenazi seems cool to them.
My paternal grandfather was Jewish. 25 percent of me came back a Mediterranean mix of mainly Spanish and Italian. There was no middle eastern ancestry. Didn't Abraham come from Ur office the Chaldees?
Anyone here use gedmatch or illustrativedna?
My issues are that my family has been in America since the 1600s, so finding my ethnicity from my 1 - 6th grand doesn't really work for me. I know I'm not Native American
percent _country_ and/or _region_ is meaningless with genetics.
We each have 46 chromosomes + mitocondrial DNA, and they _each_ have some common ancestory with every other human's equivalent segment of DNA. The question is, _who_ was that common ancestor? But the answer is actually an array of 47 _different_ answers _per other human_.
What's the _significance_ of that common ancestry? None. We're all human, and we all have the opportunity to do _good_ by our neighbors or do harm.
I'm a bit confused. I was a foster child at 1yr on the east coast in conn. for 16yrs. Never knew my mother but saw a pic of her. She was dark brown American black, she died when I was 10.
My Dad, who I look like, visited me a few times and then died when I was 16. He looked like lol, the late actor Adolf Caesar, short, light skin American black.
I was always told by family I met later that there was native American in my mother's side and Portuguese in my Dad's side. I'm light skin, not short, with soft kinky hair, full lips, small nose.
So made sense to me. So after all these years at 62 I do a DNA test. Comes back 32% Nigeria, 22% Jewish, 16% Ghana and some small percentages 2% to 5% Mali, European, German, Scottish, Irish. Funny cause I love to wear kilts. But wtf. How can that 22% Jewish be there! No native American or Portuguese. How in the world can I have that much Jewish in me? Funny thing is I always felt like I was a seed of Abraham. But it was just a fantasy....until now.
Ive have 30% Jewish dna not sure why j didn't know anyone in family of Jewish background bit confused any reply thanks
So if an ancestry test says 60 percent Spanish, would that mean within that 60 percent there could be Sephardi Jewish and Arab genetics right? according to a study, 20 percent of Spain has Jewish genetics and 8 percent has Arab
probably not, a sephardic jew from Spain will show 0% Spanish. they would report the mix distinctly
But is there "Ashkenazi DNA"? Or is is just an accepted admixture described that way? Because I thought is was so much Levant, so much Italian etc.
The most recent geo-location DNA study shows Ashkenazi origins in (not surprising) a region called Ashkenaz in eastern Anatolia and western Iran. Very little connection to the Levant. Those Anatolian/Iranians then migrated to the Rhineland and Slavic Europe. Until recently, no one, including the Ashkenazis, knew the origin of their name. The DNA geo-location pointed to that region and a review of old maps and texts revealed the town name of Ashkenaz and several very similar sounding names.
That distant memory no doubt gave the European Jews their name.
Why so many people have from 5 to 0.2 % of ashkenazi jew dna? Was there a distant jewish ancestor in a lot of poeple? How is that possible?
A LOT of Catholics in eastern Poland and western Ukraine descend from Jews who converted to Catholicism in the 1700s and 1800s. And a LOT of Latin Americans descend from Jews who converted to Catholicism in the 1300s and 1400s.
20 generations ago we all have 1 millon ancestors...Now keep going...And alot people have hebrew blood.... The choosen aint just the so called choosen.
I read that Jews from Jerusalem took ship after the time of King David and Solomon to what is now Spain (northern) and what is now France (near the Basque area). Later they immigrated to Ireland and what is now U.K.
I've researched for 60+ years and still do not know where in Scotland my Stewart ancestors came from. Argh!
Very well explained re Jews thanks
Don't forget: There were plenty of *SHIPS!*
Jewish DNA: our origin story is we, collectively are from the land of Judah, which the Romans conquered and renamed Palestine in an early act of antisemitism. Our ethnicity relates back to our country of origin. Perhaps add this to your information so people understand it is like Italians are from Italy, Germans are from Germany, Jews are from Judah ( which reverted back to our historic name, beloved Israel)
Jews not only come from the land of Israel genetically. For a large part they are Europeans. An American with one distant Italian ancestor cannot claim to be Italian either.
the arabs are semitic. The palestinian are people with the highest canaanite genome distinct from other arabs tribe. How the name of palestine is anti semitic?
You are from asia
An Orthodox Jew would not agree about that and they know the best I mean it
@@MaximediusThat’s blatantly false. Firstly, the majority of Jews living in Israel are either Sephardi or Mizrachi. Secondly, any group that is taken out of its original land will experience mixing with other groups. Genetic tests don’t show that Jews aren’t just distant relatives of ancient Jews but the direct descendants with some admixture from other groups along the way.
Are the Ashkenazi.Jews now of semitic origin or are they not?
That is what interests me!
I have 15% Iberian and 2% near east… could that 2% be Sephardic since so many Iberians have that Jewish ancestry?
Lots of near eastern influence on Iberia outside of just Jewish influence. From the Carthaginians/Phoenicians to various Islamic groups migrating in after the Conquest. Jews are just one of multiple near eastern influences on Iberia. It's an option but not the only one. If you could trace the family back you could maybe tell.
Why can’t you find Sephardic dna by Sephardic Jews in Israel? There are a lot of people who’s ancestors are coming only from north Africa, Levantine, Iraq, Persia
Why don't they get the Sephardic DNA from XV-XVIII century cemeteries? I know you are not supposed to disturb Jewish interments but there were plenty of conversos.
You could just or you could just stay out of Jewish cemetery is altogether and just not actually say things like that like not even entertain them please like for heaven's sake
Can you explain my question? I found out that I am .2? Percent Ashkenazi Jew. I am happy but don’t know much about this! Thanks
.2% is such a small amount that there is a very low confidence whether that reading is true. Although, if it is true, your most recent Jewish ancestor would like be a 4th-great grandparent or further distance.
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Basques genetically are close to the welsh
Is there any DNA from ancient Judeans? And compare them with present day Ashkenazi Jews
I have it on good authority that an upcoming DNA study will include ancient Judean DNA samples. These can then be compared to modern Jews.
Yemenite Jews are the closest thing to the real deal you ll find now, all other Jews are mixed
I am from a group of people who left the middle east in AD 345. 75 families settled in southern India. It is said that we were Jewish Christians. I have just applied for a myheritage kit. Curious to see what comes up as it was a very long time ago...wondering if ancestry or 23me would have been better as they look more detailed
What relationship would be 1742 Cm
Where is Jewish on the map?
Ciao sono Kevin ho fatto test due anni fa adesso ho greco e italiano meridionale era 84,5% adesso 84% poi sardo 11,7% e medio orientale era due anni fa 3,9% adesso 4,3%.io sono italiano sud Puglia Campania e basilicata.ho molte corrispondenze tra persone del sud come me ma ho molte corrispondenze da persone di altre nazioni ma che hanno molto Europa orientale e balcanico con greco.
Myheritage is founded in Israel and has an Israeli headquarter. I think thats why people are suspicious. Me being from afghanistan i wonder how its possible for me to have a small percent ashkenazi jewish DNA. Its suss to say the least.
Salvation is only for the Israelites.
Revelation 2:9
Basque are not related to anyone. I watched a video on them. They are in basque country, in Spain and France but have always been separate. Also some of them are almost in Italy, nobody knows where the ancestors were, language is specific to Basque. Interesting side note, crooked little fingers are a tell.
that't intermarriage trait, the fingers.
Basques are related to the WELSH and CORNISH (lot of marine traffic along those shores).
@@gwae48 They aren't. Welsh and Cornish are Insular Celts and Basques have their own distinctive cluster.
Can I convert to Judaism after finding out that I have 1% Jewish DNA
Yes
No you can't your mother have to be jew ..basically Abraham had a son called Ishmael and the son had to leave and went to marry an Arab that's why arabs love religion so much maybe a little too much truly warship god and not chasing money and wealth and power like prophet Jacobs kids 😂😂😂
ANYONE CAN CONVERT TO JUDAISM. Not easy but certainly a possibility.
You can convert with no DNA
If you can trace it back on your mother side you'd be 100% Jewish!
First show your dna heritage result
Jewish have been always interbred to keep their faith
EVERYONE HAS !!! Small communities etc.
no.....moving,shaking, kidnapping, warring, conqeuoring has it all mixed up...
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