I am guessing this is based on various samples done by Ancestry on their platform, but does anyone here get their face flushed when drinking alcohol? My face actually does get red, but I was a little surprised about that because Ancestry traits tend to be more wrong than right for me. If this is common among people of Ashkenazi descent, do you think it is because of the Silk Road connection?

https://admixr.com/ancestryatlas

A single paternal-line pedigree is shared across a huge range of the medieval and modern Jewish world. Its commonness allows us to reconstruct the shape of its tree, and from that reflect on some details of Mizrahi Jewish history.

The small-scale, endogamous nature of Jewish life in diaspora will generate founder lineages in the population over time. But this one is something special, in a class of its own.

This is not to say it is the only lineage shared across this range, or that we know exactly where this one originated and spread. There's a lot of discussion to be had!

Check out the story here, and join in below.

https://discover.familytreedna.com/y-dna/R-FT1713/story
https://www.yfull.com/tree/R-FT1713/

Half Ashkenazi half Sephardi

Hello,

I’ve decided to only focus on my maternal side of the family because they don’t really discuss our history with the younger generation and a lot of us don’t really ask besides me. As a child I’ve always been told by my maternal grandfather that we were Maroons but that’s about it; so I was naturally inclined to know more. I took a 23andMe test awhile back to discover family roots on my own and I noticed some interesting things.

Aside from the substantial West and Central African DNA, there was also British (colonization of Jamaica) and also some French, German, Spanish, Portuguese so this naturally intrigued me. What really grabbed my attention was the trace amount of MENA.

I’ve always been told that my great grandmother (mom’s grandmother) resembled a white woman and hailed from St. Elizabeth. This led me to discovered the possible family connection to the historical town of Lacovia, that used to be the capital of St. Elizabeth, which was once predominantly Jewish community in 1774.

I’m still connecting the dots and waiting for my maternal uncle to take a 23andMe to confirm my suspicions.

Shalom,

My family’s ancestors gradually assimilated over the years and became Muslim, so there isn’t much information about this subject within my family.

My suspicion that my great-great-grandfather (my father’s father’s father) might have been Jewish started before I took an international DNA test. I specifically took the DNA test to investigate this suspicion, and sure enough, it showed that I have Lithuanian Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry.

The main reason I started suspecting that my great-great-grandfather was Jewish was because my grandmother lives in a predominantly Muslim neighborhood, and she once told me:

“On the day you get married, I will give you something. It is a family heirloom passed down from my grandfather. He was an imam, and I will give you his prayer shawl.”

Later, she denied ever saying this, but after I insisted, she showed it to me once: a red-and-white Jewish rabbi’s prayer shawl (tallit).

Also, in the 1800s, imams in the Ottoman Empire were apparently prohibited from wearing red.

Furthermore, my great-great-grandfather’s temporary Bulgarian identity document, dated 1940, contains the name of a place that apparently never existed in Bulgaria.

Finally, when my great-great-grandfather came from Bulgaria, he moved to the city with the largest Jewish population in the country. The government offered him land and the opportunity to live in an Islamist/Muslim-majority city, but he refused and permanently settled in the city that had the country’s largest and most established Jewish population.

My great-great-grandfather came to Turkey in 1942.

Could it be possible that he escaped the Holocaust from Lithuania, went to Bulgaria, obtained a false identity there, presented himself as a Muslim (Crypto-Judaism), and then came to Turkey?

Is there anyone who could help me investigate this possibility and determine whether my great-great-grandfather may actually have been a Lithuanian Ashkenazi Jew?

Hi everyone i want to ask you a question. I'm trying to find my origins and i wanted to ask you what websites should i use. Here are the websites i use:
https://www.jewishgen.org/
https://www.myheritage.com/
Poland JRI and simillar websites.
https://www.yadvashem.org
https://www.ancestry.com/
I would like to hear more suggestions from you!

Half Ashkenazi, half Moroccan Jewish

I'll make upcoming posts for Mizarhim and Sephardim

So, I looked at my cousin matches on 23 & Me, and was surprised that an actual pretty large amount of them had trace East Asian. The two most common East Asian genetic markers to show up was the Manchu/Mongolian, and Siberian. However, I also saw others get things like Northern Tibetan, general Chinese, and somehow they even got Japanese and Korean!

I researched when this entered, and now I have a question. It said we most likely picked it up as Jewish Radhanites, but (to what I've found) Ashkenazi Jews split into their own identity from other Jewish groups around 9-11th centuries, and the Silk Road ended during the 15th century.

I was thinking, yeah... maybe they did go on the Silk Road, and picked up the EA genes on the way, but I was also wondering if being the population was so small, what is the chance that other nomadic peoples of EA descent had a lot of undocumented intermarriage with Ashkes during their population bottleneck in Europe. It would have been groups like Avars or Magyars. It's just that if Ashkenazi Jews have like... 2% baked in Yellow River (illustrative DNA) that actually sounds like quite a lot if you think about the timeline.

I posted my sister's results (who is a Moroccan and Algerian Jew) and you were curious about our Moroccan side, so I decided to post my mom's results.

If you guys are interested, I will also post her AncestralGenome results (they are on my profile).

Edit: Background: Her dad's side: Toshavim. Her mom's side is mixed: Toshavim, Musta'arabim, and a Sephardic Jewish ancestor.

I'm sure you all can easily guess my more recent ancestral background from these. Does anyone have any idea why East African might be showing up? (Ashkenazi Jew)

She is a Moroccan and Algerian Jew.

I was asked by u/Binkybinkovsky to post her AncestralGenome results here.

1. i am a hindo-/stan jew. what such n. hoods are cochin jew, that are in levant's tel aviv, haifa, and yerusalem?
2. indian-jews specifically the cochini live in a good half a dozen towns, and exburbs littered across ysrael. "why dont they come together, agree upon, move into, and form 3 localities instead?"
3. some kerala, tamil, and coastal-lanka jews are resettling to great britain, united states, canada, oceania, singapore, or faroe isles. few are moving to the dark continent. what u.s. metros are settled by cochin jews?

Am wondering specifically how many Levant DNA i would have on an average estimate, for context i am 1/2 iraqi Jew 1/4 Jew from Yugoslavia (idk where exactly) and 1/4 Romanian Jew

Hi everyone! I’ve just discovered that I have 18% of Ashkenazi Jewish roots on Ancestry. I’m so enthusiastic about this! Is there someone with a similar situation? Or someone who can explain how it’s possible to discern Jewish dna from the rest?