curiousabouthist1212
09-11-2018, 03:06 AM
Hey everyone,
I'm new to this site and am figuring all my family history out. As far as I know my family were Ashkenazi Jews from Czechoslovakia, Poland (now Ukraine), Lithuania, and Russia. I got the Ancestry test, and was surprised to find 6% Iberian and Italian and 4% Middle Eastern. I told my cousins, and they said 'Oh that's because grandma's family was expelled from Valencia originally.' I was pretty in shock, but it kind of makes sense (if you look at my distant cousins on Ancestry, a bunch of them have Spanish last names; I talked to some of them and they're from Guatemala, Mexico, Costa Rica, and Puerto Rico).
My question is: is this why my best fit does not give me 100% Ashkenazi? or is it cuz Jews are from the area of Lebanon/Israel where the Samaritans still are so every Ashkenazi Jew would get this? and why the Romanian - would that mean sephardic or ashkenazi? and then why is the second result so different? and the third?
Dodecad k7b seemed to be the best 'fit':
Using 3 populations approximation:
1 50% Ashkenazy_Jews_Behar +25% Romanians_Behar +25% Samaritians_Behar @ 0.411594
Using 4 populations approximation:
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 Ashkenazy_Jews_Behar + Ashkenazy_Jews_Behar + Romanians_Behar + Samaritians_Behar @ 0.411594
2 North_Ossetians_Yunusbayev + Sardinian_HGDP + Sephardic_Jews_Behar + Sephardic_Jews_Behar @ 0.434004
3 C_Italian_Dodecad + Murcia_1000Genomes + Samaritians_Behar + Turkish_Dodecad @ 0.487971
4 Ashkenazi_Dodecad + Ashkenazy_Jews_Behar + Romanians_Behar + Samaritians_Behar @ 0.502363
5 Andalucia_1000Genomes + C_Italian_Dodecad + Samaritians_Behar + Turkish_Dodecad @ 0.532950
6 Ashkenazy_Jews_Behar + Romanians_Behar + Samaritians_Behar + Sicilian_Dodecad @ 0.579648
7 Ashkenazi_Dodecad + Ashkenazi_Dodecad + Romanians_Behar + Samaritians_Behar @ 0.594456
8 Cantabria_1000Genomes + S_Italian_Sicilian_Dodecad + Samaritians_Behar + Turkish_Dodecad @ 0.629836
9 Ashkenazi_Dodecad + Romanians_Behar + Samaritians_Behar + Sicilian_Dodecad @ 0.656467
10 Ashkenazi_Dodecad + Ashkenazy_Jews_Behar + Bulgarians_Yunusbayev + Samaritians_Behar @ 0.661752
11 C_Italian_Dodecad + Galicia_1000Genomes + Samaritians_Behar + Turkish_Dodecad @ 0.664137
12 North_Ossetians_Yunusbayev + Samaritians_Behar + Sardinian_HGDP + TSI30_Metspalu @ 0.688342
13 Balkars_Yunusbayev + Samaritians_Behar + Sardinian_HGDP + Tuscan_HGDP @ 0.688942
14 C_Italian_Dodecad + Castilla_Y_Leon_1000Genomes + Samaritians_Behar + Turkish_Dodecad @ 0.694244
15 Ashkenazy_Jews_Behar + Ashkenazy_Jews_Behar + Bulgarians_Yunusbayev + Samaritians_Behar @ 0.700785
16 Ashkenazi_Dodecad + Bulgarian_Dodecad + S_Italian_Sicilian_Dodecad + Samaritians_Behar @ 0.752810
17 Ashkenazy_Jews_Behar + Bulgarians_Yunusbayev + Samaritians_Behar + Sicilian_Dodecad @ 0.754338
18 Ashkenazi_Dodecad + Ashkenazi_Dodecad + Bulgarians_Yunusbayev + Samaritians_Behar @ 0.756757
19 Ashkenazi_Dodecad + Bulgarians_Yunusbayev + Samaritians_Behar + Sicilian_Dodecad @ 0.757571
20 Ashkenazy_Jews_Behar + Ashkenazy_Jews_Behar + Lebanese_Behar + Tuscan_HGDP @ 0.769823
I know this is weaker and that I'm not this exact mix, but it was interesting to see this given the newly hear family history:
Using 1 population approximation:
1 Sephardic_Jewish @ 6.025743
2 Italian_Jewish @ 6.104589
3 Ashkenazi @ 7.420744
4 Algerian_Jewish @ 9.003596
5 Tunisian_Jewish @ 9.224244
6 South_Italian @ 9.501923
7 Libyan_Jewish @ 10.478870
8 East_Sicilian @ 10.613131
9 Central_Greek @ 12.138300
10 West_Sicilian @ 12.333364
11 Italian_Abruzzo @ 13.197989
12 Cyprian @ 15.479240
13 Greek_Thessaly @ 17.892984
14 Lebanese_Muslim @ 18.434452
15 Tuscan @ 19.232126
16 Syrian @ 19.842520
17 Lebanese_Druze @ 20.352695
18 Palestinian @ 20.421738
19 Samaritan @ 20.843250
20 Jordanian @ 20.931997
Using 2 populations approximation:
1 50% Lebanese_Druze +50% Tuscan @ 4.056487
Using 3 populations approximation:
1 50% Lebanese_Druze +25% Sephardic_Jewish +25% Spanish_Valencia @ 3.492026
Using 4 populations approximation:
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 Italian_Jewish + Lebanese_Druze + Lebanese_Druze + Spanish_Cataluna @ 2.965930
2 Italian_Jewish + Lebanese_Druze + Lebanese_Druze + Spanish_Valencia @ 2.986298
3 Ashkenazi + Lebanese_Druze + Lebanese_Druze + Spanish_Valencia @ 3.037424
4 Ashkenazi + Lebanese_Druze + Lebanese_Druze + Spanish_Murcia @ 3.039927
5 Italian_Jewish + Lebanese_Druze + Lebanese_Druze + Spanish_Castilla_Y_Leon @ 3.069969
6 Italian_Jewish + Lebanese_Druze + Lebanese_Druze + Spanish_Murcia @ 3.122348
7 Ashkenazi + Lebanese_Druze + Lebanese_Druze + Spanish_Aragon @ 3.129804
8 Italian_Jewish + Lebanese_Druze + Lebanese_Druze + Portuguese @ 3.262441
9 Italian_Jewish + Lebanese_Druze + Lebanese_Druze + Spanish_Aragon @ 3.346412
10 Ashkenazi + Lebanese_Druze + Lebanese_Druze + Spanish_Castilla_Y_Leon @ 3.354570
11 Ashkenazi + Lebanese_Druze + Lebanese_Druze + Spanish_Andalucia @ 3.361012
12 Ashkenazi + Lebanese_Druze + Lebanese_Druze + Spanish_Castilla_La_Mancha @ 3.361981
13 Italian_Jewish + Lebanese_Druze + Lebanese_Druze + Spanish_Cantabria @ 3.363128
14 Italian_Jewish + Lebanese_Druze + Lebanese_Druze + Spanish_Castilla_La_Mancha @ 3.409432
15 Ashkenazi + Lebanese_Druze + Lebanese_Druze + Spanish_Cataluna @ 3.438451
16 Algerian_Jewish + Lebanese_Druze + Lebanese_Druze + Spanish_Cataluna @ 3.464019
17 Italian_Jewish + Lebanese_Druze + Lebanese_Druze + Southwest_French @ 3.471012
18 Lebanese_Druze + Lebanese_Druze + Sephardic_Jewish + Spanish_Valencia @ 3.492026
19 Algerian_Jewish + Lebanese_Druze + Lebanese_Druze + Spanish_Valencia @ 3.516072
20 Italian_Jewish + Lebanese_Druze + Lebanese_Druze + Spanish_Galicia @ 3.528928
Does anyone have a similar experience? I'm curious about how you'd go about researching the source of this, or if that would even be possible. I am descended from a Rabbi on my grandma's line and was able to trace ancestors from Iberia and Italy, but am not certain about this since they're on Geni.
Thanks in advance
I'm new to this site and am figuring all my family history out. As far as I know my family were Ashkenazi Jews from Czechoslovakia, Poland (now Ukraine), Lithuania, and Russia. I got the Ancestry test, and was surprised to find 6% Iberian and Italian and 4% Middle Eastern. I told my cousins, and they said 'Oh that's because grandma's family was expelled from Valencia originally.' I was pretty in shock, but it kind of makes sense (if you look at my distant cousins on Ancestry, a bunch of them have Spanish last names; I talked to some of them and they're from Guatemala, Mexico, Costa Rica, and Puerto Rico).
My question is: is this why my best fit does not give me 100% Ashkenazi? or is it cuz Jews are from the area of Lebanon/Israel where the Samaritans still are so every Ashkenazi Jew would get this? and why the Romanian - would that mean sephardic or ashkenazi? and then why is the second result so different? and the third?
Dodecad k7b seemed to be the best 'fit':
Using 3 populations approximation:
1 50% Ashkenazy_Jews_Behar +25% Romanians_Behar +25% Samaritians_Behar @ 0.411594
Using 4 populations approximation:
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 Ashkenazy_Jews_Behar + Ashkenazy_Jews_Behar + Romanians_Behar + Samaritians_Behar @ 0.411594
2 North_Ossetians_Yunusbayev + Sardinian_HGDP + Sephardic_Jews_Behar + Sephardic_Jews_Behar @ 0.434004
3 C_Italian_Dodecad + Murcia_1000Genomes + Samaritians_Behar + Turkish_Dodecad @ 0.487971
4 Ashkenazi_Dodecad + Ashkenazy_Jews_Behar + Romanians_Behar + Samaritians_Behar @ 0.502363
5 Andalucia_1000Genomes + C_Italian_Dodecad + Samaritians_Behar + Turkish_Dodecad @ 0.532950
6 Ashkenazy_Jews_Behar + Romanians_Behar + Samaritians_Behar + Sicilian_Dodecad @ 0.579648
7 Ashkenazi_Dodecad + Ashkenazi_Dodecad + Romanians_Behar + Samaritians_Behar @ 0.594456
8 Cantabria_1000Genomes + S_Italian_Sicilian_Dodecad + Samaritians_Behar + Turkish_Dodecad @ 0.629836
9 Ashkenazi_Dodecad + Romanians_Behar + Samaritians_Behar + Sicilian_Dodecad @ 0.656467
10 Ashkenazi_Dodecad + Ashkenazy_Jews_Behar + Bulgarians_Yunusbayev + Samaritians_Behar @ 0.661752
11 C_Italian_Dodecad + Galicia_1000Genomes + Samaritians_Behar + Turkish_Dodecad @ 0.664137
12 North_Ossetians_Yunusbayev + Samaritians_Behar + Sardinian_HGDP + TSI30_Metspalu @ 0.688342
13 Balkars_Yunusbayev + Samaritians_Behar + Sardinian_HGDP + Tuscan_HGDP @ 0.688942
14 C_Italian_Dodecad + Castilla_Y_Leon_1000Genomes + Samaritians_Behar + Turkish_Dodecad @ 0.694244
15 Ashkenazy_Jews_Behar + Ashkenazy_Jews_Behar + Bulgarians_Yunusbayev + Samaritians_Behar @ 0.700785
16 Ashkenazi_Dodecad + Bulgarian_Dodecad + S_Italian_Sicilian_Dodecad + Samaritians_Behar @ 0.752810
17 Ashkenazy_Jews_Behar + Bulgarians_Yunusbayev + Samaritians_Behar + Sicilian_Dodecad @ 0.754338
18 Ashkenazi_Dodecad + Ashkenazi_Dodecad + Bulgarians_Yunusbayev + Samaritians_Behar @ 0.756757
19 Ashkenazi_Dodecad + Bulgarians_Yunusbayev + Samaritians_Behar + Sicilian_Dodecad @ 0.757571
20 Ashkenazy_Jews_Behar + Ashkenazy_Jews_Behar + Lebanese_Behar + Tuscan_HGDP @ 0.769823
I know this is weaker and that I'm not this exact mix, but it was interesting to see this given the newly hear family history:
Using 1 population approximation:
1 Sephardic_Jewish @ 6.025743
2 Italian_Jewish @ 6.104589
3 Ashkenazi @ 7.420744
4 Algerian_Jewish @ 9.003596
5 Tunisian_Jewish @ 9.224244
6 South_Italian @ 9.501923
7 Libyan_Jewish @ 10.478870
8 East_Sicilian @ 10.613131
9 Central_Greek @ 12.138300
10 West_Sicilian @ 12.333364
11 Italian_Abruzzo @ 13.197989
12 Cyprian @ 15.479240
13 Greek_Thessaly @ 17.892984
14 Lebanese_Muslim @ 18.434452
15 Tuscan @ 19.232126
16 Syrian @ 19.842520
17 Lebanese_Druze @ 20.352695
18 Palestinian @ 20.421738
19 Samaritan @ 20.843250
20 Jordanian @ 20.931997
Using 2 populations approximation:
1 50% Lebanese_Druze +50% Tuscan @ 4.056487
Using 3 populations approximation:
1 50% Lebanese_Druze +25% Sephardic_Jewish +25% Spanish_Valencia @ 3.492026
Using 4 populations approximation:
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 Italian_Jewish + Lebanese_Druze + Lebanese_Druze + Spanish_Cataluna @ 2.965930
2 Italian_Jewish + Lebanese_Druze + Lebanese_Druze + Spanish_Valencia @ 2.986298
3 Ashkenazi + Lebanese_Druze + Lebanese_Druze + Spanish_Valencia @ 3.037424
4 Ashkenazi + Lebanese_Druze + Lebanese_Druze + Spanish_Murcia @ 3.039927
5 Italian_Jewish + Lebanese_Druze + Lebanese_Druze + Spanish_Castilla_Y_Leon @ 3.069969
6 Italian_Jewish + Lebanese_Druze + Lebanese_Druze + Spanish_Murcia @ 3.122348
7 Ashkenazi + Lebanese_Druze + Lebanese_Druze + Spanish_Aragon @ 3.129804
8 Italian_Jewish + Lebanese_Druze + Lebanese_Druze + Portuguese @ 3.262441
9 Italian_Jewish + Lebanese_Druze + Lebanese_Druze + Spanish_Aragon @ 3.346412
10 Ashkenazi + Lebanese_Druze + Lebanese_Druze + Spanish_Castilla_Y_Leon @ 3.354570
11 Ashkenazi + Lebanese_Druze + Lebanese_Druze + Spanish_Andalucia @ 3.361012
12 Ashkenazi + Lebanese_Druze + Lebanese_Druze + Spanish_Castilla_La_Mancha @ 3.361981
13 Italian_Jewish + Lebanese_Druze + Lebanese_Druze + Spanish_Cantabria @ 3.363128
14 Italian_Jewish + Lebanese_Druze + Lebanese_Druze + Spanish_Castilla_La_Mancha @ 3.409432
15 Ashkenazi + Lebanese_Druze + Lebanese_Druze + Spanish_Cataluna @ 3.438451
16 Algerian_Jewish + Lebanese_Druze + Lebanese_Druze + Spanish_Cataluna @ 3.464019
17 Italian_Jewish + Lebanese_Druze + Lebanese_Druze + Southwest_French @ 3.471012
18 Lebanese_Druze + Lebanese_Druze + Sephardic_Jewish + Spanish_Valencia @ 3.492026
19 Algerian_Jewish + Lebanese_Druze + Lebanese_Druze + Spanish_Valencia @ 3.516072
20 Italian_Jewish + Lebanese_Druze + Lebanese_Druze + Spanish_Galicia @ 3.528928
Does anyone have a similar experience? I'm curious about how you'd go about researching the source of this, or if that would even be possible. I am descended from a Rabbi on my grandma's line and was able to trace ancestors from Iberia and Italy, but am not certain about this since they're on Geni.
Thanks in advance