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waam
10-05-2018, 01:05 PM
Recently I brought up the topic of Adeni Jews in a post so I thought I'd just start this thread.

Adeni Jews are the Jews of Aden, Yemen. My Yemenite grandfather is actually an Adeni Jew. Adeni Jews are usually overall lighter than their Yemenite Jewish counterparts and are considered the "white" Yemenites. At first I didn't think there was actually any difference between the two groups and the separation only occurred because the British colonized Aden but not the rest of Yemen, but looking at MH results of my Adeni matches paints a different story. Non of these results are cherry-picked, my only criteria was for them to be old enough not to be extremely mixed (because the younger generation in Israel is extremely mixed), so I took my first 10 matches who are older than 60.

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They score high Middle Eastern, West Asian as well as some Mizrahi and Sephardi. Now I'm not sure as to why they differ from other Yemenites as there isn't too much information about this community. I don't know whether they were more Israelite to begin with or anything else... Either way I don't have the GEDmatch kit of any one of them which is kind of a bummer.

Sp_loa
10-05-2018, 02:00 PM
Myheritage sephardi is leaning more to the Meghrabi Jewish side (Tunisian-Libyan Jewish).
Turkish Jews usually score up to 40% Sephardic in my-Heritage, which is absurd. I scored less than 60%

Regardless, I would try and search for these guys names in Gedmatch matches lists. You will be able to see their Gedmatch number and post their results here.

waam
10-05-2018, 02:31 PM
Already tried that for some of them with no success. Problem is that most of them don't have an actual name, just a code.

Levant15
10-05-2018, 02:47 PM
Do other Yemenite Jews score very high yemenite Jews component in my heritage?

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waam
10-05-2018, 03:12 PM
From what I've seen from my very distant (probably false) matches they usually score 80-90 something Yemenite Jewish with the rest splitting between North African and Middle Eastern and sometimes a negligible percentage of Ashkenazi (like most Jews do on MyHeritage).