R1 is what matters. Doesn't matter ethnicity or skin colour.
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R1 is what matters. Doesn't matter ethnicity or skin colour.
The real importance of haplogroups is they mark your direct lineage. That is all
Where's Rethel? Maybe he can answer my question.
Why is interesting but irrelevant. The fact is that Jewishness is passed down matrilineally regardless of other things that are passed down patrilineally. We do not accept paternal half-Jews as Jews (although Reform communities do if they were raised Jewish).
Religiously, Orthodox Jewish services do not call up or make references to individual women. In the one exception that they do, the mi shebeyrakh, women are referred to by their mother's name (Sara bat Rivka), by the way.
Interesting, especially in light of the fact that Ashkenazi Jews get most of their Israelite ancestry from their paternal lines.
But it kinda makes sense to me, because while you will always know who your mother is, the identity of your biological father was unverifiable until the advent of DNA testing.
No its important because haplogroups will tell you who you are related to directly and accurately you can be 14 percent italian it doesnt mean shit and you can only guess how you are related to soneone else if you are cousins. You need geneology paper haplogroups are pretty nuch set your this off spring. Autosomal dna ,recombines and mutates too fast haplogroups is more valuable for deep geneology than autosomal dna.
I think so. His whole father's side of the family isn't known very well. All I know for sure is he had recent non-jewish ancestry which must have been Slavic I guess. This is reflected in my cousins DNA results. They each get like 18% Ashkenazi or something like that. I don't think the average Jew has recent gentile admixture. Not sure.