Mortimers mtdna

**Pine** · 12-21-2019, 03:31 AM

Originally Posted by Mortimer

Do you think my great grandmother looks a bit like Anne Frank? I suspect she might have been a little jewish maybe. Maybe Im wrong and it was on another line from another ancestor though.

I think her features show armenoid traits.

Despite the common reasoning on TA, you don't looked Jewish by resembling a single Jew. Also, it's a morbid comparison. And no, I don't see it. Does she look plausibly Jewish? Sure.

**Mortimer** · 12-22-2019, 07:31 AM

Originally Posted by Pine

Despite the common reasoning on TA, you don't looked Jewish by resembling a single Jew. Also, it's a morbid comparison. And no, I don't see it. Does she look plausibly Jewish? Sure.

I want my goldshekel

**Grace O'Malley** · 12-22-2019, 08:32 AM

Originally Posted by Mortimer

My maternal grandmother was a Gypsy as far as I know. She was a quarter russian but from her maternal grandfather and not from her maternal grandmother. So I expected a gypsy haplogroup. But it looks like it is not. Or am I wrong?

All informations, welcomed. Does it look like it is germanic or jewish maybe?

You have very little mtdna matches and they are all at 3 step. I've done that test also I have 4 0 matches and many 1 step matches. My matches run to 6 pages so your mtdna must not be that numerous.

**Lemgrant** · 12-22-2019, 10:44 AM

Originally Posted by Mortimer

I want my goldshekel

**Mortimer** · 12-24-2019, 03:52 PM

Hello Svetozar,

Thank you for contacting FTDNA! I do not see anything that would indicate that your mtDNA matches have Jewish ancestry, although you can always click on their name in your match list to get their email address from their profile and email them to ask. T2b5 is not a specifically Jewish haplogroup but that does not mean that there wouldn't be anyone who has this haplogroup with Jewish ancestry.

On the other hand, if you do an internet search for T2b5 or T2b5 in relation to Jewish ancestry, you can find more information. I always look at the Wikipedia page for a haplogroup, at least as a place to start and maps and find sources in the Wikipedia sources. I haven't looked into this so you will have to do your own homework, so to speak, but this article I found about "Sephardic signature in haplogroup T mitochondrial DNA" might interest you.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3306851/#

If someone is matching you on the mtFull Sequence test on all three coding regions (HVR1, HVR2, and the Coding Region) like these three people are that would mean that you and your matches have a common matrilineal ancestor within the last 24 generations or so, or roughly within the last 600 years. It would not be surprising if you had and your matches had an ancestor that far back in one of the German-speaking lands who had some descendants who went to Serbia and some who went to Scotland, maybe depending on whether they emigrated via the Danube or the Rhine. This is speculation but it is plausible. This wouldn't indicate that you have a German grandmother but rather that you and your matches would have had a common great-great-X-grandmother some time within the last 600 years or so.