Your best bet, whatever sex, is to do an autosomal DNA test. This will test all branches of your ancestral tree, and find you lots of possible cousins (as Jews are all related, Ancestry gives me 197,0

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San Francisco Bay Area Jewish Genealogical Society Monday, June 15, 2020 6:00-7:30 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time Online presentation Adoption and Misattributed Parentage Events: DNA-based Research Strate

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Dear Jill, What I do is to delve much deeper than a basic K36 report. A personal genographic report will go a long way towards parsing out the various ethnicities you mentioned, allowing you to ascert

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Fellow Jewishgeners, I am trying to help find family for a now adult child who was found abandoned in Russia in 1942. His nephew contacted me. "My name is Alex, I live in Danville, California, my emai

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I apparently did something wrong because my message did not appear! As others have said ethnicity is less important than matches as ethnicity is only an estimate and it changes when companies do an up

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Dear all, Maybe someone in the Toledo area can help me or other relatives... I’m doing some family history research for my mom. I read a really nice article on the toledoattic.org website about the Bi

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How exactly is "Pennsylvania Dutch" defined in the case of the Pennsylvania Dutch migrant? Does it mean someone who was supposedly of the Anabaptist faith? Or does it mean someone who emigrated from t

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Comcast here in Portland, OR says The Genetic Detective will air on ABC, starting May 26 at 10 p.m. Pacific time. Linda Wolfe Kelley Portland, OR, USA

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The DNA testing company 23AndMe has published a new BRCA study. The BRCA gene is not specific only to breast cancer but ovarian, prostate and more. Many people who carry a BRCA genetic variant associa

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Dear DNA Group, I hope my note finds you and your loved ones safe and healthy. Would you know if Genome Mate Pro ("GMP") has the capability of automatic "painting"? For instance, if I load my DNA to t

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Hi, my 4th Grandfather Raffael CIACCIA was born in Naples 1792 but we have found no birth records for any of his children so I was wondering if he could have been Jewish? I’m so sorry if This isn’t th

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CeCe Moore The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) announced a new program, The Genetic Detective, which follows investigative genetic genealogist CeCe Moore using her research skills for crime solvin

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I wanted to clarify another question that came in about the DNA II course. I referred to autosomal DNA testing in the brief description of the course. The DNA tests that you see advertised by the vari

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JewishGen offers the popular class, "Brick Wall or Dead End", starting February 2 - February 23 Frustrated and at a Loss ? Are you at a Dead End or just experiencing a Brick Wall? Are you stumped by a

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Thank you to everyone who replied to my question below! There seemed to be no consensus among the answers. Richard May ferdlilac@... North Carolina, U.S.A. I have 1 known Ashkenazi great grandpa

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The Jewish Genealogical Society of Portland is pleased to announce its January program Endogamous DNA presented by Emily Aulicino. The program will be held January 19, 2020 at 10:30AM at Neveh Shalom

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It is more likely that you inherited more than your proportionate share of your ggp's dna. We each receive half our dna >from each parent, but it is a random half. Assume that your ggp had only 8 gene

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Dear Mr. May, The 1/8th is an average - or the mean of the distribution. Only from your parents is it exactly 50-50. But >from your grandparents or great grandparents the percentages vary. For example

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Dear community, I have 1 known Ashkenazi great grandparent of 8. One eight is 12.5%. According to 23andMe, FTDNA, AncestryDNA and MyHeritage DNA my DNA is about 20% Ashkenazi. All agree on this. This

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My husband, Thomas Rose, is descended from Napoleon Jonathan Roos who was born about 1778 in Alsace Germany and died in Speyer Germany in 1857. My husband’s great grandfather was Isadore Rose, born in

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