Not to bore you, the barest bones of my paternal history - unknown
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Okay: my father's mother died in the flu epidemic of 1918. His father sent him to her family. They cut off ties with my grandfather. Though they said almost nothing about my father's father, they told my dad that his father was bad and had a lot of Injun blood. My dad was four in 1918 and has no memories of him. Naturally, I assumed (hoped) my YDNA test would show Native American through my father's line.
My YDNA test shows:
1. Zero Native American. (I spoke with my father - 91 - today about the test; he was flabbergasted.)
2. CMH.
3. J1 Haploid group.
Eight exact-match markers with J1. One-step mutation markers (6 J, 33 J1, 9 J2, 4 J2f). Two-step mutation markers (6J, 20 J1, 34 J2, 8 J2F, 2 J2F1), Three-step mutation markers (22 J, 32 J1, 56 J2, 8 J2f), Four-step mutation markers (17 I, 5 I1a, 1 I1a1, 1 I1b, 20 J, 1 J*, 36 J1, 97 J2, 7 J2f, 5 J2f1).
17 exact matches with actual men from the FTDNA database. Three with Cohen surnames (I know that doesn't mean anything but it was fun). At least eight more with obviously Jewish surnames; several more probables. I know not all of these matches are necessarily J1 (I would guess 8 are as per the exact-match markers in the paragraph above) nor are they meaningful with respect to common ancestors in any time frame that matters to me.
I have five questions:
1. What does this suggest, if anything, about possible Jewish ancestry?
2. Would you as a group (heh) feel that the Coffman article is reasonable?
(http://www.jogg.info/11/coffman.htm). If I understand it, this would suggest a significant correlation between my profile and Jewish ancestry.
3. I intend to do the deep clade test next. Does that make sense for learning more?
4. At some point, given my unknown paternal ancestry, I would like to add markers. If cost were not a primary determinant, would you recommend the 37-marker or the 67-marker test?
5. Are there additional steps I could take with Family Tree or elsewhere that might shed additional light on my background through my father?
Even answering one of these questions will be much appreciated.
Whether or not I have a Jewish Y-chromosome ancestry, I can tell some truly hilarious and decidedly odd stories about my many life relationships with Jews and their constant insistence that OF COURSE you (me) are actually Jewish; you just don't know you are. Non-Jews too always assume the same. And while I look completely Jewish, what makes the stories funny besides the stubborn insistence of Jews on my 'heritage', is other aspects than looks. All of which, I know, means precisely nothing.
Anyway, though I love the Jewish people, I don't have some stake in this one way or the other. I'm mainly blown away at the moment that I don't seem to be Native American!
... as a by the way, we also know next to nothing about my mother's mother's line. I assume she can do a test that will shed some light on that.

Okay: my father's mother died in the flu epidemic of 1918. His father sent him to her family. They cut off ties with my grandfather. Though they said almost nothing about my father's father, they told my dad that his father was bad and had a lot of Injun blood. My dad was four in 1918 and has no memories of him. Naturally, I assumed (hoped) my YDNA test would show Native American through my father's line.
My YDNA test shows:
1. Zero Native American. (I spoke with my father - 91 - today about the test; he was flabbergasted.)
2. CMH.
3. J1 Haploid group.
Eight exact-match markers with J1. One-step mutation markers (6 J, 33 J1, 9 J2, 4 J2f). Two-step mutation markers (6J, 20 J1, 34 J2, 8 J2F, 2 J2F1), Three-step mutation markers (22 J, 32 J1, 56 J2, 8 J2f), Four-step mutation markers (17 I, 5 I1a, 1 I1a1, 1 I1b, 20 J, 1 J*, 36 J1, 97 J2, 7 J2f, 5 J2f1).
17 exact matches with actual men from the FTDNA database. Three with Cohen surnames (I know that doesn't mean anything but it was fun). At least eight more with obviously Jewish surnames; several more probables. I know not all of these matches are necessarily J1 (I would guess 8 are as per the exact-match markers in the paragraph above) nor are they meaningful with respect to common ancestors in any time frame that matters to me.
I have five questions:
1. What does this suggest, if anything, about possible Jewish ancestry?
2. Would you as a group (heh) feel that the Coffman article is reasonable?
(http://www.jogg.info/11/coffman.htm). If I understand it, this would suggest a significant correlation between my profile and Jewish ancestry.
3. I intend to do the deep clade test next. Does that make sense for learning more?
4. At some point, given my unknown paternal ancestry, I would like to add markers. If cost were not a primary determinant, would you recommend the 37-marker or the 67-marker test?
5. Are there additional steps I could take with Family Tree or elsewhere that might shed additional light on my background through my father?
Even answering one of these questions will be much appreciated.
Whether or not I have a Jewish Y-chromosome ancestry, I can tell some truly hilarious and decidedly odd stories about my many life relationships with Jews and their constant insistence that OF COURSE you (me) are actually Jewish; you just don't know you are. Non-Jews too always assume the same. And while I look completely Jewish, what makes the stories funny besides the stubborn insistence of Jews on my 'heritage', is other aspects than looks. All of which, I know, means precisely nothing.
Anyway, though I love the Jewish people, I don't have some stake in this one way or the other. I'm mainly blown away at the moment that I don't seem to be Native American!
... as a by the way, we also know next to nothing about my mother's mother's line. I assume she can do a test that will shed some light on that.
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