My husband's Y-DNA 25 marker test matched closely (1- and 2- step) with several people whose ancestors were from the Podolia region of the Ukraine. We know for sure that his grandfather was from the Ukraine, probably Odessa (about 300 miles south of the towns in Podolia where the matches originated from), but we do not know his surname, as he changed it when he emigrated. My husband had 7 one- and two- step matches who gave a town and country of origin; of those 7, 4 were from Podolia (all different surnames). Looking at only the one-step matches who gave a town and country of origin, 3 out of 4 were from Podolia. I should add that my husband and all the matches are Ashkenazic Jews. I don't know if the samples in the data base are uniform throughout Russian Pale of settlement, but I have no reason to believe that the data base is heavily biased toward the Podolia region of the Ukraine.
I realize that the assumptions made when looking for the probability of TMRCA are not set up to answer this question when the surnames are different, but how likely is it from these data that my husband's ancestors in a genealogical time frame were from the Podolia region of the Ukraine?
I realize that the assumptions made when looking for the probability of TMRCA are not set up to answer this question when the surnames are different, but how likely is it from these data that my husband's ancestors in a genealogical time frame were from the Podolia region of the Ukraine?
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