Originally posted by robe3b
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Even if you have noticeable Jewish ancestry, FTDNA may be overlooking it if it is not big enough. This is happening with me. I have a fair share of Ashkenazi Jewish cousins, too - in 23andMe, they're over 100 in Relative Finder and 23andMe gives me that probable Ashkenazy Jewish ancestry badge. But on FTDNA I'm not being identified as having Jewish ancestry at all and on 23andMe itself I'm said to be only 0.4% Jewish. Because of the historical contingencies of the Ashkenazi Jewish population in Europe -- high endogamy, for example -- an individual may have a fair number of Jewish relatives as identified in ancestry tests, and simultaneously have but a small percentage of Jewish genes, thereby failing at times to be identified as having said ancestry.
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