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[khazaria]

There are occasionally errors in the haplogroup assignments in YFull's MTree.

When it comes to the Italy sample JN415472, Ian Logan places it within H66 at http://www.ianlogan.co.uk/sequences_..._sequences.htm partly on the basis of it containing the mutation G7337A that defines H66. "List...

[khazaria]

Those are certainly Sephardic segments but any segment that is sufficiently widespread in the Ashkenazic population will generally be classified as "Ashkenazi" without regard to its actual origin 500-600 years ago (Sephardi, Mizrahi, Romaniote, Italki, Polish, or German). 23andMe has the same...

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I collected information on J1c5 and saw that its presence in Ashkenazim probably results from a European convert to Judaism centuries ago. It is at any rate definitely not pre-1492 Amerindian.

Thank you for telling us about your Hungarian Jewish match. Where did your matriline originate...

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Most of the Ashkenazic branches of V are not originally Jewish. Evidence suggests that Ashkenazim obtained V1a1, V7a, V7b, and V18a from European converts to Judaism. V15 is less clear-cut.

As for V21, that is not been decisively proven to be an Ashkenazic haplogroup yet....

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If true, that represents Sephardic Jewish DNA in common with Ashkenazic Jews. Real Sephardic DNA has been identified in a small minority of modern Filipinos due to migrations of Sephardic Conversos that occurred from Mexico to the Philippines. Do you have any Ashkenazic Jews and Sephardic Jews in your...

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Thank you for telling us about you family seeing this phenomenon of false estimates in the Jewish categories, Dr.SYSTEM. It is well-established that Mizrahi Jewish and nearby non-Jewish populations didn't mingle during the autosomal timeframe and were basically genetically isolated from each other since...

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MyOrigins 3.0
As of September 22, 2020
Me: 98% Ashkenazi Jewish, less than 2% West Slavic
My dad: 99% Ashkenazi Jewish, less than 1% Baltic
My mom: 99% Ashkenazi Jewish, less than 1% Central Europe, less than 1% Sephardic Jewish

So the Polish elements are identified...

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Like I said, your mtDNA is not a Jewish line. HVR1-only matches are too far away to be meaningful. Kohlmann with 2 n's is unlikely to be Ashkenazic. Most Ashkenazic surnames have only 1 n. Most German Christians have 2 n's.
There are occasionally autosomal DNA connections between German Christians...

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In my Family Finder, none of my matches are listed as belonging to the E-Z5017 subclade.

My own most specific branch is apparently E-Y87732.

My friend Josh Lipson is one of several people who have been carefully studying the Jewish E branches. He is especially interested in...

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That's not what she was trying to accomplish in the other thread. She was trying to figure out whether she had a Jewish ancestor or not, or whether those Jews have a Slavic ancestor. Both possibilities exist. Due to the timeframes involved here, and the general lack of Jewish records pre-1800, a population...

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I'm pretty sure I already talked about this elsewhere on this forum in past years, but in any event you can find the details you need at Jim Bartlett's blog Segmentology.org

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Some Ukrainians and Lemko Rusyns from Greek Catholic and Orthodox Christian families have inherited 1, 2, or 3 percent of Ashkenazic DNA but they didn't carry any surnames derived from their Ashkenazic ancestors. The Southeastern Poles who descend from Ashkenazic Jews also don't have specifically Ashkenazic...

[khazaria]

I answered your query at https://forums.familytreedna.com/for...157#post328157

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You cannot make the assumptions that you're making. Sharing one DNA segment with Ashkenazic people, and sharing a mtDNA line with Ashkenazic people, doesn't always mean that the ancestor in common was an Ashkenazi, especially not when you score 0% in all Jewish elements in both MyHeritage and Family...

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Michaela,

1. You definitely don't have as much as 30% Sephardic DNA. If you have any, it would be almost certainly no greater than 1% - same situation as with other Sicilians.

2. You might have some Sephardic Jewish DNA and/or Italki Jewish DNA because I've found legitimate...