Tuesday, November 02, 2010
Our Two Goldfoot Lines, Ian and David
Ian and David Goldfoot have been tested with Ydna and are found to be connected.
At 24 generations back or about 600 years ago we had a 99.98% chance of coming from the same man. That takes us back to the year 1410. We lack the paper trail connecting us, though we both have a Chaim Goldfoot (goldfus) on our tree. My Chaim was born in 1850 while Ian's was born in 1867.
Through our Q1 b dna, we all who belong to this this haplogroup, are connected to one man about 700-900 years ago. We share this rare DNA from our paternal ancestor found in Europe, Iran and Armenia. No one else carries these exact genes. He may have been Jewish and lived somewhere between modern Germany and the Ukraine, or even maybe he was a Persian or Armenian. Our ancestor had a genetic mutation called M378 so most of the men in this group have the same genetic mutation found after more testing.
Our group has about 200+ men tested. We are the only Q1b found in Europe.
We make up about 5% of the total Jewish population. I'm putting money on us coming from Persia. If you remember the story of Queen Esther and King Ahashueros, Esther, or Hadassah, as she was named, was part of a large Jewish population there. She was picked in a beauty pageant to be the King's next wife. It was she who stopped a holocaust of all the Jews being killed by an edict of Haman, who hated Jews. The king didn't even know Hadassah was Jewish, but after she fasted, only eating seeds to gain the courage to speak to him about her possible fate, put a stop to it and hung Hamen and his sons. So since we know of this Jewish contingent in Persia, I think our chances of coming from this group is pretty good.
Reference on DNA: Barry Zwick
At 24 generations back or about 600 years ago we had a 99.98% chance of coming from the same man. That takes us back to the year 1410. We lack the paper trail connecting us, though we both have a Chaim Goldfoot (goldfus) on our tree. My Chaim was born in 1850 while Ian's was born in 1867.
Through our Q1 b dna, we all who belong to this this haplogroup, are connected to one man about 700-900 years ago. We share this rare DNA from our paternal ancestor found in Europe, Iran and Armenia. No one else carries these exact genes. He may have been Jewish and lived somewhere between modern Germany and the Ukraine, or even maybe he was a Persian or Armenian. Our ancestor had a genetic mutation called M378 so most of the men in this group have the same genetic mutation found after more testing.
Our group has about 200+ men tested. We are the only Q1b found in Europe.
We make up about 5% of the total Jewish population. I'm putting money on us coming from Persia. If you remember the story of Queen Esther and King Ahashueros, Esther, or Hadassah, as she was named, was part of a large Jewish population there. She was picked in a beauty pageant to be the King's next wife. It was she who stopped a holocaust of all the Jews being killed by an edict of Haman, who hated Jews. The king didn't even know Hadassah was Jewish, but after she fasted, only eating seeds to gain the courage to speak to him about her possible fate, put a stop to it and hung Hamen and his sons. So since we know of this Jewish contingent in Persia, I think our chances of coming from this group is pretty good.
Reference on DNA: Barry Zwick
