Thursday, December 23, 2010
Jermulowske mtdna W
Nathan Goldfoot, most likely from somewhere in Lithuania, born 1874, married Hattie Jermulowske in Council Idaho in 1905. In dna terminology, Nathan is of Q1b haplogroup and Hattie is a W haplogroup. Both haplogroups are found in the Lithuania/Poland area in Ashkenazi Jews.
Information on the W is as follows, a comment from Debra Katz : But for now, in a nutshell, there is definitely an Ashkenazi Jewish branch...likely all descending from a 17th or early 18th century Baltic lass who hooked up with a Jewish dude in the Latvia/Lithuania region.
W's seem to be a Johnnie come lately branch on the human tree. It wasn't even found when mtdna was first known about and a book was written about the daughters of Eve. There are Jewish and non-Jewish lines found. Marrying a Jewish man can't alter the mtdna of the female, but this would be the start of an all Jewish branch. Mtdna just doesn't change hardly at all since its inception thousands of years ago.
Labels: Latvia, Lithuania, mtDNA W
