Thursday, May 10, 2012
Our Haplogroup Was in UR- Maybe With Abraham
Nadene Goldfoot
My expert DNA friend has just told me more revealing information about our haplogroup of Q L245 which is also known to me as Q1b1a.
All this time I've thought that we originated the past 1,000 years ago in Siberia, Mongolia and parts of Turkey, which did happen much farther back way before the days of ancient Israel. I had already known that our Q L245 has been found today in our Jewish male population and to be only 5% of that. Today I learn that it is also found in modern Arab populations, in modern Anatolian populations, in Iran and Iraq and in Ur down to the tip of Saudi Arabia and Oman. I was beginning to wonder about that learning that I had some distant cousins in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Why is this a revelation? This covers what used to be Ancient Israel which split and became Judah and Israel including Samaria.
It is written and found in our Torah, or Five Books of Moses, or known as the Tanakh, Bible or Old Testament, that Abraham was the son of Terah and the father of Isaac by his wife Sarah and Ishmail by Sarah's handmaid, Hagar, the Egyptian. He had left his birthplace in Ur of the Chaldees and lived among the Canaanite and Philistine people of what was then known as Canaan. He visited Egypt and then returned to live in Hebron. It is believed that he lived at the beginning of the 2nd millennium BCE.
It sounds reasonable to me to think that we came from Abraham being people from Ur today have this haplogroup. What a revelation! DNA scientists feel that people of today with the same haplogroup identifies locations of origin. I hope they're right. All this time we in this group have been trying to imagine where our origins were and several of us had pinned our thoughts onto the former Empire of Khazaria whose land connects with today's Russia. At least it was in the Siberia, Mongolia, Turkey area. Scientists today figure a few R1a1 or G haplogroups came from there instead of our Q L245.
I read once that a frozen man, Otzi, the Ice Man was found in the Alps in 1991 and found to be 5,300 years old with dna that showed this his dna matched people in the nearby town. . So I guess it is possible that some of the people living in Ur today are descendants of the ancients. I think this calls for a L'Chaim!
Reference: New Standard Jewish Encycloopedia
http://wilderdom.com/evolution/OtziIcemanAlpsPictures.htm
My expert DNA friend has just told me more revealing information about our haplogroup of Q L245 which is also known to me as Q1b1a.
All this time I've thought that we originated the past 1,000 years ago in Siberia, Mongolia and parts of Turkey, which did happen much farther back way before the days of ancient Israel. I had already known that our Q L245 has been found today in our Jewish male population and to be only 5% of that. Today I learn that it is also found in modern Arab populations, in modern Anatolian populations, in Iran and Iraq and in Ur down to the tip of Saudi Arabia and Oman. I was beginning to wonder about that learning that I had some distant cousins in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Why is this a revelation? This covers what used to be Ancient Israel which split and became Judah and Israel including Samaria.
It is written and found in our Torah, or Five Books of Moses, or known as the Tanakh, Bible or Old Testament, that Abraham was the son of Terah and the father of Isaac by his wife Sarah and Ishmail by Sarah's handmaid, Hagar, the Egyptian. He had left his birthplace in Ur of the Chaldees and lived among the Canaanite and Philistine people of what was then known as Canaan. He visited Egypt and then returned to live in Hebron. It is believed that he lived at the beginning of the 2nd millennium BCE.
It sounds reasonable to me to think that we came from Abraham being people from Ur today have this haplogroup. What a revelation! DNA scientists feel that people of today with the same haplogroup identifies locations of origin. I hope they're right. All this time we in this group have been trying to imagine where our origins were and several of us had pinned our thoughts onto the former Empire of Khazaria whose land connects with today's Russia. At least it was in the Siberia, Mongolia, Turkey area. Scientists today figure a few R1a1 or G haplogroups came from there instead of our Q L245.
I read once that a frozen man, Otzi, the Ice Man was found in the Alps in 1991 and found to be 5,300 years old with dna that showed this his dna matched people in the nearby town. . So I guess it is possible that some of the people living in Ur today are descendants of the ancients. I think this calls for a L'Chaim!
Reference: New Standard Jewish Encycloopedia
http://wilderdom.com/evolution/OtziIcemanAlpsPictures.htm
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