Sunday, July 26, 2015
Jewish Q1b1a or Q- L245 now Q-BZ67 Countries Found
Family Tree DNA Jewish Q lists kits and the countries where people were from. This page also lists other Jewish and non-Jewish Q haplogroups and a few others besides. 5% of this haplogroup are found in today's Jewish population which is only 0.02% of the world population; 6 million in USA, 6million in Israel, 2 million in Diaspora.
Our Goldfus/foot grandfather carried Q1b1a Y haplotype. Nathan Goldfus/foot was from Telsiai, Lithuania. Our grandmother was from Suwalki, Lithuania/Poland. In the year, 700 CE, Jews were living in Lithuania. "Lithuanian Jews or Litvaks are Jews with roots in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania: (present-day Lithuania, Belarus,Ukraine, Latvia and the northeastern Suwałki region of Poland).
Reference: https://www.familytreedna.com/public/Jewish_Q?iframe=yresults
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