Goldfoot Genealogy

                                                                       

Pashtun People

We Jews with Q (the Y haplogroup DNA)  make up only 5% of the Jewish male population today.  Being the Cohen gene is J1, often J1c3d, from Aaron, brother of Moses and his lineage, we wonder.

Our Goldfoot line's Y haplogroup DNA testing  was labeled as Q-L245 when we started.
Is Q-L245 found in modern Arab populations?  Yes
Is Q-L245 found in modern Anatolian populatons?  Yes
Is Q-L245 found in modern Iran and Iraq?  Yes
Is Q-L245 found from the modern locations of the Ancient city of Ur down to the tip of Saudi Arabia and Oman?  Yes
Does that cover the places where ancient Israel, Judah, and Sumaria were?  Yes.

There you are. I figure we were in Ur, now a part of Iraq, where Abraham was found to be in the Bible.  We were with him in his journeys, maybe married into the family or as a servant, for Abraham, I expect, would have been a J1, of the Cohen gene, for Moses is a direct descendant of his as well.  We wound up in Egypt with the rest, and were taken by the Assyrians in 721 BCE eastward again, where Abraham originally came from.  Those of the northern tribes taken by Assyrians were called the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel.  My family became one of the Ashkenazi Jews that went to Germany instead.  
Questions were answered by Rebekah Canada, leader of our group on FTDNA.

My brother's Y haplogroup titles have been updated  through various stages of higher testing:
1. Q1b1a
2. Q-(M 242)
3. Q-(M 378)
4. Q-L245
5.Q-Y2200
***6. QBZ67

I have found that at the level of testing of 12 alleles of Q, my brother matches:
1. someone from Republic of Dagistan, Kaitak
2. someone from Republic of Dagistan, Avar
3. someone from Turkey
4. someone with an Arabic name
5. someone from Baghdad

And now, it has been found that many Pashtuns from Afghanistan and Pakistan share Q-M242.
"Paragroup Q-M242 (xMEH2, xM378) (of Haplogroup Q-M242 (Y-DNA)) was found at 16.3% in Pashtuns. Haplogroup Q-M242 is also found at a frequency of 18% in Pashtuns in the Afghan capital of Kabul.

"Kabul is the capital of Afghanistan as well as its largest city, located in the eastern section of the country. According to a 2015 estimate, the population of the city was around 3,678,033 which includes all the major ethnic groups. Wikipedia.  So our matches are 18% of the people of Kabul, the Pashtuns.  

"Over the past decade, Kabul has become one of the world’s fastest-growing cities. The toppling of the Taliban in 2001 and the hope of increased security and economic possibilities enticed many Afghans to move here: people displaced by fighting in the countryside, refugees returning from Pakistan and Iran, and hordes of labourers simply looking for a better life."

"The Pashtuns (ethnic Afghans) make up the largest ethnic group in Afghanistan, comprising between 42% and 60% of the country's population. Their main territory, sometimes called Pashtunistan,^{[by whom?]} is between the Hindu Kush mountains in Afghanistan and the Indus River in neighboring Pakistan, where they are the second largest ethnic group. After the rise of the Hotaki dynasty in 1709 and the Durrani Empire in 1747, Pashtuns expanded by forming communities north of the Hindu Kush and elsewhere in Afghanistan.

The term "Afghan" is synonymous with the ethnonym "Pashtun" and has been mentioned as early as the 3rd century, referring to the tribes inhabiting the lands south of the Hindu Kush around the Sulaiman Mountains."  

Pashtuns make up  an estimated 27.7 million (15%) of Pakistan's total population. The largest urban population of Pashtuns is interestingly found in the southern coastal city of Karachi with a fluctuating population estimated up to 7 million. This is then followed by Peshawar, Quetta, Rawalpindi, Islamabad, and Lahore in descending order
                                                                   

One characteristic my father had was a cleft in his chin.  I just saw that this morning on a Middle Easterner.  Another thing is that my brother, myself and my 1st cousin Goldfoot are all left-handed.  I wonder what the % of our matches of Q also have this left-handedness.  It sure makes writing Hebrew from right to left easier!  Are there any other lefties in our family?  Maybe it's from our grandmother's Jermulowske side.  

Resource: http://jewishbubba.blogspot.com/2017/03/pashtos-of-afghanistan-and-pakistan-and.html
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/dec/11/kabul-afghanistan-fifth-fastest-growing-city-world-rapid-urbanisation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_groups_in_Afghanistan
also, from 2010, http://goldfoot_genealogy.blogspot.com/2010/11/few-hazara-and-sindhi-people-with-our.html
https://www.familytreedna.com/public/dna_afghan_pak?iframe=ycolorized  (results of DNA test on Pashtuns-excellent)  (Report from FTDNA on Pashtun DNA-Qs.  Excellenst