Goldfoot Genealogy

Nadene Goldfoot                             

We have 23 chromosomes.  Scientists have numbered them.  The #4 chromosome bears  the Sephardic origin segment I match with  another female..  I match this person on #1, too. Our common ancestor lived at least 6 generations ago which would take us to about the year of 1868 when my ggrandparents were in  Lithuania.  The other match has recent ancestors that were Ashkenazic Jews like mine, and were in Poland and Belarus, which were part of the Pale of Settlement.  My Ashkenazic ancestors as far as I had discovered were from Poland and Lithuania, also in the Pale.

Jews were in Spain since 70 CE at the time of Rome's destruction of our 2nd Temple in Jerusalem.  By 1492 the Spanish Inquisition was in full swing and Jews had to leave the country or convert.  Some went underground, hiding their religion from others.  Some went to Portugal where a few years later they too had to leave or convert.

To discover that a segment matches someone's Sephardic segment is a new twist to my DNA education.  To me, this is amazing ability to pinpoint the origins.  Triangulation was used to do so.

We  received this Sephardic ancestry segment from Sephardim of Spain or Portugal who have entered into Hispanic communities such as Columbia. 
                                                                     
Since I was a little girl, I took dancing lessons.  At 4 or 5 I danced a Spanish dance on Battleship Oregon.  When I was about 13 I began Spanish dancing lessons from Theresa Stopper in Portland, which included the costuming, high heels and the castanets we clicked away with that were tied to our fingers. That kept up until I graduated high school.  Above is more of a Spanish gypsy dance we did.   I love both Spanish music and Russian music!  It's full of feeling!  Maybe it's because I have that teeny bit of a segment from my Sephardic ancestor.


Comparing Kit TIIIIII(LD) and T969950 (Nadene Goldfoot)  5th cousins determined by FTDNA

Minimum segment cM to be included in total = 7.0 cM

Chr	Start Location	End Location	Centimorgans (cM)	SNPs
1	114,686,762	145,543,907	7.1	1,695
4	25,786,470	36,779,975	11.3	1,957

Largest segment = 11.3 cM
Total of segments > 7 cM = 18.4 cM
2 matching segments
Estimated number of generations to MRCA = 4.8
On FTDNA, it looks like this: 

4

26066069

36606449

9.66

1978

My son's match to #4 as well.  This fits into the perimater of my segment.  

Chr	Start Location	End Location	Centimorgans (cM)	SNPs
4	26,961,104	36,583,696	8.5	1,699

Largest segment = 8.5 cM
Total of segments > 7 cM = 8.5 cM
1 matching segments
Estimated number of generations to MRCA = 6.9
On FTDNA, it looks like this:

4

26982600

36063994

8.14

1678

My daughter matches  my match on #1   but not #4.She got more SNPs out of the deal than I did, I see though her segment was slightly smaller.  Hmmm.   

Chr	Start Location	End Location	Centimorgans (cM)	SNPs
1	114,686,762	145,448,349	7.1	1,701

Largest segment = 7.1 cM
Total of segments > 7 cM = 7.1 cM
1 matching segments
Estimated number of generations to MRCA = 7.5

To see if my sibling matched my match, I saw he didn't if I continued to use 7cMs as a minimum to show up, so I changed the tool to show all by using 1 instead of 7.  Look what happened.
Here, #4 chromosome is NOT A MATCH.  Neither is #1.  However, they have matches worthy of a cousin relationship that are 5cMs or bigger.  I'll take the 4.9cm segment, too.  

Chr	Start Location	End Location	Centimorgans (cM)	SNPs
1	77,039,264	80,831,841	3.1	844
1	106,552,326	110,590,348	4.4	1,019
2	187,918,651	190,964,128	1.2	521
2	194,868,883	201,173,536	4.6	1,102
3	33,883,903	36,933,999	1.9	620
3	102,279,332	108,441,535	4.9	1,213
4	92,881,448	96,370,981	1.7	577
5	99,300,639	102,742,754	2.2	521
6	39,150,312	41,839,155	5.3	849
7	13,996,264	15,679,944	2.8	517
7	98,281,889	100,386,197	1.2	507
8	66,183,286	69,205,464	2.1	549
9	1,257,493	2,402,296	4.1	601
12	41,287,383	44,818,128	2.5	695
12	53,692,096	56,891,043	2.7	678
12	69,230,517	72,072,220	1.6	622
13	60,159,811	62,890,418	1.2	551
14	34,227,935	37,250,564	3.2	645
14	89,491,246	91,716,795	4.4	539
16	72,121,089	76,535,568	5.2	1,239
21	14,743,816	16,696,404	4.8	567

Largest segment = 5.3 cM
Total of segments > 1 cM = 65.2 cM
21 matching segments 

Since 2014, I've known that: "One of the latest bits of news about our Goldfus/Goldfoot autosomal DNA test is that it shows a connection to Italy and to the Kalonymus family who were a very famous Italian family who originated from Lucca, Italy and who established themselves in Mainz, Germany. "  Could this Sephardic connection be the Kalonymus Italian line?  

4/4/18 I've just found out I match another Sepharic lady informed again by researcher and author, Kevin Allen Brook; Castillo from an ancestry (A) test matching on chromosome #16 with 7.8cMs.  My son matched on #16 with 8.0cMs and my daughter matched on #16 with 7.8cMs AND #6 with 4.3cMs #16 was the same segment. Then I checked other members of my family.  My brother matched #16 with 7.7cMs. A cousin Anthony matched on #16 with 7.8cMs. My daughter in law matched my daughter's match on #6 with 1.4cMs-so small it is not to be considered-not the same segment as my daughter's.  
#16   29,066,936.....50,503,620      7.8cMs  786 SNPs My match.  
         28,458,158.....50,435,924      8.0cMs  823 SNPs son's match
         28,949,515.....50,440,889      7.8cMs  788 SNPs daughter's match
         29,066,936.....50,435,924      7.7cMs  789 SNPs brother
         29,066,936.....50,508,576      7.8cMs  799 SNPs cousin  A once removed

#6     70,604,373......75,901,320     4.3cMs  670 SNPs daughter's match

Update:  Another match: kit half Ashkenazi and half Sephardi and we match on this chromosome: 

Nadene Goldfoot

1

115697264

144976736

5.9

The Sephardi match above:  Now I don't think this was Sephardi but Ashkenazi. 

1

114,686,762

145,543,907

7.1

1,695

Resource: GedMatch.com
Kevin Alan Brook 
http://goldfoot_genealogy.blogspot.com/2014/06/autosomal-test-showing-italian.html