Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Altai Mountains Holds Key for Q1b's
WESTERN MONGOLIA
Siberia and parts of Turkey
The wilds of the Altai Mountains, Mongolia's highest range, form the rugged backdrop to this Kazakh populated area. Muslim culture and the practice of hunting with eagles contribute to the unique heritage of the region.
Altai Mountains
There are tours to see these things. Check out: http://www.panoramicjourneys.com/pages2.php?pagelink=regionmong1&gclid=CJ-t1OjtjqMCFRxEgwodFghVUA
Labels: Altai Mountains
Saturday, May 29, 2010
We Came From Russia in Altai Mountains
We Goldfoots took our name from the land. Altai in Turkic means AL (gold). Where the foot comes into play, I don't know. We may have had foot problems or had to do a lot of walking. A few of our Goldfoots in this generation have reported foot problems in their branch of the family. If we had to walk from the Altai Mountains to Lithuaia, we surely all had foot problems, I would think. Ouch! It's surprising that I haven't uncovered any shoemakers. Instead, I've found a lot of dentists!
1,000 years ago, the people who match our Ydna came from one man. We've met online through familytreedna which is in Houston, Texas where we've tested our dna.
We spoke Turkic, no doubt before our ancestors learned Yiddish, which they spoke when they migrated to Lithuania. There were other members of the Altaic language group who also spoke Turkic. These Altai Mountains are known as the original locus of the speakers of Turkic.
The Altai mountains cover a lot of territory. They are in Mongolia, China, Russia and Kazakhstan. I figure we're from the Russian sector as we did head for Lithuania which later became part of Russia.
1,000 years ago, the people who match our Ydna came from one man. We've met online through familytreedna which is in Houston, Texas where we've tested our dna.
We spoke Turkic, no doubt before our ancestors learned Yiddish, which they spoke when they migrated to Lithuania. There were other members of the Altaic language group who also spoke Turkic. These Altai Mountains are known as the original locus of the speakers of Turkic.
The Altai mountains cover a lot of territory. They are in Mongolia, China, Russia and Kazakhstan. I figure we're from the Russian sector as we did head for Lithuania which later became part of Russia.
Labels: Altai Mountains, dna, feet
Sunday, February 07, 2010
Q1b's: To be from Khazaria or Not to Be: That Is The Question
I ran into several questions about knowing if our Q1b haplogroup is of the Ashina Royal Dynasty of Khazaria or not. Alfred Krupa has done extensive research on his surname which has led him to this discovery and has shared with those of us who share the same haplogroup.
The interesting thing is that I see on page 2 of Kevin Alan Bacon's "The Jews of Khazaria" under "The Turkic Heritage" the line: "The Khazars were predominantly Turkic and probably originated in the steppes of central Asia, or perhaps in the Ural or Caucasus mountains."
Our Q1b haplogroup is said to have originated in the Altai Mountains of Turkey, Mongolia and Siberia, and this is from information at familytreedna.
The Turkic peoples (or simply Turks) are Eurasian peoples residing in northern, central and western Asia, Mongolia, southern Siberia and northwestern China and parts of eastern Europe. They speak languages belonging to the Turkic language family.[4] They share, to varying degrees, certain cultural traits and historical backgrounds. The term Turkic represents a broad ethno-linguistic group of people including existing societies such as the Azerbaijani, Kazakhs, Tatar, Kyrgyz, Turkish, Turkmen, Uyghur, Uzbeks, Bashkirs, Qashqai, Gagauzs, Yakuts, Karakalpaks, Karachays, Krymchaks, Nogais and as well as past civilizations such as the Bulgars, Kumans, Avars, Seljuks, Khazars, Ottomans, Mamluks, Timurids, and possibly the Xiongnu and Huns[4][5][6].
According to Turkic legend, continues Kevin, which are found in Chinese chronicles, an exciting legend takes place when a son was named Ak-shih-na and his tribe became powerful and expanded. All 10 sons settled along the southern slope of the Altai Mountains....so there we have our geography in agreement with science. page 2.
It's my grandfather's wife who belongs to the W mtdna haplogroup which is said to originate from the Ural mountains. The Ural Mountains (Russian: are a mountain range that runs roughly north-south through western Russia. They are usually considered the natural boundary between Europe and Asia.
My grandparents met in Council, Idaho, a little mining town on the way to a ski resort (today) after immigrating from "Russia" and Suwalki, Poland and married in 1905. There he must have been on the train that just passed through recently for the first time and found her and her family there. What are the chances of that happening? Both were Jewish, so naturally the only available Jewish boy married the only available Jewish gal. One giveaway was that they both spoke Yiddish, and hopefully the same dialect of Yiddish.
Even more unusual is the fact that Q1b occurs in only 5% of the male Jewish population, and W is also a very small haplogroup for women. I don't know what % of Jewish women belong to this group, but it most likely is also very small making this event of happening most unlikely being they did not meet in Eastern Europe in their hometowns.
So the question remains: which one is the one with roots in Khazaria? Could they both be? Now I'll have to start reading more about the W women from the area.
The interesting thing is that I see on page 2 of Kevin Alan Bacon's "The Jews of Khazaria" under "The Turkic Heritage" the line: "The Khazars were predominantly Turkic and probably originated in the steppes of central Asia, or perhaps in the Ural or Caucasus mountains."
Our Q1b haplogroup is said to have originated in the Altai Mountains of Turkey, Mongolia and Siberia, and this is from information at familytreedna.
The Turkic peoples (or simply Turks) are Eurasian peoples residing in northern, central and western Asia, Mongolia, southern Siberia and northwestern China and parts of eastern Europe. They speak languages belonging to the Turkic language family.[4] They share, to varying degrees, certain cultural traits and historical backgrounds. The term Turkic represents a broad ethno-linguistic group of people including existing societies such as the Azerbaijani, Kazakhs, Tatar, Kyrgyz, Turkish, Turkmen, Uyghur, Uzbeks, Bashkirs, Qashqai, Gagauzs, Yakuts, Karakalpaks, Karachays, Krymchaks, Nogais and as well as past civilizations such as the Bulgars, Kumans, Avars, Seljuks, Khazars, Ottomans, Mamluks, Timurids, and possibly the Xiongnu and Huns[4][5][6].
According to Turkic legend, continues Kevin, which are found in Chinese chronicles, an exciting legend takes place when a son was named Ak-shih-na and his tribe became powerful and expanded. All 10 sons settled along the southern slope of the Altai Mountains....so there we have our geography in agreement with science. page 2.
It's my grandfather's wife who belongs to the W mtdna haplogroup which is said to originate from the Ural mountains. The Ural Mountains (Russian: are a mountain range that runs roughly north-south through western Russia. They are usually considered the natural boundary between Europe and Asia.
My grandparents met in Council, Idaho, a little mining town on the way to a ski resort (today) after immigrating from "Russia" and Suwalki, Poland and married in 1905. There he must have been on the train that just passed through recently for the first time and found her and her family there. What are the chances of that happening? Both were Jewish, so naturally the only available Jewish boy married the only available Jewish gal. One giveaway was that they both spoke Yiddish, and hopefully the same dialect of Yiddish.
Even more unusual is the fact that Q1b occurs in only 5% of the male Jewish population, and W is also a very small haplogroup for women. I don't know what % of Jewish women belong to this group, but it most likely is also very small making this event of happening most unlikely being they did not meet in Eastern Europe in their hometowns.
So the question remains: which one is the one with roots in Khazaria? Could they both be? Now I'll have to start reading more about the W women from the area.
Labels: Altai Mountains, Khazaria, Ural Mountains
