Goldfoot Genealogy

"This section is the most comprehensive summary of Jewish genetic data. In recent years, advances in genetic technology and the broadening in scope of genetic studies to encompass more ethnic groups have allowed scientists to come to more accurate conclusions. Now that we have the benefit of more than a decade of comprehensive genetic testing of Jewish populations using modern techniques, we have finally come close to answering all the questions about Jewish ancestry. Part of the story is that Eastern European Jews have significant Eastern Mediterranean elements which manifest themselves in close relationships with Kurdish, Armenian, Palestinian Arab, Lebanese, Syrian, and Anatolian Turkish peoples. This is why the Y-DNA haplogroups J and E, which are typical of the Middle East, are so common among them. Jewish lineages from this region of the world derive from both the Levant and the Anatolia-Armenia region. At the same time, there are traces of European (including Northern Italian and Western Slavic including Polish), Northwest African (Berber), and East Asian ancestry among European Jews. Many Greek and Roman women married Jewish men before conversion to Judaism was outlawed by the Roman Empire, and many of the Southern European ancestral lines in Ashkenazic families come from these marriages. Ethiopian Jews descend from Ethiopian Africans who converted to Judaism. Yemenite Jews descend from Arabs who converted to Judaism. North African Jewish and Kurdish Jewish paternal lineages come from Israelites. Jewish Y-DNA tends to come from the Middle East, and studies that take into account mtDNA show that many Jewish populations are related to neighboring non-Jewish groups maternally. All existing studies fail to compare modern Jewish populations' DNA to ancient Judean DNA and medieval Khazarian DNA, but in the absence of old DNA, comparisons with living populations appear to be adequate to trace geographic roots.D" ( Jewish Genetics-DNA -http://www.khazaria.com/genetics/abstracts.html

"The main ethnic element of Ashkenazim (German and Eastern European Jews), Sephardim (Spanish and Portuguese Jews), Mizrakhim (Middle Eastern Jews), Juhurim (Mountain Jews of the Caucasus), Italqim (Italian Jews), and most other modern Jewish populations of the world is Israelite. The Israelite haplotypes fall into Y-DNA haplogroups J and E.

 "The actual source of Ashkenazic R1a1 was a population in Iran." What the article doesn't mention here is that Jews lived in Persia, taken there by the Babylonians in 597 and 586 BCE, and in keeping with their Judaism, would have appointed new people to be the teachers, the Levites, thus the R1a1 line of men so perhaps they were short of Levite tribal members and those they had were already Cohens.  

"The presence of the Y-DNA haplogroup Q1b1a (Q-L245) in Ashkenazi and Karaite samples is not indicative of Khazar ancestry but rather of Southwest Asian ancestry." Our grandfather, Nathan Abraham Goldfus/Goldfoot-would have been Q1b1a like his grandson, David Goldfoot.  

Unfortunately, as Bennett Greenspan pointed out, Y-DNA doesn't usually last more than 100 years in the remains of a dead person whose body isn't well-preserved (such as frozen or mummified), so direct testing of Khazar bones may be impossible, but on the other hand some advances have recently made possible the testing of ancient DNA from bones, teeth, hair, etc. For instance, LL. Kang et al. studied the remains of ancient Huns for their 2013 paper "Y chromosomes of ancient Hunnu people and its implication on the phylogeny of East Asian linguistic families" in which they managed to identify these Y-DNA haplogroups found among them: Q-M242, Q-M3, N-Tat, C-M130, and R1a1.

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"Bennett Greenspan, a colleague of geneticist Dr. Michael Hammer, has established Family Tree DNA Genealogy by Genetics, Ltd. to investigate the roots of European Jews and family genealogies. Visit his site to see if you may benefit from their services. This site is an affiliate. "  This is who we have tested with.

Studies of autosomal DNA, which look at the entire DNA mixture, show that Jewish populations have tended to form relatively closely related groups in independent communities, with most in a community sharing significant ancestry.^[1] For populations of the Jewish diaspora, the genetic composition of Ashkenazi, Sephardi, and Mizrahi Jewish populations show a predominant amount of shared Middle Eastern ancestry. According to Behar and colleagues (2010), this is "consistent with the historical formulation theories the Jewish people as descending from ancient Hebrew and Israelites of the Levant" and "the dispersion of the people of ancient Israel throughout the Old World".^[2]  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_studies_on_Jews

Nadene Goldfoot      

My Uncle, Charles Goldfoot

                                                                 

My father, Maurice Goldfoot

     Charles Goldfoot b: 1906 and Moses "Maurice" Goldfoot b: 1908
              South Portland, Oregon c 1910.  Their father was killed in 1912.  

My father's Ydna Haplogroup is Q1b1a.  We are 5% of the Jewish men of today. I say we, but the haplogroup doesn't show up in a female's test.  One has to have a male from the line to do that.  All of our matches look like they are or at least were from people of a Jewish background.  My father, "Maurice", reflects his round face from the Jermulowske side and my uncle has the longer face from the Goldfoot side.  Their father, Nathan Abraham,  came from Telsiai, Lithuania and was Goldfus, there. I've traced the family back to 1730 in Telsiai.     

I discovered segments of the program that I had never explored until a few minutes ago and it is quite revealing.  My own DNA in this autosomal test shows up from both my mother and my father's genes.  We have to this date, 1067 matches. I fixed the program to show Y haplogroup matches.   Out of this huge group, 23&Me knows that 324 of them are testing only females showing no Y haplogroup title.  So I was able to check out 667 of the matching Y haplogroups from men who had tested..

There were :
144= E1b1b1.  I started thinking they all would be this group! It turns out that they are an ancient Middle East group.  It's quite Jewish, some clades found at moderate frequencies in the populations of Europe, particularly among those that reside near the Mediterranean, which is believed to represent ancient genetic influence from the Middle East to Europe.  E's originated in Africa (which we all did) some 50,000 years ago.

49 =G1.  May have originated along the eastern edge of the Middle East or India or Pakistan 30,000 years ago and dispersed into central Asia, Europe and Middle East.  7% of Ashkenazi Jews have this.

26=I1  Usually found in Scandinavia and Croatia with some traces in the Middle East, the source.  Vikings could have carried it from there.

95=J1e  10,000 to 15,000 years ago in Fertile Crescent including Jews, Arabs, Armenians, and Kurds.  Iran and Iraq have highest frequencies where it may have originated, carried by traders to Europe, central Asia, India, Pakistan.  J1 is the Cohen gene.  Arabs have been found with that as J1ced with Arab extension.  The majority of Jewish men are found with J1. Both Jews and Arabs are found with J1c3d.

109=J2, J2a1b  Same information as above: However, J2 is believed to be associated with the spread of agriculture during Neolithic Period from Anatolia, found in central Asia, Mediterranean and south into India.

47=Q1b  This is our Goldfoot haplogroup.  Came from central Asia 15,000 to 20,000 years ago so is older than J1.  Latest findings place us in or around Ur, which was the city where Abraham lived which is now a part of Iraq.  Abraham lived in the 2nd millennium BCE.

  6=R1
79= R1a1a  Older haplogroup yet, originating in NW Asia from 30,000 to 35,000 years ago, common throughout Europe and Eurassia.

14=R1b1b2  (not my gentile side of R1b1a2a1a1b4)  This one surprised me.
18=R1b1b2a
 8=R1b1b2a1a
 2=R1b1b2a1a1
 1=R1b1b2a1a1d
16=R1b1b2a1a1d1
 1=R1b1b2a1a2
 2=R1b1b2a1a2c
11=R1b1b2a1a2d
 3=R1b1b2a1a2d3
 7=R1b1b2a1a2f
 9=R2  Rarer than R1, is found only in Indian, Iranian and central Asian populations

21=T  This is a  new one on me and Jon Entine.  I found it is older and had been known as K2, found in Egypt, Portuguese Jews, Zoroastrians, Somalis in Ethiopia. Linkage with I of some sort.  " The presence of T1a2 chromosomes in Near Eastern Jewish and non-Jewish populations may reflect early exiles between the ancient lands of Israel and Babylon. The presence of different subclades of T chromosomes in Europe may be explained by both the spread of Neolithic farmers and the later dispersal of Jews from the Near East."

Reference: 23%Me DNA Company in California
Abraham's Children by Jon Entine
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_T-M184
http://www.familytreedna.com/PDF/MendezHumBiol2011.pdf about T in Jews.
http://jewishfactsfromportland.blogspot.com/2010/01/jewish-genes-what-haplogroup-could-they.html