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

  Nadene Goldfoot                                           
                   
Grandfather Nathan Abraham Goldfoot was born in Telsiai, Lithuania in 1870.  He traveled to England, then Ireland and finally got to Council, Idaho where he married our grandmother, Hattie Jermulowske of Lazdijai, Suwalki, Poland/Lithuania, depending on the year.

His grandson has had his DNA tested and we find we are Q-L245 through Family Tree DNA in Houston, Texas.  Also matching us at the 12 allele level though they took the 67 allele test,  are:
                                                                              
1.  2 people from Dagestan who also are Q-L245.  At 24 generations we have a 91.41% chance of sharing a common ancestor.  That would take us back 600 years to 1414.
 Dagestan is located in North Caucasus, Russia with a population of 2,910,249, Dagestan is ethnically very diverse (it is Russia's most heterogeneous republic, where no ethnic group forms a majority) with several dozen ethnic groups and subgroups inhabiting the republic, most of which speak Caucasian and Turkic languages. Largest among these ethnic groups are the Avar, Dargin,Kumyk, Lezgian, Laks, Azerbaijani, Tabasaran and Chechen.Ethnic Russians comprise about 3.6% of Dagestan's total population. Russian is the primary official language and the lingua franca among the ethnic groups.^]
2.  A few others matching at this same level are listed as Jaisy, Iraqi Arabs, from Baghdad.  We have a 69.03% of sharing a common ancestor at 24 generations back.

Being we are Jews and they are not makes it interesting. In 2011 Rebekah Canada let me know that our Y haplogroup was from parts of Turkey, Iran, Iraq and possibly southern Saudi Arabia.

On the Karaite testing and finding Q1b1a or Q-L245,  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. from  http://forums.familytreedna.com/showthread.php?t=35397,  The Genetics of Crimean Karaites 

As for our Q1b1a haplogroup origins, familytreedna leader just stated, "I think in the next two years we will completely break up the Jewish Y-DNA branches into lines that are no more than 3,000 years old. Then we will really start to figure out when they became Middle Eastern or Jewish."

Right now the Q lines lead us into the Middle East of Pakistan and India, which is a surprise, though this is back more than 5,000 years.  "  Our labeling is M378.   and in getting more specific, we are Q-L245.  We go back 5,000 years for Q-M378 which includes Q-L245.  There are some Q-M378 in the Middle East who are not Q-L245, however.  This is why our leaders think that Q-L245 was born in the Middle East now.  The age of Q-L245 needs work.  Right now, they know that there are at least two branches."