Also depending on age of the person who posted the last story, that great-grandfather from Peru could have been a European fleeing one of the World Wars, for various reasons. A friend of mine from high school was born in Uruguay. She is Jewish. Her grandparents fled Austria when a certain person came to power, and they went to South America.
Ferdinand and Isabella kicked non-Catholics out of Spain, so maybe the European Jewish came from there, fleeing Spain by going to the New World. I'd study what you can of Peruvian History to see if there's any possible links to other ethnic groups that were common for colonists there.
Since most ancestry DNA sites only go back about 5 to 8 generations her full blooded Peruvian ancestor may have been born before that. I am doing Portuguese genealogy and have found that I am descended from Sephardic Jews. I have at one time had about 1 percent Ashkenazi DNA but it comes and goes. No Sephardic.I have checked the descendency in the marriage, birth and or death records myself and the relationship is there. I am also connected on CRI Genetics to PEL which is Peruvians from Lima 5 to 10 and more generations ago. That makes sense as the Portuguese did go there about that time. 5 generations in my family would be around 1750/1800. Looking for them.
10/10 The name being spelled differently thing! My great-grandmother shows up as Zola, Zoila, Zula, and even Zoia once. The only consistencies are the Z, the A on the end, and a tall and a circular letter in the middle. My only way of knowing its actually her when her husband is mentioned too. The two names together confirm it because the surname gets spelled differently too. A's and O's frequently get transcribed or heard wrong and same with the i's and the l's. Reed, Reedy, Reid, Redd, Red... all could be the same person.
Yes, and census takers can get it wrong as well. I had one that misspelled the names of my family and it was the most frustrating thing until I realized he was spelling the names like they sounded with a Southern accent. "Aney" for "Annie", "Emer" for "Emma" and "Mack" which was my 2x great grandfather's nickname but not his real name. Ugh. I still don't know who "Poley" is supposed to be. 😂
Peruvian here :) There's a high chance that great-grandfather could've been born here to migrants from europe and then gone somewhere else. The diversity of people here is really big! We have our indigenous groups of course, then came the spanish and that started mixing very quickly starting from 1532. At that point, british people came as well. Years later they started bringing slaves from Africa and all sorts of asian slaves as well and after slavery was abolished in 1854, chinese and japanese migrants became the cheap labor forces that were needed at the moment. We've also had german and austrian migration here after slavery was abolished and they settled mostly in the jungle and high jungle as well. So we're all firmly mixed all around. It's really interesting all around. I'm mixed as well, one of my great grandmothers came from Spain during the spanish flu pandemic, i have other spanish roots dating from 1755 and there's a big part that i don't know on my fathers side that i'm guessing has to have some indigenous side somewhere. I live near a croatian community in the capital, 10 blocks from my house there's a whole avenue with chinese, japanese and korean restaurants and i have a cousin whose grandmother was born in Bolivia from german parents :) So yeah. That great-grandfather may have not come from an indigenous line here
I had an Polish ancestor, Xavier K. I've found records listing his name as "Hainies", and "Eva". I'm glad I looked at the Eva one, an immigration record. It was uncommon for a woman to travel alone in the 1850's, so it made me suspicious. Sure enough, he was listed as male and Polish. The ages match, as does the destination. I can see someone thinking he said his name was "Eva" (pronounced Ava) for "Xavier", but Hainies? LOL. I had an ancestor whose middle name was Sibson. I've seen it as Sunstetler. Also, keep in mind that a lot of these records are transcribed by volunteers (I know someone who used to do this). Some pernmanship in records is difficult to read, so it's up to interpretation by the transcriber sometimes. This is also why I'm avoiding my German sources--that handwriting in church records is so hard to read!
I will be getting my MyHeritage results quite soon. Hopefully through DNA matches I can find my missing second great grandfather. The story goes that he was an Irish soldier, so maybe I will find some DNA matches outside of the Netherlands and I can find my sneaky secret ancestor.
I had a French great great grandfather with a surname that I have seen spelled several different ways: Buchel/Buschell/Buschal/Buçhel/Büchel/Bucket. I also have the surname of Clark in one line. At some point it had an e on the end, but by the time my great grandmother shows up, the e is gone.
Rede, Reed, Reid, Reyd are all spellings I have seen for the surname and all pronounced the same. As to misspellings, my family name changed this way in the time of my great grandfather apparently. Can't remember the original spelling now but it was misspelled Blackburn on an important document, and it has stayed that way ever since. I remember my grandfather telling me - his father had told him - and I passed it on to my father when he hit a brick wall investigating his father's family tree.
I have 2 great grandparents who immigrated from Ireland but only I am only 2% Irish. Why? Well, they were actually Scots Irish that' s why. My tiny bit of Irish came from their American son-in-law who ancestors had been over here from, some, early 1600's, some 1700's, but all of his ancestors had been in America at least 100 years when he married their daughter in the 1880's. I have to go back to 5th great grandparents to find the true Irish.
Hi, Thank you for reviewing my DNA results. Mine was the one with mixed review of the west & central Asian from myheritage and ancestrydna. I did have my mom & sister tested on myheritage but not ancestrydna yet. They both got some south Asian specifically India also they both got massai could that explain the Kenyan
Just found your channel, and found it very interesting. I am a fairly experienced genealogist, and often help friends out when they want to know about their family tree. That's why it's a bit embarrassing that I've hit a brick wall in what should be a fairly straightforward line. I was lucky enough to have known my great-grandmother until I was 28, and she was 96. It is unfortunate that I didn't ask questions of her at the time, but I did listen to her stories. From documents in the Merchant Marine, I know my great-great-grandfather was born in Maryland around Mar8 of 1853. From his marriage certificate, I know his father was William Parker, a miner (alive at the time of his marriage to Elizabeth Lewis Railton in 1878), and his mother was Louisa Meyer, deceased). This marriage took place in Glasgow (thank goodness the Scots require so much detail!). I know all of this - so why can't I find anything else?! Family lore has William remarrying when Charles was about 12, and the stepmom didn't like him, so his 2 older sisters got him a job as cabin boy. The rest is history, as they say. The only thing I have ever been able to find was a miner in Baltimore during the Civil War. Do you have any ideas as to where I might search (from my perch in front of my computer here is Ontario)? It seems silly that I can go back 600 years on many of my other lines, but barely 150 on a line so close to home. Any help you might be able to provide would be greatly appreciated. Susan Boon
I have a question. My brother (full brother) did his DNA on Ancestry and it was pretty much what we expected, except I think it was a small number of 4% Iberian. The rest was German, Austrian, Irish. We never heard of the Austrian but it's so close to Germany that it makes sense. However it seems like everyone I know who is of central or northern European decent has some unexpected Iberian. Why is that 🤔?
Many reasons come to mind, but if I have to guess: 1) The Roman empire gathered Iberian soldiers in it's army (The Betic Legion comes to mind) that served so far as Israel. 2) The 15th Century migration of Spanish Jews out of the newly unified kingdom. 3) The 18th Century expulsion of Jesuits from Spanish territories in which many Spanish Jesuits ended up in Central Europe (several Jesuits left the Church and started "civilian" lives to prove that they had no more relationships with the Jesuit Company as an attempt to be allowed to return to Spain, many times not achieving it). I know it's too long for an answer, but is worth a shot if you wish to keep digging about your roots.
How about Armed Forces records for James Reed? Yes, try Reede. Try also Reed. Ried. Riedt. Reide. Raed. Rede. Rayde. Ride. The parents names are recorded on Birth Records, in his little town, or on Church Baptismal Records. Sometimes Baptisms were delayed. The person who carved the gravestone might have kept ledgers. Difficult. The marriage records should also mention the parents' names and those of witnesses. A photographer of the time might have photographed a wedding photo. Was PA a state or a territory at the brick wall? Was there a volunteer Fire Dept.? Was the person in Politics? Were student's names listed of children who attended the 1-room school houses? Grade 1,2 etc. Tiny Graduating Classes of a certain year. Public and Church. What language did the older ancestors speak? Sometimes the ancestors separated their institutions due to language or religion. So small town but 2 churches and 2 schools. Some had to change to another religion in order to marry the person of their choice. Who was the first immigrant? From where? What ship did they come over on and when? Some old Church Bulletins and Newspapers advertise shops. Maybe the ancestors had their own shop. Nothing about land ownership, really? The spelling of the names on Census records if they had something like that.. sometimes.. were written quick, used nicknames, weren't so legible or were spelled like what it sounded like.. Consider accents when speaking Reed as far as accents go. Get this! My family just changed their name, just like that, because one of the letters wasn't even in the English alphabet. I asked why and got no straight answer from someone born in 1910. 😑😜 Good luck! Consider history as Genea V. says. Maybe old bills of sale for a horse? Loans from the Bank? Check members of households as Grandparents are often with the younger 'Head of House.' So check Census for offspring. Old library books about original pioneers. Inventions for which they might have gotten a Patent. Trips to Canada with border crossings. Old historical books about the town and 'founding fathers.' Associations with Indigenous people. Workers for the railroad. A shoemaker might have also repaired bridals and reins. See what there is in New Jersey!!! There are so many places to hide but one day you will find them. Look at old books wherever you can find them. Talk real quick to the oldest person you can find in your genetic family. Check all that in your DNA 'Old Country/Countries.' Births, Baptisms, Marriages, Deaths etc. Happy hunting!
Hi GeneaVlogger! I have noticed in several DNA video reviews there are many Latin Americans and Mexicans with Ashkenazi Jewish DNA from probably loong ago. This puzzles me greatly. My mother was Mexican but the family knew that she had some middle eastern background but we thought it was Lebanese. I also knew that my father probably had Jewish "blood" from his Spanish mother but I thought it was Sephardic. To my surprise both, my Mom and Dad have Ashkenazi Jewish DNA and they are not related. I know these cases are not from WWll immigrants, not even from WWI. DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHEN all these Ashkenazi Jewish migration/DNA traveled to Latin America? As I said, Sephardic makes more sense because of the Spanish conversions or people that had to flee Spain until the early 1800s. I know that the Mexican northern state of Monterrey was founded by Jewish families that fleed Spain but I don't know if they were Sephardic or Ashkenazi. I studied Social Anthropology with a specialty in Mesoamerican studies and haven't been able to find much information about large migrations of Ashkenazi Jewish people in the 1600s, 1700 and/or 1800s to Latin America or from where these migrations took place. Any information, please.
Some sites will say "Ashkenazi Jewish" but that really covers a lot of Jewish population groups outside of just Ashkenazi, so it is quite possible that it is indicating more of a Sephardi ancestry than Ashkenazi. That said, there were multiple Jewish migrations to areas in South America. A large migration of Jews came to South America in 1880s, part of the same migration out of the Pale of Settlement that many North American Ashkenazi Jews also descend. There were even Jewish agricultural colonies that were started in the 1880s in Argentina, funded through the Baron de Hirsch fund. There were also earlier migrations of Sephardic Jews to South America - my ancestors actually living in Recife, Brazil from 1630-1654, and many relatives living in other Sephardic communities in Suriname, Curaçao, and Venezuela - dating back to the early 1800s.
Yeah that's pretty much me where Im Mexican American and my 23&me test said I have 1.3% Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry coming from both of my parents who are also Mexican American and that it came from between 1730 and 1820. I also would've assumed it was actually Sephardic. Maybe yeah the site just generalizes all Jewish ancestry as being Ashkenazi
I envy all you guys who can build a family tree. I can't !! 😭😭 I never met my grandparents from either sides and best of all I don't even know my 2 grandmother's name . Both my parents don't know their birthdates so it is very difficult for me to build anything. Punjab , India , don't keep records long before so I never been there before but one day I have to visit personally to get information. My mom's grandfather was in Selma, CA. Not knowing his name is even harder but I have not given up yet as my other families did. Wish me luck ! 🙏❤️❤️❤️❤️
I think I've asked these questions to you before, but I'll ask them again: 1. Does the ethnicity from your DNA relate only to your direct descendant ancestors (I assume it does). 2. If you are from the US, Canada, Australia/NZ, or Latin America (basically anywhere where there wasa large amount of colonization) do they base where the DNA is likely to have crossovers from any family tree research or is it purely based on matching a sample of people they have had tested in parts of Europe they will have had ancestors from (this may be in the papers some DNA testing sites have produced) - my guess is that they won't have used any Family Tree research as it may be unreliable. 3. Does any genealogical DNA site use any Family Tree data? I i know it would be very difficult and time consuming to validate any Family Tree data even if it was all done by professional genealogists. Loving these Q&As, although I'm more into building my family tree so DNA testing is more about that than about ethnicity estimates.
I have traced my family so my DNA results were pretty expected. And my most of my family had been in the US for many generations (most before the 1860s). My most recent immigrant is my dad's maternal grandfather who was born in Spain/Portugal and immigrated in 1904. My original ancestry results showed around 16% Iberian which seemed to be expected from my great grandfather. After updates, I no longer have anything saying Iberian. Not even trace numbers. Weird.
Depending on the region of Portugal he can have a lot of celtic and visigotic dna which will appear as “Irish, Welsh and northwestern euro in general. There’s also the North African and the Sephardic Jewish component in Portuguese people dna. I’d say also that there are big chances of your ancestor being Azorean as they went to North America at this period you mentioned, and the fact that he was probably not entirely Iberian is another factor that points out to it. I’ve most of my ancestry from Azores and I have 21% Irish and Welsh dna at MyHeritage.
I'm wondering if the questioner - expecting a connection with Romania, - is getting Iberian because Romania is a romance speaking country in a sea of Slavic and Hungarian speaking peoples. Since MyHeritage has a horrible precision and recall, it is possible the Iberian has to do with that Latin ancestry connection. As for Baltic, I know as for as language, both Baltic and Slavic diverged from the Balto-Slav branch of the Indo-European language. There is a lot of "sense" to an otherwise poor ethnicity breakdown from MyHeritage. I would be curious to see the FamilyTreeDNA results. While FTDNA often plays it "safe" with their breakdown, they are usually pretty good in a broader sense.
You peruvian grandfather could be born in Peru from foreign parents and no from Natives Americans the Incas were no only in Perú but many countries. We do have alot of imigrants no only in north america but also in the south because of the🎉 great weather and the privileged givien to the foreigners over the natives almost as slavery
Peruvian is not a race, South America is a melting pot just like the States, I am half Peruvian and my Peruvian side has more races mix than the UN but on my North American side we are just 3 things Irish, Scottish and English.
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This comment hit my inbred self a bit too much. Lol. 😂
Also depending on age of the person who posted the last story, that great-grandfather from Peru could have been a European fleeing one of the World Wars, for various reasons. A friend of mine from high school was born in Uruguay. She is Jewish. Her grandparents fled Austria when a certain person came to power, and they went to South America.
That's interesting.
Ferdinand and Isabella kicked non-Catholics out of Spain, so maybe the European Jewish came from there, fleeing Spain by going to the New World. I'd study what you can of Peruvian History to see if there's any possible links to other ethnic groups that were common for colonists there.
Since most ancestry DNA sites only go back about 5 to 8 generations her full blooded Peruvian ancestor may have been born before that. I am doing Portuguese genealogy and have found that I am descended from Sephardic Jews. I have at one time had about 1 percent Ashkenazi DNA but it comes and goes. No Sephardic.I have checked the descendency in the marriage, birth and or death records myself and the relationship is there. I am also connected on CRI Genetics to PEL which is Peruvians from Lima 5 to 10 and more generations ago. That makes sense as the Portuguese did go there about that time. 5 generations in my family would be around 1750/1800. Looking for them.
Too bad they didn't catch her in time
10/10 The name being spelled differently thing! My great-grandmother shows up as Zola, Zoila, Zula, and even Zoia once. The only consistencies are the Z, the A on the end, and a tall and a circular letter in the middle. My only way of knowing its actually her when her husband is mentioned too. The two names together confirm it because the surname gets spelled differently too. A's and O's frequently get transcribed or heard wrong and same with the i's and the l's.
Reed, Reedy, Reid, Redd, Red... all could be the same person.
Yes, and census takers can get it wrong as well. I had one that misspelled the names of my family and it was the most frustrating thing until I realized he was spelling the names like they sounded with a Southern accent. "Aney" for "Annie", "Emer" for "Emma" and "Mack" which was my 2x great grandfather's nickname but not his real name. Ugh. I still don't know who "Poley" is supposed to be. 😂
Peruvian here :) There's a high chance that great-grandfather could've been born here to migrants from europe and then gone somewhere else. The diversity of people here is really big! We have our indigenous groups of course, then came the spanish and that started mixing very quickly starting from 1532. At that point, british people came as well. Years later they started bringing slaves from Africa and all sorts of asian slaves as well and after slavery was abolished in 1854, chinese and japanese migrants became the cheap labor forces that were needed at the moment. We've also had german and austrian migration here after slavery was abolished and they settled mostly in the jungle and high jungle as well. So we're all firmly mixed all around.
It's really interesting all around. I'm mixed as well, one of my great grandmothers came from Spain during the spanish flu pandemic, i have other spanish roots dating from 1755 and there's a big part that i don't know on my fathers side that i'm guessing has to have some indigenous side somewhere. I live near a croatian community in the capital, 10 blocks from my house there's a whole avenue with chinese, japanese and korean restaurants and i have a cousin whose grandmother was born in Bolivia from german parents :) So yeah. That great-grandfather may have not come from an indigenous line here
I had an Polish ancestor, Xavier K. I've found records listing his name as "Hainies", and "Eva". I'm glad I looked at the Eva one, an immigration record. It was uncommon for a woman to travel alone in the 1850's, so it made me suspicious. Sure enough, he was listed as male and Polish. The ages match, as does the destination. I can see someone thinking he said his name was "Eva" (pronounced Ava) for "Xavier", but Hainies? LOL. I had an ancestor whose middle name was Sibson. I've seen it as Sunstetler. Also, keep in mind that a lot of these records are transcribed by volunteers (I know someone who used to do this). Some pernmanship in records is difficult to read, so it's up to interpretation by the transcriber sometimes. This is also why I'm avoiding my German sources--that handwriting in church records is so hard to read!
I will be getting my MyHeritage results quite soon. Hopefully through DNA matches I can find my missing second great grandfather. The story goes that he was an Irish soldier, so maybe I will find some DNA matches outside of the Netherlands and I can find my sneaky secret ancestor.
I had a French great great grandfather with a surname that I have seen spelled several different ways: Buchel/Buschell/Buschal/Buçhel/Büchel/Bucket. I also have the surname of Clark in one line. At some point it had an e on the end, but by the time my great grandmother shows up, the e is gone.
Rede, Reed, Reid, Reyd are all spellings I have seen for the surname and all pronounced the same.
As to misspellings, my family name changed this way in the time of my great grandfather apparently. Can't remember the original spelling now but it was misspelled Blackburn on an important document, and it has stayed that way ever since. I remember my grandfather telling me - his father had told him - and I passed it on to my father when he hit a brick wall investigating his father's family tree.
When we getting TH-camr Family Trees season 3?
Friday 😀
I have 2 great grandparents who immigrated from Ireland but only I am only 2% Irish. Why? Well, they were actually Scots Irish that' s why. My tiny bit of Irish came from their American son-in-law who ancestors had been over here from, some, early 1600's, some 1700's, but all of his ancestors had been in America at least 100 years when he married their daughter in the 1880's. I have to go back to 5th great grandparents to find the true Irish.
In the James L Reed case I would also question how certain the NJ birth location is.
Hi, Thank you for reviewing my DNA results. Mine was the one with mixed review of the west & central Asian from myheritage and ancestrydna. I did have my mom & sister tested on myheritage but not ancestrydna yet. They both got some south Asian specifically India also they both got massai could that explain the Kenyan
Just found your channel, and found it very interesting. I am a fairly experienced genealogist, and often help friends out when they want to know about their family tree. That's why it's a bit embarrassing that I've hit a brick wall in what should be a fairly straightforward line. I was lucky enough to have known my great-grandmother until I was 28, and she was 96. It is unfortunate that I didn't ask questions of her at the time, but I did listen to her stories. From documents in the Merchant Marine, I know my great-great-grandfather was born in Maryland around Mar8 of 1853. From his marriage certificate, I know his father was William Parker, a miner (alive at the time of his marriage to Elizabeth Lewis Railton in 1878), and his mother was Louisa Meyer, deceased). This marriage took place in Glasgow (thank goodness the Scots require so much detail!). I know all of this - so why can't I find anything else?! Family lore has William remarrying when Charles was about 12, and the stepmom didn't like him, so his 2 older sisters got him a job as cabin boy. The rest is history, as they say. The only thing I have ever been able to find was a miner in Baltimore during the Civil War.
Do you have any ideas as to where I might search (from my perch in front of my computer here is Ontario)? It seems silly that I can go back 600 years on many of my other lines, but barely 150 on a line so close to home. Any help you might be able to provide would be greatly appreciated. Susan Boon
I have a question. My brother (full brother) did his DNA on Ancestry and it was pretty much what we expected, except I think it was a small number of 4% Iberian. The rest was German, Austrian, Irish. We never heard of the Austrian but it's so close to Germany that it makes sense. However it seems like everyone I know who is of central or northern European decent has some unexpected Iberian. Why is that 🤔?
Many reasons come to mind, but if I have to guess: 1) The Roman empire gathered Iberian soldiers in it's army (The Betic Legion comes to mind) that served so far as Israel. 2) The 15th Century migration of Spanish Jews out of the newly unified kingdom. 3) The 18th Century expulsion of Jesuits from Spanish territories in which many Spanish Jesuits ended up in Central Europe (several Jesuits left the Church and started "civilian" lives to prove that they had no more relationships with the Jesuit Company as an attempt to be allowed to return to Spain, many times not achieving it). I know it's too long for an answer, but is worth a shot if you wish to keep digging about your roots.
How about Armed Forces records for James Reed?
Yes, try Reede. Try also Reed. Ried. Riedt. Reide. Raed. Rede. Rayde. Ride. The parents names are recorded on Birth Records, in his little town, or on Church Baptismal Records. Sometimes Baptisms were delayed. The person who carved the gravestone might have kept ledgers. Difficult. The marriage records should also mention the parents' names and those of witnesses. A photographer of the time might have photographed a wedding photo. Was PA a state or a territory at the brick wall? Was there a volunteer Fire Dept.? Was the person in Politics? Were student's names listed of children who attended the 1-room school houses? Grade 1,2 etc. Tiny Graduating Classes of a certain year. Public and Church. What language did the older ancestors speak? Sometimes the ancestors separated their institutions due to language or religion. So small town but 2 churches and 2 schools. Some had to change to another religion in order to marry the person of their choice. Who was the first immigrant? From where? What ship did they come over on and when? Some old Church Bulletins and Newspapers advertise shops. Maybe the ancestors had their own shop. Nothing about land ownership, really? The spelling of the names on Census records if they had something like that.. sometimes.. were written quick, used nicknames, weren't so legible or were spelled like what it sounded like.. Consider accents when speaking Reed as far as accents go. Get this! My family just changed their name, just like that, because one of the letters wasn't even in the English alphabet. I asked why and got no straight answer from someone born in 1910. 😑😜 Good luck! Consider history as Genea V. says. Maybe old bills of sale for a horse? Loans from the Bank? Check members of households as Grandparents are often with the younger 'Head of House.' So check Census for offspring. Old library books about original pioneers. Inventions for which they might have gotten a Patent. Trips to Canada with border crossings. Old historical books about the town and 'founding fathers.' Associations with Indigenous people. Workers for the railroad. A shoemaker might have also repaired bridals and reins. See what there is in New Jersey!!! There are so many places to hide but one day you will find them. Look at old books wherever you can find them. Talk real quick to the oldest person you can find in your genetic family. Check all that in your DNA 'Old Country/Countries.' Births, Baptisms, Marriages, Deaths etc. Happy hunting!
Hi GeneaVlogger! I have noticed in several DNA video reviews there are many Latin Americans and Mexicans with Ashkenazi Jewish DNA from probably loong ago. This puzzles me greatly. My mother was Mexican but the family knew that she had some middle eastern background but we thought it was Lebanese. I also knew that my father probably had Jewish "blood" from his Spanish mother but I thought it was Sephardic. To my surprise both, my Mom and Dad have Ashkenazi Jewish DNA and they are not related. I know these cases are not from WWll immigrants, not even from WWI. DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHEN all these Ashkenazi Jewish migration/DNA traveled to Latin America? As I said, Sephardic makes more sense because of the Spanish conversions or people that had to flee Spain until the early 1800s. I know that the Mexican northern state of Monterrey was founded by Jewish families that fleed Spain but I don't know if they were Sephardic or Ashkenazi. I studied Social Anthropology with a specialty in Mesoamerican studies and haven't been able to find much information about large migrations of Ashkenazi Jewish people in the 1600s, 1700 and/or 1800s to Latin America or from where these migrations took place. Any information, please.
Some sites will say "Ashkenazi Jewish" but that really covers a lot of Jewish population groups outside of just Ashkenazi, so it is quite possible that it is indicating more of a Sephardi ancestry than Ashkenazi. That said, there were multiple Jewish migrations to areas in South America. A large migration of Jews came to South America in 1880s, part of the same migration out of the Pale of Settlement that many North American Ashkenazi Jews also descend. There were even Jewish agricultural colonies that were started in the 1880s in Argentina, funded through the Baron de Hirsch fund. There were also earlier migrations of Sephardic Jews to South America - my ancestors actually living in Recife, Brazil from 1630-1654, and many relatives living in other Sephardic communities in Suriname, Curaçao, and Venezuela - dating back to the early 1800s.
Yeah that's pretty much me where Im Mexican American and my 23&me test said I have 1.3% Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry coming from both of my parents who are also Mexican American and that it came from between 1730 and 1820. I also would've assumed it was actually Sephardic. Maybe yeah the site just generalizes all Jewish ancestry as being Ashkenazi
I envy all you guys who can build a family tree. I can't !! 😭😭
I never met my grandparents from either sides and best of all I don't even know my 2 grandmother's name . Both my parents don't know their birthdates so it is very difficult for me to build anything. Punjab , India , don't keep records long before so I never been there before but one day I have to visit personally to get information.
My mom's grandfather was in Selma, CA. Not knowing his name is even harder but I have not given up yet as my other families did.
Wish me luck !
🙏❤️❤️❤️❤️
Have you taken DNA tests? And if you did, what sort of cousin matches did you get?
I think I've asked these questions to you before, but I'll ask them again:
1. Does the ethnicity from your DNA relate only to your direct descendant ancestors (I assume it does).
2. If you are from the US, Canada, Australia/NZ, or Latin America (basically anywhere where there wasa large amount of colonization) do they base where the DNA is likely to have crossovers from any family tree research or is it purely based on matching a sample of people they have had tested in parts of Europe they will have had ancestors from (this may be in the papers some DNA testing sites have produced) - my guess is that they won't have used any Family Tree research as it may be unreliable.
3. Does any genealogical DNA site use any Family Tree data? I i know it would be very difficult and time consuming to validate any Family Tree data even if it was all done by professional genealogists.
Loving these Q&As, although I'm more into building my family tree so DNA testing is more about that than about ethnicity estimates.
frequently the census records are misspelled in the transcribed records.
What’s your brick wall situation with the two great-great-grandparents you don’t know?
I have traced my family so my DNA results were pretty expected. And my most of my family had been in the US for many generations (most before the 1860s). My most recent immigrant is my dad's maternal grandfather who was born in Spain/Portugal and immigrated in 1904. My original ancestry results showed around 16% Iberian which seemed to be expected from my great grandfather. After updates, I no longer have anything saying Iberian. Not even trace numbers. Weird.
Depending on the region of Portugal he can have a lot of celtic and visigotic dna which will appear as “Irish, Welsh and northwestern euro in general. There’s also the North African and the Sephardic Jewish component in Portuguese people dna. I’d say also that there are big chances of your ancestor being Azorean as they went to North America at this period you mentioned, and the fact that he was probably not entirely Iberian is another factor that points out to it. I’ve most of my ancestry from Azores and I have 21% Irish and Welsh dna at MyHeritage.
You should react to Gloom's ancestry DNA results!! Super interesting, lots of family unknowns 😅
I'm wondering if the questioner - expecting a connection with Romania, - is getting Iberian because Romania is a romance speaking country in a sea of Slavic and Hungarian speaking peoples. Since MyHeritage has a horrible precision and recall, it is possible the Iberian has to do with that Latin ancestry connection. As for Baltic, I know as for as language, both Baltic and Slavic diverged from the Balto-Slav branch of the Indo-European language. There is a lot of "sense" to an otherwise poor ethnicity breakdown from MyHeritage. I would be curious to see the FamilyTreeDNA results. While FTDNA often plays it "safe" with their breakdown, they are usually pretty good in a broader sense.
Ops the matches was indeed a typo. English not beeing a native langauge do create issues from time to time.
I’m using the Reddit app on my iPhone and I can’t seem to post to the DNA for Review flair.
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I’m sure I’m 115% Eastern European Jewish 😉
You peruvian grandfather could be born in Peru from foreign parents and no from Natives Americans the Incas were no only in Perú but many countries. We do have alot of imigrants no only in north america but also in the south because of the🎉 great weather and the privileged givien to the foreigners over the natives almost as slavery
I wonder if this woman went on CRI Genetics she would match the category PEL.
I have a question I thought you said I could upload my dna to ancestry
dna is the one u cant upload ur dna to
The first case…what does the L stand for? Could be mother’s maiden name. Perhaps he was also known by a last name that starts with an L.
Some from another ethnic background moved there and they are not Peruvians they are just born there
Peruvian is not an ethnicity
Peruvian is not a race, South America is a melting pot just like the States, I am half Peruvian and my Peruvian side has more races mix than the UN but on my North American side we are just 3 things Irish, Scottish and English.
Only me here a t m