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XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-28-07 11:32 AM Original message |
Was a Jefferson ancestor Jewish? -- genetic puzzle |
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kestrel91316 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-28-07 12:34 PM Response to Original message |
1. Perhaps a Spanish ancestor whose family were "secret Jews"? |
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valerief (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-28-07 12:41 PM Response to Original message |
2. I thought Jewish was a religion. nt |
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Hekate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-28-07 12:53 PM Response to Reply #2 |
5. It's also a gene-pool reinforced by marriage restrictions |
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Hekate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-28-07 12:48 PM Response to Original message |
3. We are all 6th cousins, or something like that, so nothing would surprise me. nt |
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BenDavid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-28-07 12:48 PM Response to Original message |
4. I am amused by all |
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Up2Late (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-28-07 02:40 PM Response to Reply #4 |
8. Not exactly, it depends who you ask or is asking the question. |
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Ignacio Upton (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-28-07 07:34 PM Response to Reply #8 |
15. If you're mom is Jewish, then you are officially Jewish |
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XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-28-07 09:15 PM Response to Reply #4 |
16. I'm not Jewish, but it's interesting and surprising |
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Up2Late (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-01-07 04:41 AM Response to Reply #16 |
21. This might interest you then... |
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Chemical Bill (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-01-07 09:50 AM Response to Reply #16 |
22. The first Jews in Rhode Island came in 1658. |
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Lurking Dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-01-07 10:12 AM Response to Reply #16 |
23. This was my family Temple |
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barb162 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-28-07 10:32 PM Response to Reply #4 |
18. I am not so amused |
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XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-01-07 11:14 PM Response to Reply #18 |
26. It sounds to me like they're looking at the Y chromosome. |
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Mend (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-28-07 12:53 PM Response to Original message |
6. sounds like he had an African ancestor, a black one like his |
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anotherdrew (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-28-07 02:06 PM Response to Original message |
7. "common in the Middle East" so maybe he had an Arab ancestor |
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Vidar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-28-07 02:42 PM Response to Original message |
9. Who the hell cares? We're all related at some level. |
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martymar64 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-28-07 05:26 PM Response to Original message |
10. going that far back . . . |
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martymar64 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-28-07 05:27 PM Response to Original message |
11. Going that far back . . . |
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youngdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-28-07 07:26 PM Response to Original message |
12. I thought all Christians claimed Jewish ancestry |
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manic expression (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-28-07 07:30 PM Response to Reply #12 |
13. I hope not |
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Alexander (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-28-07 07:32 PM Response to Reply #12 |
14. Not since Paul/Saul of Tarsus argued Gentiles can be Christians too. |
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rocktivity (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-28-07 10:44 PM Response to Reply #12 |
19. CHRIST certainly claimed Jewish ancestry! |
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Retrograde (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-01-07 02:20 PM Response to Reply #19 |
25. well, his mother *was* Jewish... |
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antiimperialist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-01-07 11:30 PM Response to Reply #12 |
29. Not the indigenous people of the Americas, forced into Christianity |
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Lurking Dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-02-07 09:05 AM Response to Reply #29 |
33. Yet to believe in Christianity |
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barb162 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-28-07 10:28 PM Response to Original message |
17. I wonder why the author brings up "Jewish" when it could be |
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BenDavid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-01-07 12:56 AM Response to Original message |
20. Well, all I know is I was |
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Spider Jerusalem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-01-07 10:35 AM Response to Original message |
24. A VERY distant ancestor, perhaps. |
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XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-01-07 11:21 PM Response to Reply #24 |
27. It's been roughly 80 generations since year 0 |
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Spider Jerusalem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-02-07 12:23 AM Response to Reply #27 |
31. The standard genealogists use is 30 years per generation... |
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XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-02-07 12:50 AM Response to Reply #31 |
32. But the totally fascinating part |
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antiimperialist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-01-07 11:28 PM Response to Original message |
28. I hate when the media asks questions instead of answering them |
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cambie (141 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-01-07 11:32 PM Response to Original message |
30. DNA shows that we al have |
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Bosso 63 (759 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-02-07 09:06 AM Response to Original message |
34. Melungeons? |
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Bridget Burke (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-02-07 02:44 PM Response to Original message |
35. Or his ancestor could have been Muslim.... |
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kitty1 (772 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-02-07 10:59 PM Response to Original message |
36. There was a vast trade in tin between the Phonecians and the... |
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GoddessOfGuinness (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-02-07 11:51 PM Response to Reply #36 |
37. That may be the connection |
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