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Friday, August 10, 2018

Haplogroup R-M269 Updates for Henwood

Nadene Goldfoot

My son's surname is Henwood and his Y haplogroup is R1b1a2 then updated to R-M269, now updated to R-L48.   I'm Jewish but his father was not. By our Jewish law, this makes my son Jewish as well.  I searched this surname and Hen and wood could have been, with these 2 lines meeting possibly in Amsterdam.  Hen was a Sefardic surname, related to Gracian, which was a prominent Spanish family descended from Judah ben Barzilai.  Members lived in Barcelona from 13th-16th century and most used the surname of HEN.  14 biographies in Jewish Encyclopedia.   Also related to Nasi and Trabot, other Sephardic surnames.  Wood is related to Hays, a Dutch family, related to many including Cohen, Levy, Meyers, Hershfield, Judah, etc.  (Finding Our Fathers-by Rottenberg).  So far, I see no evidence of a history of Jewish genes even in the tools on GedMatch.  However, in the book LEGACY by Harry Ostrer, geneticist, he stated that R1b, the most common Y chromosomal type of Atlantic Europe, had a high frequency among the Welsh, Basques, Irish, English, Portuguese, French and Dutch. Jewish R1b's  occurrence among Ashkenazi Jews may be an indicator of admixture that happened at the time of Jewish residence in the Rhine Valley before the migration to Eastern Europe. 
What I find is that there are other people with R1b who are Jewish.  The more common Jewish haplogroup seems to be R-M343.

Update: 2/13/2021:  Twenty years ago, a haplogroup estimate of R-M343 or R-M269 was assumed to be a marker of non-Jewish paternal ancestry. With new scientific tools, we now know that, instead, it might indicate descendance from any number of known Jewish lineages, small and large, with probable ancient origins in the Middle East, western Asia, Africa, or the .....from paper posted on  academia.  https://www.academia.edu/41172857/A_New_Narrative_for_Jewish_R1b_Jewish_Men_in_the_Most_Common_European_Y_DNA_Haplogroup_and_The_FTDNA_Jewish_R1b_Project?email_work_card=abstract-read-more.  
population of western Europe. It’s beyond the scope of this article to discuss all the recent discoveries and theories aboutthe prehistory and migration of R-M343 and more speci
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cally R-M269 men, but I’ve provided references at the end of thearticle for those who want to pursue this further. For now, I’ll focus on the parts of R-M343 that have major Jewish lineages

Update: The Jews of the Netherlands have R1b1 (R- P25) a sub haplogroup of R1b1b2l.  (R- M269) is the characteristic DNA of Western European population.)

"More than 100 million European men carry a type called R-M269, so identifying when this genetic group spread out is vital to understanding the peopling of Europe.
R-M269 is most common in western Europe, reaching frequencies of 90% or more in Spain, Ireland and Wales."
The farthest back this family line has actually  gone is to John Henwood, 1538, Medstead, Hampshire, England.  
England's history towards Jews is not good.  Jews were expulsed in 1290 and now allowed back in until 1655, with some exceptions allowed to stay, and they were mostly doctors.  Interesting, in that my son's father was a doctor.  
If this Henwood had Jewish ancestors, he may not have known about it, or he was one of the so-called Marranos, now called Anusim, or hidden Jews, allowed to stay in this period.

Now ACADAMIA has a new paper on the subject:https://www.academia.edu/41172857/Jewish_men_in_the_most_common_European_Y-DNA_haplogroup_a_new_narrative_for_Jewish_R1b_The_FTDNA_Jewish_R1b_Project?auto=download



off within a few centuries after P312). Those subclades and their downstream clades have effectively,without major interruptions, populated Europe (the smoo

Saturday, June 9, 2018

DNA Test Showing Mother and Father's Genes in a Match (Phasing) With GedMatch

Nadene Goldfoot                                         
My children have had a familyfinder DNA test with Family Tree DNA  as well as myself. The test results have been also transferred to GedMatch.com.  There are more tools there to use. 

I've just discovered a tool at GedMatch that I hadn't tried before, and it's called PHASING.  I find that one of my children have a match with someone, and I can find out through phasing what segments came from me or their father.  It's great.  I've seen (recombination) occur where a segment from me can be in the middle of their father's longer segment on one of our 23 chromosomes.  I've also seen segments from their maternal and paternal side and segments that are unknown.  Evidently not all can be identified.

What I've done is change the given 7 cMs on the tool to a 1cMs to catch any under 7cMs.  They do not appear to be random numbers to me, as I have 2 children and can triangulate even these teeny segments between 3 people; my 2 children and the 3rd party they happen to match. 

I can see that 2 very small matches happen to come from the maternal side. 
#10 chromosome shows 2.5cMs of which 1.9 came from the maternal side. 
#  3 chromosome shows 1.8 cMs of which  1.3 came from the maternal side.
It was a very big surprise to find that both of us parents matched this person.  It's not a common thing to happen. 

We all have 23 chromosomes.  They are numbered, with the numbers on the left side of the chart below.  A segment of DNA has a start and and end, just like measuring a candy bar's length, only it's measured in centimorgans, not inches.  I ignore the SNPs.  I'm not concerned with that in phasing.

Notice that #3 and #10 's origins are from the child's maternal side, found with the phasing tool. 

ChrStart LocationEnd LocationCentimorgans (cM)SNPs
11,876,37918,645,55838.14,724
1188,809,934193,835,0063.6864
28,6743,778,2586.01,149
223,392,13738,674,02616.94,001
2113,275,385128,834,68515.13,229
2168,111,926169,744,5123.1576
311,105,34230,861,15825.45,356
378,677,50984,921,1841.8829
3136,606,065140,176,1611.8547
3163,745,440199,167,82055.57,265
461,5664,218,0345.6726
693,946,897106,930,90710.32,377
6147,057,473152,505,1819.91,684
770,819,12875,761,9954.2555
88,745,38010,159,7251.6510
1025,864,71163,890,83729.67,818
1072,905,81476,660,1912.5714
1086,056,820103,078,67316.44,455
1111,432,40374,203,50061.714,070
1261,8803,586,6469.41,029
1220,528,86821,454,4111.6563
12124,351,087131,507,61926.12,681
1559,887,79870,422,88315.22,419
1572,276,26075,654,7371.7512
1576,495,98791,365,77223.43,963
1610,264,64116,872,60611.41,712
1664,455,38867,182,7541.3603
1681,737,64688,668,97820.53,023
1829,646,32168,648,23847.59,936
1914,504,49916,010,0332.4582
2044,034,70062,374,27447.25,908
2234,988,80149,528,62534.94,477
Here is the match from the child's paternal side.  

ChrStart LocationEnd LocationCentimorgans (cM)SNPs
11,943,92618,595,07837.74,652
28,6743,771,9406.01,138
223,572,52838,674,02616.83,915
2113,275,385128,743,70514.93,191
311,105,34230,711,55525.25,263
3165,498,710199,167,82054.97,006
461,5664,218,0345.6723
693,946,897106,930,90710.32,357
6147,368,327152,485,0829.71,596
1025,864,71163,738,34929.57,716
1086,519,932102,954,50215.94,285
1111,482,00074,096,81161.513,912
1261,8803,586,6469.41,024
12124,351,087131,338,90725.92,648
1559,887,79870,422,88315.22,402
1577,050,87691,365,77222.53,829
1610,264,64116,867,13811.31,694
1681,789,55488,668,97820.32,962
1829,661,52468,648,23847.59,854
1914,546,93416,010,0332.3564
2044,034,70062,374,27447.25,876
2234,988,80149,528,62534.94,433

Here is the report from the maternal side.  There was a match, a surprise but very very small.  



ChrStart LocationEnd LocationCentimorgans (cM)SNPs
379,489,20984,921,1841.3689
1073,201,07576,660,1911.9544

I'd suggest that parents have their children tested, too.  It's always best to start with the oldest person in a family, though, and then you can always get the rest tested later.  The lucky children will benefit because then they will see what genes came from which parents.  Someday, we may even find out what these genes have created in us, such as:  intelligence, diseases, coloring, etc. 

Wednesday, February 28, 2018

Henwood, a Hamlet

Nadene Goldfoot
                                                HENWOOD, ENGLAND
"Henwood is a hamlet about 3.5 miles (5.6 km) south-west of OxfordEngland. Henwood is in Wootton civil parish in the Vale of White Horse District.
Historically Henwood was a single farm in the parish of Cumnor, until Wootton was created a separate parish in the 19th century.[1] Since then there has been ribbon development along the B4017 road. Henwood was in Berkshire until the 1974 boundary changes transferred it to Oxfordshire.
Henwood Farmhouse dates back to the 17th century. It is a Grade II Listed Building."

It's possible that people from there took the name, Henwood, as their surname.  It could have started as a family group, then grew into a clan and tribe, taking in new male members who would have had different haplotypes.  
The  DNA of the Y haplotype (group) will tell what the branch is of a male Henwood.  Our Henwood male tested as a R-L48.    This is the Western Atlantic Model Haplotype, otherwise known as WAMH. 

Our Henwoods are mostly from Hampshire, England.  


Reference:  Wikipedia:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henwood

Wednesday, January 31, 2018

Col. Wesley Charles Henwood, MD Bio From Reed College "In Memoriam"

Col. Wesley Charles Henwood ’53 Graduate of Reed College

Wesley Henwood ’53 with his ex-wife, Nadene Goldfoot, and son Stephen Henwood ’75,. and grandson who is now a veterinarian.  
Wesley Charles Henwood, Reed College graduate in ’53,died on April 17, 2012, in La Ceiba, Honduras, from a heart attack.   Wes grew up with an older sister in Lakewood, Washington, where his English parents built some lovely homes. He earned a BA from Reed in biology and an MD at the University of Washington, and did an internship in radiology at the University of Chicago. He was certified as a roentgenographic interpreting physician by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health and had a radiology practice in Minnesota for over 20 years. In Minnesota and in Mexico and Central America he hunted and fished—flying to destinations in his small aircraft. In the early ’80s, he went to Roatan, Bay Islands, Honduras, for an early retirement and to complete the development of a 40-acre parcel of land he owned there. When tourism slowed, he returned to radiology, serving with the U.S. Army and achieving the rank of colonel. Following this portion of his medical career, he practiced in Virginia before taking a second retirement in Washington and in La Ceiba, Honduras. Nadene Goldfoot, who provided the details for this memorial, wrote, “Wes was a bundle of energy, always experimenting with businesses beyond his medical practice. He was an ardent reader, a great dancer and true adventurer, always admiring Ernest Hemingway.” Survivors include two daughters and three sons, including Stephen Henwood ’75; three grandchildren; and his sister.
Appeared in Reed magazine: September 2012