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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
