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Saturday, January 23, 2016

Origins By GedMatch: Eurogenes J Test

Nadene Goldfoot
Steve's paternal grandfather was a Henwood and his grandmother was a Disney.  Steve's mother is Ashkenazi Jewish with the maiden name of Goldfoot, so his DNA reflects this. Her father was Jewish and her mother had converted.   I used the same test I had for myself and my brother. His father's parents came from England for the past hundreds of years.  .   Here are the results.  I would have guessed that 50% of his DNA or more would have been from England.

1. His largest % shows almost 1/4 of his DNA comes from North Central Europe with 23.40% North Central Europe  which lies between Eastern and Western EuropeNorthern Europe is the northern part or region of Europe. Geographically, northern Europe consists of (from west to east): Iceland, the British IslesScandinaviaNorthern GermanyFinland, the Baltic States and Northwest Russia. . His maternal ggrandmother was from Sweden.  That would be north central Europe.  That's why we have a high % here.  Also, his maternal grandparents include Goldfoot who was from Lithuania and Russia.  
Central Europe brown on left with peninsula is United Kingdom and across from it is Netherlands, and green Germany, red Poland, then Belarus, North Sea is white

2. Atlantic States is 21.31%  USA along Atlantic seaboard -recent genes.  It comprises the British Isles (Great Britain and Ireland), Iceland,Belgium, the Netherlands, the central and northern regions of Portugal, northwestern and northern Spain (including theSouthern Basque Country), the southwestern and western portion of France (including Northern Basque Country), western Scandinavia, and northern Germany.

3. Western Mediterranean countries is 12.74%  , France, Italy, Spain, Algeria, Tunisia , and for our history, most likely it was Italy as Jews from Jerusalem went there.   We connect to the famous biblical commentator, RASHI, who was from Troyes, France.

4. Ashkenazi Jewish is 10.65%.  Jews live and lived in Israel (2.8 million), Germany (200,000), Russia (194,000-500,000_ and Poland (25,000).  Our history is from these areas in the Pale of Settlement.  .                                                                                           
                                             
maternal grandfather, Maurice Goldfoot b: 1908 Oregon

Great grandfather-Nathan Goldfoot b:1870  Lithuania
Ashkenazi Jew
5. Southern Baltic States is 9.66% These are  Baltic states  as they are near the Baltic Sea.  
Baltic states [Credit: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.]
Northeastern region of Europe containing the countries of EstoniaLatvia, and Lithuania, on the eastern shores of the Baltic Sea. It also includes Finland, N. Scandinavia, Romania, Belarus, It could also come from Lithuania as it is most south and the Goldfoot/Goldfus lived in Lithuania at least back to the 1700s.  .  
6. Eastern Europe is 8.96%        Regions used for statistical processing purposes by the United Nations Statistics Division which classifies Azerbaijan, Armenia, Cyprus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, and Turkey in Asia:
  Northern Europe  Scandinavia
  Western Europe  France, Germany, Austria, Czech, Poland, many Jews here
  Eastern Europe  Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, Latvia, many Jews here
  Southern Europe  Spain, Italy, Bosnia, Serbia
His maternal great grandmother, Zlata Jermulowske, came from Lithuania and Poland with his ggrandfather  coming from Lithuania.  

7. Eastern Mediterranean is 6.88% with Israel, Turkey, Egypt, Jordan, Libya, Syria, Liberia, Greece and Cyprus, and our origins would have been Israel. 

                              

8. Western Asian countries is 4.21% The term is sometimes used for the purposes of grouping countries in  statistics
West Asia
The total population of Western Asia is estimated at about 300 million as of 2015.  It overlaps with Middle East excluding Egypt.  As a geographic concept, "Western Asia" includes the Levant, Mesopotamia, the Arabian peninsulaAnatoliaIran,Armenian Highlands and South Caucasus. The Sinai Peninsula belongs to Western Asia.  Some records include "include the nations of Turkey, Iran, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Lebanon, Syria, Qatar, Kuwait, Jordan, Iraq, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Cyprus, Oman, and Yemen as part of West Asia.  Our history would come from what they call the Levant which includes Israel.  
9. Middle Eastern countries is 1.99% with Israel being our origin, and could be from the Q also originating in Turkey.  At some time in history could also come from Persia, the home of Queen Esther (Iran today).  


10. Siberian heritage  is 0.16%  This comes from his maternal grandfather, Nathan Abraham Goldfoot's Ydna of Q1b1a with origins of Siberia thousands of years ago.  We were the perfect people to come to Lithuania as Q1b1a, right out of Siberia, Mongolia, parts of Turkey, and into the Pale of Settlement held by Russia.  Of course this trip took thousands of years and I think had to have deviated into Israel around Ur in Iraq.  The % is so small because this was where it all started on the Goldfoot side so very long ago.  
                                                                 

Saturday, July 25, 2015

Henwood Facts, Origins and Famous R-M269 People

Nadene Goldfoot                                                                                                                                
                                                                                                       Family Crest Image (JPG) Heritage Series - 300 DPI





 Familytreedna out of Houston, Texas,  has a group that is working on the surname of Henard and Henwood  that Steve Henwood belongs to.  So far there are just 6 members.  No other Henwood has been tested that matches Steve.  

 "This project's goal is to determine the origin and relationship of the Henard family. The surname and variants are found in France, Ireland, the UK, the USA, Canada, Belgium, The Netherlands, and Germany. Many common spellings are Henard, Hennard, Hynard, Hinnert, Hinnaert, and Henwood. Several uncommon first names were used by the Henards of Eastern Tennessee, the Henwoods of Cornwall, and the Henwoods of the Canadian Maritimes. Elijah is one of the uncommon names and was used for several generations until the late 19th Century."

Steve's line came mainly from Hampshire, England as I can tell. He hasn't connected with any from Cornwall, which is a peninsula off of the island of England. 

This surname is derived from a geographical locality. 'of Henwood.' There is a tithing of this name in the parish HENWOOD  of Cumnor, Berkshire.  There is also a hamlet of HENWOOD in east Cornwall.  I've found lots of Henwoods on ancestry.com from Cornwall, England.  
The most Henwood have been found in the following places: 
South Africa1,552  people1: 34,795 Frequency 4,212
England1,5221: 35,4804,847
United States1,3841: 231,40922,662
Australia1,1071: 21,2882,798
Swaziland1,0191: 1,244142
Canada9131: 38,8034,869
New Zealand525

There are 8,546 people with this surname in the world.  It would be nice if some more came to be tested with FTDNA.  2,320 are in the UK where Steve's surname originated with his paternal grandfather, Charles Ernest Henwood,  who was from Winchfield, Hartley Wintney Row, County of Hampshire, England.  
                                                      
" Cornwall is a peninsula bordered to the north and west by the Celtic Sea,] to the south by the English Channel, and to the east by the county of Devon, over the River Tamar."

"Hampshire is a county on the southern coast of England in the United Kingdom. The county town of Hampshire is Winchester, the former capital city of England."

There are 5 people listed that match Steve with dna starting with Hen.  2 different surnames do match with each other.  That gives the prefix of Hen some serious attention.  

Out of these 5, Steve's mother matched with 3 of them, so they could come from her family.  
Out of these same 3, Steve' mother's brother matched with 2 of the 3.  

A possible relative is "Family Crest Image (JPG) Heritage Series - 300 DPI Doug Henwood b: 1952, American journalist.

Steve's line of Y haplogroup is called R-M269. It's also called R1b1a2.   "The explosion of R-M269 descendants who (seemingly) went from zero to a solid majority in much of Western Europe over the last few thousand years is probably one of the most interesting events in recent European history. Not many would have entertained such a possibility until a few years ago, but truth is often stranger than fiction.


  • Nicholas II (1868-1918), last Russian Tsar had this 
  • haplogroup.  
  • Charles Darwin, relative Y-DNA

    Charles Darwin belonged to Haplogroup R1b, based on a sample from his great-great-grandson. (assuming paternity being as the family argues)

    John Adams and John Quincy Adams, descendant Y-DNA

    United States presidents John Adams and his son John Quincy Adams belonged to Y-DNA haplogroup R1b. (assuming paternity matches the reported genealogy).
  • Franklin Pierce and James Buchanan

    belonged to Y-DNA haplogroup R1b1.
  • Spencer Wells

    Spencer Wells, the project director of The Genographic Project, is a member of haplogroup R1b.
  • Tutankhamun, 18th Dynasty of Egypt, presumed ancient Y-STR

    Y-STR testing on some of the related male Mummies of the 18th Dynasty of Egypt (ca. 1550–1292 BC) predicted them to belong toR1b-M269 However the Y-chromosome of King Tut (ruled ca. 1332 BC) has never been published, and his DNA profile was reconstructed at Zurich-based DNA genealogy centre, iGENEA, based on some screencaps from a Discovery Channel documentary that may or may not belong to the Pharaoh
  • Y-STR extracted from a bloodstained shirt of Nicholas II of Russia (1868–1918) has been predicted as having an R1b haplotype.Testing of descendants of the greatgreatgrandfather Nicholas I of Russia (1796–1855) has confirmed the haplotype. 
  • Possible Y-DNA ancestor is Christian I of Denmark (1426-1481) from the influential Royal House of Oldenburg with many branches that rule or have ruled in Denmark, Russia, Greece, Norway, Schleswig, Holstein, Oldenburg and Sweden.
  • Update: from Mike Henard: "It seems like they used it to avoid detection during the Acadian Deportation in the mid 1750s. I actually remember seeing that name in Barcelona when I went years ago. It was on a billboard so it caught my attention. I still didn’t know much about my family beyond 1796 at that point. It made me look into the Moriscos as a possible origin of our family. I now know that the first Henard was a landowner near Paris in 1202. He was captured during one of the Crusades  so his name was recorded in a history of the area. 

    I have a very different DNA group from your son but one that is also found in Cornwall. I checked your son’s markers and he may be in the sub group R-Z12 downstream of R-M269. My group is R-DF85 and is found below R-M22. Some intensive tests are being run on my kit again because my most distant ancestor comes from an area known to be related to a Celtic tribe that lived in Cornwall, Brittany, and Scotland/Ireland. DNA testing is illegal in France and not everyone there is really interested in it. I still haven’t had a response to the message boards again but hopefully someone will happen to stop by and respond. I know it can take years on some of those boards.

    Mike Henard
Resource: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornwall
http://forebears.io/surnames/henwood
http://dienekes.blogspot.com/2014/02/recent-radiation-of-r-m269-males-in.html

Wednesday, June 10, 2015

Where Did the Name "Henwood" Come From?

Nadene Goldfoot                                              
Nadene Goldfoot
I may have surgically operated on the surname of Henwood a little too deeply, but it is an interesting name.  I find it hard to picture the significance of a wooden hen unless it was a sign used to sell eggs.  So I looked the surname up in my book, Finding Our Fathers-a guidebook to Jewish Genealogy by Dan Rottenberg, and this is what I found.

The first syllable, HEN, is a surname related to GRACIAN.  That looks like a Spanish name.  Back in 1492 when Columbus sailed the ocean blue, the Spanish Inquisition was also starting.  It was a time that Jews had to either convert or leave.  Some didn't leave for various reasons;  too old, had a business they didn't want to leave, etc.  So the decided to go through conversions in Catholicism but stay Jewish anyway.  They hid their true religion and its practices, like not eating pork, lighting candles on Friday night to start the Sabbath, and other things.  They were called the nasty word, "Marranos," which today we say Anusim.

GRACIAN was a prominent Spanish family descended from Judah ben Barsilai.  Members lived chiefly at Barcelona from the 13th through 16th centuries.  Most used the name HEN.  Jewish Encyclopedia has 14 biographies.  It is related to NASI, TRABOT.

WOOD, the 2nd syllable could be showing a union of 2 families of Hen and wood.  They are related to HAYS.
HAYS was a Dutch family that emigrated to America in early 18th century.  Jewish Encyclopedia has a family tree and numerous biographies.  Also see records of Myers, Hays and Mordecai Families from 1707 to 1913.  Related to WOOD.

Sephardi Jews from Spain were living in Holland.  Many had business there..  As a result of the Alhambra Decree and the Inquisition, many Sephardim(Spanish and Portuguese Jews) left the Iberian peninsula at the end of the 15th century and throughout the 16th century, in search of religious freedom. 

Some migrated to the newly independent Dutch provinces which welcomed the Sephardic Jews.

I've thought that possibly my ex-husband's ancestors had been Marranos who lived in Holland, but my son's DNA test results show no Ashkenazi or Sephardi DNA.  I'm not sure if I transfer his results into GedMatch some would show up under a higher magnifying or not.  Family Tree is pretty good at finding such minute things.  23 and Me found I carry 2.9% of Neanderthal genes.  I'm quite positive that Family Tree could have found some Sephardi DNA.  Come to think of it, they should have showed that as I am Ashkenazi. and the results didn't mention that, either!    Hmmm.  Well, it was a stretch.  I did trace Henwood back 13 generations from my ex-husband  to Medstead, Hamshire, England with John and Ann Henwood born 1538.   Now, where were they 46 years earlier in 1492?

Not that there is any actual connection, but Wes, my ex-husband, did move to Central America in his middle and senior years and study Spanish,  probably until his dying day there in Honduras.   .

Update: 9/7/15:    There are 8,546 Henwoods in the world.

Resource: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sephardic_Jews_in_the_Netherlands
http://forebears.io/surnames/henwood
http://www.britishsurnames.co.uk/surname/henwood/stats   very interesting website

Thursday, April 3, 2014

Henwoods in The Hampshire, England Project in FTDNA

Since the Henwoods were definitely from Hampshire, England, I am a member of the Hampshire group on familytreedna.  The following is from the leader of the group.

Hello Again members of the Hampshire England Project
Thank you to those who gave me feedback from my initial email introducing myself as the new co-administrator of the Hampshire England Project.  I promise I will not spam you with emails but this is just you let you know of our plan to update members from time to time with points of interest using the Hampshire England Project News pageTo read this News page, once logged into your FTDNA results, go to the HampshireEngland Project and on the Tool Bar at the top, click on ‘About this Group’ and choose ‘News’.
The first update I am pleased to let you know about is an excellent website about HampshireHistory.  This website is ever developing and is the passion of two friends who are Hampshire born and bred and want to share with us the intrigue of our ancestors Hampshire history.  I have included the website below:
Until next time

Jan Kelly
CoAdministrator
Hampshire England Project

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Saturday, February 15, 2014

R1b1a2 Haplogroup's Website and History of Origins

Nadene Goldfoot                                                      
     
I found a great website about the Henwood's haplogroup of R1b1a2a1a1a4 or L48.

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Haplogroup-R1b1a2a1a1a4/118775754860764

On this page is the information about the origins and how it came into England in about the 5th century.

Update:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxMrCmYvEk0 on history of haplogroup

Thursday, October 17, 2013

Family Finder Ordered

Nadene Goldfoot                                                                   

I ordered the familyfinder test (autosomal) for my son who already has had the 37 allele test which found that his Ydna haplogroup is R1b1a2.  His haplogroup happens to be the Western Atlantic Model.  The familyfinder is a test for both sides, mother and father, Y and MT.  It will show matches that somebody might have on one or more chromosome segments.

Also, I'll be able to see just what and how much chromosomes he has inherited from me, his female cousin and my brother.  It usually takes from a month to 6 weeks to get the results.

Some people also like to take their report and upload it into GedMatch.com which is a free site and see how they compare with other people who have done the same thing.  That is also quite revealing.  I hoe to see results at least by the 1st of December, or maybe even on Thanksgiving.  That could be his Chanukah gift.

Resource: Family Tree DNA-from Houston, Texas

Update: The results are due on or before December 2, 2013.  Can't wait to see it.  I had ordered the test on October 15, 2013, so it could take the whole 6 weeks.  


Friday, September 13, 2013

3 Generations of Henwoods Showing Wesley Henwood's Father, Charles Ernest Henwood

Nadene Goldfoot                                                                    

Wait long enough and things that were expensive go on sale.  Ancestry has a 2 week free 1911 census, so I've been searching and found some from Hampshire, England, where this line comes from.  So many other Henwoods are from Cornwall.  Wish I could find a connection to them.

Descendants of Henry Henwood

1   Henry Henwood b: February 11, 1827 in Hantz, Basingstoke, Hampshire,  Hartley Wintney, England d: December 1914 in Hartley Wintney, /Basingstoke, Hampshire, England
.. +Sarah Cooper b: 1827 in Hantz, Basingstoke,Hartley Wintney England d: March 1901 in Hartley Wintney, Hampshire, England
. 2   Sarah Ann Henwood b: April 27, 1848 in Basingstoke, Hampshire, England
. 2   Henry Walter Henwood b: February 08, 1852 in Basingstoke, Berkshire, Hampshire, Hartley Wintney, England d: 1902 in Wandsworth, Greater London, London, Surry, England
..... +Ellen M. Unknown b: 1853 in Fitchfield, Hampshire, England d: June 1914 in St. Pancras Greater London, England
..... 3   Henry Walter Henwood, Jr. b: June 1880 in Portsea Island, Hampshire, England
......... +Unknown
..... 3   Sidney Arthur Henwood b: March 1886 in Portsea, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England
. 2   Charles Henwood b: February 13, 1854 in Farnham, Surrey,  England d: Bet. 1910 - 1913 in England
..... +Mary Ann Munday b: 1861 in Hank Brown Candowood Candover, Hampshire, Winchfield, England d: December 1906 in Hambledon, Surrey Sussex, England  age 46
..... 3   Charles Ernest Henwood b: February 06, 1897 in Winchfield, Hartley Wintney Row, County of Hampshire, England d: September 10, 1984 in Seal Beach Orange, California 90740 (Los Angeles)Santa Monica
......... +Queenie Dorothy Disney b: December 25, 1899 in Hornchurch, Romford District,  Essex County,  England d: March 03, 1997 in Anaheim, California: Seal Beach 90740, Orange County
..... 3   Frederick James Henwood b: June 1900 in Cranleigh, Ewhurst, Surrey,  England
. 2   Ellen Frances Henwood b: 1859 in Newington, Southwark, London, Middlesex, England
..... +Unknown Hussey b: Abt. 1859 in Borough, London, England d: Bef. April 02, 1911
. 2   George Henwood b: Bet. 1860 - 1861 in Hartley Wintney. Hampshire, England
..... +Sophia Gillam b: 1867 in Froyle, Southhampton, Hants,  England
..... 3   Annie Amelia Henwood b: 1885 in Froyle, Southhampton, England
..... 3   Walter "Wallie" Sidney Henwood b: June 1887 in Froyle, Southhampton, Hampshire, England
......... +Alice
..... 3   George William Henwood b: 1890 in Froyle, Southhampton, Hampshire, England
..... 3   Fanny Sophia Henwood b: 1892 in Froyle, Southhampton, Hampshire,  England
..... 3   Evelyn Agnes Henwood b: 1894 in Froyle, Southhampton, Hampshire,  England
..... 3   Harold Wilfred Henwood b: September 1896 in Alton Froyle, Southhampton, Hampshire,  England
..... 3   Kathleen Ellen Henwood b: 1899 in Froyle, Southhampton, Hampshire,  England
..... 3   Mary Henwood b: 1901 in Frensham, Surrey, Dist 4, England
..... 3   Edward Richard Henwood b: 1901
. 2   Richard Henwood b: March 1861 in Hampshire, Hartley Wintney, Hartley Row, Winchfield,  England d: March 1955 in Aldershot, Hampshire, England
..... +Minnie Sharp b: Bet. 1860 - 1862 in Buckinghamshire,  Iver Heath, England d: March 1903 in Hartley Wintney, Hampshire, England
..... 3   Rhoda Minnie Henwood b: 1889 in Hampshire, Harley Wintney, Southampton, England
..... 3   Edith Violet Henwood b: 1890 in Hampshire, Harley Wintney, Southampton, England
..... 3   Dorothy Carr Henwood b: 1892 in Hartley Wintney, England
..... 3   Henry Henwood b: June 1896 in Hartley Wintney, England
..... 3   William Henwood b: 1897 in Hartley Wintney, England
. 2   Fanny Frances Henwood b: 1863 in Winchfield, Hants/Harley Wintney, Hartley Row, England
. 2   Mary Ann J. Henwood b: 1865 in Hartley Row, Hank, Winchfield, Hampshire, England
. 2   Rhoda Henwood b: 1867 in Hampshire, Harley Wintney, England