Did a DNA test. So it turns out that I am:
Dad's side of the family always claimed to be 100% Slavic. He came to the US in the early 1940's from the northeastern region of (then) Czechoslovakia (now) known as the Tatra region of the nation of Slovakia.
My daughter long suspected/insisted that we had Jewish blood due to migration patterns of Jews up into Eastern Europe. We suspected that it was on my dad's side of the family because there seems to be a lot of history from my mom's side that was done by other relatives, none indicated Jewish bloodlines.
However, with 25% of the DNA showing as European Jewish it must mean that a good % of the European Jewish DNA came from the each side.
Have any of you done a DNA test?
Any surprises?
I was not surprised I had some Jewish DNA, I was very surprised it was such a large amount. Funny part is that I've never heard any relative ever in our history mention anything about marrying into a Jewish family or any Jews marrying into either side of our family. So the ancestry must go back at least 3 or 4 generations ... and it must have been on both sides of my family at fairly high levels of inter-marrying.
- 67% Eastern European
- 25% European Jewish
- 7% Western European
- 1% divided between two overlapping regions which both include Israel
Dad's side of the family always claimed to be 100% Slavic. He came to the US in the early 1940's from the northeastern region of (then) Czechoslovakia (now) known as the Tatra region of the nation of Slovakia.
My daughter long suspected/insisted that we had Jewish blood due to migration patterns of Jews up into Eastern Europe. We suspected that it was on my dad's side of the family because there seems to be a lot of history from my mom's side that was done by other relatives, none indicated Jewish bloodlines.
However, with 25% of the DNA showing as European Jewish it must mean that a good % of the European Jewish DNA came from the each side.
Have any of you done a DNA test?
Any surprises?
I was not surprised I had some Jewish DNA, I was very surprised it was such a large amount. Funny part is that I've never heard any relative ever in our history mention anything about marrying into a Jewish family or any Jews marrying into either side of our family. So the ancestry must go back at least 3 or 4 generations ... and it must have been on both sides of my family at fairly high levels of inter-marrying.