r/JewishDNA

hi, this is my results - i'm a female but trying to look into my dad's ancestry as i feel like he had jewish heritage in his family prior to either forced conversion in Iran or having to continue as crypto-jewish. there's many reasons why i think so, for example my dad allegedly had a few relatives with interesting names (all on his mum, so my grandma's side). His uncle told him he had a relative called Dawud Kohan (all of this was before the Islamic Revolution of 1979 and in Bushehr). He also had a great uncle with the last name of Canaani. He also had a relative who was called Setareh outwardly but would be named Esther in the home. All of my dad's family have double names including himself. His family had migrated to Bushehr in the Qajar dynasty era from both Bahrain and Kuwait. His family were very vocal to him about not being muslim. They also frequently faced abuse from Muslim/Arab neighbours in Bushehr at the time shouting things at them and saying they are not one of them. My mother is Qashqai and Bakhtiari tribes from Indigenous Iran therefore I believe a lot of my DNA has been heavily affected by that, and since Qashqai / Bakhtiari doesn't have a category it tends to put me into Kurd/Turk for her side as a note. If anyone is able to help - maybe let me know of any distant or recent indicators? I am really interested to look into it all further but want to distinguish things through my DNA first.

I posted my sister's results (who is a Moroccan and Algerian Jew) and you were curious about our Moroccan side, so I decided to post my mom's results.

If you guys are interested, I will also post her AncestralGenome results (they are on my profile).

Edit: Background: Her dad's side: Toshavim. Her mom's side is mixed: Toshavim, Musta'arabim, and a Sephardic Jewish ancestor.

I'm sure you all can easily guess my more recent ancestral background from these. Does anyone have any idea why East African might be showing up?

Hi everyone! I’ve just discovered that I have 18% of Ashkenazi Jewish roots on Ancestry. I’m so enthusiastic about this! Is there someone with a similar situation? Or someone who can explain how it’s possible to discern Jewish dna from the rest?

She is a Moroccan and Algerian Jew.

I was asked by u/Binkybinkovsky to post her AncestralGenome results here.

My wife is 50% Turkish Jewish, 25% Egyptian Jewish & 25% Yemenite Jewish.

I used the Mixed calculator of Jewish Diaspora for her Turkish & Egyptian side and Arabian Peninsula for her Yemenite Jewish side, I think it looks alright except for the Iron age where it overfits her quite alot.

What do you think?

Also is the 32& natufian accurate i feel like it's quite alot.

Im more close to Lebanese Muslims than to Moroccan Jews? My result are mostly Levantine shifted.

Hi, I am full Turkish with no jew relatives. I am from a country pretty much everyone muslim and not much interreligious marrige. I do get a lot relative match on people from the states with jew last name. I am guessing someting is off with my dna? Any guess?

Image 1: The source is Modern Scaled Averages without Jewish populations.
Image 2: Same thing but reduced to 4 populations.
Image 3: Modern Scaled Averages with Jewish populations
Image 4: Genoplot results
Image 5: Ancestry results

I am not a DNA expert. I was curious to know where my ancient ancestors were actually from. I know that South-European DNA tends to overlap with Middle Eastern, so I don't know how accurate the results actually are, or how credible the tools/websites that I used. Regardless, I thought I should share my results.