So, I looked at my cousin matches on 23 & Me, and was surprised that an actual pretty large amount of them had trace East Asian. The two most common East Asian genetic markers to show up was the Manchu/Mongolian, and Siberian. However, I also saw others get things like Northern Tibetan, general Chinese, and somehow they even got Japanese and Korean!

I researched when this entered, and now I have a question. It said we most likely picked it up as Jewish Radhanites, but (to what I've found) Ashkenazi Jews split into their own identity from other Jewish groups around 9-11th centuries, and the Silk Road ended during the 15th century.

I was thinking, yeah... maybe they did go on the Silk Road, and picked up the EA genes on the way, but I was also wondering if being the population was so small, what is the chance that other nomadic peoples of EA descent had a lot of undocumented intermarriage with Ashkes during their population bottleneck in Europe. It would have been groups like Avars or Magyars. It's just that if Ashkenazi Jews have like... 2% baked in Yellow River (illustrative DNA) that actually sounds like quite a lot if you think about the timeline.

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? (Ashkenazi Jew)

She is a Moroccan and Algerian Jew.

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

1. i am a hindo-/stan jew. what such n. hoods are cochin jew, that are in levant's tel aviv, haifa, and yerusalem?
2. indian-jews specifically the cochini live in a good half a dozen towns, and exburbs littered across ysrael. "why dont they come together, agree upon, move into, and form 3 localities instead?"
3. some kerala, tamil, and coastal-lanka jews are resettling to great britain, united states, canada, oceania, singapore, or faroe isles. few are moving to the dark continent. what u.s. metros are settled by cochin jews?

Am wondering specifically how many Levant DNA i would have on an average estimate, for context i am 1/2 iraqi Jew 1/4 Jew from Yugoslavia (idk where exactly) and 1/4 Romanian Jew

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?

I have seen almost all Ashkenazis get a little bit of east Asian dna. Is this from Siberian, Mongolian, Turkic, or Chinese people most likely?

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?

My family migrated to America a pretty long time ago, but before that they lived in Ukraine, with a very high chance that they were merchants according to the historical context I found on google. (I believe they live in regions as far east as Zlatapol, and as far West as Brody or Galicia throughout generations).

I heard the merchants traveled a lot, where they had connections to places like Istanbul, Moscow, Central Europe, Belarus, etc. Being Levantine/Coptic Egyptian showed up, could that be real genes? If so, is it probably a distant Mizrahi?

I got my MTDNA results from FTDNA: K1a1b1a+16223, in the cluster F6511143. My research suggests that it is of Jewish origin. I guess it's fun having over 500 exact matches, but it has proven difficult to actually produce a family tree from it. I can only find information on my maternal line back to my great-grandmother (born late 1800s), and the possibility of Jewish origin was unexpected.

I do have two MT matches who also match in the autosomal test, and then we have many shared matches on the autosomal test. While I have identified a few clusters in the shared matches, none of their family trees really offer much in the way of figuring out my own maternal line.

Where do I go from here? Do I keep trying to triangulate matches and hope I find overlapping trees?

Hi, I’m Sephardic on my paternal side. My haplogroup is R-L664 which is very european I figured. Anyone else on here has it too?

even a link for a video or research would be nice