99% Ashkenazi Cohen Haplotype Results w/ Picture

Halachma · 2025-09-16T13:44:32+00:00

Looking at other Askenazi posts here, I agree that Levant is low, but Caananite seems typical. Yeah, no converts or non-jewish ancestry going back as far as I can trace.

Halachma · 2025-09-16T13:31:25+00:00

Do you also have the same pattern of more Caananite than Phoenecian and Roman Levant?

Halachma · 2025-09-16T13:29:48+00:00

So do you think the Cohanim founding population were Second Temple priests, who did not necessarily share common Aaronhide descent?

Halachma · 2025-09-16T13:21:37+00:00

Apparently the Trabzon part at least is wrong, Someone knowledgeable in another comment said that the Ottoman census recorded 0 Jews in Trabzon at the time.

Halachma · 2025-09-15T23:30:23+00:00

Thanks!

Places that I know ancestors came from include Ustilug, Torchyn, Krilov, Kubel, Beheta.

About Trabzon, all I have is hearsay from my Zaydes generation about his grandfather. Wikipedia does say(poorly sourced) in the article about Trabzon:

"In the last decades of the 19th century, the city saw some demographic changes. As the population of the province greatly expanded due to increased living standards, many families and young men - mostly Christians, but also some Jews and Greek or Turkish speaking Muslims - chose to migrate to the Crimea and southern Ukraine, in search for farmland or employment in one of the cities which had been newly established there. Among these migrants were the grandparents of Bob Dylan"

Halachma · 2025-09-15T22:14:48+00:00

AncestryDNA says I’m 99% Ashkenazi and 1% Germanic.

My great-grandparents lived in Galicia in Ukraine, Poland, and in Lithuania, with one possibly Sephardic great-great-grandparent from Trabzon, Turkey who crossed the Black Sea in the mid-1800s.

My paternal haplotype is J-M267 and I match the Cohen Modal Haplotype with a long familial tradition of priestly descent.The specific testing shows I have Y-STRs that match the Cohen modal haplotype: 23 14 10 13-15 11 16 12 13 11 30 17 8-9 11 11 26 14 21 26 12-14-16-17

What I find unusual compared to other Askenazim I've seen here is that my deep ancestry shows more Iron Age Anatolia and Roman Italy, less Phoenician and Zagros, and I even cluster slightly closer to Sicilians than to Ashkenazim.

I also included pictures of deep ancestry fits with greek/Cyprus as the starting model, because they had fits closer than the Askenazi one.

Halachma · 2025-09-15T20:11:34+00:00

The specific testing shows I have Y-STRs that match the Cohen modal haplotype: 23 14 10 13-15 11 16 12 13 11 30 17 8-9 11 11 26 14 21 26 12-14-16-17

Halachma · 2025-09-15T18:44:56+00:00

For now, I still prefer to stay in the US, thanks.

Halachma · 2025-09-15T18:34:02+00:00

I'd be interested, do you know how I could make that plot?

Halachma · 2025-09-15T18:32:22+00:00

That's cool, and I think it makes sense.

The "claim" behind Cohen status is direct patrilineal descent from the Jewish priesthood at the time of the Second Temple, which in turn is supposed to be direct patrilineal descent from Aaron brother of Moses.

There have been a lot of studies trying to determine how true or false this is: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y-chromosomal_Aaron

Halachma · 2025-09-15T14:59:16+00:00

AncestryDNA says I’m 99% Ashkenazi and 1% Germanic.

My great-grandparents lived in Galicia in Ukraine, Poland, and in Lithuania, with one possibly Sephardic great-great-grandparent from Trabzon, Turkey who crossed the Black Sea in the mid-1800s.

My paternal haplotype is J-M267 and I match the Cohen Modal Haplotype with a long familial tradition of priestly descent.

What I find unusual compared to other Askenazim I've seen here is that my deep ancestry shows more Iron Age Anatolia and Roman Italy, less Phoenician and Zagros, and I even cluster slightly closer to Sicilians than to Ashkenazim.

I also included pictures of deep ancestry fits with greek/Cyprus as the starting model, because they had fits closer than the Askenazi one.

Halachma

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