Jose Bouliouris: DNA is about ancient ancestors so hope you are not looking for records to 'prove' them as you are not going to find them..genealogy is about researching our ancestors via written records and it is those written records that will find your ancestors one step at a time, one record at a time and so record connect so you are sure it is your ancestor............ blindly looking for certain people using what a DNA test has told you will not find anything, you need details, not just a surname tha is only one line of your ancestry and each generation the surnames double, so by the time you are looking for your ggg grandparents you have 32 equally important and related to you names to research...trouble is in Europe with it being small the influences people had were limited back then so didn't have lots of names so you will find lots of people named the same name, born in the same years and living in the same place....so you need lots more than a name to prove whi! ch ones are yours..........There are lots of records for Central and Eastern Europe and if you are convinced your ancestors religion was Jewish then JewishGen is one online database and there are lots of others..................Show more
Kenneth Queener: I'm on 23andme also. I'm only half-Ashkenazi (and half non-Jewish) and I get Sephardic cousins from Syria, Algeria, Turkey, etc. plus I have a non-Jewish Moroccan cousin. From what I've read, when the Sephardim were expelled from Spain, a few did end up going to traditionally Ashkenazi countries such as France, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, etc. Also, Ashkenazim sometimes went to Sephardic countries like Turkey. Beyond that, lots of mixing went on between Sephardim and Ashkenazim, more than you would think. The fact that you have Sephardic cousins could mean that you have distant Sephardic ancestry, OR it could mean that your Sephardic cousins have Ashkenazi ancestry....Show more
Dorethea Beaston: I assume you have! joined JewishGen, the primary online free website for researc! hing Jewish Genealogy. On that site are groups devoted to DNA analysis and Sephardic and Ashkenazi backgrounds.Jewishgen.org
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