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Subject: Re: [DNA] Re: mt DNA Results for a 103 Year Old Woman
Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2003 09:51:31 EST


Yes, David, your Mother-in-law's maternal DNA is very likely Melungeon -- an
Appalachian ethnic group which has been present since the 1500's in the
Southeastern United States. We have several ancestral lines who are proving
to have Semitic, Central Asian, Mediterrannean and Indo-Pakistani DNA -- both
paternal and maternal. Some Melungeon researchers (myself included) believe
that this is because we were originally a colony of Sephardic Jews and Muslim
Moors who initially arrived in the New World as Conversos. We have a growing
data base at Family Tree DNA, if you would like to add examine your mother's
scores in comparison to it. Welcome to the 'tribe' ; somehow from reading
your posts, I knew it was going to turn out this way. Beth Caldwell Hirschman

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