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Subject: RE: [DNA] Possible AMH Jewish Migrations to England and Scotland
Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2003 21:57:15 -0400
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Elizabeth - now you've gone and done it - my Campbell's were descended
from Archibald Campbell and also lived among the Melungeon folk in
Claiborne and Hancock Co Tennessee and Lee Co Va. Sigh - you're bound
to recruit us all one way or the other it seems:)

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Subject: Re: [DNA] Possible AMH Jewish Migrations to England and
Scotland

Hi David and DNA listers,
David that is great, but hang on to the $1.25 because this will
probabl;y
go back and forth over the next few months. For those who are interested
in
possible 'hidden' Sephardic ancestry on your own background, there is an

excellent paper by Professor Abraham Lavender, a sociologist and
Huguenot from
Charleston, SC who came to the conclusion that he also was Sephardic and
traced his
DNA from Iberia to several locations in Europe where the Sephards
settled. It
was published in Halapid, the crypto-Jewish journal and I believe it is
on-line. Abe also did a very well-researched paper on the Sephardic
origins of many
Huguenots who came to America, noting that even the Huguenot Seal
contains
the word God in Hebrew letters.
The other families/clans dating from the 1100 Norman entry into
England
that we have DNA tested and believe are AMH French-originating Jews are:

Alexander, Campbell, Bruce, Forbes, Frazier/Fraser, Douglas, Gordon and
Stewart. We
have not tested but also believe that the Hamiltons, Davidsons and
Camerons
are of French Jewish descent.
In order for our thesis to be correct, there would have to have
been a
large-scale or several mid-scale conversions of AMH carriers (probably
Franks
and Goths) to Judaism around 750 to 900 CE. We believe we have located
the
region in France where this occurred and also the Judaic institution
which made it
possible.
For those who want some tangible evidence immediately, go to the
library
or Borders or Barnes & Noble and get out a book on the Scottish
monarchy/nobility. Take a look
at portraits of the Stewart kings and their cousins and the first
Marquis of
Argyle -- Archibald Campbell.
You can also get the paperback book Clan Fraser by Flora Marjory
Fraser
and take a look at their marriage patterns which include multiple
cousin-to-cousin marriages (a practice common to Sephards and Muslims to
protect bloodline
purity),
sept names such as Simon and Frew, and the acknowledgment that the
Fraser
family was not only from France, but originally named Frizzell. On page
38 of
this booklet you will also see seals used by the Frasers. Number 5 on
the page
shows the Bishop Fraser of St Andrews seal ( 1279 - 97) which displays a
bishop
in a Tau position (X) flanked by a Muslim crescent and a Solomons Seal
(six
pointed star). The Tau symbol is Cabalistic.
It is also interesting to note that one group of Frasers were the Lords
Lovat
(i.e., Levit).
Beth
PS I also just checked Helen Campbell's website, www.melongeon.com, and
our
Melungeon DNA results are still not posted; the May feature is still on
display. I will check and see what has happened.


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