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Subject: Re: [DNA] Re: my genes showed 4% Native American which seems a bit odd
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 20:44:11 -0500 (EST)
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Read the archeology/anthropology and forget the religion. EGT

> Really? And what is the scientific and DNA EVIDENCE
> that supports such contentions (other than religious
> doctrine and the Book of Mormon, which don't
> constitute scientific evidence other than perhaps for
> some Mormons)? Enlighten me.
>
> Ellen Coffman
>
> --- wrote:
>> There is evedence of Semitic (pre-Jewish) arrivals
>> in the Western
>> Hemisphere long before Columbus. EGT
>>
>> > Could there be a genuine Jewish genetic legacy in
>> today's results of
>> > DNAPrint tests? I believe that it is possible. I
>> have previously stated
>> > on this list, that the fact that 95% of the
>> indigenous population
>> > quickly died in the early years from diseases
>> brought to the Americas
>> > post Columbus, not to mention their slavery, means
>> that the population
>> > became admixed.
>> >
>> > Is there any evidence for early Jewish
>> immigration? Yes, viz -
>> > Sephardic Genealogy Resources
>> > Some Sephardic Names Origins and meanings
>> >
>> > Name Variants Origin Meaning Notes
>> >
>> > De Soto, Del Soto Spanish Marshland
>> >
>> > Hernando De Soto
>> > Explorer and conqueror, born at Villanueva de la
>> Serena, Badajoz, Spain,
>> > 1496 or 1500; died on the banks of the Mississippi
>> the latter part of
>> > June, 1542.
>> > 1539
>> > Among the 600 men who landed near Tampa Bay,
>> Florida with the Spanish
>> > explorer Hernando de Soto were at least 100
>> Portuguese. The expedition
>> > traversed a great deal of territory, seeing parts
>> of present-day
>> > Georgia, North and South Carolina, Alabama,
>> Mississippi, Tennessee,
>> > Arkansas, and Oklahoma. Just under three years
>> after landing, on May 21,
>> > 1542, De Soto died on the banks of the
>> Mississippi. The survivors
>> > continued on to present-day Texas. Among the
>> explorers was a nobleman
>> > from Elvas, Portugal, André de Vasconcelos da
>> Silva, who seems to have
>> > been the leader of the Elvas group. He never
>> returned home. The oldest
>> > description of these lands is from this
>> expedition. Written in
>> > Portuguese by an anonymous Fidalgo de Elvas, or
>> Gentleman of Elvas, it
>> > was published in 1557.
>> > 1634
>> > The first documented Portuguese settler in the
>> present-day United
>> > States, Mathias de Sousa, arrived in Maryland.
>> Some believe that he was
>> > of Jewish descent.
>> > 1654
>> > On January 26, a group of 23 Portuguese Sephardic
>> Jews, who had
>> > originally fled from Portugal to the Netherlands,
>> left Recife in
>> > Pernambuco, Brazil for New Amsterdam (now
>> Manhattan, New York City) in
>> > the wake of the collapse of the Dutch colony in
>> that South American
>> > country. These refugees were the founders of the
>> first American Jewish
>> > community. During its first decades, the
>> Congregation Shearith Israel
>> > (since renamed the Spanish-Portuguese Synagogue)
>> used the Portuguese
>> > language. By the middle of the 1700s, however,
>> both Portuguese and
>> > Spanish had given way to English.
>> > 1658
>> > A group of Portuguese Jews founded the Sephardim
>> Touro Congregation in
>> > Newport, Rhode Island. Jewish Portuguese families
>> introduced the Masonic
>> > order to Newport. The synagogue was dedicated five
>> years later, making
>> > it the first synagogue in the United States.
>> >
>> > The DNAPrint subjects used to define Native
>> Americans comprised
>> > populations including Mexico.
>> > Malcolm Dodd
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
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