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From: "Dienekes Pontikos" <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Malaspina et al (2001)'s Cohens -- an answer ?
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 03:31:14 -0700
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But, isn't this exactly what one expects to find in a regular surname
project? A lot of matches with people bearing the same surname or its
variants? What we can conclude for this is that a group of modern
Cohens have a common ancestor. Whether or not that ancestor lived in
medieval, or Roman or Hellenistic or Bronze Age or even earlier times
is a separate issue. It may turn out that the ancestor is
pre-Israelite (as in the case of the original CMH-6) or it may turn
out that the ancestor is relatively recent and of different origin(as
in the case of the Levite modal). Or, it may turn out it can be traced
to someone living in the Bronze Age. There is a logical leap in
stating that this haplotype group is "tied to the Cohanim caste".

On 4/16/07, ellen Levy <> wrote:
> For those who insist that the CMH isn't tied to the
> Cohanim caste, here's a quick list of some of the
> surnames from my genetic matches at FTDNA. I'll list
> only the ones that have obvious Cohanim connotations.
> There will obviously be many repeats and variations of
> the same surname. Here they are:
>
> Kahhan
> Colman
> Cohn
> cahn
> Kaplan
> Kaplan
> Cohen
> Kashner
> Cohen
> Cohn
> Kohl
> Cohen
> Conahim
> Katz
> Cohen
> Kolnick
> Katzman
> Carmen
> Koen
> Cohen
> Katz
> Conn
> Katzman
> Katzman
> Cohen
> Katzman
> Kaplan
> Cosman
> Katzman
> Krastman
> Katzman
> Katzman
> Cohen
> Carvin
>


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