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From: "Alfred A. Aburto Jr." <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Malaspina et al (2001)'s Cohens -- an answer ?
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 09:59:35 -0700
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Thank you Ellen. I think I was just being overly sensitive when I read
your email. Yes, stepping back would be good and necessary. I'm
rereading Bonnie's post too. I was a little wary because we were talking
about 4 markers in Malaspina et al (2001), but it is clear that Bonnie
is doing some very good detective work! As I went through Bonnie's post
the main thing that I wondered about was your recent comments, and
Bonnie's comment in the post, about the surnames indicating Cohanim and
that one of the Ysearch candidates Bonnie found had the surname Cohen. I
was thinking someone needs to go through the Ysearch J2 database and
look for Cohanim indicating surnames. This is something you suggested to
do I think, and it seems a very interesting thing to do, for someone
with knowledge and background in these surnames!

I read but otherwise try to stay out of the hot Bibical and Religious
topics.
Al


> ellen Levy wrote:

>Al:
>
>I'm not clear how it is that you feel I've discounted
>your observations. I actually place great weight on
>them.
>
>But I think it would be helpful to step back a bit on
>this debate. I also think it would be useful to go
>back and reread Bonnie's post about J2 among the
>Cohamim samples, because I found them quite helpful in
>addressing this issue and they probably address some
>of your questions concerning whether there is some J2
>Cohanim in the samples (according to Bonnie, there is,
>but they don't have the CMH).
>[snip,snip]
>
>Ellen Coffman
>
>

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