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From: Jim Garrity <>
Subject: Ashkenazi or Sephardi? DNA unites Jewish families, but raises questions
Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2006 00:44:50 -0400

"Ashkenazi or Sephardi? DNA unites Jewish families, but raises
questions," an article by
Schelly Talalay Dardashti, has been posted at
http://www.jta.org/page_view_story.asp?intarticleid=16659&intcategoryid=5 .

A number of families, almost all of them knowing themselves to be
Jewish, were identified
through Family Tree DNA, a DNA testing company with a large Jewish
database, as
descendants of a common paternal ancestor who lived several hundred
years ago.

One possibility labels the common ancestor as Sephardi and another as
Ashkenazi. Herbert
Huebscher, born in Vienna, and Saul Issroff, born in South Africa, will
talk about the
project and its interesting results at the IAJGS Conference on Jewish
Genealogy.

Jim

Jim Garrity
Co-chair, Repositories Committee
International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies
26th Annual Conference on Jewish Genealogy
New York City
August 13-18, 2006
www.jgsny2006.org

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