Just got an update on my DNA matches: there’s an individual, Leibish Halpern, who’s matched to me at 66 out of 67 genetic mutation markers. Don’t have a clue by conventional genealogy as to how we’re related, but this kind of DNA doesn’t lie.
Best thinking these days as to how my ancestors wound up in subclade G2c of Y chromosome Haplogroup G is that we have a common ancestor who left Northern Iraq and wound up in Sicily around the 11th century. In the 12th century, Sicily came under Spanish rule, so in 1493, the Spanish inquisition kicked the Jews, including my ancestor, out of Sicily. Eventually my grandfather wound up in Tereshki, Belarus before coming to the United States.
About Jan Tucker
State Director--California League of Latin American Citizens, Former seven term Chairman of the Board of the California Association of Licensed Investigators, Co-President San Fernando Valley/Northeast Los Angeles Chapter-National Organization for Women, former National Commissioner for Civil Rights-League of United Latin American Citizens, former Second Vice President-Inglewood-South Bay Branch-National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, former founding Vice President-Armenian American Action Committee, former First Vice President, Newspaper Guild Local 69 (AFL-CIO, CLC, CWA), Board member, Alameda Corridor Jobs Coalition, Community Advisory Board member--USC-Keck School of Medicine Alzheimer's Disease Research Project
Very interesting.