Member Count
60
Project Website
www.familytreedna.com/public/J2a4_Levant_Genetic_Match
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Description
This group consists of people who all match significantly on 12, 25, 37 and/or 67 markers. This group is dominated by folks with the surname Katz (or a derivative therefrom) and hence the group name. With only a couple of exceptions, we are Jews with a cohanim tradition, but the exceptions are super valuable as we work towards our goal of identifying our clan's migrations and divergences over the last 1000 years or so. As a bonus, we're having some success with finding actual common ancestors (by name!). We're also incorporating all late-breaking news about our J2* haplogroup (possibly J2a1 or even pre-J2a1k) so that we can know our clan's likely travels over the last 10-15,000 years. If you love history and finding your place in it...and are a genetic match with any of us---or want to take the DNA test to find out...please join!
Requirements
Haplogroups are the early branches of human ancestry. This Y-DNA Haplogroup Project groups individuals that share the same Haplogroup in order to verify common patterns and further develop knowledge about this Haplogroup and migrations derived from it. Only males can join this project as it is based on the Y-DNA. No test is required to join this project.
Surnames In This Project
Bashkier, Bercovitz, Bizarro, Bloom, Brown, Cohen/Corwin, Concus, Cosentino, Cowan, Farber, Feinberg, Kahan, Kaplan/Caplan/Kaplansky, Katz, Katzman, Keiths, Lapidus, Manakalathil, Mathew, Mazur, Schottenstein, Thevallil, Tolchinsky/Toole, Tretta, Verri, Weisman