Group Administrator:
Ariel Cohen - Email:
arielcohen@comcast.net
Project Surnames
Cohen, Cohn, Kagan, Kaganov, Kaganovich, Kahane, Kahn, Kaplan, Kogan, Kohen, Kohn, Rapaport, Rappaport
Current balance:
$0.00
Group General Fund
Project Background
In 1997 a team of inquisitive Anthropologists and M.D.'s from America, England and Israel tested a theory to determine if men who shared an oral tradition of being Cohanim were in fact related. They discovered that when using a series of markers on the male inherited Y-Chromosome they would see a pattern that was similar or identical between a large percentage of these men who claimed an oral tradition of being Cohanim, regardless of last name. This was found to be the case for men of Ashkenazi and Sephardic ancestry and has also been found among men from Jews in Yemen...all who matched each other on the Y chromosome and all who share the same oral tradition of being Cohanim.
This project is for any male Cohen and variants worldwide, Ashkenazim, Sephardim and Mizrachi gladly accepted!. People with the name Cohen, Kogan, Kagan, or derivative, or with a family tradition of being a Cohen have shown an occurrence of the Cohanim sequence up to 50-60 percent of men tested. The project examines presence of a Cohanim marker as well as checks close familial relationships.
It is now possible to test yourself against the original 1997 study using the Family Tree DNA standard 12 marker test. If you have the same Cohanim marker values and your results match the prior study you'll find on your results page a picture of the symbol of the Cohanim and more info about that original study.