Several Brosgol family members discovered each other through JGFF (JewishGen Family Finder). There are a number of Brosgols descendant from a Brozgol family from Rezekne, Latvia, and the name appears on lists of agricultural colony settlers in the Ukraine. Several Brosgols (and surname variants) are known to have emigrated from Latvia and the Ukraine to the US, UK, Canada and Spain. There is an oral history that the Brosgols were originally Sephardic, which is supported by Y-DNA evidence. Now there is DNA evidence from more recently discovered mutations that the Brosgol line is an old Middle Eastern line that goes back to northern Iraq or western Iran about 3,200 years ago.  This paternal line is neither a major Jewish nor major Arab line, nor is it common in Europe.  We are a relatively small cluster of people whose ancestors migrated in small numbers to and through the Mediterranean to Italy, Iberia, central and eastern Europe and the Americas.  Today, there are descendants on this line with recent ancestry in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, the UAE, Armenia, Turkey, Italy, Spain, Portugal, the Canary Islands, Hungary, Romania, Germany, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, Latvia, the UK, Venezuela, Puerto Rico and the US, including descendants of early American settlers.


LEARNING ABOUT GENETIC GENEALOGY:

Family Tree DNA learning center:    www.familytreedna.com/learn/
Family Tree DNA webinars:    www.familytreedna.com/learn/ftdna/webinars/

ISOGG beginner's guide to genetic genealogy:  www.isogg.org/wiki/Beginners'_guides_to_genetic_genealogy

A glossary for those unfamiliar with the terminology used by genetic genealogists can be found at:     www.isogg.org/course/glossary.htm

Some helpful books:  Genetic Genealogy, The Basics and Beyond by Emily D. Aulicino, 2013
                                Legacy:  A Genetic History of the Jewish People by Harry Ostrer, 2012


Some helpful Facebook groups:  Tracing the Tribe    www.facebook.com/groups/20364215746/
                                                Sephardic Jews in Poland    www.facebook.com/groups/PolSephardim/

Helpful websites on Sephardic genealogy:   Harry Stein's   www.sephardim.com       
                                                               Jeff Malka's   www.sephardicgen.com

Wikipedia is also a reliable source for information on genetic genealogy

For an overview of the human migration out of Africa and an interactive map and timeline where you can trace your Haplogroup, check out the National Geographic Genographic Project:
https://genographic.nationalgeographic.com/