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The Brozgol Y-DNA line is haplogroup J1c3d, defined by SNP YSC0000076. Members continue to test newly discovered SNPs to identify sub-branches of YSC0000076. Please refer to the J1-tree constructed by Victar Mas at this link:
http://www.genogenea.com/files/j1-phylogenetic-tree.pdf
It appears that the origins of this line are from northern Iraq or western Iran.
The DNA results provide support for the theory that the Brozgol family descends from Sephardim, who descend from an Middle Eastern tribe as yet unknown.
It remains to be shown whether or not the F450 Brozgol cluster carried a surname with them from Spain to Latvia. According to Pere Bonnin's book Sangre Judia, Broz and Abroz were names of Sephardim who lived in the Navarra province in the north of Spain in the 1300's. Today, there is a small concentration of Broz families in the northwestern provinces of Spain, including Pontevedra, La Coruna and Lugo, and Broc families in Barcelona and surrounding area.
According to an oral history from one project member, one branch of descendants fled Spain to Turkey, eventually migrating northeast to what is today Belarus and Latvia. This branch became absorbed into the Ashkenazi Jewish culture, losing their Sephardic customs and in many cases, losing even the knowledge that their ancestors were Sephardim.
Because of the Y-DNA matches with descendants of conversos in Mexico and the Southwest US, we assume that some of the Sephardic Brozgol ancestors migrated to the New World in the 16th and 17th centuries.
There is another cluster of Broz families in Croatia. Some believe that Josip Broz Tito, former president of Yugoslavia, was a descendant of Sephardic Jews. It is not yet known whether the Croatian and Spanish Broz families are related to each other but we do know that the Sephardic families in Croatia came there from Spain in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
An alternative hypothesis is that our Brozgol ancestors arrived in Latvia without a name, and adopted their surname from a village called Berzgale (land of the birch trees) in Rezekne district. Perhaps the two hypotheses should be combined; maybe they took the name Berzgale because it was similar to Broz but sounded more like the Ashkenazi names others around them were adopting in the early 1800's.
In the early-to-mid 1800's at least one Brozgol family left Rezekne to settle on an agricultural colony in the Ukraine.
Today there are Brozgol descendants in the US, Canada, Mexico, UK, Spain and Ukraine.
http://www.genogenea.com/files/j1-phylogenetic-tree.pdf
It appears that the origins of this line are from northern Iraq or western Iran.
The DNA results provide support for the theory that the Brozgol family descends from Sephardim, who descend from an Middle Eastern tribe as yet unknown.
It remains to be shown whether or not the F450 Brozgol cluster carried a surname with them from Spain to Latvia. According to Pere Bonnin's book Sangre Judia, Broz and Abroz were names of Sephardim who lived in the Navarra province in the north of Spain in the 1300's. Today, there is a small concentration of Broz families in the northwestern provinces of Spain, including Pontevedra, La Coruna and Lugo, and Broc families in Barcelona and surrounding area.
According to an oral history from one project member, one branch of descendants fled Spain to Turkey, eventually migrating northeast to what is today Belarus and Latvia. This branch became absorbed into the Ashkenazi Jewish culture, losing their Sephardic customs and in many cases, losing even the knowledge that their ancestors were Sephardim.
Because of the Y-DNA matches with descendants of conversos in Mexico and the Southwest US, we assume that some of the Sephardic Brozgol ancestors migrated to the New World in the 16th and 17th centuries.
There is another cluster of Broz families in Croatia. Some believe that Josip Broz Tito, former president of Yugoslavia, was a descendant of Sephardic Jews. It is not yet known whether the Croatian and Spanish Broz families are related to each other but we do know that the Sephardic families in Croatia came there from Spain in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
An alternative hypothesis is that our Brozgol ancestors arrived in Latvia without a name, and adopted their surname from a village called Berzgale (land of the birch trees) in Rezekne district. Perhaps the two hypotheses should be combined; maybe they took the name Berzgale because it was similar to Broz but sounded more like the Ashkenazi names others around them were adopting in the early 1800's.
In the early-to-mid 1800's at least one Brozgol family left Rezekne to settle on an agricultural colony in the Ukraine.
Today there are Brozgol descendants in the US, Canada, Mexico, UK, Spain and Ukraine.