The Jews of Yemen, called Teimanim in Hebrew, have a rich history. Today there are around 500,000 Yemenite Jews with most of them living in Israel and less than 20 still living in Yemen. The Yemenite Jews have many ancient traditions that other Jewish communities lack or forgot as well as their own dialect of Hebrew called Yemenite Hebrew which many scholars believe has the most original pronunciation of Hebrew. Many Yemenite Jewish families have family pedigrees showing their tribal affiliation. With their extensive pedigrees, many Yemenite Jewish families trace their ancestries to the patriarchs Reuven, Levi, or Benjamin while others trace their families back to Judah. Yemenite Jews were first mentioned in inscriptions from the Himyarite dynasty which controlled parts of Yemen and later parts of Ethiopia. The Yemenite Jews converted the aristocracy to Judaism, but their peace would not last because the majority of the Yemenite Jews would be forced to convert to either Christianity or Islam. Because of this anthropologists and geneticists thought that the Yemeni Jews would be descended from converts rather than Israelites but scientists were shocked when the Yemenite Jews were discovered to be in fact descended from the ancient Israelites. Later they discovered that over 30% of the Yemenite Jews had J1, mostly J-P58 or the Cohen Modal Haplotype. Unlike other Jewish communities, their Levites genetic signature was identical with the Cohens or Kohanim which also shocked geneticists. Although geneticists were able to find their haplogroups they were not able to test for subclades, so in this project, we will be trying to find subclades as well as find more accurate results with a bigger test group. If you are a Yemenite Jew who has a tradition of being descended from 1 of the tribes: Levi, Reuven, Benjamin, Judah ext. as well as being a Cohen please tell us.