Diverse Genes

My maternal grandmother’s father Harold George Walker was of  Colonial European American Colonial of mainly English with some German, Scottish, Swiss, Irish, Welsh, Dutch, and Frisian. The earliest known patrilineal (male line) ancestor was William Walker who was born in 1725. He lived in Goochland County, Virginia. He died in Indiana in 1806. His birthplace and parents are unknown. My 6th Great Grandfather William had 8 children with his wife, and they were Elverton P, George, Lewis, Mary, Elizabeth, Ann, Peyton T, and James.  He married his 2nd wife Jane Burton when she was 17 and he was 75 in April 1800. They had 4 children named Ann, Sarah, William Samuel and Thomas Burton. A male line descendant of my 5th Great Grandfather Peyton T. Walker took the FamilyTreeDNA Y DNA test which revealed that his Y DNA haplogroup is J-Z37545 which is a J-L70 (J2a1h2a1) branch. Male line descendants of my 5th Great Granduncle Elverton P. Walker took the Y DNA test, and they were shown to h...

 I just found out that my maternal 11th Great Grandfather Simon Hoyt's Y DNA E-M84 haplogroup has been refined to E-BY68810 that a is branch of E-PF6748 branch that is a branch of E-PF6751. The closest matches are men in Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Palestinian Territory with their sharing PF6748 in common. The vast majority of the P-F6751 matches are people in the Middle East including especially Saudi Arabia. His Y DNA was definitely Middle Eastern. There are Jews with this haplogroup branch. Jewish ancestry in my Hoyt family ancestral background is a possibility. My maternal 11th Great Grandfather Simon Hoyt immigrated to Salem, Massachusetts from England around 1628 or 1629. He lived in the towns Charlestown, Dorchester, and Scituate in Massachusetts. Then he lived in the towns Windsor, Fairfield, and Stamford in Connecticut. He died in Stamford in 1657. Hite-Hoyt Y DNA project at FamilyTreeDNA https://www.familytreedna.com/public/Hite-Hoyt/default.aspx?section=yresults E-PF6751 Y DNA ...

This some brief info about countries with Jews in ancient times and Middle Ages from Jewish Virtual Library Malta - Malta, a European island nation located in the Mediterranean Sea, is one of the world's smallest yet most densely populated countries. The history of Jews in Malta may date back more three thousand years. The history of the small Jewish Community of Malta goes back to the arrival of the Semitic Phoenician settlers almost three thousand five hundred years ago. It is believed that they were accompanied by Israelite mariners from the seafaring tribes of Zevulon and Asher. At the time in the city of Tyre lived Princess Jezebel, who in 906 BCE married the Jewish Sultan Omri’s Ohab. After this marriage relations between the Jews and the Phoenicians grew so warm and cordial that they began to sail the seas and occupy various lands together. Some of them stayed in our islands. We have evidence that at the time the Phoenicians were occupying Malta, the first Jews landed on Goz...

  23andme tells me that I have inherited a small amount of DNA from my Neanderthal ancestors. Out of the 2,872 variants they tested, they found 115 variants in my DNA that trace back to the Neanderthals. All together, my Neanderthal ancestry accounts for less than 2 percent of my DNA. 23andme says that I have more Neanderthal DNA than 3% of other customers. yourdnaportal shows Number of Neanderthal alleles analyzed: 7,248 Number of Neanderthal alleles found: 2,778 Files generated by different testing companies yield different sets of markers so comparisons can only be meaningful within a similar file type group. My results compared with those obtained from similar file types: minimum: 2,412 SNP found, 1471 alleles found mean: 3,533 SNPs found, 2,207 alleles found maximum: 3,741 SNPs found, 3,529 alleles found mine: 3,624 SNPs found, 2778 alleles found according to yourdnaportal, I actually have more Neanderthal SNPs and alleles than the mean! At 23andme, I have much less Neandertha...