Diverse Genes

  My maternal grandmother’s father Harold George Walker’s ancestry was European American Colonial.  A few years back, I found out that my maternal grandmother’s father Harold George Walker’s Y DNA haplogroup is J2a4h2 which is known as J-L25.  A descendant of his 2nd Great Grandfather Peyton Walker, son of William Walker took the Y DNA test which resulted in finding out that he was J-L25.  The haplogroup assignment has been refined, and it is now J-PH3125.  There are six haplogroups in the branch before J-PH3125. In exact order, they are  J-CTS1192, J-L70, J-Z435>J-CTS3601>J-PF5456>-FGC54172.  Both 5th Great Grandpa Peyton Walker and 6th Grandpa William Walker were born in Virginia.    Information about my 6th Grandfather William Walker from a Walker cousin.  William WALKER b. 1725 d.1806 and had 8 children from his first marriage. I descend from the 2nd marriage to Jane Burton b. ca 1783 as she was 17 & he 75 when they married April 1800 and they had Ann, Sarah, William S

 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 Neanderthal th