I bought the kit for my father as a father’s day present. I can’t do the Y thing myself, so I had to get him to do it.
He has the E3b haploid marker. This is common among Jewish men, so it implies a long-term male Jewish ancestor. I was curious about that sort of thing—my paternal great grandfather was blond and did not look semetic, and I considered the possibility, considering that oppression of a people sometimes happens sexually, that he might have had a slavic ancestor instead. Apparently not.
But when I did further research on this marker, it is not the classic Jewish marker, the one found among all the Kohanim. It is a general Mediterranean/Near East/North Africa marker. For example, when it shows up in England, the assumption is that it is from a member of the Roman army, from the occupation of that country. So really, all we know is, at least a couple thousand years ago, his great- (etc) grandfather was from the eastern part of the Mediterranean.
One day, when I scrape up another hundred bucks, I’ll participate in the study myself, and take a look down the maternal line. That’ll be interesting.
