Can this be found through a DNA test?
I’ve found out that my paternal grandfather’s mother (and her family) may have been of Jewish ancestry.
Will a DNA test be able to tell me if this is true? I also have a brother who could submit DNA.
There are some Haplogroups that are more identifiable with people of Jewish ancestry. However, to get your grandfather’s mother’s you would have your grandfather or one of his siblings tested or find an offspring of one of his sisters to be tested. Men receive Mitochondrial DNA from their mother but they do not pass it on to their children. Mitochondrial goes from mother to both sons and daughters but only the daughters pass it on. Y DNA is passed from father to son only. Your brother has his father’s Y and then his father’s and then his father’s. No DNA from any female is part of the Y.
If you are interested you might check with these people. When you go into their website, there is a way you can email them and ask questions if you go under “Feedback.”
http://www.familytreedna.com/Default.aspx?c=1
I am in Mitochondrial Haplogroup K1 which 32% of Ashkenazi Jews are in but also many northern Italians which indicates there is a generic relationship between the 2.
Most of your DNA is Autosomal and there are Autosomal tests that will match you with population groups throughout the world. They don’t tell you that you are 1/2 of something, 1/4 of something else and 1/4 of another something else. They will show you your top matches in descending order. However even if none specifically are a match with Jewish groups do not rule out any Jewish ancestry. FamilyTreeDNA does do Autosomal testing but they will no longer provide you with an analysis.
You get Autosomal 50-50 from both parents but when you get back to your grandparents it will not be 25-25-25-25. You get 50% from your paternal grandparents and 50% from your maternal grandparents but it will not be an even breakdown between grandmother and grandfather on both sides of your family. How you inherited this bias will not be how your siblings inherited it unless you have an identical twin.
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