Dear Family Tree DNA Participant:
We have invited you to our web page because your YDNA results closely match those of other men of Jewish ancestry who are participating in our landmark AvotaynuDNA Study which is utilizing the YDNA of individuals such as yourself to trace migrations of Ashkenazi, Sephardi, and Mizrahi populations over the last 3,000 years..
The Avotaynu DNA Study is a worldwide academic collaboration among leading scholars and geneticists at institutions such as the Technion, New York University, Columbia University, the University of Haifa and the University of Denver.
If you scroll to the bottom of this letter you will learn some of the things that we have learned about your particular lineage, which our project has designated as the specific Avotaynu Lineage at the top of this letter. This lineage likely comprises individuals who at one time or another lived in the Middle East, Europe and Iberia.
There is no cost whatsoever to participate. All you need are your existing Family Tree DNA results.
Our project follows the high academic standards of our participating institutions with respect to ethics and confidentiality. As an academic study, different elements of our project have received Institutional Review Board approvals from such world-renowned institutions as the Technion/Rambam Medical Center, NYU Winthrop, and the University of Denver, among others.
By participating in our study, you are not giving us access to your DNA itself.You are only sharing the numerical results of genealogical interest that FTDNA has published on its own website. We do not maintain your results on our website beyond the type of disidentfied information that you will find on this page.
From our research you will learn more about your own paternal lineage. To supplement our database of several thousand Ashkenazi participants, we are in the process of actively surveying lineages of the Sephardim, Mizrahim, and Italkim and other non-Ashkenazi lineages in the Caribbean, Europe, Italy, Turkey and other locales all over the world.
Participants will automatically receive copies of all articles we publish on Jewish DNA at AvotaynuOnline.com/DNA as well as other subjects of interest to Jewish family historians and genealogists.
Please participate in our study by simply logging at www.JewishDNA.org and pressing “join”. You will immediately receiving a confirmation email.
We welcome questions about the project via AdamBrown (at) AvotaynuDNA.org or call +1 (201) 321-1881.
Best regards,
Adam Brown , Avotaynu DNA Project Administrator
SPECIFIC INFORMATION ABOUT YOUR LINEAGE:
Provisional YFull YDNA Genetic Tree Based on Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms Describing Avotaynu Lineage AB-051.Source: https://www.yfull.com/tree/J-Y33795/)
Geographical Distribution of Reported Paternal Ancestry of Avotaynu AB-051 Participants (Source: http://www.familytreedna.com)
Distribution of Short Tandem Repeats within Avotaynu Lineage AB-051 (Source: Wim Penninx, https://jewishdna.net/AB-051.html
Surnames thus far found within this YDNA lineage:
| Chaimovitch |
| Chamove |
| Cooper |
| Dapeer |
| Diamond |
| Drucquer |
| Drucquer |
| Elkort |
| Forster |
| Garber |
| Garber |
| Glickstein |
| Goldberg |
| Halpen |
| Jaffer |
| Klinger |
| Koehl |
| Kranz |
| Lederman |
| Leznik |
| Lissauer |
| Neuman |
| Orenstein |
| Orenstein |
| Patou |
| Perry |
| Piechotka |
| Rose |
| Rosen |
| Sandler |
| Schweitzer |
| Solomon |
| Spiegel |
| Spiegel |
| Taraci |
| Tarr |
| Tartasky |
| Tartasky |
| Tepper |
| Terr |
| Trakiner |
| Trokiner |
| Varady |
| Vilkominsly |
| Weisberger |
| Witkin |
| Witkin |
| Yoffe |
Technion/Rambam Institution Review Board ethics approval of our project.
