Dear Family Tree DNA Participant:
Your YDNA results closely match those of other men 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, and related 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 lineage, which our project has designated Avotaynu Lineage AB-084. This lineage is the largest R1b lineage found within the Ashkenazi community and in recent months we have discovered participants of Iberian ancestry. We build upon the work of Michael Rogov who has been facilitating communications among members of this haplogroup for a number of years. Members of the members of this lineage maintain a Facebook page at Facebook Page – AB-084 Ivanhoe Project
There is no cost whatsoever to participate in the study, and as an academic study with academic Institutional Review Board approval from the world-renowned Technion/Rambam Medical Center, the University of Haifa, NYU Winthrop and the University of Colorado, our project follows the high academic standards of our participating institutions with respect to ethics and confidentiality.
By participating in our study, you are not giving us access to your DNA itself. You are only examining the numerical results of genealogical interest that FTDNA has published on its own website. We do not maintain your results on our own web site beyond the type of disidentified information that you will find on this page. You are welcome to withdraw from the Project by notifying the Administrators.
We do not share your DNA with third parties.
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 receive 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
Fig. 1. Provisional YFull YDNA Genetic Tree Based on Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms Describing Avotaynu Lineage AB-84
051.Source: https://www.yfull.com/tree/R-Y5051/)
Fig. 2. Geographical Distribution of Reported Paternal Ancestry of Avotaynu AB-084 Participants (Source: www.familytreedna.com
Fig. 3. Distribution of Short Tandem Repeats within Avotaynu Lineage AB-051 (Source: https://jewishdna.net/AB-051.html)
Fig. 4. Surnames thus far found within this YDNA lineage:
| Adelson |
| Anderson |
| Asbel |
| Asbyll |
| Baran |
| Barkan |
| Bayer |
| Bernstein |
| Bluestein |
| Brenner |
| Brett |
| Britton |
| Brook |
| Brotman |
| Buring |
| Calman |
| Caplan |
| Cien |
| Collins |
| Corn |
| Crayton |
| Davis |
| Diker |
| Elkes |
| Epstein |
| Feinstein |
| Fried |
| Furst |
| Gallen |
| Gambino |
| Gilmore |
| Gold |
| Goldberg |
| Gottlieb |
| Greenspan |
| Haas |
| Harris |
| Hillman |
| Jakobowski |
| Kadish |
| Katsev |
| Kellman |
| Key |
| Kievsky |
| Kozlovskiy |
| Kriegman |
| Lane |
| Leon |
| Levine |
| Levy |
| Lewak |
| Lewis |
| Lewon |
| Lipkowitz |
| Love |
| Martin |
| Matson |
| Maurer |
| Melnick |
| Miller |
| Misrach |
| Misrack |
| Moises |
| Moretsky |
| Morrell |
| Moss |
| Nathanson |
| Newman |
| Nixon |
| Palefsky |
| Palevsky |
| Ploin |
| Pous |
| Pushinsky |
| Rappoport |
| Rhinehart |
| robinson |
| Rosenberg |
| Rothstein |
| Rubenstein |
| Russ |
| Sachs |
| Saltzman |
| Sandberg |
| Seibert |
| Seligman |
| Sharpe |
| Sherry |
| Sifry |
| Simansky |
| Skaist |
| Sklaroff |
| Skodnick |
| Slavik |
| Smith |
| Smith |
| Stastny |
| Stein |
| Stening |
| Tarlaci |
| Tatar |
| Torrance |
| Torrington |
| Tudor |
| Vogel |
| Weitzmann |
| Winn-Lenetsky |
| Yoshor |
Fig. 5. Technion/Rambam Institution Review Board ethics approval of our project
