Nadene Goldfoot
Moses, born in 1391 BCE in Egypt to Amram and Jochebed, was a descendant of Abraham according to the Biblical genealogy. Abraham had come from the city of Ur, which was close to the Euphrates River in Mesopotamia. Abraham was born in the 2nd millennium about 1948 BCE. His family line probably came from land even further east, and they were shepherds. That would have been an Indo-Iranian (Aryans) land. They were the people of Ur of the Chaldees, and the Chaldees identifies them as a special tribe of people. Abraham wanted it to be known that he wasn't a native Urian but from the Chaldees; thus Ur of the Chaldees. They were obviously different and that may be one reason why he and his father Terah, decided to leave and head out for Egypt.
It's a great story of how Abram and Sarai wanted their children to be brought up their way; without many gods and their idols which is what people of Ur believed in.
Important Kaldu tribes and their regions in southeastern
It's hard to say exactly what the Y haplogroup of Moses was, but it's a very important feature because he did not leave any descendants. His two sons, Gershon and Eliezer, died accidently as teens when they were messing around with the Ark of the Covenant and not following the directions of Moses. Their mother was Zipporah, daughter of Jethro, a priest in the land of Midian. Moses was born during a time of Egypt killing all boy babies, and he had been born then, so his mother hid him and the Pharaoh's daughter found him and kept him as her son. He was raised as an Egyptian Prince.
This Egyptian Prince discovered his birthmother and that he had a brother, Aaron and sister, Mirium. When Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt on the Exodus, he made Aaron the high priest (Cohen) and all his male descendants as priests. Aaron was from the tribe of Levi and that meant that all the males directly from Aaron were the priestly line who after these 3,000 years have been found to have the Y haplogroup of J1. It is the most common Y haplogroup of the Jewish males of today. They were Cohens and had a specific job in the synagogue and of course, before synagogues came into being out of necessity as the Temple in Jerusalem had been destroyed in 70 CE; burned down along with Jerusalem. The Cohens, many of them escaped out of Jerusalem.
Many of the men bearing J1 have the surname of Cohen. The priests were called Cohens. However, we find that many Cohens serving in the synagogues today have taken different surnames. From my father's side of the tree, the Goldfus/Goldfoot line, my brother matches 898 Cohens on FTDNA. Ian Goldfoot, 2nd-3rd cousin matched 1,421 Cohens; from a 1st cousin's husband (AB) 1,262 Cohens, from distant cousin (SZ) 747 Cohens, from distant cousin (VS) 1,329 Cohens; from 1st cousin (AE) 804 Cohens, from a cousin's cousin (HH) 1,167 Cohens.
Here are the DNA reports on people who could have been the line of Abraham and therefore, Moses, for this is a father to son inheritance of DNA.
Approximately 35% to 43% of Jewish men are in the paternal line known as haplogroup J and its sub-haplogroups. This haplogroup is particularly present in the Middle East and Southern Europe.
15% to 30% are in haplogroup E1b1b, (or E-M35) and its sub-haplogroups which is common in the Middle East, North Africa, and Southern Europe.
The Mediterranean haplogroup T1a1 is found in varying percentages depending on the Jewish group studied but with upward of 15 to 3% with the highest frequency within Jewish communities native to the Fertile Crescent and East Africa.
Y chromosome haplogroup J1-M267 evolved in the northern parts of West Asia around the LGM. A limited number of founders migrated south—to the Arabian Peninsula, the southern Levant, and southern Mesopotamia, where the J1a1a1-P58 branch evolved in the early Holocene. Haplogroup J1-M267 expanded during the Chalcolithic, the Bronze Age, and the Iron Age, coinciding with the spread of Afro-Asiatic languages combined with the diffusion of arid pastoralism in the desert regions of West Asia. The spread of Islam did not substantially affect the distribution of haplogroup J1-M267 in West Asia. My cousin's cousin HH, had this Cohen gene which my 1st cousin shared as his mother was a cousin of HH. HH and the mother shared a Rabbi as a grandparent. This means that my 1st cousin had a great grandfather was a Rabbi and a Cohen (J1-M267).
Human Y chromosome haplogroup J1-M267 is a common male lineage in West Asia. One high-frequency region—encompassing the Arabian Peninsula, southern Mesopotamia, and the southern Levant—resides ~ 2000 km away from the other one found in the Caucasus. The region between them, although has a lower frequency, nevertheless demonstrates high genetic diversity. Studies associate this haplogroup with the spread of farming from the Fertile Crescent to Europe, the spread of mobile pastoralism in the desert regions of the Arabian Peninsula, the history of the Jews, and the spread of Islam. Here, we study past human male demography in West Asia with 172 high-coverage whole Y chromosome sequences and 889 genotyped samples of haplogroup J1-M267. We show that this haplogroup evolved ~ 20,000 years ago somewhere in northwestern Iran, the Caucasus, the Armenian Highland, and northern Mesopotamia. The major branch—J1a1a1-P58—evolved during the early Holocene ~ 9500 years ago somewhere in the Arabian Peninsula, the Levant, and southern Mesopotamia. Haplogroup J1-M267 expanded during the Chalcolithic, the Bronze Age, and the Iron Age. Most probably, the spread of Afro-Asiatic languages, the spread of mobile pastoralism in the arid zones, or both of these events together explain the distribution of haplogroup J1-M267 we see today in the southern regions of West Asia.Go to:
After the major exodus from Africa, anatomically modern humans started their journey of colonizing Eurasia from West Asia1,2. Later this region harbored initial developments of other breakthroughs of the human past. The Neolithic demographic transition3, the origin of the first city-states and civilizations4, writing5, the use of metal-making6, and the emergence of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam7 are the most prominent ones.
Y chromosome haplogroup J-M304 represents the major male lineage in West Asia today8–12. The 12f2a13 deletion and single nucleotide polymorphic (SNP) biallelic markers M3049 and P20914 define and characterize this haplogroup. It splits off from haplogroup IJ-M429 at ~ 45 thousand years ago (kya), while the time to the most recent common ancestor (TMRCA) of haplogroup J-M304 lineages is ~ 33 kya15,16. Studies associate haplogroup J-M304 with the spread of farming from the Near East to Europe11,17,18. Around the time of the Neolithic demographic transition3, the genome-wide ancestry of West Asian populations was geographically structured into three groups19–22. Among them, haplogroup J-M304 is found in the Caucasus/Iranian and Anatolian hunter-gatherers and farmers, but not in the Levantine ones. Unfortunately, so far aDNA studies are missing from the Arabian Peninsula and Mesopotamia, where haplogroup J-M304 is frequent nowadays. This haplogroup splits into J1-M267 and J2-M1729,11. While haplogroup J2-M172 is associated more with agriculture in the northern latitudes of West Asia, haplogroup J1-M267 has been connected with the spread of the pastoral economies in the West Asian arid zones23,24.This is just the first part of the report.
FTDNA said that "If you do not have an oral tradition of being a Cohen or of being Jewish, then your Y chromosome is still part of Haplogroup J-M267 (J1). Your deepest ancestor was likely part of the Neolithic farming expansion that began about 9,500 years ago from the Fertile Crescent.
Keep in mind that while the CMH was the most frequent haplotype found in Cohanim men, it was not the only haplotype. Therefore, if you have an oral tradition of being Cohanim, then you most likely are genetically a Cohen. If you do not have a tradition of being Cohanim and if your ancestors were Jewish, then you come from the same genetic Gene Pool. While not being directly from the line of Aaron, you could be descended from one of his numerous male relatives. Three percent of Jewish males who identify as Yisrael have the CMH.
E is also a very common Jewish Y haplogroup. In my family, we have E-L117 coming up for three of our relatives. The E-Y6923 cluster follows the same pattern as many of the larger Ashkenazi Y-DNA clusters, with (1) a shared direct male ancestor dating back to about the second half of the first millenium CE, as evidenced by initial branching during that time frame; and (2) substantial branching within those subbranches.
Resource:
https://jewishfactsfromportland.blogspot.com/2010/01/what-haplogroup-we-be.html
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7987999/
https://help.familytreedna.com/hc/en-us/articles/6202378100751-The-Cohen-Modal-Haplotype-Badge
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