DNA's Male Y Haplotype Q Line: My Jewish Father and Native Americans

 Nadene Goldfoot                                                   

My father's DNA and Native Americans share the same Y haplotype or male line of homo sapiens, though his line is typically a Jewish line from the Middle East that migrated into Poland and Lithuania.  Q1b1a, now called (QBZ67) Ydna is the scientific name of his male line which he shares with some other Jews.  It is thought that they had been part of the Q-M242 line that branched off and went to the Middle East, ending up in Jerusalem or towns thereabouts.  Q1b1a (L245): found in the Middle East, among the Jews, in Central Europe and in Sicily.  In Europe haplogroup Q is found chiefly in southern Sweden (5%), among Ashkenazi Jews (5%), and is various isolated pockets in central and Eastern Europe such as the Rhône-Alpes region of France, southern Sicily, southern Croatia, northern Serbia, parts of Poland and Ukraine. 

 Several branches of haplogroup Q-M242 have been predominant pre-Columbian male lineages in indigenous peoples of the Americas. Most of them are descendants of the major founding groups who migrated from Asia into the Americas by crossing the Bering Strait. 

 Haplogroup Q or Q-M242 is a Y-chromosome DNA haplogroup. It has one primary subclade, Haplogroup Q1 (L232/S432), which includes numerous subclades that have been sampled and identified in males among modern populations.  Q-M242 is the predominant Y-DNA haplogroup among Native Americans, Swati tribe and several peoples of Central Asia and Northern Siberia. The Swati people, a Bantu ethnic group, are primarily found in Eswatini (formerly Swaziland), a sovereign kingdom in Southern Africa, and the neighboring Mpumalanga province of South Africa. So this gives the Asians of Mongolia and Siberia a connection to people in Africa as well as to a line of male Jews as well.  

Q-M242 is believed to have arisen around the Altai Mountains area (or South Central Siberia), approximately 17,000 to 31,700 years ago. However, the matter remains unclear due to limited sample sizes and changing definitions of Haplogroup Q: early definitions used a combination of the SNPs M242, P36.2, and MEH2 as defining mutations.  

• Q1a2a1a1 (M3): the main subclade of Native Americans

    The continent of North America has been inhabited by humans for at least 16,500 years.                                       

The history of Native Americans in the United States began before the founding of the U.S., tens of thousands of years ago with the settlement of the Americas by the Paleo-Indians. The Eurasian migration to the Americas occurred over millennia via Beringia, a land bridge between Siberia and Alaska, what I used to call the Bering Strait, as early humans spread southward and eastward, forming distinct cultures and societies. Archaeological evidence suggests these migrations began 60,000 years ago and continued until around 12,000 years ago.The Bering Strait, which connects Russia and Alaska, was a land bridge during the last Ice Age, allowing people to migrate from Asia into North America. Approximately 90% of pre-Columbian Native Americans belonged to haplogroup Q, and all descend from the branch Q1a2a1 (L54), including various subclades of Q1a2a1a1 (M3) and Q1a2a1a2 (Z780).

Haplogroup Q is thought to have originated in Central Asia or North Asia during of shortly after the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM, 26,000 to 19,000 years ago). 

Q descends from haplogroup P, which is also the ancestor of haplogroups R1a and R1b. 

Haplogroup Q quickly split into two main branches: Q1a and Q1b. 

                               Sioux Native American

The northern Q1a tribes expanded over Siberia as the climate warmed up after the LGM. Some Q1a crossed the still frozen Bering Strait to the American continent some time between 16,500 and 13,000 years ago.Thus, Our Native Americans

Below: Charles Goldfoot b:1906, brother of Moses Goldfoot, b:1908;  Nathan b: 1869, father of Charles and Moses

   Moses/Morris/Maurice Goldfoot  Q1b1a, now called (QBZ67)

Q1b tribes stayed in Central Asia and later migrated south towards the Middle East.Thus, Our Jewish Line;  one of several others like the J1 line.The Q-BZ6 paternal line was formed when it branched off from the ancestor Q-FT399443 and the rest of humankind around 1300 BCE.The man who is the most recent common ancestor of this line is estimated to have been born around 250 BCE.He is the ancestor of at least 2 descendant lineages known as Q-FT117032 and 1 yet unnamed lineage.There are 16 DNA tested descendants, and they specified that their earliest known origins are from:  

Switzerland- 11,

Germany

-2 and

United States-1 Goldfoot ? 

2 from unknown countries

But the story does not end here! Find out which of the 5 Q-BZ6 branches and 3 countries that you belong to with the most comprehensive Y-DNA test!

While Q1a is more Mongolian, Siberian and Native American, Q1b1 (F1213) appears to have originated in Central Asia and migrated early to South Asia and the Middle East. The highest frequency of Q1b1 in Europe is found among Ashkenazi Jews (5%) and Sephardic Jews (2%), suggesting that Q1b was present in the Levant before the Jewish disapora 2,000 years ago. 2,000 years ago was 70 CE when Rome attacked and burned down the Temple and Jerusalem.  

In fact, Jewish Q1b all belong to the Y2200 subclade, which was formed some 2,600 years ago. Other subclades of Q1b1 are found throughout the Middle East, including, Armenia, Turkey, Iraq, Lebanon (2%), and in isolated places settled by the Phoenicians in southern Europe (Crete, Sicily, south-west Iberia-Spain). This means that Q1b must have been present in the Levant at latest around 1200 BCE, a very long time before the Hunnic migrations. One hypothesis is that Q1b reached the Middle East alongside haplogroup R1a-Z93 with the Indo-Iranian migrations from Central Asia during the Late Bronze Age. The age estimate for the Middle Eastern Q1b1a (L245) branch is 4,500 years, which corresponds roughly to the beginning of the Proto-Indo-Iranian expansion to Central Asia. 

It is a Mormon belief : The "Jewish Indian theory" or "Hebraic Indian theory" is the idea that some or all of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas are of Israelite descent or were influenced by lost Jewish populations, and this theory was particularly influential in the development of Mormon belief.  It's interesting but

not accurate.  They did have us connected, somehow, however.  

Resource:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_Q-M242#:~:text=Americas,.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swazi_people?variant=zh-cn#:~:text=

https://reason.com/2025/03/10/is-it-constitutional-to-deport-immigrants-for-political-speech/