Cizewski Male DNA Analysis

Cizewski male paternal DNA contains a mix of Slavic and Jewish DNA.

Explanation:

Saying “Jewish” indicates that some of the paternal Cizewski DNA is of Jewish origin.

At various times over the last 1000 years members of the Jewish people migrated to Poland. That is the likely source of the Cizewski male Jewish DNA.

Leonard H. Cizewski has been able to contact probable 10th degree cousins with whom he shares those DNA parts.

According to statistical studies, the common ancestor between those "cousins" and Leonard H. Cizewski must have been Jewish, because all his identified descendants are Jewish (except Leonard, of course).

This male ancestor may have lived around 1650 to 1700. We know he was male, because the analyzed DNA parts belong to the Y chromosome, which women have not.

It is impossible to say when this Jewish DNA entered the Cizevski family. It may have happened even before the Cizevskis had a family name. Or later.

- Leonard H. Cizewski and his probably 10th degree cousin Daniel Ewenczyk


Analysis by Daniel Ewenczyk

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Global Family Tree Reconstructed Through Y-chromosome Analysis (May 31, 2008)

Analysis of Y-chromosomes
DNA
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GRAPHIC from Global Family Tree Reconstructed Through Y-chromosome Analysis

Cizewski Family is second to the right of center.

Daniel Ewenczyk's family
third to the left of the center. Daniel Ewenczyk is an approximate 10th degree Cizewski cousin.


"Some, perhaps most, indeed perhaps all, of your nearest matches seem to be of Jewish ancestry.  If you are not, and if (to your knowledge) your grandfather was not, then perhaps somewhere along your patrilineal line a Jewish man married a Polish woman and agreed to bring up the children Catholic."

- Larry Mayka, Volunteer Co-Administrator of the Polish Project


"It is interesting to note that almost all mutations within the group are +1 or -1. This confirms a (relatively) recent common origin."

- Daniel Ewenczyk, 10th degree Cizewski family cousin

"Yeah, no question your paternal line is Jewish....I'm not going out on a limb much to say that.  There's really no other explanation since to go the other way...i.e. argue that all of the Jews in the group are not originally Jewish is a stretch...not only because lots of different folks would have had to convert to Judaism (because we match at very different levels...and so have common ancestors at varying points in time)...but not many people tended to convert to Judaism...it was a lot of work and you just got persecution for your trouble!  Conversion the other direction was more common.

"However, we have some very intriguing matches, especially at the more distant levels, that clearly point towards a Sephardic Jewish origin (even though most of our closes matches are Ashkenazi...or THOUGHT they were (-:)).  So our group's migration tale is going to be very interesting..."

"And Anna (Cizewski, Felix A.'s wife) being able to recollect tales of the Jewish-Catholic conversion make it, as you say, very likely that happened within a few generations or the memory would have been 'lost.'"
 
- Debra Katz, Cizewski family genetic cousin, degree undetermined


The J1 and J2 members of the
Family Tree DNA J Haplogroup Project in a phylogenetic tree.


In the Y Results table, the Cizewski family results are in the group called "J1 w/YCAIIa=19, B".

The Cizewski family represent 13 lines in a wider 500 person group.

-
Bonnie Schrack, administrator of the Family Tree DNA J Haplogroup Project

 
INDEX: Cizewski, Lovetere, Musbach, & Robinson Family History

© 2008 - 2011 Leonard H. Cizewski

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Last Updated: November 10, 2011
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