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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.

Over the last 1000 years Jewish people migrated to Poland. Before the Holocaust Poland was almost 10% Jewish. Poland had one of the largest Jewish populations in the world and was a center of Jewish life, learning, culture, religion, and language. Areas of Poland were 50% Jewish including the the area from which the Leonard H. Cizewski's male Slavic ancestors came.

That is the likely source of the Cizewski male Jewish DNA.

Leonard H. Cizewski and his "genetic cousin" Daniel Ewenczyk estimate they share a common male ancestor from about 17 generations ago.

Daniel and Leonard estimate that ancestor may have lived around 1590. That is based on Family Tree DNA's 25 year generation.

Daniel Ewencyzk's family is from what is now Belarus, to the east of the home of Leonard H. Cizewski Slavic ancestors in Poland.

We are unable to determine exactly when this Jewish DNA entered the Cizewski family. It may have happened even before the Cizewskis had a family name. Or later.

- Leonard H. Cizewski and his approximately 17th degree cousin Daniel Ewenczyk

Commentary:

"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

Analysis by Daniel Ewenczyk:

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

Analysis of Y-chromosomes
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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.

The Y-Haplogroup J DNA Project

The Cizewski family is on page 2 of the Y Results table

in the group:

J1c3d*, P58+, L147+, YCAII=19-22, Jewish Cluster B

on the line N37661Czyżewski, Józef b ? Mazowieckie.

Józef Czyżewski was Felix J. Cizewski's father, Felix's A. Cizewski's grandfather, and Leonard H. Cizewski's great-grandfather.


Two lines below is:

65141 Haim Ewenczyk / Evenchik b.c.1840, Koidanov

That is Daniel Ewenczyk's family. Daniel is an approximately 17th degree cousin of the Cizewski family.



J1c3d*:

This means that we are in the J1 subset of J, one of the major groups of Y-DNA, the DNA of the Y chromosome, which only men possess.

And within J1, the letters c3d indicate further subdivisions.

The sign * means that whereas new mutations have been found and new subsets have been created within J1c3d, we belong to none of them.

Not yet, at least, because research is ongoing, and every day new subsets are created.

P58+, L147+:

Every member of J1c3d* has those 2 mutations. They actually define the subset.

YCAII=19-22:

The dozen or so members of our subset have the values 19 and 22 for the genetic marker called YCAII, made up of two numbers.

Jewish Cluster B:

All the members of this group are Jewish, except our particular Cizewski family branch.

It is worthwhile noting that subgroups J1c3d*, P58+, L147+, YCAII=21-22 and  J1c3d*, P58+, L147+, YCAII=22-22 are also labelled "Jewish".

If YCAII=19-22, YCAII=21-22 and YCAII=22-22 are Jewish, what would you expect a man with YCAII=20-22 to be, when such a person is found ?

MapMap

Go to the map on which the origins of each member is plotted.

From the drop down menu select

J1c3d*, P58+, L147+, YCAII=19-22.


The results are grouped in Eastern Europe with two notable exceptions : the Island of Rhodes and Aleppo, Syria.

This striking result is currently being researched.

- 10th degree cousin Daniel Ewenczyk revised and edited by Leonard H. Cizewski

If continental Europeans go back a few hundred years as I did with my paternal DNA , they'd might find Jewish, Slavic, Armenian, Greeks, Arab, or Roma cousins.

If we go back further, they'll find we're descended from central Asians. If they go back even further, they'll find we're all descended from southern Africans.

We really are one race, human with what are ultimately minor and insignificant variations of ethnicity.

- Leonard H. Cizewski

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

© 2008 - 2012 Leonard H. Cizewski

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