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Anyone else here with Jewish and Scottish DNA?

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KateGladstone
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Anyone else here with Jewish and Scottish DNA?

Postby KateGladstone » Sat Jun 15, 2024 12:08 pm

Does anyone else here have both /a/ Jewish ancestry and /b/ a “family story” of remote Scottish ancestry?

There’s a story, passed down through my paternal line, that an ancestor of our fled England for Scotland when the king of England kicked our the Jews — then, centuries later, a descendant of that line went to the Russian Empire (as it was then) because the Tsar was seeking all over Europe for skilled craftsmen to build up his domains — so we became builders for the Tsar, and then we came to America.
Grandpa and Dad taught this to all their kids from as soon as we could talk — most of my generation (and my mom) dismissed it as just being “a fun family myth” — but then a paternal-line male cousin and I tested with DNA consultants, and our Jewish Fingerprints Plus reports each show Lowland Scottish ancestry (not much for me, but in my cousin”s report it’s literally the first population mentioned in the great big heading on Page 3. Who here has any similar stories?
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