Rabbi Meir Katzenellenbogen, [Maharam of Padua] - YDNA Markers For Katzenellenbogen Rabbinical Lineage

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Private User

7/2/2016 at 11:40 PM

Thanks to some incredibly talented--and devoted--researchers, the y-DNA for the Katzenellenbogen rabbinical lineage has been established. With the help of several documented patrilineal descendent of the MaHaRam, we may be able to connect others to this extraordinary lineage. Moreover, the authors also assert that their research provides "compelling genetic evidence that the Katzenellenbogen rabbinical lineage was most likely Sephardic in origin."

"The Y-DNA Genetic Signature and Ethnic Origin of the Katzenellenbogen Rabbinical Lineage"
BY JEFFREY MARK PAULL, NEIL ROSENSTEIN AND JEFFREY BRISKMAN

http://www.avotaynuonline.com/2016/03/y-dna-genetic-signature-ethni...

Randy Schoenberg C

7/2/2016 at 11:49 PM

I find it hard to take seriously any article that includes a laughable line like this: "Of these five family surnames, three of them (Garcia, Marquez, and Romero) are known converso surnames."

Hatte Anne Blejer C

7/3/2016 at 12:07 AM

If you read the footnote [42] you'll see

SephardicGen Resources: Consolidated Index of Sephardic Surnames. http://www.sephardicgen.com/ databases/indexSrchFrm.html. Garcia, Marquez, and Romero are very common Iberian surnames, and their listing in this index of Sephardic surnames is not meant to imply that all individuals with these surnames are of converso ancestry.

Hatte Anne Blejer C

7/3/2016 at 12:09 AM

Pick up any book that goes into Inquisition records and you'll be surprised as to which Iberian surnames New Christians had.

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