Johann Wendel Georg Traut - Traut / Trout DNA Study & Summary findings

It seems to be replacing one alleged legend with another. I see no citations for this referenced research, and more importantly, we can't assume someone was Jewish based on a haplogroup. As Craig Trout noted, J-M172 "includes" Sephardim; it isn't exclusive to them.

I would keep pursuing records.

True that, It doesn’t indicate that he was Jewish, but it does indicate he wasn't Johann Wendel's father. As they would have to have the same or a very near mutated variant of the same Y designation, at the very least.

The Traut's are a German allied family of the Braun/Brown family .... like Braun/Brown family the Lutherans largely stayed in central Pennsylvania and the Moravians migrated south of the Stokes/Rowan/Davidson counties in North Carolina.

You would like find similar DNA make ups with the Clodfelter/Glattfelder, Motsinger/Motzinger, Sink/Zink families .... and Sephardic Jewish DNA wouldn't be a surprise to me.

NOTE: DNA is NOT my strong area.

First Cousin 7 times

Aaron Furtado Baldwin → Ronnie Eugene Buchanan Baldwin my father → Corrine Elizabeth Buchanan (Hunt) his mother → Clifford Russell Hunt her father → Anna Elmira Hunt (Brown) his mother → Jeremiah Preston Brown her father → Michael Preston Brown, Jr. his father → Susannah Brown (Motsinger) his mother → Hannah Motsinger (Braun) her mother → John Brown her brother → John Brown his son → Catherine Brown (Matter) his wife → Anna Maria Matter (Romberger) her mother → Anna Maria Romberger (Traut) her mother → Johann Wendel Georg Traut her father