Maciamo
19-02-17, 17:10
Actor Dustin Hoffman had participated in the PBS TV series Finding Your Roots (http://www.pbs.org/weta/finding-your-roots/profiles/dustin-hoffman/), in which we learned that he belonged to Y-haplogroup J. Browsing through the Jewish Y-DNA Project (https://www.familytreedna.com/public/JewishDNAProject/default.aspx?section=yresults), I found two individuals with the surname Hoffman, one from Poland and one from Kiev, Ukraine. Dustin's genealogy (https://www.geni.com/people/Dustin-Hoffman/6000000027577451390) confirms that his great-grand father came from Kiev, and it is therefore highly likely that this corresponds to this lineage. If that is the case he would belong to haplogroup J1-Z18271 (downstream of ZS227), which corresponds to the lineage of the Y-chromosomal Aaron (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y-chromosomal_Aaron).