Hi my husband is R-L266 and is ashkenazi Jewish. RL266 is not a typical Jewish y haplogroup, so we assume it came from a convert. We were wondering where and when this ancestor might have become Jewish.
We we're thinking it might have been in the Levant and not in Europe. Was it Babylonian, Roman, Persian, Egyptian????
In 23&me he came out as 99.5% ashkenazi Jewish .3% broadly european ( we think from his mom's side who might have stemmed from the Basque who converted to Judaism) and .2% broadly south /central Asian.
Does anyone have a take on this?
Thank you!
Rayna Alpert
We we're thinking it might have been in the Levant and not in Europe. Was it Babylonian, Roman, Persian, Egyptian????
In 23&me he came out as 99.5% ashkenazi Jewish .3% broadly european ( we think from his mom's side who might have stemmed from the Basque who converted to Judaism) and .2% broadly south /central Asian.
Does anyone have a take on this?
Thank you!
Rayna Alpert