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כ״ה באדר תשע"ב Keowulf 28 Alder 2 Four Killed in Shooting at French Jewish School "A teacher was gunned down along with his two children at a Jewish school in southern France Monday, while the director of the school saw his daughter shot and killed in front of him, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said in a somber appearance at the schoo...

Tragedy Strikes in France

כ״ד באדר תשע"ב Keowulf 27 Alder 1 Alot of interesting synchronicites converge on this day. FIRST, I dreamt last night (well, actually this morning) of the sea rising up on the coast where, in the dream, I was. The sea rose up as a mighty tidal wave roaring toward the land, wiping out everything in its path. Well, not everything exactly. ...

Waves of the Sea

כ״ה באדר תשע"ב Keowulf 28 Alder 2 "It is my hope that through telling stories like Michael’s, we are reminded of how easily society can change in the face of evil– how even today, large scale human tragedies are happening around the world. We must never forget our past, in order to ensure that a catastrophe of this magnitude never ha...

Michael Berkowits’ Tiramisu

Top 16 Genetic Motherline Matches - כ״ב באדר תשע"ב Keowulf 24 Ash 27 This list shows the top 16 best mtDNA genetic matches for me in the world. These top matrilineal ancestral root matches cover a period time from within the last 300-400 generations since the last Ice Age to the present. In other words, in all the world, tracing the data from the last Ice Age to the presen...

Final mtDNA Motherline Results

U5b Haplogroup - כ״ב באדר תשע"ב Keowulf 24 Ash 27 Hey, hey, happy day! I received the final hardcopy report and final results of my mtDNA ancestral motherline genetic analysis today! Here is a redacted photo of the hardcopy result showing confirmation that my motherline genetic haplogroup is U5b (Clan Ursula - the most ancient motherline in all Europe)....

Final mtDNA Motherline Results

י׳ באדר תשע"ב Keowulf 12 Ash 15 From these maps tracing the migrations of the mtDNA haplogroups (Hgs), we see that Hg U (represented by Clan Mother Ursula) originated and branched off from Hg N in the Middle (Near) East during the period 60,000-30,000 years ago (ya), one daughter 1 of Ursula going west into Europe and another daughter 1 o...

Middle Eastern Origin of Clan Ursula

What It Means to U - י׳ באדר תשע"ב Keowulf 12 Ash 15 In follow-up to my earlier post on the Middle (Near) Eastern origin of Haplogroup U (Clan Ursula), this Hg's persistent continued historical presence in the Middle East (even following a large settlement of Clan Ursula in Scandinavia) is further evidenced by the presence of a remarkable amount of Middle Eas...

Remarkable Middle Eastern Genetic Matches

י״א באדר תשע"ב Keowulf 13 Ash 16 A transcript of the document in the Journal of Genetic Genealogy 1:12-33, 2005, A MOSAIC OF PEOPLE: THE JEWISH STORY AND A REASSESSMENT OF THE DNA EVIDENCE isn't at all transcripted well, but this is basically what it says (about 7/8 way down the page) regarding Hg U5 (Clan Ursula) among Ashkenazi Jews or...

Hg U5 (Clan Ursula) Among Ashkenazi Jews From Middle East and Central Asia

י״א באדר תשע"ב Keowulf 13 Ash 16 A transcript of the document in the Journal of Genetic Genealogy 1:12-33, 2005, A MOSAIC OF PEOPLE: THE JEWISH STORY AND A REASSESSMENT OF THE DNA EVIDENCE isn't at all transcripted well, but this is basically what it says (about 7/8 way down the page) regarding Hg U5 (Clan Ursula) among Ashkenazi Jews or...

Hg U5 (Clan Ursula) Among Ashkenazi Jews From Middle East and Central Asia

י׳ באדר תשע"ב Keowulf 12 Ash 15 You know, I think that once a person begins to explore his or her own roots for real, digging deep into the evolutionary path of the human species, a transformation of emotion can easily occur as s/he begins to emotionally assimilate the beautiful truth that we are all indeed really one big interconnected f...

The Magic of Genetics

י׳ באדר תשע"ב Keowulf 12 Ash 15 From these maps tracing the migrations of the mtDNA haplogroups (Hgs), we see that Hg U (represented by Clan Mother Ursula) originated and branched off from Hg N in the Middle East during the period 60,000-30,000 years ago (ya), one daughter 1 of Ursula going west into Europe and another daughter 1 of Ursul...

Middle Eastern Origin of Clan Ursula

What It Means to U - י׳ באדר תשע"ב Keowulf 12 Ash 15 In follow-up to my earlier post on the Middle Eastern origin of Haplogroup U (Clan Ursula), this Hg's persistent continued historical presence in the Middle East (even following a large settlement of Clan Ursula in Scandinavia) is further evidenced by the presence of a remarkable amount of Middle Eastern ma...

Remarkable Middle Eastern Genetic Matches

ט׳ באדר תשע"ב Keowulf 11 Ash 14 On top of my mtDNA motherline preliminary results and autosomal STR results (each result from a separate independent lab from different countries) both showing top matches to Hungarian Ashkenazic Jewry, my autosomal STR genetic analysis results also showed a top match (#2) in my High Resolution Global Popul...

Azorian Mix of Northern European Caucasian, Semitic Jewish and Black African Bloodlines

ג׳ באדר תשע"ב Keowulf 5 Ash 8 I'm warming up to the new Facebook Timeline, so I decided today to change over to the new format for my personal profile there. I came across an old photo of me in my twenties posted by my adopted sister through my kids. I can clearly see my Celtic and Scandinavian ancestries in my facial features, so I can ...

Old Photo of Me

ל׳ בשבט תשע"ב Keowulf 3 Ash 6 I did the most extensive 27-marker genetic analysis available, along with specific population analyses (European, Middle Eastern and Native American). My United Kingdom (Welsh, English, Scottish, Irish) and Germanic ancestries were confirmed by the results. I now have to add to this European ancestral list Be...

My Genetic Ancestry Summary