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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why does this matter if you have such a strong knowledge of where your parents came from?[/quote]

If you know your mom's family was Sephardic, why do you need a test to confirm that?  [/quote]

I didn't take a test to confirm that.  I took a test and then was a bit surprised that it wasn't confirmed, which left me shaken up.

My reason for taking the test was to find long-lost relatives.  My parents didn't think anyone survived the holocaust.  I have found distant cousins through this so that part was good.  As one example, my great grandaunt was presumed to have died, but actually made it separately to Canada and I have connected with her great grandchildren via Ancestry.  No one even knew that for almost 100 years so that entire family was lost.  I expect that there are some family that made it to Israel, too, but no one has taken the Ancestry.com test so I cannot find those relatives.  And, according to Ancestry, I have hundreds of relatives that are 4th, 5th, and 6th cousins, too.[/quote]

I’m not following OP’s train of thought here.  For 100 years you thought the family was lost?  The Holocaust was less than 80 years ago.[/quote]

She said almost 100... give her a break. OP- these responders aren’t Jewish and don’t get it. My husband and older son have olive skin and dark hair as did my mother in law and we suspect there is some Sephardim in them somewhere but the only family we know of were from Eastern Europe. I’d love to see his 23andme but he doesn’t want to try it. It does sound like the company can’t identify Sephardic genetics as you have clear proof that your family is Sephardic. I grew up in Philly and I don’t remember ever meeting a Sephardic Jew until I went to israel in my 20s. Everyone I knew looked and practiced Ashkenazi. [/quote]

You really can’t go based on appearance. My husband’s family are so very dark. Olive skin, dark brown hair, very dark eyes. They’re ashkenazi from Poland. We even know the town. On the other hand my family on both sides, also ashkenazi from Poland and Russia, are very fair. Pale skin, blue or green eyes, hair ranging from blond to true black (even though pale skinned). Just appearance tells you nothing. [/quote]

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