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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why did you report posts on the other thread that told you that is possible, and then the one saying nobody is 99% Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry.
I mean sure, you could be, if they immigrated recently a everyone married only Ashkenazi Jews, but since you just found this out, what are the chances of that?
Your mom and dad are both unaware and both married the same DNA  people?
And so did your grandparents? So, completely unaware of their background and yet here you are?
Logically, this is not possible.

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Well I think it’s possible because assimilation and hiding a Jewish background was more common than you’d think in the 1900s. But probably there’d be some family stories about it. [/quote]

I have some Jewish ancestors via emigration from the Austro-Hungarian empire (Budapest) around the 1860s.  That family only retained the memory of having been Jewish but without hiding it or discussing with a sense of trauma. In Europe, there was a secular "Freethinker" movement that had a big impact on Germans and Czechs who immigrated to the US in the 19th century. I wonder if my family tied into that based on their choices.

My hypothesis is that the Jewish part of my family were somewhat secularized German-speaking urban Jews before immigrating.  My great-grandmother, their daughter, self-identified as Christian but I can see that as a likely organic result of where she was raised in the US and decision to marry her Christian Anglo-American high school sweetheart.

I would like to learn more but expect it to be quite a quest to learn anything about the Budapest-side history.  There are also hints of a tie to Slovenia.[/quote]

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