qallezan65
12-04-2020, 02:42 AM
Hi everyone. Although I am still waiting for his full Y-700 results, today I discovered that my maternal grandfather’s haplogroup is J-Z40558. He is Lebanese and Melkite Greek Catholic, and he claims to be descended from the Ghassanid kings through his male line.
I have a book written in Arabic about his lineage. According to legend, he is descended from the Attieh family, which is in turn descended from a Ghassanid prince whose descendants settled in the Houran in modern-day southern Syria. In 1440, they migrated to a small Lebanese town near Zahlé where my grandfather’s family lives to this day. The Attieh family branched off into several families, many of which still live in this town today.
I also noticed that there are a few Jewish samples under this haplogroup. Before I upgraded my grandfather's test, I saw that he had a Tunisian Jewish match at the Y-37 level with a genetic distance of 4 (same exact terminal SNP). Does this make sense with his family’s oral history, or is it possible that the Ghassanid story is not completely based on fact? My grandfather has a match from the Attieh family who has the haplogroup J-CTS5368 instead, which is another reason why I have become skeptical of this account of his ancestral origins.
I have a book written in Arabic about his lineage. According to legend, he is descended from the Attieh family, which is in turn descended from a Ghassanid prince whose descendants settled in the Houran in modern-day southern Syria. In 1440, they migrated to a small Lebanese town near Zahlé where my grandfather’s family lives to this day. The Attieh family branched off into several families, many of which still live in this town today.
I also noticed that there are a few Jewish samples under this haplogroup. Before I upgraded my grandfather's test, I saw that he had a Tunisian Jewish match at the Y-37 level with a genetic distance of 4 (same exact terminal SNP). Does this make sense with his family’s oral history, or is it possible that the Ghassanid story is not completely based on fact? My grandfather has a match from the Attieh family who has the haplogroup J-CTS5368 instead, which is another reason why I have become skeptical of this account of his ancestral origins.