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Ashkenazi Jews with Sephardic roots. There are Ashkenazi families from Eastern, Western and Central Europe who have Spanish or Portuguese surnames or an oral history of having Sephardic ancestors. The goal of this project is to determine if the Y-DNA haplogroups and haplotype signatures of males with Iberian surnames or oral history in Ashkenazi regions are similar to those of known Sephardic Jews.

Albagesi, Al-Bagezi, Arabena, Arabene, Aravena, Asbel, Asbili, Biterman, Bocanegra, Brozgol, Cavalier, Davis, Fahn, Friedman, Gabler, Gafanovich, Gaffin, Gass, Gefen, Gelpe, Gobler, Gold, Henoch, Hollander, Iofe, Jaffe, Kavalierchik, Levin, Levinge, Lewis, Luria, Lurie, Mason, Melamed, Melamedavitz, Melondovitch, Merido, Merritt, Mozesson, Orabona, Orabuena, Pais, Pellish, Poblete, Rombro, Silver, Widelec, Widelitz, Yoffee

Females whose direct paternal line originates from this area can have a male relative test for this project or they can look into the mtDNA tests and mtDNA projects.