(05-20-2024, 07:37 AM)Pylsteen Wrote:(05-20-2024, 06:56 AM)Rodoorn Wrote: Nevertheless Jews were very present in the little towns in the North, I was grown up near Winschoten which contained before ww2 relative the most Jewish citizens. It was called little Amsterdam or Sodom. It coined even the language, which got loans from Jiddisch. When darks clouds appeared my grandfather said, "doar komt maaium/mekaaium aan", kids were "grommen". This is from memory there will be lots more.
Anyhow the Jewish life was vivid in the mediene Pylsteen!
I know, but these were in principal Ashkenazi (not conversos) communities; as told above the dynamics for the conversos networks were different.
As for your lineage - the question remains, when between 3500 BC and the 1600s did it turn from a Levantine to a NW European lineage? Did it do so in 1 step? Were more steps involved?
All I can think of now that it's most likely connected with Sephardim (they had E-V22 beneath-E-PH2818, E-L1401 is also derived from E-PH2818).
May be:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Se...rs%20later.
The Sephardim had a direct connection with the Levant, were even partly derived from the Near Eastern Jews. If there was a network that was able to "transfer" E-L1401 in the 17th century towards the Netherlands (Friesland) it was this network.