Dear all,
Origin and DNA relationship are not exactly the same.
As I understood it is theoretically possible to not inherit any DNA parts from one of yours grand parents, even from two of them.
If you go many generations back it is quite possible that you have a real ancestor which did not pass any DNA information to you.
It is also possible that some of your ancestors didn't pass any particular DNA information to you regarding skin color, face shape, etc.
Statistically you can trace origins by DNA, individuals may have attributes which could mislead to wrong conclusions.
Language is usually "inherited" from the mother. In the somehow mixed environment in eastern Europe Yiddish prevailed.
It originated in Rhineland and evolved to the present language mainly in Poland, yes in the Polish state of the 14th-18th centuries.
The Ashkenasi population in Poland grew rapidly in this time to more than the 50-fold of it's original numbers.
It may also have included Sephardi and oriental admixtures.
Alex
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