Friday, June 21, 2019

genealogy - Can Mitochondrial DNA testing be used to confirm Jewishness?



A friend of mine is having difficulty obtaining documents confirming the jewishness of their maternal line and thus they cannot confirm they are jewish.



Mitochondrial DNA is only passed down the maternal line, so I'm lead to think this test might be an alternative to documents.


This means that if the mitochondrial DNA can be identified as having come uniquely from a Jewish woman, then every woman in that maternal line from then on can be defined as Jewish (from mother to daughter).




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