If you are so inclined you could have your own DNA tested if you have a lazy $150+ lying around

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Radish --  Thanks for the info. $150+ is a little bit too steep for me. 

Ray-  I saw a t.v. show once where they are in Africa (somewhere). It seems that the whole village practises Jewish traditions. Why is it so? Lifes' great mysteries.

Hola -  there are a lot of black Jews in many parts of Southern Africa. They go back for centuries.

Many people believe that Jesus' family originally came from Ethiopia and they were Ethiopian Jews.

In some parts of Italy there are statues of a black Madonna.

You're right Hola, family trees are really interesting. Traced my mum's family back to 1700 in Sussex, England. Dad's family back to similar dates. My late husband's ancestors have also been also traced back to around that time.

My grandkids are 9th generation Australians on my husband's side.

RnR -- I was watching Saturday night "Who Do You Think You Are"? and it was about the ancestors of Billy Connolly. He was so certain his ancestors were Scottish through and through but when they traced his Mother's side of the family it turned out he had Irish blood in him. His great-great-great grandfather was an army man and he was in the Lucknow Uprising, a very brutal affair., and his g.g.g.grandfather married a 13 year old girl who was Indian and so he discovered anglo-indian blood in his family. It is so fascinating about our family history. 

I like that show. Some really interesting backgrounds for the subjects of ones I've seen.

I have always liked Billy too -- watched the show about hine.

I have recorded the shows about the DNA but have not been able to watch as yet

Catsahoy --  . It seems many of the soldiers suffered with syphilis, I think they mentioned something like the figure of 1,000 men in one place. They got poor Indian women to service them, God only knows how many women died with it. My father remembers one day the Captain brought out this poor Indian woman and asked how many men had relationships with her to step forward, Dad said more than half of the 200 men stepped forward, it seems she had syphilis. My Grandfather served with a Scottish regiment in China, who knows, boys will be boys, and I might even have some Chinese relations from there, I can imagine it, Chinese children, with red hair? Life is interesting.

I think you are on the wrong thread Barak, we're discussing Ancestry.  

My point stands. DNA proves nothing about religion, yet some felt it relevant here.