In 1977, a study determined the ABO blood types of 68 skeletons of Jewish residents from 1,600 to 2,000 years ago in and around Jerusalem. 55 of those findings were diagnosable. And more than half of the ABO blood groups were found to be the otherwise rare AB blood group.
Sixty-eight ancient skeletons, unearthed at Jerusalem and En Gedi and, according to the archeological data belonging to Jewish residents of these places from about 1,600 to 2,000 years ago, were ABO-typed by means of the hemagglutination-inhibition test. The blood groups of 13 skeletons were undiagnosable and the remaining 55 showed the following distribution: 30.91% A-group, 14.54% B-group, 50.91% AB-group and 3.64% O-group. According to these findings, the population to which these skeletons belonged must have had a high frequency of genes IA and IB, and a low occurrence of O blood group and its related IO gene.
This of course is a small study and does not represent blood type frequencies of the ancient Hebrews in general. But the high AB frequency is interesting nonetheless.
Seen here: ABO-typing of ancient skeletons from Israel.
Continue here: Which were the blood types of the ancient Hebrews?
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It would be interesting to see how many current Hasedic Jews are RH neg.
If you find out, let me know.
That’s so strange, my family ancestry is Irish- Siux on my dads side and French-Scottish on moms side. Somehow out of my entire family I’m the only AB Neg.
Should I ask mom if the milk-man happened to be Jewish, I was adopted, or is there another possibility?
I did ask my Mom.. LOL she wasnt happy about that question….
I saw this article via a Facebook post on a web search. The quote from the post mentioned an ancestor Pichas Krupnik AKA finberg. in Grodno. That was my great great grandfather, but a search of comments did not turn up who posted that PLEASE contact me if you know anything about theis. Thanks
Here are some facts that every 1 needs to be aware of. I spent 7 yrs researching & you can see it for yourself if you google TRUE/World & Ancient History, The Bible Deut 6-20: Math25: John: 8, Rev: 3:-17: 1-15 Genesis: 3; 1-15-10: all, YouTube Bible believers Dr. Gene Kim bible study, not sermons,
I’m not into sermons either, besides today the Pastors are all on the wrong page or I would’ve not had to find out for myself & that was 40- yrs ago. (I couldn’t ride my horse less I went to Sunday school every Sunday. lol
The 1917 Bolshevik War, 65Million Russian Christians were slaughtered…by Jews. Canaanites Edomites Amoreites & several more. These tribes are the Bloodline of the JEWS, 90% of the 1% Elite Rich. Math: Jesus cleared the temple of the $$Changers, (Roths, Morgans, Rockefeller) 2X, called them evil & despised them. Some Jews have converted to Christianity & some only believe in the Hebrew Bible. The rest of them mostly the elite, believe in the Tora, which is from the New Judaism religion, & isn’t the same Judaism Hebrews believed in, which was created after Jesus was crucified by the Edomites/$$ Chargers /bankers/(Jews). The Talmud is the bible of Babylon, the city God destroyed many times for its, evil would not die, Satan’s palace/Temple. I have only found several pages of it, for Jews, keep it hidden & in those pages, they believe in Marrying 3 yr. olds etc…?????
Page 31 in the 1809 Jewish Almanac says: It is not proper to call a Hebrew/Israelite a Jew, as it is not proper to call a Jew a Hebrew or Israelite.
You must remember when searching the bible so many revises in today’s time era, have purposely misidentification of Hebrews calling them & Jesus Jews, by none other than Mayer Von Rothschild, AKA BAUER
1. The word “JEW” was never a word till the 16th Century. Both the Greek & Hebrew Alphabet does not have a “J” in them. That’s why you hear so many different names of Jesus,-Yashua & His disciples like Yoshua/Joshua.
Gen: Satan the serpent is a symbol, not a snake, Hebrew can mean a spirit. Beguiled Eve to eat of the fruit…Beguiled Hebrew several synonyms. 1 is seduced. God confronted both & said to Satan I will put enmity between thy seed & woman. This is why RH- woman blood does not mix with the babies if the father is positive. YA Think?? lol
Eve left & went to Adam & he ate the fruit/Eve seduced him, weird but further in Gen: it says Cain & Able were the same age. Can murder Able & God thru him out of Eden. Cain found a wife & built a BIG city with a BIG tower “Bable”. Now I am still researching for info, so far I have found there was a race of humans before the garden, it may be the Asians & 1 other & a dark-colored race, which can be several. but it’s only certain tribes. I have to really go deep for info, cause I believe the tablets or books that should be in the bible e,g., Enoch, either taken & hid with the Black Pope is still un-discovered.
So the start of Good & Evil in the world. God’s children have love, compassion caring in their hearts, they don’t murder or have sexual sick ideas they can’t control. They don’t love money & power more than God…$$ is the root of all evil.
Now we know who is evil & Good. I’m trying to cut this short believe me.
Satan Hates God & His children, which brings us to the Bolshevik, Germany, several other mass slaughters not just by Jews but by communist leaders…China, for communists, does not believe in God period & Jews do believe in God but not the Holy Trinity..Father Son Holy Ghost. The KJV Bible states many times you can only enter His Kingdom thru Jesus Christ, as when you pray for God to hear those prayers you say in Jesus’s name Amen. Also here are a few words in the bible on rich men…Getting a rich man into heaven is like getting a camel thru the eye of a needle…A tax collector & a Harlot have a better chance of entering my kingdom than a rich man.
Right there tells it all on most Jews are not God’s children or do Zionist belong in Israel, & the USA should not be supporting them, for that is turning your back on God….You cant serve to Masters.
Israelites fled to Russia to avoid being killed by the Canaanite Edomite Jews. They changed their names to coincide with what area they hid in & converted to Christianity. Edomite people killed 65 Mill. Russian Christians destroyed 40K churches but not 1 synagogue was touched. Hitler hated the Jews, & it was the Jews, who paid for the war & paid Hitler to kill the Hebrews & also to kill their own people for they were Jews who wouldn’t accept the Talmud/Babylon Religion & the MAGIC MONEY SYSTEM. This is where the loaning $$ charging outrageous interest & repossession
came from. They will be the 1’s who bring in the Ant-Christ along with the Jesuits’ Black Pope of the Vatican. Google it to get his name. He & Satan both want all Christians gone, especially those of the same Bloodline as Jesus’s, He was also RH AB -, here’s a link that’s great proof. https://sites.google.com/site/thedivinityofjesus/home/jesus-s-blood-the-astonishing-dna-analysis-of-jesus-christ
God told his children to keep the bloodline pure, don’t even mingle with the seeds of Cain/Jews,
& to destroy them all or they will be punished & persecuted…I always thought from my Sunday school learning, eons ago, that God would do the punishing but today, it’s better said…”Destroy
them all before they destroy you.
So this is why you never want to broadcast your blood type for the internet is so watched.
So now if you have read the bible some may have like myself, why is God choosing favorites, He is not You Me & all our friends & family are not the Gentiles WE ARE THE ISRAELITES…God’s Chosen 1’s…Cool Uhh? If you have ?’s or want more info leave a reply.
Maybe you can help me. Now knowing where RH- came from, where did RH+ come from.
I would love to hear more about this
I have grandparents who met off the boat at Ellis Island of Portuguese Basque of the Sephardic House of Nun w/es added for the Catholic Spanish Inquisition. We know this was done because the Great Mathematician Pedro Nunes a Catholic Christian wrote about Jewish Relatives being persecuted in his family. Inquisitors did not recognise ‘Nunes’ as being of Jewish origins. Nunes himself preferred being associated with Roman (Latin) name ‘Nonio’ for his navigation invention. Used in Great Circle Sailing. I don’t know if he had Basque in him, but my grandfather and father both had blue eyes more common to Basque than other Spanish Sephardic Jews. Why?
What’s interesting is that two people from diverse cultures…. my Grandfather w/Rh negative from Coimbra, Portugal met my Grandmother at Ellis and married. Why is that odd? Because she was Rh- Negative as well as a McConnell of Cork, Ireland. Go back in history and McConnell has it’s roots in the first Irish surname of the 1000 AD in Murphy. In her family she had Irish Harp Players. Now what? Harps in Ireland? Aren’t they mentioned as being in the Bible in times of King David? Middle East Instrument, but ironically Harps are back in play in Israel and we are seeing many Harp Players going to contests in Israel.
But what about those Celtic and Gaelic Stories of a Spaniard (or Portuguese) man from Galicia, Spain? Are the Basque and Irish related to the lost Jewish Tribe of Dan and BTW…. Root name Nun is actually a letter in the Hebrew Alphabet. These people were there when Romans came into power. Why can’t the Harp playing Irish be descendants of the Lost Tribe of Dan? So in essence, we had my Rh Negative Irish Grandmother meeting my Rh- Negative Grandfather at Ellis Island and just how common is that? Grandmother had Green Eyes and Grandfather Nunes had Blue…. and was Christian Jew apparently! Am I a Celt, Portuguese Jewish by blood or the common last name found even in the bible but nowhere in Israel today. That is the House of Nun…. where Joshua’s father was in Egypt.
But my father was indeed Rh- Negative and my mother Rh Positive…. so she had to take shots for me with A- Negative. But for all the World Travels and Single life I’ve led, I only married once and even w/ uncountable sexual encounters have just one son. Who as son of my B- Negative wife w/ Bohemians (not Czech just live there) ancestors, is crazy. Because Bohemian also have higher incidence of Rh Negative. That would make him with both a Rh Negative Mom and a Rh Negative Dad and is there even such a thing as Pure Rh Negative as a specific blood type. Plus through the Genetics in of Irish being Celts and now finding out that they could very well be the lost Tribe of Dan. Who followed their instincts and spread through the World after the Assyrians Defeated the Jews in 700 BCE!
Anthony,
Would love to chat with you as I am a descendant of the Nunes/Nunez Cardozo/a family originating from Portuguese Jewish Basques and am also RH O-, I wonder if we could be related? would be interesting to find a link if there is one and also compare our O neg similarities amongst other things I also have many theories we could discuss on our Rh- blood.
Regards
Tanya
Good Morning,
I know it’s been 3 years since you posted this information, but I just read your comment here and I have studied through Forensic Pathology (I just graduated last year). Although I too share Basque, Celtic, ancestry, I also found a disc regarding the Melungeons, which my maiden name sounds very similar to. These individuals have a few different ethnicities in their blood, namely Portugese, African-American, and Celt. I study Ancient Scripture (Paleo Hebrew), and indeed the Europeans/Celts have the tribe of Dan running in their ancestry!! If you look at Europe as a whole, You see “Danish” people (from their ancestor Dan, Yisharal or Israel’s son)Also, look at everything named after their father Dan. The “Danube” river. the countless towns containing the name Dan in them. We still have towns here in the U.S whose names have Dan in them.
Through Scriptural history, not the “history” we were taught in public schools, but ancient history wriyyen in true Paleo Hebrew, I also am seeing evidence, some very compelling, that ethnicities that descended from Ham, one of Nuak’s (Noah’s) sons, have the 2 tribes of Banyamin (Benjamin) and Yahudah (Judah). I have only begun to scratch the surface, but what I am reading from you here, you are correct. It’s refreshing to read a post from someone who actually studies the same things that caused me to study genealogy and genetics 😛
I have O Neg bloodtype, but my ancestry traces origins from Indigenous Australia – apparently 50,000 years of cultural history. I’ve been doing a bit of research but everything i read seems to attribute along the lines back to Sumerians. Ofcourse, nothing in any holy book or historical history seems to adequately highlight exactly at what point we’re the Aborigines of Australia fit into all of this. Technically the longest historical culture still existing to this day.
What say Jew? (excuse the pun).
Do you have access to a study regarding blood type frequencies (especially rh factor) of Australian Aboriginals?
Were does blood type A+ come from
I am Rh negative type A from my fathers side. My fathers family can be traced to Welsh ancestry going way back to the 1300’s. Our family name is Davis which I understand is a common Welsh surname. I would love to have even a drop of Jewish blood, as I have recently embraced Messianic Judaism. I do have the green eyes and reddish brown hair, and every other commonality with this blood type. What does anyone think about a connection?
Hello, I”m a female with A- blood type. I was born to South Asian parents (from the state of Gujarat in India). I recently did a DNA ancestry test and among the most interesting findings were that I had 5.4 percent Sardinian in me and 16 percent Polish Ashkenazi DNA (and turns out I’m only 15 percent Gujarati). I have a little bit of middle eastern (about 1.something percent) and the regions were Yemen (it also mentioned Yemeni jews), western part of Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Palestine, Israel, Syria and Jordan. I got a little bit Central Asian (about 1. something percent) Afghanistan. I thought the results were rather interesting. I didn’t list the full break down of my genetic ancestory but will be happy to share is asked :).
Sure. Looking at the breakdown would be interesting.
India is very diverse and an ancient crossroad for various tribes turning into different groups such as Jews for example. Variety of ancestry, Scythian being one which is a group also said to have been among the ancestors of Silesia. Which company did you choose?
Hi there! I’m so sorry, I didn’t realize that you had replied to my post. First of all, thank you so much for your reply.
I used 23 and Me however their analysis was nothing that I didn’t already know. They said that I was 99% Indian (which I know I am) but being an A- blood type I felt that there should be something more comprehensive (especially since negative blood type is so rare in India and India is does have a lot of diversity) so I uploaded my raw dna data on DNA.Land and their analysis was much more detailed. Here’s the break down:
*Dravidian 38% [Bengal, Sri lanka]
*Gujarati 15% <– This is the state that my parents are from
*Indus Valley 20% [Burusho (Hanza people), Pathan and Sindhi in Pakistan]
*Indo-Iranian 1.4% [Balochi, Brahui and Makrani in Pakistan]
*Ashkenazi 16% [Polish and Lithuanian Ashkenazi]
*Sardinian 5.4%
*Arab/Egyptian 1.5% [includes: Egyptian in (2 sites) Egypt; Palestinian, BedouinA and BedouinB in (Central, Negev and 1 other site) Israel; Jordanian in Jordan; Saudi in Saudi Arabia; Syrian in Syrian and Yemen and Yemenite Jew in Yemen]
*African 2.6% [Ambigious]
The one that really took me by surprise was the Ashkenazi bit since it is so large percentage wise.
Thank you, F.
I have since posted
https://www.rhesusnegative.net/staynegative/blood-type-frequencies-in-india/
showing just how diverse India is in terms of blood type frequencies as well.
Anywhere between 0.5% and 10%. Gujarat is somewhere in the middle. A- is very rare indeed in India. But Gujarat seems to be a bit higher in blood type A frequencies than the Indian average.
Of course, being 99% Indian and also 16% Polish/Lithuanian makes absolutely no sense. 🙂 It could come from Yamna ancestry though. Or Scythian/Aryan. After all, Jewish ancestry can be traced back to the 3rd Dynasty of Ur in Sumer as well. So who knows how they figured all of the data, but obviously something isn’t right, likely with both, 23andme and the DNALand analysis, even though my bet is much more on DNALand for accuracy. 23andme basically collects data and gives us minimal info, enough to please most who have absolutely no idea regarding origin, usually in the US where a lot of people just don’t know their family history back in “the old country”.
Kerala seems to have a lot of Jewish admixture.
One of our readers has left a few comments regarding this here:
https://www.rhesusnegative.net/staynegative/rh-negative-blood-celtic/
What is your mtDNA haplogroup?
I’m guessing regional ancestry in India would be more accurate than let’s say a few years ago when there was much less data accumulated to determine this via autosomal DNA primarily. But of course, I wouldn’t count on it for 100% either.
Hi!
Happy New Year! Actually, even before doing the 23andMe test, I knew that I won’t get a decent break down because I had read in many places that for South Asians they just say “Broadly South Asian” followed by a large percentage. What I was really interested in was getting my hands on the raw DNA data 🙂
Anyway, according to 23 and Me my maternal haplogroup is M39.
With all of the ancestral sites, I do take the results with a grain of salt. I did look at your post about India that you linked and I will say that I have been told that Patels (I am one of them) come from Patidars (which was listed on your post). Also, regarding a higher percentage of A- types in Gujarat, I would like to mention that my brother is also A- :).
I have always been interested in genetics and ancestry because it’s so fascinating. When I learned about my blood type and rhesus negatives in general, I wanted to know about it’s origin. This site is pretty interesting. Thank you for putting all of this together :). I will read about the Celtic post that you shared soon and share my thoughts. Thank you once again!
Happy New Year to you as well. 🙂 The Celt post is older and probably lacking lots of new research that has come my way. But some of the comments on there are great and have helped lead me in the right direction.
I am type A-. My mom and dad are both A-. I too did a DNA test 7 years ago to find Jewish ancestry because of my Messianic Jewish faith. I went through DNA Consultants and found that I have lots of Polish DNA, all 3 of their Jewish markers, Irish, Scottish, and French DNA in the areas of Toulouse and Lille (opposite ends). I do know that my Scottish side descends from the Pictish people. This past year I did Ancestry.com’s DNA test and found that I’m 54% England, Wales & Northwestern Europe, 33% Ireland & Scotland, 6% French, 4% Sweden, 3% Germanic Europe. There was no mention of Jewish or Polish on that one. I don’t know why there would be a difference. Last night I came across the Rh- link to the Jewish people and the Basques. I am really intrigued and would like to learn more.
Hi Mike … I am AB Positive. My family are immigrants of slaves. Interesting.
I am adopted and I have met my biological family, but not before both parents suffered brain injuries. So there isn’t a lot of verbal history that goes past their generation. However, on my mother’s side both my half sisters are B negative, and I am A negative.
I am definitely going to look at doing a genetic test, I am unsure which is the best so it may take a while to get my results, however I am strongly leaning to the Basque theory as I look just like them. Brown hair, olive skin, green eyes and have psychic abilities. As someone who always grew up wondering where I came from this is incredibly fascinating stuff. I am glad I found your page.
Hey Cathy, Did you ever do a DNA TEST? I’m so glad to read your comment and to share my I fo with you. I have not done a DNA because I do not know which one is accurate either. However, My blood type is 0-.My hair is med dark brown w tint of red, my skin is olive complexion, and I have green eyes. Also, I carry some psychic abilities too. I wanted to see if you carry any of these additional traits I am listing here. I write with my left hand but play sports with my right hand. I paint with both my right and left hand equally. I can eat carrying utensils equally with both hands. I love to do art. I carry traits to be an empath. I have went through times of depression throughout my teenage life and some of my adult life. I have atruggled with self medicating and addiction in the past because i am so sensitive as with how I feel things emotionally. I always attract wild animals and especially birds close to me. I have experienced dreams that came true as soon as I woke up and some came true the next day, a year later, snd ir soon after. I have extreme need to know and be close with God and of spiritual world. However, I do not practice anything towards speaking to the dead or witchcraft. I do pray and and believe in Jesus Christ and the Creator Of All. However, I do not prescribe to being one particular religion and believe many truths come from many different religions. My mom was 0+ Native American and Irish, My dad is O-and Bohemian Czech. However, it is really hard to say for sure what else he is. My grandparents came over here as very young children. My grandmother came with her mother because she lost her father young. My great grandmother is game over here with the gypsies not sure which ones. My grandfather came over here as young child with his Czech parents. We also received a letter from another person from same area of small town in Tx My dad is from who is also named exactly as my dad as George Charles Mazoch Jr. he says he is German. Therefore, not sure if maybe sine Germans came over here taking the name Mazoch too. My dad is dark brown hair, green/blue eyes, very dark completed olive skin, my mom dark brown hair, dark brown eyes, and medium complexion. Her nose very arched, narrow and straight. My dad nose very round and little bulbous on end.
I’m O- but my sister is O+, is this common if we have the same father and mother? Also would my father be the o- or my mother? Is there a specific pattern?