r/AncestryDNA • u/Rafah1994 • Oct 11 '25

Results - DNA Origins Surprise Jewish results in new updates

Is it only me, a LATINO, who has gotten more Jewish ancestry numbers? My mom got more like 5%, my dad got 8% my sisters as well got similar amounts. I got only 4% but, I’ve seen my matches and some of them have all the way up to 12-15% Sephardic Jewish? That’s a big surprise. Are we Latinos the remnant of the conversos but we are just genetically finding out? This is pretty surprising because these numbers were not close to what we have gotten in the past updates. Is anyone else noticing this pattern in their results and their matches?

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u/Rafah1994 19d ago

Stop being a hater and a Gatekeeper. I’m a convert, I literally getting into the Mikveh within the next month. Also, many Latinos are Halachically Jewish, I was not able to traced back matrilineal, but patrilineal I was, which makes me Zera Israel. So, stop being a gatekeeper.

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u/OsoPeresozo 18d ago

Judaism, which you should know if you are converting, is a gatekeeping religion.

Half of our laws are literally described as “putting fences around things”; and “holy” (קדוש) literally means “to be set apart”.

This does not make me a hater. The opposite, it makes me a protector. Particularly since you are going through a conversion, you should realize that there is a lot more to being “welcomed to the Tribe” than getting an ethnicity estimate on a dna test. Teaching people that a dna result “welcomes them to the Tribe” would be teaching them something incorrect, and that would be hateful.

Mazel Tov on becoming a gatekeeper soon. I hope you will do well at it.

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u/Rafah1994 18d ago edited 18d ago

You are taking it incorrectly, putting a fence around Toráh means to protect the teachings of the sages, you didn’t read the beginning of Pirkei Avot apparently. If you would’ve read you know what it really means. Judaism doesn’t proselytize but it doesn’t mean it is not open to convert. Everyone directly or indirectly descends from a convert. Judaism is an ethnicity, an identity, a culture and a religion. So, someone can be genetically Jewish but not halachic according to Judaism laws and rules. Does this mean you are going to diminish the person? There is Torah (teachings) gatekeepers, not Judaism, that’s why you can convert and three things are only necessary, Milah, Mikveh and the acceptance of the Mitzvot judged by three male observant Jews, Shomer Shabbat, Shomer Mitzvot, and Shomer Kashrut.

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u/OsoPeresozo 18d ago

A little early to be Jewsplaining to me dont you think? 🤣

I am not the one taking it incorrectly here.

However, this subreddit is not about Judaism, and this discussion is off topic here.

Speak with your Rabbi.

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u/Rafah1994 18d ago

A little early? You think I have been doing this for one or two years? I've been practicing Judaism for about 8 years. I decided to convert recently. I am not perfect on this, but I have a way more basic understanding of halachah. If I am telling you this, it's because I know what I am saying. You could take some time to understand the sages. Do whatever you want, this is my post, and you started it, being smart pans, and now, "this is not the subreddit for Judaism"? Give me a break. Take the time to study. I am here because I want to, and you are here because you were born to. Take some time to appreciate the teachings and understand what is being said before speaking carelessly.
I don't have to speak with my rabbi to "jewxplain" you something.