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Re:Kosher search engine powered by 4 car batteries on a pass... by ricree on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @03:07PM (#23762860)
As I understand it, the strict definition of Jewish descent is purely. You have to go back around 100-200k years to reach the most recent common matrilineal ancestor, and I'm reasonably confident she was not Jewish.
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Re:Kosher search engine powered by 4 car batteries on a pass... by asdfman123 on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @04:46PM (#23763844)
How many ancestors you have it just a function of how many generations you look back, and with each successive generations it doubles. At some point in the past, the entire world is your ancestor.

https://www.nbcnews.com/sciencemain/all-europeans-are-relate...

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Re:Kosher search engine powered by 4 car batteries on a pass... by tw04 on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @04:40PM (#23763792)
100-200k years? Based on... what? Judaism's earliest trace lies at about 1500BC... so not even close to 100k years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origins_of_Judaism

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Re:Kosher search engine powered by 4 car batteries on a pass... by ricree on Saturday July 11, 2020 @07:03PM (#23806945)
Sorry for being unclear. I meant the most recent matrilineal ancestor for all of humanity, not for Judaism.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrial_Eve

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