Re: Genetic traits

[rob <rob@eteast.com>]

not that I've really looked into this - because I am the last thing I am
interested in...but...

    I was always told that my name "Cohn" was the same as "Cohen" but that some
people had dropped the "e". My family is descended from Polish Immigrants on my
father's side. My Jewish Grandfather was booted out of the matriarchial religion
here in Halifax around 1906 when he married a lady who wasn't Jewish. I was
confirmed and raised Presbyterian but I haven't set foot in my home church since
my father died about a dozen years ago. I do however, take communion at the
funerals of Catholic friends if the occasion moves me. I have attended synagogue
twice and visit churches or holy houses of any denomination for artistic,
educational and esthetic reasons - much more than sipritual.

    I was always told that the name Cohen meant "rabbi"...I have done exactly no
research on this and so this is purely anecdotal...

                                            rob cohn
                                            still stuck in halifax


Tim Wallace-Murphy wrote:

> Dear friends,
>
> Following the recent disclosures about DNA identification of a common
> ancestor for the Sykesfamily,reported in the British Press this week, an
> item on Newsnight on BBC2 on Tuesday disclosed that the same test had been
> performed upon a large number of Cohens indicating the probable truth of
> their descent from the High Priests of the Temple inJerusalem. As we had
> made the same claim in our recent book Rex Deus, and pointed out the legends
> linking the Sinclairs,Stewarts, de Payens andothers to the same ancestry, I
> wonderif we could commission similar DNA tests among the Rex Deus families?
>
> Best wishes
>
> Tim
>
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