13th Zerah: I Still Do Believe That I am a Zerahite

As far as my thinking that I am a Zerahite, that much is affirmative.  I belong to the Haplogroup of what I believe to be Esau's, where Zerah is a son of Reuel.  That would be Haplotype I.  The word Zerah comes up in the Torah several times.  In Numbers 26, the Zerahites are mentioned as a son of Reuben, a son and tribe of Israel who lost the blessing.  That much is clear to me.  Edom committed idolatry, and so did I, but once I conceived that I had, I refused to let myself worship, and considered the idol to be horrible, and that I committed idolatry was a terrible thing, but you see, that incident helped me know right from wrong.  That the Zerahites are listed as sons of Reuben, simply to me indicates that the tribe of Reuben adopted me, while I had lost the blessing in my college years.

Reneging on Many of My Earlier Blogs

The data for the first 12 markers are in.  Nearly everyone, and it wasn't many, had a different last name than I.  This means that my Y chromosome comes almost entirely from men who have had sex with someone who is not their wife.

However, I belong to Haplogroup I, and at this point I still believe I descend from the Milesian Jews that traveled to Ireland and Scotland, and did not come to Great Britain during the Norman conquest.  Many of the various names of folks that are genetic matches with me did at least have a family crest.