When Bringing Criticims to Ancestry.com, Avoid Guys Like CulsenGenealogy

 This is to warn you about agenda-driven and feinshmeker genealogists who claim to be experts about everything pertaining to AncestryDNA, etc.. Watch out for them. For example (and in case CulsenGenealogy decides to be a smart aleck and delete his comments on http://www.youtube.com/all_comments?v=bKcutt1gPXs):


Nicole Czarnecki 21 hours ago
With all due respect, Kris, I'm going to be honest with you: AncestryDNA is a good starter test, but people who had taken it before my dad warned about problems that I should've believed them on before his results came back. For example, AncestryDNA links my dad's third cousin Kevin as his 5th-8th cousin with low (< 50%) confidence; and AncestryDNA counted Greece and "Belgarus" (whatever that is) as Eastern Europe. Use the AncestryDNA test as a starter test & stick with using the paper trail.
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CulsenGenealogy 2 days ago
I - like others whom study migration of the ancestors AND also realizes that our DNA is thousands of years old - am happy to see Kris make a video and say the same thing: your genetic history is NOT your immediate paper trail. Even if that immediate trail is up to 3-500 years ago. AND that we are the result of history in the making.
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Nicole Czarnecki 21 hours ago
That's what I thought, too--that people who were complaining about AncestryDNA "have no idea how genetic testing, and algorithms work.." and "I do not think a lot of people understand how these DNA tests work." (From TheGeneticGenealogist) Then I saw the results, and "Greece", the Balkans, and "Belgarus" as a part of Eastern Europe. Also see the comment about my cousin. As I said, use the AncestryDNA test as a starter test & stick with using the paper trail.
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CulsenGenealogy 19 hours ago
FTDNA shares the same EE country break down as Ancestry : Eastern European (Poland, Greece, Macedonia, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Romania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Belarus, Moldova, Montenegro, Bulgaria, Belgarus, Kosovo)
I am not sure what you are trying to say? you clearly are not happy with Ancestry results, so perhaps you were looking for something specific? Deep genetics are just that. A paper trail can give you some names. DNA cannot lie.
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Nicole Czarnecki 6 hours ago
I didn't say that DNA lies; I said that AncestryDNA is not as accurate. They even admit that they're in Beta. Also, the Balkans are Southeastern Europe (way different than Eastern--Slavic, Magyar, and Ruso), and Greece is Mediterranean (often considered Western, not Eastern) Europe. Also, you never addressed my comment about my cousin and "Belgarus".
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CulsenGenealogy 1 hour ago
I don't need to address anything, actually. You clearly are angry over what results you see, and are all over the internet raging about it. You just simply brought your newest rants to Kris Williams video blog.
You state that AncestryDNA is not as accurate, YET FTDNA uses the same countries, including 'Belgarus' - try looking up the history of that word. No. I will not help you. Again, you are looking for what YOU want to see, not what is there, and already known.
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Nicole Czarnecki 1 second ago
I've looked it up. "Belgarus" is a village in Iran. Nice try, though.
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See http://www.thegeneticgenealogist.com/2012/04/02/a-review-of-ancestrydna-ancestry-coms-new-autosomal-dna-test/ for a sample of the warnings, for example. You can Google "AncestryDNA reviews", for example, as well.

AncestryDNA.Com Results Are In, And...

They are definitely questionable. 

I Have a Choice About My Jewishness, And...

I can, at my age and in my current circumstances, no longer use ignorance as an excuse. To be fair to myself and even others, I acknowledge that I was once at ages at which, and in circumstances in which, I was not even influenced--let alone provoked--to ask whether or not I'm Jewish. But now that I'm old enough and in other circumstances, I have a few choices regarding my Jewishness--none of which include ignorance or unknowing of my Jewishness, or fumigation of my DNA. Among the choices are:

1. Denying that I'm Jewish. I can easily fall back on the cockamamie Fosko-Rusnak story that we're Czechoslovakian Byzantine Catholics, and the Czarnecki story that we're Polish-Lithuanian Roman Catholics who descended from lone immigrant Anthony Czarniecki and his great-whatever-granddad Stefan Czarniecki.
2. Otherwise going Anusit (Crypto Jewish).
3. Denying that Jewishness is an ethnic identity. Why not fall back on the excuse that Jewishness is a religious identity as opposed to an ethnic one?
4. Pretending that because I believe in Jesus (Yeshua), I'm no longer an ethnic Jew--I somehow became an ethnic gentile by believing in the Jewish Messiah.
5. Pretending that because my mom is (as far as I know) a gentile, I am not ethnically Jewish, anyway--in other words, denying that my Jewish dad had any part in my creation.
6. Becoming a Self-Hating Jew.
7. Actually using ignorance as an excuse (although, as I said, I really can't at my age and in my circumstances--besides, people would see right through my supposed ignorance).
8. Not caring that I'm Jewish, anyway--using the "There is neither Jew nor gentile...", "We're all one in Christ.", "What does it matter?" interpretation of Galatians 3:28 that my mom uses.
9. Converting ("returning" or becoming a "gerah tzedekah" in the case of converting) to Non-Messianic Judaism (depending how one would view my conversion).
10. Proudly identifying as a Patrilineal and Messianic Jew (Jewish Christian).

I choose Choice #10: "Proudly identifying as a Patrilineal and Messianic Jew (Jewish Christian)." I'll break down why I didn't choose the other reasons later.

Part One Of My Stage32 Writer's Submission

You know what? For lack of better termage, screw it--it may not be creative, but I'm going to write down the real story with the real names for Stage 32--and so what if I get sued? Truth is a lot more interesting than fiction; and in this case, could be turned into something creative--like a movie based on it.

Here's the real story--real names, real everything. The Foczkos, my dad's maternal grandmother's maternal family--in other words, Greg Czarnecki's maternal grandmother (Marysia "Mary" Elizabeth Rusnak Gaydos)'s family--to begin with them--are Khazar-Levitical Jews. In other words, we're part of the 52% of Ashkenazi Levites that had a Khazar patriarch incorporated into our Levitical lines at some points--my cousin Kevin Fosko (who has an Americanized version of "Foczko"--as my great-great-grandmother, Julia Fosko Rusnak, did) took a DNA test and found the R1a1a1 marker and got hits in Germany, Slovakia, Denmark, and (particularly where Foczkos with the exact spelling of the surname that we used have been) Poland.

There was a triangle that the Foczkos were part of once we moved from Khazaria to Russia, to Poland: the triangle was Warsaw, Lodz, and Radom. We got kicked out of that triangle and moved to Zlata Idka, Slovakia (then Aranyida, Hungary) in about 1776--we converted, we were Anusim, and (for lack of better termage) that was a no-no. Why we were Anusim, I don't know. Anyway, we were Anusim--and in many respects, still are--even the Messianics among us (myself included) have many Anusim among us (Well, I'm not one of them--I'm openly a Messianic Jew, though I didn't know that I'm Jewish for a long time.).

By the way, if you don't believe me, go look up "Foczko", "Focko", etc. on JewishGen.org, FamilySearch.org, Ancestry.com, and wherever else--I (along with Kevin, among others; but Kevin and I for the most part) have done the homework. I should've mentioned Khazaria.com, too, while I'm at it--how much do I have to cite to not get sued, by the way (I hate the MLA, by the way--there is nothing new under the sun! Isn't basic citation or attribution enough?)?

To be continued. I'll provide screenshots, etc. later--and also depending on how much I won't get sued, etc..

What I Want For My 22nd Birthday: DNA Tests From Male Relatives To Check For Kohein, Etc. Markers

I'm pushing the envelope & asking as male members as possible for DNA tests on my birthday. I want to know

at least whether I'm a kohenet (female descendant of Aharon ben-'Amram v'Yokheved, v'HaKohein). Any

male descendants, please get your DNA checked for Jewish-- especially kohein-- markers for our common

lineages if you can. 

On a side note, Kevin-- even though we don't share the Levshiks in common as far as we know--, you won't

be able to find the Levshik connection in the mtDNA; since Jewish women don't have Jewish DNA

(Remember that DNA of any ethnic sort gets passed down only in the Y-DNA). Thank G-d, we were able to

use that your Levit relative used the common device (the Levi surname variant) to establish that she was a bat-

Levi.