About us
Welcome to the Goodlove/Godlove/Gottlieb/Goodfriend DNA Project Website. Conrad Goodlove was born in Germany, and, coming to the United State, settled in Berks Co., Pa. He married Catherine McKinnon, of Clarke Co., O., and after marriage he removed to Ohio, settling on Buck Creek, near Yazell's Mill, in Clarke Co. according to his grandson, DR. WILLIAM M. GOODLOVE, physician; Rushsylvania. Recently a 12 marker match was made with the Goodfriend "Gutfrajnd" family of Praszka, Poland. Yakov Gutfrajnd was born in Praszka about 1790. The results of the test indicates that our most common ancestor was more than 28 generation ago. The Goodlove family is seven generations of Christian farmers beginning with Conrad Goodlove born 1793 in Berks County PA. Conrad's family was from Germany and it is the oral history of the family that the name was changed from Gottlieb. In addition to Godlove, this name has been recorded as Gutlove, Godlof, Godlop, Cutloaf, Cutlofe, Cutloff, Cutliff, Cutlow, and Cutlove. Other Gottlieb variants are Gotlob, Gottlob, Gottlow, Godlib, Gothelf, Gotelf, Gotlib, Gotloeb, Gotlobe, Gotloeb, Gotlieb, Gotliffe, Kutlow, Gottlib, Gottliffe, Gotliv, Gotleb, Kotlov, and, Gothilf.
From "Mapping Human History by Steve Olson"...
"A good place to begin the genetic history of the Jews is with Aaron's Y chromosome. In the book of Exodus, God decrees that Moses' brother Aaron and all of his male descendants shall be the high priests of the Israelites. Even today, men who count themselves among the direct male descendants of Aaron have special responsibilities in many synagogues, such as leading certain blessings. Within Judaism as a whole, these men are known as kohanim, the Hebrew word for priests. Many have the last name Cohen, Cohn, Kahn, or a similar derivative of the word kohan.
Since men pass their Y chromosomes on to their sons, all of Aaron's sons would have had his Y chromosome, which they in turn would have passed on to their sons, and so on down the generations to the kohanim of today. Along the way, mutations would occur in the separate lineage's derived from Aaron's Y chromosome, making the nucleotide sequences of Aaron's male descendants somewhat different from one another today. But the original haplotype should still be visible, like a figure behind a translucent screen.
A few years ago a team of geneticists from Haifa Technion, University College in London, and the University of Arizona set out to find Aaron's Y chromosome. Using cells swabbed from the cheeks of about two hundred Jewish males from Israel, North America, and England, they looked for specific genetic markers along each man's Y. They found that Jews who did not identify themselves as Kohanim had a broad assortment of Y-chromosome markers, no one of which was especially frequent. But of the kohanim, about 50 percent had a particular set of markers, indicating that all of their Y chromosomes descended from a common ancestor. The researchers called this genetic pattern the Cohen Modal Haplotype (modal in this case meaning most common).
The more recent mutations among men carrying this haplotype also allowed the researchers to calculate when it originated, just as the age of mitochondrial Eve has been calculated from the differences in our mitochondrial DNA. According to the geneticists' calculations, the man who carried the original chromosome lived about 106 generations ago. Within the margin of error inherent in the calculation, this easily falls within the time from when Aaron may have lived."
From "Mapping Human History by Steve Olson"...
"A good place to begin the genetic history of the Jews is with Aaron's Y chromosome. In the book of Exodus, God decrees that Moses' brother Aaron and all of his male descendants shall be the high priests of the Israelites. Even today, men who count themselves among the direct male descendants of Aaron have special responsibilities in many synagogues, such as leading certain blessings. Within Judaism as a whole, these men are known as kohanim, the Hebrew word for priests. Many have the last name Cohen, Cohn, Kahn, or a similar derivative of the word kohan.
Since men pass their Y chromosomes on to their sons, all of Aaron's sons would have had his Y chromosome, which they in turn would have passed on to their sons, and so on down the generations to the kohanim of today. Along the way, mutations would occur in the separate lineage's derived from Aaron's Y chromosome, making the nucleotide sequences of Aaron's male descendants somewhat different from one another today. But the original haplotype should still be visible, like a figure behind a translucent screen.
A few years ago a team of geneticists from Haifa Technion, University College in London, and the University of Arizona set out to find Aaron's Y chromosome. Using cells swabbed from the cheeks of about two hundred Jewish males from Israel, North America, and England, they looked for specific genetic markers along each man's Y. They found that Jews who did not identify themselves as Kohanim had a broad assortment of Y-chromosome markers, no one of which was especially frequent. But of the kohanim, about 50 percent had a particular set of markers, indicating that all of their Y chromosomes descended from a common ancestor. The researchers called this genetic pattern the Cohen Modal Haplotype (modal in this case meaning most common).
The more recent mutations among men carrying this haplotype also allowed the researchers to calculate when it originated, just as the age of mitochondrial Eve has been calculated from the differences in our mitochondrial DNA. According to the geneticists' calculations, the man who carried the original chromosome lived about 106 generations ago. Within the margin of error inherent in the calculation, this easily falls within the time from when Aaron may have lived."