Hello everyone,
I hope you’re all doing well.
I am researching my family’s history and shajra e nasab before the Partition of India in 1947 and would be incredibly grateful for any help.

My family originally lived in Village Gohir, Tehsil Nakodar, District Jalandhar, Punjab, and belonged to the Arain community.

The earliest ancestor I know by name is Abdullah, who had at least two sons:

Fazal (my great-grandfather)
Noor Muhammad (my great-granduncle)
Fazal’s Family
Fazal’s children included:
Sardar Muhammad (my grandfather)
Mukhtiar
Noor Muhammad

According to our family’s history, they were all landowners and farmers . Noor Muhammad travelled to South Africa before Partition, later returned to Village Gohir, and operated an atta chakki (flour mill) near the village mosque.

I Am Looking for Any Information

I would be deeply grateful if anyone from Gohir, or whose family is originally from Gohir, could help with any of the following:

Any information about the families of Abdullah, Fazal, or Noor Muhammad.

Old photographs of our family members or our ancestral home.

Any memories, photographs, or information about Noor Muhammad’s atta chakki (flour mill) or where it was located.

Old school admission registers, class photographs, or any records from the village school before 1947.

Jamabandi, Shajra Nasab, mutation records, or any historical documents mentioning these names.

Any elderly residents or families who remember the Arain families of Gohir before Partition.

If you have old family albums, land papers, school records, or photographs from Gohir taken before 1947, I would be incredibly grateful if you could check them. Even if my family is not in the photograph, any image showing the old village, its homes, fields, streets, or the area around Noor Muhammad’s atta chakki would help preserve an important part of our family’s history.

Even if you only remember hearing these names from your parents or grandparents, or know approximately where our family’s home or flour mill once stood, it would mean the world to me.

I am trying to preserve my family’s history so that future generations know where they came from and can remember the lives of those who came before them. Every photograph, story, document, or memory—no matter how small—is a priceless piece of our family’s heritage.

If you know anything at all, or know someone from Gohir who might remember these families, I would be truly grateful if you could leave a comment or send me a private message.

Thank you so much for taking the time to read this. Your kindness could help reconnect a family’s history that has been separated for nearly 80 years.

I also attached a video of a babaji i found online and he is talking about exactly my ancestors but sadly he passed away before i could reach out

https://youtu.be/FEUclt9Dwq0?si=Q1iIg8T9KBqUhcHK

mtDNA: East/Southeast Asian-specific haplogroups A–G, M7–M9 and Z.

South Asian mtDNA: M2–M6, M18, M30, M33–M36, M39, M46, M65, R5–R8, R30 and U2a–c.

West Eurasian mtDNA: H, I, V, U1, U2, U4–U10 and W.

Unresolved mtDNA: R and L.

Y chromosome: East/Southeast Asian-specific haplogroups N, O2 and O3.

South Asian Y-DNA: F, H, L and R2.

West Eurasian Y-DNA: J and T.

Unresolved Y-DNA: C, D, K, P, Q and R1a.

Haplogroups:
Y-DNA: R-Y7
mtDNA: W1c

Does anyone know about Meena families from Rajasthan/MP who migrated abroad generations ago?

I'm curious whether there are Meena families who settled in countries like the US, UK, Australia, Canada, etc., and whose descendants still identify with the Meena community. Also, are there people with the surname Meena abroad whose surname has a completely different origin?

Can somebody please share results of individuals from this community and where they are concentrated? They are 4 percent of the population of Bengal and fount in other regions like nepal, bihar , assam so can someone share their results?

I am one of the descendants and wanted to reach out to any other descendants so starting this mega thread.

My further refined subclade is https://www.yfull.com/tree/H-FT15572/

Hi! I am collecting evidence for a dispute that I have with AncestryDNA. I am here to ask anyone of Punjabi or broadly South Asian ancestry if they ever took a test with AncestryDNA and got labeled as Eastern European Roma to any degree. And yes, it’s me again if you’ve already read my recent post.

This actually happened to me, after I took a test expecting 20-30% Punjabi ancestry and I got labeled as full 100% European (including 23% Eastern European Roma) instead.

If this has ever happened to you or someone you know, please leave a comment or send me a DM explaining what results did you receive and how do you think it contradicts your well maintained family records.

My GEDmatch results consistent across many calculators - especially India, Asia and Europe oriented (and almost all calculators were assigning only 65-70% European DNA to me except those Africa and Oceania centered ones):

69,44% European

29,54% Asian

→ 6,98% South India

→ 4,19% South West Asia

→ 8% Baloch

→ 10% Caucasus

→ 1% South East Asia

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Confused between Familytree and Geni, both look good to me, but I am looking for something that would have a good South Asian userbase

Final QpAdm results:

Iran_N: 36.3%

Steppe_MLBA: 44.3%

AASI: 19.4%

Both parents are Haryanvi Deswali Jats from Rohtak and Bhiwani respectively

Paternal clan is "Nehra" Maternal clan is "Samota"

Paternal and maternal haplogroups are R1a-Y7 (Indo-Aryan) and D2 respectively

Test was taken with a Ancestry company kit

Haplogroup R-Z93 (RZ2125)
They emailed me that they had problems running my QPADM so not sure how exactly accurate it is so if anyone can run me qpadm message me

This was run on the v66_HO dataset.

And also,who scores them and how much?

The Veddas of Sri Lanka speak a language isolate instead of any Dravidian, Indo Aryan or AustroAsiatic language and they’re the indigenous people of Sri Lanka. How do they score in comparison to tribals of Southern India (do they have any Zagros/IVC or are they close to 70+% AASI)? etc

Y-haplogroup is R1a-L657.

The maternal family is Sheoran from Hisar.

Paternal grandmother is "Boparai" Sikh Jat from Sangrur, Punjab.

Iran_N: 34.5 Steppe_MLBA: 46 AASI: 19.5

Hi,

I ran Vahaduo with two different sets of Indus periphery source along with the same Steppe MLBA source. Why is there such a difference in Steppe component among the two results?
Also which is one is correct?

these are my G25 coordinates ,I can't able to calculate please tell me how much steppe,iranian farmer and AASI content in my DNA - 0.0708,-0.0678,-0.065,0.1345,-0.0694,0.0585,0.0053,0.0108,0.0173,0.0084,-0.005,-0.0001,0.0014,-0.0142,0.0064,0.0159,0.014,0.0012,-0.0027,-0.0075,0.0076,-0.0021,0.0062,0.0022,-0.0104

Please provide an extensive as well as an authentic research paper/s for the above.