WA WA - Olympia, WhtFem 20-30, UP8886, cranium & bones in wooded area, sticks & shoelace cross, Oct'81

[FlyOfDragons]

Greek Jews are very rare and their DNA is closer to Sephardic Jewish populations than to Ashkenazi. Unlikely. Our JD had two fully Ashkenazi parents.

yeah that's what i thought, thanks for confirming for me!

 

[djanga]

i'm a bit late to this thread, but has Denise been submitted as a possible match? she's one of my pet cases, and the first that comes to mind that i know for a fact is Jewish

i also think that the reconstruction of Jane Doe bears resemblance to another Denise missing from CA, specifically Denise Kathleen Anderson (i'll use DKA to differentiate her from Denise Dorfman), missing from Sacramento since 1971. however, i remember starting a bit of DKA's genealogy while trying to figure out her whole address situation, and it seems that DKA was 50% Greek: her mother's maiden name was Vassilopoulos, and here is a record showing that DKA's maternal grandmother was also Greek (both of the maternal grandmother's parents were born in Greece). however there is a very, very slim chance that the family may have been from Greece, but ethnically Ashkenazi? i haven't actually looked past DKA's maternal grandparents' generation. though the last name Vassilopoulos makes that seem even more unlikely... still, i just can't shake how much the reconstruction looks like DKA to me. (and fwiw, i haven't looked into DKA's father's side yet, so she may not be ethnically Jewish at all)

Hi! I also feel that Denise could be a possible match for this Jane Doe, and it’s so unfortunate — I really wish Denise were alive and living somewhere else. I have only submitted her as a candidate to the DNA Doe Project. They told me they received it, but nothing else.

 

[FlyOfDragons]

while i believe that Jane Doe absolutely could be Denise Dorfman (and just responded to djanga over on Denise's thread about submitting) i'd like to posit another possible match:

i'll need to see what i can dig up on Ancestry, and will follow this up with confirmation once i've done that, but based on her name it very much seems to me that Rachel Hanna Ziselman was Jewish. Rachel was only 11 when she disappeared in September 1977, but stranger things have happened, and age estimates have been either further off before. there are only so many young white girls/women of Ashkenazi origin who went missing in the western US (though, yes, she could have gone missing from elsewhere) in the estimated PMI range, so even with that discrepancy in ages i think Rachel should still be considered. i also see a facial resemblance imo