Sanchez is a Jewish last name from Spain( Sancho) ,but what tribe does it belong?

I'm writing about my identity , it is important to me to find out about my origin , thank you so much for your input .





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Sanchez is a Jewish last name from Spain( Sancho) ,but what tribe does it belong?
The name is not associated with any particular tribe. It's Spanish.





I don't believe any Jews can actually trace their genealogy back to the 12 tribes. Israel was consolidated into a single kingdom, and also split into two distinct political units, since the days that the land was allocated to the 12 tribes. The Jewish kingdom was destroyed by Rome, and the people scattered across the world. Jewish culture and identity was dramatically transformed during this time -- over 2 thousand years.
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Reply:Sorry to disagree with you but Sanchez is not specific to the Jewish faith, it is a very widespread Spanish last name. It does not denote or belong to any "tribe".





Sanchez


Last name origin %26amp; meaning:


Spanish (Sánchez): patronymic from the personal name Sancho.





Sancho


Last name origin %26amp; meaning:


Spanish and Portuguese: from Sancho, a popular medieval personal name, which is probably from a Latin form, Sanc(t)ius, a derivative of sanctus ‘holy’. The personal name was borne by a 9th-century martyr of Cordova.





Sánchez or Sanchez is a frequently common Spanish last name. As a patronymic, it means "son of Sancho". The name "Sancho" itself comes from the Basque Santxo.
Reply:Jews throughout the world took the surnames of the cultures they came to live in; this would include the name Sanchez. Only those of the tribe of Levi maintained surnames which they could recognize their ancient tribal affiliation by, such as Levi, Levy, Lewis, Cohen, Caan, etc...


According to history, only the tribes of Judah, Levi, and Benjamin remained "Jewish" after the destruction of the Kingdom of Israel by Assyria in 720 BCE.


Besides, if you're only "discovering" Jewish ancestry this doesn't make you Jewish. According to Rabbinic Law one's mother has to be Jewish to be consider a Jew, unless you convert that is.
Reply:Present day Jews do belong to tribes in a sense as they are identified like the 12 tribes in the Old Testament. I don't quite understand their tribal connection. I know the Cohen-Levi tribe is the priestly tribe and their DNA is 80% proven.





I do know this there are 3 branches of Judaism. Reform Jews do not agree on the old traditional definition of a Jew like the Orthodox and Conservative.





Orthodox and Conservative Jews define a Jew by the mother, not the father. They state they get the nation from the mother and the tribe from the father and if they don't have a Jewish father they belong to the tribe of the nearest male relative on the mother's side of the family. If they don't have a Jewish mother, the only way they can be a Jew is to convert to Judaism, but still how they define the tribe is not the same way as the old 12 tribes of Israel.
Reply:I really cannot say but yes it may be possible because the Jews scattered all over the world and according to mine it is from the tribe of Benjamin so who knows, i got this info from a group who traces back Jewish roots at my sisters church.
Reply:How would you know that?





Jews have kept track of the tribe of Levi, because of their future role according to Orthodox Judaism. I don't believe they have kept track over 3000 years of the tribe of Judah and Benjamin, etc. the rest have gone to Assyria and no one seems to know what happened. Alot of things like Josephus I recommend should not be believed unless proven.

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