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Surprising, but probably there are quite a number of people with English heritage that includes Jewish. My grandmother thought that as a citizen of the UK, she was a British Israelite. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Israelism

 

A lot of folks have hidden Jewish ancestry, especially if they're Spanish or Portuguese. I know for sure I have some somewhere, but Ancestry missed it. (darnitt)

 

Many Dutch people are part-Jewish, especially if they are Catholics because they often lived in the same neighbourhoods. I also think many people don't know it.
According to family lore I am part Sephardic and I have proof that I am part Ashkenazic. I have traced my mother's family back to Jewish ancestors who lived in Trier, Germany.

And here in the southeast of the country many people are part-Sinti or part-Roma as well. Three of my friends were.

 

They never traveled this far West for the most part, but we did get Travelers from Ireland.