All My Foreparents

Benzion. בֶּן צִיוֹן or בֶּנְצִיוֹן. Son of Zion. Could there possibly be a better name? One of my regrets is not giving it to Devir as a mi...

This blog is dedicated to my mother's first cousin Ethel Rosenbloom Klavan, the daughter of Uncle Hymen. Her fourth yahrzeit is this Th...

Dealing with Family Tree DNA "Close Match" alerts I manage over a hundred family DNA kits, almost all with Family Tree DNA. ...

My father's sister, aka Aunt Betty, ordered her MtDNA test four and a half years ago and upgraded to the full sequence about eighteen mo...

My g-gm's grave in Borisov Etta Bryna - my great-grandmother I wrote about the maiden name of my mother's mother's mother ...

I have written about GEDmatch 's Lazarus tool before - most notably here , here and here . (I had quite forgotten about the last of tho...

The kits I was able to produce for my father using the Lazerus tool at GEDmatch have been easy. I have four descendants (one more is stuck ...

I am posting this on Sunday, the sixth of Nisan, the 118th yahrzeit of my great-grandmother Etta Bryna bat Yehudah HaLevi Rosenbloom . We ...