All My Foreparents

(A representation of what I said during services last Friday night.) My father's yahrzeit is coming up this Friday, 5 Kislev. M...

I was editing this before posting and it suddenly went completely blank. Nothing left but the title.  CURSES ON YOU BLOGSPOT! I drafted t...

I have referred to my maternal grandmother's Rosenbloom family on several occasions here, but neither recently nor in great detail. The...

Back in the earlier days of JRI-Poland , there was an arrangement whereby you could find records and order them directly from the Polish Sta...

Under the British Mandate It was about fifteen years ago that I first learned  - on JewishGen - that under the British Mandatory Governm...

I would like to lay out some numbers on our DNA project. (Please don't say "So what does this mean?" I will take it as a compl...

About a month ago, the following announcement showed up on several of the JewishGen discussion lists. This is just the beginning. It cont...

This week, I am posting Friday rather than early Sunday, because I want to get this up before Yom Kippur. On the other hand, I will likely h...

Why are we even talking about Hungary? Twelve years ago, I was looking at the Social Security Death Index (SSDI) and came across a group of...

MIRIAM & ZIV, DUBIE & YITZHAK About four years ago, I was contacted by an attorney in the UK who was looking for two heirs of a wo...

I am going home Monday (arriving Tuesday) at the end of a twenty-seven day trip to the US, so I suppose it's time to record some thughts...