All My Foreparents

I have been preoccupied the last couple of weeks and have not blogged. Even this one is brief. But it's something. Family Finder resul...

The issue of small segments When we compare autosomal matches on the basis of individual chromosomes, there is a natural tendency to concen...

My Denver third cousin Joe Pells was one of the last people to sign up for DNA testing during the big sale that FamilyTreeDNA had in Decembe...

Jewish endogamy - the notion that all European Jews share the same ancestors multiple times - means more than that we are all related. It al...

I have mentioned my great-grandmother's Bauer family a few times, including here . My father's maternal grandmother, Regina (Rivk...

When the Pikholz Project first began acquiring records from the AGAD archives in Poland, we ran found Skalat birth records for Ettel and Cha...

There is a bit more than one week left in the current FamilyTreeDNA sale, with Mystery Reward coupon codes thrown in as well. It seems li...

Some Face book fun for Hanukkah. There is more where that came from , but this will suffice. H ...

 Part 1 (I hope there will be a Part 2) Herb is my father's first cousin, as I have mentioned here before on many occasions. Aunt...

During the last few weeks, I have been concentrating on the question of Moshe Hersch Pikholz of Skalat. Not the one whose parents are Nachma...

Some short but meaningful segments, all of them about DNA. ( Note: There is now an email sign-up box, here on the right. Thanks to genealo...