All My Foreparents

Another year of mourning the Temple in Jerusalem and the loss of sovereignty that came with it. And another reminder that what we read ten d...

Two endogamies The wiki of the International Society of Genetic Genealogy (ISOGG) defines endogamy as the practice of marrying within th...

Max As I have said on many occasions, the Pikholz families come from two towns in east Galicia - Skalat and Rozdol. Any others are presumed...

For three years, I blogged nearly every week. A few months ago, that changed. I posted four blogs in January and six in March, but only one ...

The survey The genetic genealogy community has been known to disagree about the usefulness of small segments. Although less contentious, la...

Let's be realistic. Your run-of-the-mill researcher has no business expecting that the genetic test he just ordered will bring contacts ...

The family Fifteen years ago, back before JRI-Poland began working with the AGAD archives in Warsaw on east Galician records, Jacob Laor an...

It's been not quite two years since I first began uploading raw autosomal and X-chromosome data to GEDmatch. Because of the nature of my...

We met yesterday, Monday the seventh of Sivan, what is the second day of Shavuot for those Jews in Exile. This was the day of the major aktz...

I know that once you get to third and fourth cousins, autosomal matches get really iffy. According to the ISOGG wiki , third cousins share 0...

This article was originally published in the December 2014 issue of Association of Professional Genealogists Quarterly.  The version here is...