All My Foreparents

About a week ago, I received an inquiry about a week ago from a woman named Wendy who begins: Hi Israel, I am trying through a process o...

I could call this post Herb's MtDNA (Part Two) because it's the continuation of something I wrote more than eighteen months ago. I...

When I was young and had to speak in class, it became a joke among my classmates and even a teacher that I'd say too much, go into too m...

The last stop on my coming trip to the United States is at the Conference of the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies...

While working a new presentation, I considered that I might want to say something about my second cousins Ruth and Judy, on my mother's ...

I have been Facebook friends with Jeannie McClenahan Cecil for not quite a year but it seems like much longer. She told me she had matches w...

Skalat The Jewish community of Skalat, one of the two ancestral Pikholz towns in east Galicia, suffered its final aktzia on the holiday of ...

So Wednesday afternoon, I am minding my own business when I get one of these "I match [so-and-so-many] of your project. Can you tell me...

I'm afraid that blogging from actual events is more than I can handle and both events have been covered by blogs, Facebook posts and twe...

Nearly three years ago,  I posted a bit of speculation whereby our Pikholz families -  both the Skalaters and the Rozdolers - came to Gal...

Less than a year ago , in a tail-end segment in a larger blog, I discussed the importance of siblings' testing. The case at hand then ...