All My Foreparents

The City of Our Foreparents - Hevron The first recorded purchase by our forefathers in what came to be known as Eretz Israel, the Land o...

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 ...

My great grandfather Moritz Rosenzweig died 19 Heshvan 5689, eighty-eight years ago today. With his wife Regina and children, ~1905 ...

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

Counting the stars אחר הדברים האלה היה דבר-ה' אל-אברם במחזה לאמר; אל-תירא אברם אנכי מגן לך שכרך הרבה מאד....ויוצא אתו החוצה ויאמר הב...

My friend Leah Gedalia, the former President of the Israel Genealogical Society, was here for two hours this morning, to talk about the FTD...

Dear Mr. Pikholz,  I tested my DNA with Ancestry.com and I see on GEDmatch that I match twenty-six kits that have your email. ...

One of the talks I gave at the recent IAJGS Conference in Seattle is " GEDmatch.com's Lazarus Tool As It Applies to Two Kinds of E...

The title of this blog, "Commencement" is more about when I am writing it than about what I have to say. It means "beginning,...