All My Foreparents

Shimon Pikholz - Simon or Szymon on some of his documents - lived in Skalat and was married to Dwore Waltuch who bore two daughters befor...

Earlier this week, Lara Diamond posted about the reunification of her family with the descendants of her grandfather's aunt. This spark...

Robbie A couple of weeks ago, I described my new approach to handling the alerts I get from Family Tree DNA for Family Finder matches. I h...

Minna is a cousin of my son-in-law's mother. Her husband is a major rabbi at a very large Jerusalem yeshiva. There is no reason we shoul...

My nephew Eliezer's Family Finder results just came in. That's one of the sons of my sister Judith. Her twin - my sister Carol/Dev...

Family Tree DNA Alerts I manage over ninety family kits, most of whom tested with Family Tree DNA. So I get many scores of these notic...

Lydia Lydia and Inna are second cousins of mine on my mother's mother's side. They are first cousins to one another. Their gra...

My nephew Avi's Family Finder results just came in. Avi's mother - my sister Carol/Devorah - was killed in an auto accident thirty...

Related or not, my parents are married The indispensible DNA-analysis website GEDmatch has a tool called "Are Your Parents Related....

Most of  my readers know by now that the Lazarus tool on GEDmatch (a Tier 1 tool which requires a small donation) enables you to recreate ...

Two weeks ago, I went to the Jewish cemetery in Vienna . Several of the tombstones I visited had important new information. The most importa...

Eleonora Stern, wife of Ahron Schiffer Bluma After visiting the old cemetery in Kalocsa Hungary the week before last and finding seve...