All My Foreparents

One week ago, I began seeing announcements on Facebook and on the genealogy blogs and discussion groups that Ancestry had announced a new ...

My first thirty-one matches on FTDNA's Family Finder are known relatives. This is number thirty-two. Thanks to Leah for permitting me...

The Budapest records Last week, the incomparable Lara Diamond had a blog post abut Hungarian Civil Records on FamilySearch and I figured I...

We in the genealogy community often have discussions about how much of our information we share and how frustrating it is when people do not...

Customers of Family Tree DNA are familiar with the match alerts we get from time to time, whether our own kits or the kits of members of our...

Last week I was doing some work for a client involving - among other things - the family of a woman who died in 1953. This is not basically ...

The sale will run from Tu BiShvat until Purim. Order here .   European Jews have always married mainly within the tribe. Whether our...

In my most recent chapter of the ongoing saga "How Spira Became Pikholz," we saw how the perfect Y-DNA matches for 67 markers bec...

A few days ago, a question was asked on the Facebook group Tracing The Tribe about burials of very young babies. The question was gene...

New records from AGAD About two weeks ago, Mark Halpern of JRI-Poland posted the following, in reference to records from east Galician town...