All My Foreparents

I have written in this space about my great-grandmother's chromosome 21 on several occasions, most recently barely two months ago , base...

I received Family Finder matches today for a known cousin. He is not yet part of my project so I cannot look at his matches with all the cou...

Some months ago, Jessica Feinstein, the editor of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain quarterly Shemot , asked me...

Sometimes I write about matters of general genealogical interest; other times it's more personal.  Knowing (hoping?) that this blog wi...

From time to time, I have reported in this space about my Y-DNA matches, with particular emphasis on the apparent fact that the Skalat Pikho...

The following email landed in my inbox over the weekend.   For those not familiar with the area, ...

22 August 2019, 6:30 –  Jewish Genealogy Society of Pittsburgh , Multi-purpose Room of the Heinz History Center Why Did My Father Know Tha...

A few weeks ago, this dropped into my inbox. Subject: New records on the All Galicia Database From: Gesher Galicia SIG < sig@geshergal...

Looking past the wedding of my son Devir Tuesday and my subsequent move to Ashkelon next Monday, I am planning a quick trip in August to see...