All My Foreparents

Sunday at five-thirty, the Skalaters in Israel gathered at the memorial in the cemetery in Holon, just south of Tel-Aviv, to remember our co...

Seventeen months ago, I wrote at some length about a company which can take DNA samples from old envelopes - whether from the sealed flaps ...

I have written about the importance of testing siblings on any number of occasions, each time as background to a story. Here is another one ...

Every few months, I look at the recent FTDNA matches of my 100+ family kits. I save all those which the company calls "third cousin to ...

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...