Among the hundreds of suggested matches provided by the DNA testing companies, I have found two distant cousins; one with a total 27 cM match and the other with a total 11 cM match. These matches were

THANK YOU FOR PUBLIC AND PRIVATE RAPID RESPONSES. MY MOM AMUSH DOES RECOGNIZE THE TRAIN STATION BUT ASKS IF ANYONE HAS AN IMAGE OF THE INSIDE IN THE HOLOCAUST ERA TIME PERIOD THAT WILL SHOW WHERE SHE

The problem for investigating relationships through DNA for Jewish ancestry, is the problem of endogamy. Your ancestors married others of the same faith who lived nearby, meaning that the same DNA was

I BELIEVE PRESSBURG IS NOW BRATISLAVA. THEY HAVE A LARGE GROUP ON JEWISH HISTORY THERE AND YOU SHOULD LOOK UP BRATISLAVA JEWISH CENTERS AND ALSO CHABAD THERE AND EMAIL THEM. ALSO TRY THE BEIT

Greta Kassel was my grandfather's sister. SHe married Phillippe Rosenau circa 1902 and they moved to Bad Kissingen, where he was an antiques dealer. They had 2 girls, Paula and Marie, and a son Ernst

You raise an interesting question. If you had to pick one value that would be most important for Ashkenazi Jews I believe it would be the longest segment. However if you are going to dismiss all

I have begun exploring the fabulous collection of New York City vital records at https://a860-historicalvitalrecords.nyc.gov/. I would like to record links to individual images (example) in my source

I would appreciate any links to the sites that have the photos online that you mention... (I may have had ancestors there, but earlier.) -- Peter Cherna, Exton PA (peter@...) Researching CSERNA

MyHeritage frequently sends me a match to someone with 155.5cM across 12 segments, longest 41cMs. He is also matched to one of my known 1st cousins once removed but we cannot find any real connection

I am at a loss--- I know that my grandmother's (Karoline nee Liebenstein Stuhler) mother was Johanna nee Baer Liebenstein. This is what I know: she was born in 1853 in Windsbach Germany and died on

Hi from Paris, Dear Esther, I add this post to be sure you are aware of the availability from Brody Yiskor Bukh, fully translated in English :

If you have recently attempted to search for Brzeziny vital records on the JRI-Poland legacy website [ https://legacy.jri-poland.org/jriplweb.htm], you may have been puzzled to find that the last

Dvorah Shalom, Read the article that Josef Rosin z"l wrote about Panevezys and fires that occurred there, https://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/lithuania4/lit4_310.html Carol Hoffman LitvakSIG President

I think you are using unrealistically high numbers for longest single strand and total DNA. I only have three matches out of the many thousands that have more than 130 cM total and only two those have

I'm not fluent in Yiddish but I'll add a bit more onto what Shimi said. It is to Mrs Pessa daughter of the late Yisrael, and her husband Mr Nisan son of the late Avraham Yitchak the levite. I find it

Hello Yoav, There are two online versions of the book about the RM"A by Asher Ziv at the Otzar haHochma website: https://tablet.otzar.org/#/b/158974/p/1/t/1660831406832/fs/0/start/0/end/0/c

At 05:47 24/08/2022, Vernon Kronenberg wrote: I do not know how up-to-date my records are, but try Ken Brookline, MA New England kkrone@..., Ken Kronenberg Brookline, MA New Englandkkrone@...,

Dear Carol, The letter is mostly written in Yiddish. Only the 4 lines in the beginning is in Hebrew, The main idea in the letter is to call the kindness and generosity of Mrs Peas and her husband

I have found information about a number of relatives in this database of Latvian Inhabitants: http://pases.arhivi.lv/index.php?temavb=en# and I'm hoping that someone who knows about Latvian records

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