JewishGen offers the popular class, "Brick Wall or Dead End", starting February 2 - February 23 Frustrated and at a Loss ? Are you at a Dead End or just experiencing a Brick Wall? Are you stumped by a

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Thank you to everyone who replied to my question below! There seemed to be no consensus among the answers. Richard May ferdlilac@... North Carolina, U.S.A. I have 1 known Ashkenazi great grandpa

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The Jewish Genealogical Society of Portland is pleased to announce its January program Endogamous DNA presented by Emily Aulicino. The program will be held January 19, 2020 at 10:30AM at Neveh Shalom

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It is more likely that you inherited more than your proportionate share of your ggp's dna. We each receive half our dna >from each parent, but it is a random half. Assume that your ggp had only 8 gene

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Dear Mr. May, The 1/8th is an average - or the mean of the distribution. Only from your parents is it exactly 50-50. But >from your grandparents or great grandparents the percentages vary. For example

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Dear community, I have 1 known Ashkenazi great grandparent of 8. One eight is 12.5%. According to 23andMe, FTDNA, AncestryDNA and MyHeritage DNA my DNA is about 20% Ashkenazi. All agree on this. This

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My husband, Thomas Rose, is descended from Napoleon Jonathan Roos who was born about 1778 in Alsace Germany and died in Speyer Germany in 1857. My husband’s great grandfather was Isadore Rose, born in

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I am seeking the descendants of any brothers of my great grandmother Bertha (aka Basha/Hadassah) Plottvosky or Platnowski (c 1845-1921) and her sister Rebecca (Reva Gitel) Plottnovsky or Platnowski. T

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Register Now for JewishGen Class January 3 to January 24, 2020 Research Your Roots using JewishGen is designed for researchers who want to become more efficient in using the JewishGen website. If you

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There has been much in the press about the recent disclosure that a Florida judge provided a warrant for law enforcement to search an entire voluntary DNA genealogy database (GEDMatch) to help solve a

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JewishGen Education has updated its classes and its formats 2020 We are delighted to offer a new range of courses in 2020. 1. 3 week Mentored Classes with personal instruction based on helping a stude

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JewishGen Education has updated its classes and its formats 2020 We are delighted to offer a new range of courses in 2020. 1. 3 week Mentored Classes with personal instruction based on helping a stude

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The DNAPainter website <https://dnapainter.com/tools/sharedcmv4> has a "Shared cM Project Tool" page where you can put in your number of shared cM and it will list the likely relationships, and the pr

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The DNAPainter website <https://dnapainter.com/tools/sharedcmv4> has a "Shared cM Project Tool" page where you can put in your number of shared cM and it will list the likely relationships, and the pr

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Much too close for a 3rd cousin, or even a 2nd, unless the lady was (say) a child of two first cousins who married. A little weak for a 1st cousin, although not completely ruled out. My money's on a f

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I recently uploaded my wife's uncle's Family Finder DNA results to MyHeritage and soon noticed a very significant match of Shared DNA of a female: 10.3% (731.6 cM) with longest segment of 111.6 cM! Th

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Hi, Adam! You may already be fully aware of this, but there is a big difference between genetic distance and generational distance. Genetic distance is how many Y STR markers you don't share with a ma

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Hi, Adam! You may already be fully aware of this, but there is a big difference between genetic distance and generational distance. Genetic distance is how many Y STR markers you don't share with a ma

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Earlier this week I posted about a Florida judge granting a warrant to law enforcement to search GEDmatch’s full database. The court basically overruled the public DNA company’s policy on privacy. Sin

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In a recent decision, the Quebec Court of Appeals declared the 2017 Genetic Non-Discrimination Act (the "Act"), adopted by the federal Parliament and which came into force on May 4, 2017, to be ultra

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