On October 5, 2020, the Board for Certification of Genealogists (BCG) revised Genealogy Standard 57 and the Genealogist’s Code of Ethics to allow private sharing of DNA match details. The changes also

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As part of researching the ancestries of men in a large J2a Cohanim DNA project, I'm seeking leads to find a torah (scroll or book) that was printed in 1600s Frankfurt by the Shor/Schorr family who we

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Thank you for taking time to reply. * yes sorry -conversion from Judaism. No siblings. Noreen Thorne (England)

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Judy, To be honest, there is no guarantee of absolute privacy with a DNA test. All you can do is add levels of anonymity to your test results. Examples: Do not use an identifiable name. Do not attach

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This is a situation that could be unraveled using genography. When in doubt: go deep! Adam Cherson https://groups.jewishgen.org/g/main/topic/76689650?p=,,,20,0,0,0::Created,,%23dna,20,2,0,76689650,ct=

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Those dots signify you haven't viewed that entry. Jeri Friedman Florida

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Hi Jesse, Your dad's results definitely point to one fully Ashkenazi grandparent as the most likely possibility. When this is a surprise, usually it's a grandfather. The most likely scenario is also t

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The defective gene is not inherited by all Eastern European Jews, but those who have it have the same mutation. This is the same situation with Tay-Sachs Disease and Stanley Diamond's family's thalass

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A small thing about changing borders, citizenships, living mobile or staying put in Eastern Europe. Living in today’s Ukranian Zakarpatska Oblast, formerly Ruthenia, Kárpátalja, etc. meant that born i

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A Gedcom is a standard genealogy text file that can be read by any genealogy software. There are free genealogy software programs out there, that can read this file (import it). It may depend on wheth

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Dear Group, I am thankful for all the educational opportunities offered by this forum. It has helped me quite a bit. I took the JewishGen DNA course in August. I attended two DNA lectures via Zoom yes

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I have a non-Jewish friend who had a "second" cousin at Ancestry - whom he did not recognize. Both were from England. Both had very well done paper trails. He did recognize 4 surnames in his match's s

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Hi Agne, Regarding the genetic data, I would create these priorities. Try to get everyone in your mother's generation and older to test. This may be a challenge since your mother seems to be hiding so

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Thank you for clarifying this. Until now I misunderstood the issue and sincerely apologize if my previous post -- citing matches with known relatives under 20 cM total (but well above 8 cM) -- added f

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Dear Researchers, Have you ever wondered, as I have, about Jewish identity during the thousands of years between the times of Adam and Abraham, or about which specific pre-Hebraic ancient cultures wen

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The Eastern European surname DWORKIS was unique to a small area of the former Pale of Settlement. (The variant DWORKIN was more common in other regions of the Pale.) Several American DWORKIS families

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Let me add to Bernie's response. In the US, you can upload to FTDNA and MyHeritage but not to 23andme and Ancestry. GEDmatch has been up and running for about a week now. I recommend uploading everyon

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Dear Pat, You do not state in which country you are located in? Do a search in the website of the National Archives Discovery Channel at https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/results/r?_q=TCHERNY&

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The Intermediate Genetic Genealogy course is now full. We plan on offering the course again next year. Thank you, Larry Fagan

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I meant anything _BELOW_ a total of 200 cM is tricky…

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