I would take the Ancestry, which can be uploaded to MyHeritage and FTDNA. It will give you plenty of data to start with. There will plenty of opportunities later on for more discounted tests, for Fath

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Neither mt-DNA nor Y-DNA crosses over in meiosis, so neither changes much over many centuries. With either of these you will get a code for a supposed ancestor in the all - female or all - male line a

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IGRA invites you to join us as we host Gil Bardige in our 2021 Webinar Series. The Zoom Webinar is at 7 pm Israel time - noon EST. Gil's topic is: "Help! I Just Got My DNA Results and I'm Confused". F

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ZOOM MEETING May 4, 2021, 7:00 PM EDT The Genetic Heritage of the Jewish People: An Introduction Speaker: Adam Brown DNA testing is now a well-established tool in the genealogist’s toolkit, and succes

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Good morning from Brooklyn, I am sharing my DNA success story from this weekend, notwithstanding both endogamy and pedigree collapse in my family ancestry. I tested family members a few years ago on F

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That's probably Pacific Daylight Time.

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Many of us have sent our DNA off to a firm, curious about what we might find. We receive an ethnicity estimate followed often by a long list of matches ranging from 2nd cousins to more distant ones. S

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In my post, I should have suggested to see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Philip,_Duke_of_Edinburgh to understand why this is relevant to Constantine I , King of the Greeks.

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"By Jewish law, tradition and practice, a Jew is a Jew is a Jew, whether their nearer relations lived in Ethiopia or China or Brooklyn or Aleppo. We are all one people (Yes, there are distinctions, di

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Santa Cruz Jewish Genealogy Society (SCJGS) invites you at 1pm Pacific Standard Time on April 18th Jewish Genealogy DNA Basics and Beyond with David Ellis Register for ZOOM link Non-Member $5 Donation

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Many of us have sent our DNA for analysis, curious about what we might find. We receive an ethnicity estimate and a long list of matches ranging from 2nd cousins to more distant ones. Sometimes we are

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Update: The negative comments I wrote was about the book Seed Of Israel: DNA Guide To Tracing Your Jewish Ancestry by Joshua Robbin Marks. It was from a review at Amazon. It was not about the book by

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Santa Cruz Jewish Genealogy Society (SCJGS) invites you at 1pm Pacific Standard Time on April 18th Jewish Genealogy DNA Basics and Beyond with David Ellis Register for ZOOM link Non-Member $5 Donation

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I am looking for a book on Ashkenazic Jewish DNA or Jewish Genetic Genealogy that is newer then the book I found on WorldCat. Tracing your Jewish DNA for family history & ancestry : merging a mosaic o

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I believe this article, over 3 years old, is still relevant to "your proof you are related": https://clevertitletk.medium.com/no-you-dont-really-have-7-900-4th-cousins-some-dna-basics-for-those-with-j

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Unfortunately FTDNA counts segments as small as 1 cM, while MyHeritage only counts from 6 cMs up. Both overstate the true identical by descent cMs (the others are Identical by State). The standard is

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I use a spreadsheet, as it can be sorted easily. I think I started with a spreadsheet generated through MyHeritage and adapted it for my needs. In the file, I have one sheet sorted by the name/usernam

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I went to college (CCNY) with Irena Klepfisz, who was born in the Warsaw Ghetto. Her father, Michael, was a hero defender. She and her mother made it to Sweden after the war and then to NYC, where her

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Anything around 1.1% is not significant or relevant. Just noise. Schelly Talalay Dardashti (Tracing the Tribe - Jewish Genealogy on FB) New Mexico

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I also ask for e-mail since it is much quicker to reply, especially when I am at the office, and it is easily searchable Max Heffler Houston, TX

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