My maternal grandmother was a patient at the Workmen's Circle Sanatorium in the 1930s and her eldest son was a patient at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society in the 1940s. I have visited both of t

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Hi Arnold, As Daniel mentioned, you definitely want to do an autosomal test to start. At Family Tree DNA, that would be the Family Finder test. The MTDNA test has very limited use in Jewish genealogy.

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Hi Arnold, As Daniel mentioned, you definitely want to do an autosomal test to start. At Family Tree DNA, that would be the Family Finder test. The MTDNA test has very limited use in Jewish genealogy.

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Hi David, In my experience a 102 cM match across 7 segments at Ancestry is unlikely to be a false positive, but more likely a 3rd to 4th cousin as Ancestry predicts. Do you and your match really know

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Hi David, In my experience a 102 cM match across 7 segments at Ancestry is unlikely to be a false positive, but more likely a 3rd to 4th cousin as Ancestry predicts. Do you and your match really know

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United Synagogue has a burial lookup for their 14 cemeteries at https://www.theus.org.uk/category/find-grave You need to enter the first name (or beginning), last name (or beginning), and the year to

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United Synagogue has a burial lookup for their 14 cemeteries at https://www.theus.org.uk/category/find-grave You need to enter the first name (or beginning), last name (or beginning), and the year to

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People do DNA tests for different reasons, so they tend to reply to what meets their needs, not yours. I don't think there's any way to change that. Family Tree DNA greatly overestimates Jewish cousin

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People do DNA tests for different reasons, so they tend to reply to what meets their needs, not yours. I don't think there's any way to change that. Family Tree DNA greatly overestimates Jewish cousin

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What is your country? If you can order Ancestry.DNA >from your country, that is what I would recommend. It has by far the largest autosomal database, and the most useful analysis of Jewish DNA for cou

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What is your country? If you can order Ancestry.DNA >from your country, that is what I would recommend. It has by far the largest autosomal database, and the most useful analysis of Jewish DNA for cou

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I would recommend starting by testing your mother and yourself at Ancestry. Ancestry has by far the largest autosomal DNA database, and the most powerful tools for accurately predicting Ashkenazi clos

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I would recommend starting by testing your mother and yourself at Ancestry. Ancestry has by far the largest autosomal DNA database, and the most powerful tools for accurately predicting Ashkenazi clos

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Dear Ms. Messik, Thank you for you wonderful work on this database. I have found two of my BLOOM grand uncles there. One had an address in London that I had not seen for the family before. It also has

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Dear Ms. Messik, Thank you for you wonderful work on this database. I have found two of my BLOOM grand uncles there. One had an address in London that I had not seen for the family before. It also has

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Hi Anita, If you are in a country where Ancestry.DNA is offered (USA, UK, Ireland), I recommend testing there. You can then transfer the results to Family Tree DNA for not much money, but you can't go

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Hi Anita, If you are in a country where Ancestry.DNA is offered (USA, UK, Ireland), I recommend testing there. You can then transfer the results to Family Tree DNA for not much money, but you can't go

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Hi Judy, I am not in a DNA Circle yet at Ancestry, but their new matching analysis works much better for Ashkenazi Jews than it did before. You still get a lot of near-useless distant matches, even wh

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Hi Judy, I am not in a DNA Circle yet at Ancestry, but their new matching analysis works much better for Ashkenazi Jews than it did before. You still get a lot of near-useless distant matches, even wh

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Hi all, I've posted excerpts >from two US Petitions for Naturalization on ViewMate: http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM32960 http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?ke

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