A German translation of the Hebrew inscription on my 6th great grandfather's headstone in the cemetery in Wandsbek, Hamburg reads in part ... unser Lehrer und Rabbiner Benjamin Wolf, gerufen L'A'A', S

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If they recorded arrivals and departures, was there also a list of people who had not moved? It would not be a census if it only recorded changes of abode. Jeffrey Herrmann

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Would you please give a brief explanation. Of what the Revision Lists were? Jeffrey Herrmann New Rochelle, NY

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There is so much garbage that has been deposited into family trees on the digital dump yards on the Internet that are called genealogical sites that I have almost entirely stopped responding to their

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The Big Y tests (500 and then 700) place the tester’s Y-DNA at the end of a twig on a small branch of a larger branch of a still larger branch etc of the Y-DNA tree. Some lucky testers will discover t

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It is sad that FTDNA does not explain their Big Y-700 in plain language, forcing customers to hire experts to interpret the results. FTDNA’s “Big Y-700 White Paper” offers these gems of technospeak to

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Adam, I think your argument is flawed. Once the last Neanderthal died about 1,600 generations ago, no new Neanderthal DNA could enter the homo sapiens population, but by random reassortment, bits of i

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Apologies to all for my Neanderthal level of arithmetic skills. The Neanderthals died out about 1,600 generations ago, not 160,000. Still, as 1,598th great grandparents, they should not have left us a

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Once you feel you have figured out these DNA puzzles, here’s another: those of us with European ancestry have about one and a half percent Neanderthal DNA, which is about as much DNA, on average, as y

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My fourth great grandfather, Michel Herschel, (b. abt 1770) married his father’s sister, Rane Herschel, (b. abt 1755) in Hamburg. She was only four years younger than Michel’s father, Meyer Wolff Hers

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Before attributing an epicanthic fold to a 12th century ancestor, it would be helpful to read the posts in the thread Autosomal Analysis Question. On average, any one ancestor’s contribution to your D

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A recent paper on the question of genetic determination of facial features found We still don’t have a complete answer to this question, but recent work published in Nature Genetics by our collaborati

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This hypothetical Chinese woman would have lived approximately 25 to 33 generations ago (assuming a generation is on average 25 yrs). No genetic genealogy text or paper I have read would support a bel

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If you have a Jewish 2nd great grandmother and if you have (or have had) your autosomal DNA tested, you would likely find many DNA matches with other people of full or partial Jewish ancestry. This co

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I am surprised that no one has responded to this statement by one of the people posting in this thread: A number of posters have written about "putting their family tree on Geni". With no disrespect,

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I asked for evidence that Geni is producing progressively more accurate genealogies rather than progressively more inaccurate ones, as the anecdotal evidence of these posts suggests. Being told that t

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Jeffrey Herrmann London

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Thanks, Bill, for that lengthy description of your experience with Geni. If I am not mistaken, FamilySearch also takes the position that once you post a tree, they own it. The problem you describe is

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In the UK, where I live, the 100,000 Genomes project has sequenced the full genomes of 100,000 members of the population. Researchers are given access to those full sequences, which have been anonymiz

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Nine years ago Yaniv Erlich, now at MyHeritage, demonstrated what could then be learned from a combination of DNA information and public data. As was subsequently reported: Erlich and his team tested

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