On a recent Finding Your Roots genealogy show on PBS, it turns out the original surname of comedian Lewis Black's family was "Blech".

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Hi, There was actually another person asking about the Laniado family (from Livorno Italy, I believe). My only comment is that there were Laniados from Syria (Sam Laniado from Brooklyn NY sent a congr

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Hi, Unfortunately, I cannot help you, but I want to make sure that you know that there were Laniados in Syria. All the best in your research!

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We took a wonderful Jewish tour in Montevideo Uruguay with Fanny Margolis http://www.jewishtours.com.uy/site/. We were able to visit an active synagogue, and Fanny is very knowledgeable about the Jewi

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Hi Paul, We visited Montevideo a few years ago, and had an amazing Jewish tour with Fanny Margolis who might be able to help because she has many contacts. Part of the tour included visiting a synagog

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I originally put my family tree on MyHeritage, but when I exceeded the number of entries, I created a family tree on Geni because it was free & unlimited AND so that I could link up with the World Fam

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I believe that more Israelis use MyHeritage for family trees. A couple of years ago, I was able to find a branch of cousins which was amazing....my sister then visited them when she went to Israel. AN

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Hi Steven, My father's paternal side came from Lyubcha and I have translated revision lists from 1834, 1849, and 1858. I would be happy to email them to you. Best regards,

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MyHeritage is having a special for FamilyTreeDNA (FTDNA) members. I have no affiliation with either. Here is a copy & paste of the email which I received. Karen Lukeman <Karen_Lukeman@...> Vie

My father's Kalmanowitz family was from Lyubcha. Do you have any Kalmanowitz's or Solomons in your family tree? Has anyone in your family done a DNA test (I'm on 23andme, and FTDNA, and have uploaded

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I haven't watched Unorthodox on Netflix, but here is an article which may be of interest. https://forward.com/life/442798/i-left-the-satmar-hasidic-community-unorthodox-is-a-grossly-inaccurate/?utm_so

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So glad that you have been able to open a new chapter. My husbands parents divorced right after he was born, and his mother's side did not want the father or his family to have contact with Joe. Joe l

Welcome, Zora!! Bob gave you some great advice. I've done the 23andme and FTDNA DNA tests, and uploaded my data to Gedmatch and MyHeritage. My sister Nadine did the Ancestry DNA test. As an FYI, a goo

Hi Gershon, Thanks so much for your email....I was hoping that your would write. I don't have access to my computer but I think that I have this right. My great-great-grandfather born in 1790 was Kalm

The patriarch of my family, as far as I could go back, was Kalman Kalmamowitz in Lyubcha Russia (later Poland and now Belarus)...near minsj and Vilna. There have been several Kalman Kalmamowitz's sinc

Hi, We took a wonderful Jewish tour of Montevideo with Fanny Margolis earlier this year. Fanny is very well connected with the Jewish community and enabled us to enjoy an oneg at a Synagogue. I'm sure