I have a relative born in Germany in 1900, trained as a lawyer just after WWI. When she married a much older doctor, he told her she could no longer work (she described this to me in a matter-of-fact

#general

Sounds as though there's an opportunity to start a peer-reviewed publication!

#education #dna #general

To anyone searching for German ancestors, One side of my family is German/Dutch, and I have found good records going back to the early 1700s on almost all lines. The surnames do sometimes shift a bit,

#germany

I want to make an observation given the direction this thread has taken. If you do not post your tree, thinking that this way you are protecting your family's privacy, that's an illusion. Using Ancest

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To follow up on Adam's comment: Adam has done incredible work piecing together our Cohanim line. My mother's brother did yDNA testing in 2009, and, thanks to Adam, during the last year I have gained a

#dna

Hi Marilyn and anyone else looking for Kindertransportees -- This is the best resource for information about host families and other notes: https://www.worldjewishrelief.org/about-us/your-family-histo

#unitedkingdom

No one has figured out a reliable way to calculate ethnicity based on geography. MyHeritage says in their blog that they rely on customer-reported trees. If MyHeritage has ten customers who state that

#dna

I have watched a number of testimonies. I complete the form, indicate my relationship to the interviewee, and generally receive the link within a couple of days. The Foundation did an incredible job o

#holocaust

I am not planning to read the book, but I wonder if it goes into more detail about the process. As shown in the segment, the approach was almost cavalier, with possible suspects dismissed because "he

#holocaust

The timing of this episode, airing the day after Colleyville, has triggered my ever-present paranoia. Will the takeaway for the masses be "Jews are their own worst enemies -- betraying and killing eac

#holocaust

My family lived in Kansas City in the 1920s and 1930s and I grew up there. Those photos do not look like Kansas City to me although they could be St Joseph, which had a significant Jewish population.

#photographs

Hi Helen, I used Mike Tubbs at Vinyl Revival to digitize old recordings: https://www.vinrev.com/index.html Very fast, very affordable, and getting to hear voice recordings from 70 years ago was pretty

#general

One point of amplification: although Russian does not have the equivalent of an H (so "Hamlet" is "Gamlet") there is a guttural H, eg the first sound in the word "challah." It is represented in the Ru

#lithuania

I still receive the litvak SIG emails, but "daily digest" might be the problem -- there are so few emails that it would take months to compile a digest's worth, and the system may not be able to handl

#lithuania

As a Jew with no known New York connections -- at least not before WWII! -- it's not at all uncommon to find clusters of Jews in cities outside the East Coast. My Lithuanian ancestors (immigrated 1880

#usa

Apparently their "50+ generations" claim is based on providing your Y-DNA and mtDNA haplogroups -- information that is included with 23andMe tests, or you can drill down deeper with specific FamilyTre

Genendel (with various English spellings).

#translation

The possibilities range from a name change/borrowing a name to half-brothers or cousins to just a regular mistake. One of my relatives had five sons, two of whom used variations of their names (Israel

#names

Thanks for bringing this up, Perry. I have wondered the same for years, and still don't have a good explanation for the name changes. In my case, multiple family members traveled from Lithuania to the

#lithuania

I don't think anyone has mentioned World Jewish Relief

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