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Ashkenazim with Oriental eyes
#general
The epicanthic fold also popped up in my Ukrainian lineages but that is key...it pops up, it doesn't affect an entire family. My belief based on the history of the greater Lithuania/Poland region is t
The epicanthic fold also popped up in my Ukrainian lineages but that is key...it pops up, it doesn't affect an entire family. My belief based on the history of the greater Lithuania/Poland region is t
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Kogan/Kagan
#ukraine
Both my research and my experience are that while occasionally non-cohanim adopted a cohan surname for reasons as offered above...this was rare. In Jewish tradition---and I'm secular so not pushing a
Both my research and my experience are that while occasionally non-cohanim adopted a cohan surname for reasons as offered above...this was rare. In Jewish tradition---and I'm secular so not pushing a
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Deb Katz
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Minsk Jewish names,
#names
#belarus
Not to be contrarian, but the statement "patronyms in Russian are always "ovitch" never "ov" is not consistent with my extensive experience. I have records of Russian family (from throughout the Pale)
Not to be contrarian, but the statement "patronyms in Russian are always "ovitch" never "ov" is not consistent with my extensive experience. I have records of Russian family (from throughout the Pale)
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Deb Katz
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Brodsky Shor Torah-Frankfurt Printers
#records
#germany
#dna
#galicia
As part of researching the ancestries of men in a large J2a Cohanim DNA project, I'm seeking leads to find a torah (scroll or book) that was printed in 1600s Frankfurt by the Shor/Schorr family who we
As part of researching the ancestries of men in a large J2a Cohanim DNA project, I'm seeking leads to find a torah (scroll or book) that was printed in 1600s Frankfurt by the Shor/Schorr family who we
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Deb Katz
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Yiddish Theatre and Vadeville #YiddishTheatre Query re Child Actress surnamed Sherman
#yiddish
I am trying to help a genetic match of mine who was adopted, find out about her birth mother. Does any of the following ring a bell for anyone? All we know is the mother was a "Russian Jew", born ca 1
I am trying to help a genetic match of mine who was adopted, find out about her birth mother. Does any of the following ring a bell for anyone? All we know is the mother was a "Russian Jew", born ca 1
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Deb Katz
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Query re Child Actress surnamed Sherman
#yiddish
I am trying to help a genetic match of mine who was adopted, find out about her birth mother. Does any of the following ring a bell for anyone? All we know is the mother was a "Russian Jew", born ca 1
I am trying to help a genetic match of mine who was adopted, find out about her birth mother. Does any of the following ring a bell for anyone? All we know is the mother was a "Russian Jew", born ca 1
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Deb Katz
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DNA Research #DNA Re: DNA Racial Classifications Refuted
#dna
I popped over to the website and have to say that as a person fairly well-versed on the subjects of genetic genealogy, the role of Cohanim research in genetic genealogy as well as the history of Judai
I popped over to the website and have to say that as a person fairly well-versed on the subjects of genetic genealogy, the role of Cohanim research in genetic genealogy as well as the history of Judai
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Deb Katz
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DNA Racial Classifications Refuted
#dna
I popped over to the website and have to say that as a person fairly well-versed on the subjects of genetic genealogy, the role of Cohanim research in genetic genealogy as well as the history of Judai
I popped over to the website and have to say that as a person fairly well-versed on the subjects of genetic genealogy, the role of Cohanim research in genetic genealogy as well as the history of Judai
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Deb Katz
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DNA Research #DNA Having multiple haplogroups [was: questioning the "cohen gene"]
#dna
Shoshana... every genealogical line of DNA that you have tested will have its own haplogroup. So one person's own DNA will only have one maternal and one paternal haplogroup---your mom's mom's mom's l
Shoshana... every genealogical line of DNA that you have tested will have its own haplogroup. So one person's own DNA will only have one maternal and one paternal haplogroup---your mom's mom's mom's l
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Deb Katz
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Having multiple haplogroups [was: questioning the "cohen gene"]
#dna
Shoshana... every genealogical line of DNA that you have tested will have its own haplogroup. So one person's own DNA will only have one maternal and one paternal haplogroup---your mom's mom's mom's l
Shoshana... every genealogical line of DNA that you have tested will have its own haplogroup. So one person's own DNA will only have one maternal and one paternal haplogroup---your mom's mom's mom's l
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Deb Katz
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DNA Research #DNA Re: questioning the "cohen gene"
#dna
On 2006.07.11 Joan Hartman <joanhartman@...> asked: most of the scientific papers on the subject---the information in the blog you quoted is fairly accurate. The thing is, it looks like coha
On 2006.07.11 Joan Hartman <joanhartman@...> asked: most of the scientific papers on the subject---the information in the blog you quoted is fairly accurate. The thing is, it looks like coha
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Deb Katz
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questioning the "cohen gene"
#dna
On 2006.07.11 Joan Hartman <joanhartman@...> asked: most of the scientific papers on the subject---the information in the blog you quoted is fairly accurate. The thing is, it looks like coha
On 2006.07.11 Joan Hartman <joanhartman@...> asked: most of the scientific papers on the subject---the information in the blog you quoted is fairly accurate. The thing is, it looks like coha
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Deb Katz
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Lithuania SIG #Lithuania Litvak Town Mystery: Griega
#lithuania
I just read Geoff Munitz' query about Ulkenick, which alas I know nothing of, when it dawned on me that I'd never asked this group about a shtetl in my ancestry that's been a mystery for years. I too
I just read Geoff Munitz' query about Ulkenick, which alas I know nothing of, when it dawned on me that I'd never asked this group about a shtetl in my ancestry that's been a mystery for years. I too
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Litvak Town Mystery: Griega
#lithuania
I just read Geoff Munitz' query about Ulkenick, which alas I know nothing of, when it dawned on me that I'd never asked this group about a shtetl in my ancestry that's been a mystery for years. I too
I just read Geoff Munitz' query about Ulkenick, which alas I know nothing of, when it dawned on me that I'd never asked this group about a shtetl in my ancestry that's been a mystery for years. I too
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Deb Katz
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South Africa SIG #SouthAfrica Auerbach and this Amazing SIG
#southafrica
As a testament to the many ways a SIG like this one can be valuable, I wanted to briefly tell the tale of some connections I just made. Having received the digest with Ronnie Mink's tribute to Dr Fran
As a testament to the many ways a SIG like this one can be valuable, I wanted to briefly tell the tale of some connections I just made. Having received the digest with Ronnie Mink's tribute to Dr Fran
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Deb Katz
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Auerbach and this Amazing SIG
#southafrica
As a testament to the many ways a SIG like this one can be valuable, I wanted to briefly tell the tale of some connections I just made. Having received the digest with Ronnie Mink's tribute to Dr Fran
As a testament to the many ways a SIG like this one can be valuable, I wanted to briefly tell the tale of some connections I just made. Having received the digest with Ronnie Mink's tribute to Dr Fran
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Rabbis SILVERMAN and YORKIND
#rabbinic
I am looking for anyone who has information on or connections to the families of two 19th century Lithuanian rabbis who were brothers and whose original surname was ALTSCHULER: 1) One changed his surn
I am looking for anyone who has information on or connections to the families of two 19th century Lithuanian rabbis who were brothers and whose original surname was ALTSCHULER: 1) One changed his surn
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Deb Katz
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Rabbinic Genealogy SIG #Rabbinic Rabbis SILVERMAN and YORKIND
#rabbinic
I am looking for anyone who has information on or connections to the families of two 19th century Lithuanian rabbis who were brothers and whose original surname was ALTSCHULER: 1) One changed his surn
I am looking for anyone who has information on or connections to the families of two 19th century Lithuanian rabbis who were brothers and whose original surname was ALTSCHULER: 1) One changed his surn
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Lithuania SIG #Lithuania Dentist Speaks re Sugar and Tea
#lithuania
Jerry Hoffman, DDS emailed me to ask that I warn everyone on this list that drinking tea through a sugar cube promotes tooth decay. So he discourages us >from imitating this honored tradition. Another
Jerry Hoffman, DDS emailed me to ask that I warn everyone on this list that drinking tea through a sugar cube promotes tooth decay. So he discourages us >from imitating this honored tradition. Another
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Dentist Speaks re Sugar and Tea
#lithuania
Jerry Hoffman, DDS emailed me to ask that I warn everyone on this list that drinking tea through a sugar cube promotes tooth decay. So he discourages us >from imitating this honored tradition. Another
Jerry Hoffman, DDS emailed me to ask that I warn everyone on this list that drinking tea through a sugar cube promotes tooth decay. So he discourages us >from imitating this honored tradition. Another
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