Many people are finding out they have hidden Jewish ancestry. If you wonder how you have Jewish ancestry in a DNA ancestry test, or discover you have Jewish ancestry from a family member, discover hidden Jewish genealogy.
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DNA testing is an unparalleled genealogical resource, yet 15 years after the inception of genetic genealogy many genealogists and family historians remain unclear about its use. As a result, DNA testing is underutilized and potential knowledge goes unrealized. To remedy […] ...
“Genetic genealogy is certainly considered to be a powerful tool in the arsenal, … and in recent years, much progress and many success stories have occurred due to a combination of technological advancements and a dramatic reduction in cost,” he said. Jewish Descent It’s well known that h...
Genealogy humor: “Only a Genealogist regards a step backwards as progress”. While amusing, it also points to an interesting issue faced by many people interested in genealogy. Many people who research their family are very focused on going back as far as they can. Perhaps the thought is th...
In this new four-part course from author and Jewish genealogy expert Jennifer Mendelsohn, you’ll get started on the path to successfully reclaiming your family’s story — beyond just knowing that your relatives were from, say, “Russia” or “Austria.” ...
One year ago we announced the new Avotaynu DNA Project AVOTAYNU, Fall 2016), an initiative managed by Adam Brown, Raquel Levy-Toledano and Michael Waas of the Avotaynu Research Partnership LLC that intends to compile a database comprising the DNA test […] Leveraging Genealogy as an Academ...
Non-Jewish people whose families have resided in the Philippines for many generations occasionally match European Jews in their Y-DNA and autosomal DNA. Guamanians who descend from Jews who converted to Christianity Jillette Torre Leon-Guerrero. "Genealogy: Challenges, Tools and Techniques." In1st...
(and thence to America) of Sephardic Jewish families which we think of today as “good old English stock,” such as Adams, Anderson, Drake, Davis and others. Another of his projects is testing the overlap between Gypsy/Roma and Jewish genealogy in Scotland, Spain and among Pennsylvania Dutch...
most current at the time of this writing as defined by the April 25, 2014 revision by the Y Chromosome Consortium (YCC), which is used by Family Tree DNA.5We also consulted the August 11, 2011 revision of the Y-DNA Haplogroup Tree by the International Society of Genetic Genealogy (ISOGG...