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Tip of the Iceberg: What Y-DNA Lineages Can Tell Us About Jewish History and...
A screencast (video) is now available for those who were unable to attend the lecture with this title that I delivered at the IAJGS 2016 Conference due to the small capacity of the room, or for those...
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Spanish-Jewish `Nobility’ of Aleppo, Syria
As recently as 1992, more than 4,000 Jews were being held against their will in Syria, unable to leave and kept under watch, branded as “Mussawi,” followers of Moses. At that time, 50,000 Jews from...
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The Jews of Tetuan, Morocco: Genealogy and Iconography
Tetuan Jewry, founded at the end of the 15th century by Spanish-speaking Jews, is a community apart in Morocco. Most other Moroccan Jewish communities were created much earlier and spoke Arabic. In...
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Personal Journeys: From One Photograph to Journeys of Research and Discovery
I first become interested in genealogy in 1992 when a cousin jotted down, on a piece of scrap paper, seven names of my paternal ancestors. From that, I discovered my connection to the rabbinic...
View ArticleThe Role of the Jewish Genealogist In Medical and Genetic Family History
Genealogists not only have been documenting their family histories, but have become the repository of vital medical and genetic history for their families. With the advent of widely available genetic...
View ArticleLeveraging Genealogy as an Academic Discipline
Genealogy as an academic discipline has been much discussed in recent years especially by Neville Lamdan, Daniel Wagner and Tom Jones, all of whom have considered the topic in detail. Lamdan is...
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An Attempt to Map “Jewish Geography”
If you happen to be Jewish, and at least culturally so, then you are probably already familiar with the concept of “Jewish Geography.” For those who are puzzled by what this is, you can search the...
View ArticleTips for Successful Research Collaboration
Collaboration can improve productivity by combining resources and wisdom to obtain a greater amount of data and construct better-reasoned conclusions. However, collaboration is also a potential source...
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Personal Journeys: Remembering Army Staff Sergeant Herbert Goldberg, 1922-1944
I believe the first time I even heard about Herbie, my grandmother’s cousin from South Jersey, was the day I asked her to dictate the family tree to me. I was so focused on writing down everything she...
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Challenges Involved in Conducting DNA Tests of Pedigreed Descendants of...
Introduction The authors have considerable experience conducting DNA lineage studies, with a focus on Y-DNA studies of the world’s historic rabbinical lineages.[1], [2], [3], [4], [5] Each of these...
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The 20th Century Jewish Community of Havana, Cuba
The organized Jewish community in Cuba lasted about 50 years during the first half of the 20th century and was composed of three essentially separate groups, the North Americans, the Sephardim and the...
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Personal Journeys: Cousin Hillary Rodham Clinton
At my home, we refer to Hillary Rodham Clinton as Cousin Hillary. More precisely, the correct term would be step-cousin. Detailed research demonstrates that Hillary’s grandmother married my father’s...
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Personal Journeys: Finding Mr. Katz
This article is a sequel to my earlier article in Avotaynu Online, entitled “From One Photograph to Journeys of Research and Discovery,”, in which I described how I uncovered and researched the...
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The Y-DNA Genetic Signature and Ethnic Origin of the Twersky Chassidic...
Throughout the centuries, the Jewish people have always prided themselves on their yichus (lineage, distinguished birth, or pedigree). Yichus was especially important for rabbinical families, and many...
View ArticlePersonal Journey: Who Were The Knisbachers of Lysiec? [AB-033]
My father, Max (Mordechai Menahem) Knisbacher was born during 1913 in Berlin and died in the U.S. on June 2, 1995. Amazingly, he preserved various pictures, letters and documents from the stops on...
View ArticlePersonal Journey: The Early Badrians of Oberschlesein
I have known about my family history since childhood, but only segments of it. My parents, Lothar and Irma Gärtner (nee Badrian) migrated to Australia from Nazi Germany in 1938, the only passengers on...
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Challenges Involved in Conducting DNA Tests of Pedigreed Descendants of...
Introduction The authors have considerable experience conducting DNA lineage studies, with a focus on Y-DNA studies of the world’s historic rabbinical lineages.[1], [2], [3], [4], [5] Each of these...
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The 20th Century Jewish Community of Havana, Cuba
The organized Jewish community in Cuba lasted about 50 years during the first half of the 20th century and was composed of three essentially separate groups, the North Americans, the Sephardim and the...
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Personal Journeys: Cousin Hillary Rodham Clinton
At my home, we refer to Hillary Rodham Clinton as Cousin Hillary. More precisely, the correct term would be step-cousin. Detailed research demonstrates that Hillary’s grandmother married my father’s...
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Personal Journeys: Finding Mr. Katz
This article is a sequel to my earlier article in Avotaynu Online, entitled “From One Photograph to Journeys of Research and Discovery,”, in which I described how I uncovered and researched the...
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