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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 468

genealogy

Interior of the Meir Tweig Synagogue in Baghdad, Iraq, on January 7, 2022. (Sabah ARAR / AFP)
February 21, 2024, 1:38 am
Search this new list of Jewish family names from across the Middle East
Former Israeli ambassador Jacob Rosen-Koenigsbuch might be Ashkenazi himself, but his meticulous lists of names from ancient Cairo to Baghdad have earned him the title of ‘genius’
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Randy (R) and Joey Schoenberg in the Vienna City Archives, a still from the 2023 film 'Fioretta.' (Rubber Ring Films)
October 7, 2023, 4:02 am
In ‘Fioretta,’ a father and son Euro road-trip into 500 years of Jewish family history
Premiering in Israel Sunday in Tel Aviv, Matthew Mishory’s documentary follows descendants of Arnold Schoenberg as they uncover their long-buried roots in Vienna, Prague and Venice
By Gavriel Fiske
A genealogy testing kit for Ancestry/DNA is displayed in the Ackman and Ziff Family Genealogy Institute research area at the Center for Jewish History (CJH), November 29, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
January 31, 2023, 10:21 pm
Ancestry.com donates 2,500 DNA kits to help Holocaust survivors find relatives
World’s largest genealogy company gives tests to the newly launched DNA Reunion Project, a Center for Jewish History initiative seeking to unite families shattered by the genocide
By Yaakov Schwartz
From left to right: Genealogist Genie Milgrom, Reconnectar's Ashley Perry, and ASF Institute of Jewish Experience's Drora Arussy (Avrom Ariev)
September 27, 2022, 8:05 am
Initiatives help descendants of Crypto-Jews reconnect with stolen Sephardic heritage
Certificate of Sephardic Ancestry validates identity, while an online ancestral database of 45,000 Sephardic family names makes searching for roots easier
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Jackie Young in his London apartment (Detail from photograph by Dennis Carlyle Darling. Portrait from the soon-to-be-released 'Borrowed Time: Survivors Of Nazi Terezín Remember,' published by University of Texas Press)
August 24, 2022, 4:19 pm
UK man who survived concentration camp as baby finally learns his family’s identity
Jewish genealogist duo solves 80-year mystery, builds a family tree and locates living relatives after reading a ToI article about octogenarian Jackie Young’s search for his roots
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Roman Abramovich, former owner of Chelsea, smiles following the team's victory during the UEFA Champions League in Porto, Portugal, on May 29, 2021. (Alexander Hassenstein/UEFA/Getty Images via JTA)
April 2, 2022, 11:55 am
Documents linked to Abramovich’s controversial Portuguese citizenship leak online
Russian-Israeli billionaire’s naturalization has become symbol for suspected abuse of Portuguese law; surfaced documents include testimonies from rabbis, copy of Israeli passport
By Cnaan Liphshiz
From left: Marcella Morris as a young woman; Ruth Morris in her high school yearbook; Selma Morris as a young woman (Courtesy of Julie Klam)
September 20, 2021, 7:10 am
Truth trumps fiction in family mythbuster on quirky turn-of-the-century sisters
In ‘The Almost Legendary Morris Sisters,’ Julie Klam travels the globe to separate the truth from the lore about her grandmother’s 4 philanthropic chain-smoking millionaire cousins
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Jewish communal documents removed from book bindings, beginning of the 16th century (Bidspirit)
August 30, 2021, 4:50 am
Are online sales of pre-Holocaust communal records their doom or salvation?
After decades of silence about eastern European Jewish community documents ‘abandoned’ during World War II, the issue has started to ruffle feathers, from Brooklyn to Budapest
By Matt Lebovic
A Jewish wedding in Baghdad, date unknown. (courtesy/JIMENA)
April 23, 2021, 8:49 pm
Is your name on this list? Your Jewish roots may be in Cairo, Baghdad or nearby
Jacob Rosen-Koenigsbuch unveils a painstaking compilation of late 19th-century men who managed to evade Ottoman conscription, among the few available records of bygone communities
By Asaf Shalev
MyHeritage headquarters in Or Yehuda. (MyHeritage/Wikipedia/CC BY-SA)
February 24, 2021, 11:07 pm
MyHeritage to be purchased by US equity firm in reported $600 million deal
CEO of the Israel-based online genealogy platform says the agreement with Francisco Partners ‘will enable us to reach new heights’
By ToI Staff
Chuletas, a unique Crypto-Jewish presentation for a French toast creation. This is a sweet dairy recipe that turns bread and milk into a "pork chop." (Courtesy of Genie Milgrom)
September 27, 2019, 8:53 pm
Cache of Crypto-Jewish recipes dating to Inquisition found in Miami kitchen
New cookbook features unique kosher dishes unwittingly prepared by generations of a Catholic Cuban-Spanish family with hidden Sephardic Jewish roots
By Renee Ghert-Zand
A list of displaced people, including victims of Nazi persecution, published online by genealogy research company Ancestry on July 31, 2019. (Screenshot)
August 3, 2019, 2:42 am
Ancestry publishes millions of Holocaust records online in free database
Genealogy research company releases archives with information on people who were persecuted by Nazi Germany, fled Europe after war
By ToI Staff
MyHeritage headquarters in Or Yehuda. (MyHeritage/Wikipedia/CC BY-SA)
May 20, 2019, 7:28 pm
Israeli genealogy company MyHeritage takes on DNA health screening
New kits will screen for genetic markers linked to 29 separate conditions, from heart disease to Tay-Sachs, but not in Israel, where private testing is not allowed
By ToI Staff
Jennifer Mendelsohn (Matt Mendelsohn Photography)
January 24, 2018, 7:46 pm
Using #resistancegenealogy, journalist exposes immigration hardliners’ hypocrisy
As Jennifer Mendelsohn delves into the backgrounds of those strongly opposed to new arrivals today, she almost inevitably discovers ancestors with questionable entries to the US
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Shot of crowd holding up 'I'm a Cousin' signs at The Global Family Reunion in New York, June 6, 2015.(Ryan Brown)
November 27, 2017, 2:42 am
Humankind is one (happy?) family, says author who planned Global Family Reunion
In ‘It’s All Relative,’ A.J. Jacobs takes an amusing deep dive into genealogy, genetics, and family history
By Renee Ghert-Zand
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