![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Good luck on your search and please keep us posted.Memorial Healthcare offers patients a full-service laboratory for receiving various types of testing. This overestimates the number of true cousins. Navigating GEDmatch can be hard for a beginner and since the online tutorials are not that good, try to find your own tutor to take you through it. It also has kits from all over since it is free. It is free and has good tools for comparing DNA's. GEDmatch is like the big watering hole for genealogists. These three commercial sites have limited tools for comparing DNA but you can search for free on these sites. Although Ancestry has the most kits, FTDNA and MyHeritage may have relatively more Jewish ones. You can download your data from Ancestry and then upload it to FamilyTreeDNA, MyHeritage and GEDmatch. Your relatives may know more than what they are saying. Since you are 51% Jewish (presumably Ashkanzai), he was 100% himself. If you wish, please tell us more about your father and how much you want to learn about him. Zora, you are going to make a lot of people very curious and receive requests to unravel this mystery. Let us all hope Zora finds the answers she is looking for. Unless someone knows otherwise, not a lot of wiggle room there. That is possible when one parent is 100% the same. In Zora's case, I would bet that the ethnicity estimate is right. Any way, they are sisters-in-law and not a wife. From a Halachic standpoint, you are probably safe. When you say you may be cousins of your sisters-in-law, coming up a third or more degree cousin probably means you can add a few more degrees to the relationship. We cannot all live in Israel or Crown Heights and insulate ourselves from the non-Jewish world so we make certain accommodations to our own realities. I know of mixed marriages where the non-Jewish partners, converted or not, have more respect for Judaism than some born Jewish. Being Jewish is just like everything else in life: complicated. Hi Dave, Thanks for your interesting post. I know it sounds tedious but it can yield surprising clues about your mother if not your birth father. Don’t discard recurring female connections that may appear they may have had brothers or cousins that are important. Try google to pursue any clues you may find. Any other information about your mother from relatives from this time period should also be explored for a recurring male name, for example where she worked, who were her best friends, did she attend a particular church, any volunteer activities like the Red Cross, or social clubs.all focused around the time of your conception. If her workplace is listed, google that with the year of your conception and see if you can find her there.if so look for other workers there when she was there. I suggest creating a timeline for your mother on a general genealogy site like ancestry focusing on city directories and if appropriate the census about the time of your conception and looking for anyone else living at her address. My offering is more directed to my personal approach to brick walls. I always learn so much from the helpful insight of Jewish Gen members. Lots of interesting responses to your post. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
Details
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |