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ancestry
How to get started on your family tree
Jewish Journal
February 18, 2015
Building your family tree has never been easier. Here are some quick steps to help you get started.
Jefferson was Jewish? Who knew?
Lloyd Garver
March 16, 2007
Geneticists reporting in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology concluded that this Founding Father may have had a Sephardic Jew on one of the limbs of his family tree in the 15th century.
What’s Portuguese for Cohen?
Marcus Moraes
April 29, 2004
A major new tool can help Brazilians learn about their possible Iberian Jewish origins: the "Dictionary of Sephardic Surnames," a 528-page tome featuring some 17,000 surnames of Sephardic Jewish families from Portugal, Spain and Italy and their descendants.
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