ancestry Archives – Jewish Journal

This Poem Would Cost You Money at Ancestry Dot Com – A Poem for Torah Portion Va’era

Rick Lupert January 23, 2020

Discovering My Ancestors’ Past

Pat Kramer September 25, 2019

Poem: Ancestry

Jewish Journal February 11, 2016

A poem by Jason Schneiderman

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.

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.