Such a bargain! - A DNA sale
From FamilyTreeDNA.com comes a great-end-of-year promotion.Their recent Full Mitochondria Sequence sale was the most successful promotion in the company's history. Growing the databases - Y-DNA and mtDNA - at FamilyTreeDNA means that more researchers around the world are more likely to find genetic co

Out of Africa: Dr. Spencer Wells in San Diego, Nov. 11
National Geographic's Explorer-in-Residence Dr. Spencer Wells will speak at the San Diego Natural History Museum, on Wednesday, November 11.The program begins at 6.30pm in the Charmaine and Maurice Kaplan Theater. The related exhibit is at the Museum of Man."Deep Ancestry: Inside th

New York: Catskills then and now, Nov. 15
Tracing the Tribe just heard from Phil Brown of the Catskills Institute about this screening of "Four Seasons Lodge" and a session on Catskills nostalgia on Sunday, November 15, in New York City.Readers who attended the 2006 International Conference on Jewish Genealogy in New York City, will remember Phil's very emotional talk on the Catskills.A Paradise Off Route 17: The Catskills Then and Now“Four Seasons Lodge” is the award-winning documentary about a bungalow colony populated by Holocaust survivors. The program continues with a lively discussion about Catskills nostalgia, mink coats in July and the quest for an American-Jewish uto

Illinois: Family history Internet resources, Nov. 8
The Jewish Genealogical Society of Illinois will host Harriet Rudnit on "Using World Wide Web Resources in Researching Your Family History," on Sunday, November 8.The program will cover use of various websites and the finer points of searching Google, Ancestry and JewishGen. It is geared to all

Gesher Galicia: Lviv Photo Project
For many researchers around the world, traveling back to the homes of our ancestors may an impossible dream.Wouldn't it be great to see the house our great-great-grandparents lived in? Or, to bring it forward to more contemporary times, perhaps the house you or your parents lived in?