Geni.com, host of the online World Family Tree, and Family Tree DNA, a global leader in genetic genealogy, announced today that they have partnered to integrate Family Tree DNA test results into Geni’s World Family Tree. Today the partners activated a […]
MyHeritage Launches Book Matching
Books have always been one of the best resources for family history: they are often very organized and well-researched, and many of them were written by contemporaries of our ancestors. But for those of us who have spent countless hours […]
A Family Tree of Scottish Jewry: Records-Retrieval Stage Completed!
The International Institute for Jewish Genealogy (IIJG) has been engaged for three years in an exhaustive demographic study of the Scottish Jewish community from the founding of the community to the present. The IIJG is pleased to announce that Michael […]
Updated: Future Developments in Jewish Family History Research
As amply documented by Avotaynu over the last three decades, members of the Jewish genealogical community have made important contributions to the field of online genealogy with innovations such as the Jewish Genealogical Family Finder, the Daitch-Mokotoff Soundex, JewishGen, and […]
European Union’s Proposed “Right to be Forgotten” Described
We have been reading and hearing about the European Union’s “Right to be Forgotten” and “Right to be Erased” both through a proposed data privacy regulation and a recent European Union Court of Justice decision. This article is an attempt […]
My 5th-Grade Family Tree Project
My son Joey’s fifth-grade class at Sinai Akiba Academy is participating in the worldwide “My Family Story” competition sponsored by Beit Hatfutsot, the Museum of the Jewish People, on the campus of Tel Aviv University. The kids have to start […]
Opinion: Concerns About “Collaborative Genealogy” Websites
The presentation of Adam Brown and E. Randol Schoenberg at the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies’ conference in Boston in August 2013 and their articles in AVOTAYNU, Summer 2013, examine the future of genealogy research with particular attention to […]
Opinion: Is Our Tree Better Than My Tree? The Benefits and Pitfalls of Collaborative Genealogy
Until recently, we began by building our own individual family trees. We started with our parents, siblings, children, spouses and continued to fill in as much as we could. When we reached a branch where we did not know the […]
The Value of Creating a Family Name Website
Why create a genealogy website? All genealogists researching an uncommon family name should make use of modern communication medium and display their research on a public website. This is our emphatic conclusion two-plus years after publishing the Amdur family website […]
Interactive website Brings Our Family Tree to Life
Genealogists Adam and Jacob Brown describe the genealogical breakthroughs achieved via the Geni.com genealogical platform.
Transatlantic Gap: Publishing “Private” Personal Data
This article first appeared in French in the Revue of the Cercle de Genealogie Juive—Ed. Jewish genealogists have become a worldwide community: Worldwide because, although Jews forever have been migrating, the events of the 20th century have dispersed us over […]