The Avotaynu DNA Project managed by Adam Brown, Raquel Levy-Toledano and Michael Waas of the non-profit Avotaynu Research Partnership LLC has entered its second phase and now seeks male participants for a study of Eastern Sephardi paternal yDNA lineages, specifically […]
Shealtiel Family World Reunion in Mexico City, July 1st – 5th, 2015
The Shealtiel Family World Association is delighted to announce its exciting 8th World Family Reunion from July 1 – 5, 2015 in Mexico City. The reunion, packed with interesting activities from beginning to end, is an opportunity for cousins from […]
Genealogy of Yanniote Jews (Jews from Ioannina, Greece)
Ioannina, a small city in northwestern Greece near the Albanian border, was home to Jews for more than 1,300 years from the eighth century until the present.1 Due to its location west of the Pindos Mountain Range, the community was […]
History and Genealogy of the Jews of Rhodes and Their Diaspora
From the Ottoman Turkish conquest of Rhodes in 1522 until the Holocaust, a vibrant Judeo-Spanish community flourished on this Mediterranean isle. Many books and articles richly chronicle the history of this relatively small community.1 From antiquity, a Romaniote (Greek-speaking) Jewish […]