DNA Toolbox

I've been interested in DNA testing and analysis for several years (and for many genealogists, it takes several years to really understand how to use DNA).

At the top of my blog, I have added the tab called DNA Resources. Last year, I added a DNA Toolbox to my other blog, From Maine to Kentucky, and I thought that a DNA Toolbox would be helpful for me and my readers at this blog. Many of the resources are the same: links to my favorite genetic genealogy blogs and links to some online video resources, but, of course, on this blog, I include links to all the posts I have written about DNA in my research on my husband's family, as well as links to a couple of blogs that include posts about genetic genealogy with a Jewish focus.

I will add to this toolbox in the future when I find new resources for DNA.

If you have a great online resource for DNA, especially with regards to Jewish genetic genealogy, let me know and I will add it.

Remember, once your results are in (from whatever test you have taken), please upload them to GEDmatch.com, where you can take advantage of other DNA analysis tools and find cousins who have tested at other DNA companies.

(Almost) Wordless Wednesday ~ Unknown Child

This photograph came to me from my mother-in-law. She thinks it might be one of her mother's Litwin cousins. There is nothing written on the back. I love the bell being used as a prop to keep the child occupied during the photography session!

Could this be a child of Samuel Litwin and Sophie (Levitas) Litwin of Newark, New Jersey? Their children were David Litwin (b. May 1896), Moses Litwin (b. 1907), and Jeanette Litwin (b. 1910).

I have written about the Litwins at:
Sunday's Obituary ~ Samuel Litwin, 1935
Workday Wednesday ~ Assemblyman David Litwin

M. Olesky, the mark of the photographer, is likely Morris Olesky, found in the 1900 and 1910 U.S. Federal Census with occupation of photographer, but not found in the Newark, New Jersey, city directories for this period of time. Too bad the lower right hand corner has broken off; I wonder if there was additional information there.

If you know who this child is or if you descend from Samuel and Sophie Litwin of Newark, New Jersey, please contact me at elizhandler -at- gmail.com.