Happy 9th Blogiversary!

I have been blogging at A Jewish Genealogy Journey for nine years, but sadly, not very much in the past year.

The few posts that I wrote this year actually didn't involve much writing! I shared several photographs from my mother-in-law's Romanian-Israeli family. I had a brief email conversation with a relative in Israel who is my husband's fourth closest DNA match at AncestryDNA sharing 184 cM, which is a lot of shared DNA, even in an endogamous Ashkenazic Jewish population.

I hope he sees this message and gets back to me - his mother recognized some of the names from my 1960s snapshots from Israel and I would love to confirm the relationship.

I can report that I have done my best to identify all of the descendants of my husband's great-grandparents; that is, all of his second cousins. This helped me identify a second cousin match at AncestryDNA with 228 cM of shared DNA, even though my mother-in-law had never heard of the name.

The Oceanic from Ancestry.com.
Passenger Ships and Images [database on-line].

I am working on a series of posts about Moritz / Morris Stern, a cousin who met Josef Handler when he arrived in New York in April 1910. There may not be records to confirm his cousin relationship to Josef, but they likely are cousins: Josef's grandmother was a Stern.

For those of you still reading my blog, thank you! I will try to post a little more often in the coming year.