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Central European Geneology?

topic posted Sat, March 13, 2004 - 5:45 AM by  Govega
Dear list members

We are trying to do a little research on my dad's family. We only know the names going back to my great-grand parents. As you all know, many records were destroyed during the war. My father's family comes from Austria, Czech Republic and Hungary, in the 1800's and before that rumour has that they all came from Russia, but I don't know how far back. I've tried several Jewish geneology online sites but not much there.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Penny Fischer-Otte
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    Re: Central European Geneology?

    Mon, March 15, 2004 - 10:05 PM
    I was able to find several relatives (though quite distant ones) by getting dna testing from this place: www.familytreedna.com

    If you have any brothers you should have one of them do the y-dna test, or if you have any female relatives from your father's maternal line, they could do the mtDNA (mitochondrial DNA) test. Your mtDNA test would only show your mother's line.

    The thing about the dna testing for relatives is that most or all of the matches you'll find are from MANY generations back, at least until more of us add to the database.

    My mtDNA matches are mostly descended from eastern European Jews, with a few odd matches probably going back over 500 years to Sephardic origins. But I still have no clue about the closer relatives, but it's better than nuthin.

    And my y-dna matches are from all over the freakin' place, and none of 'em have a name that's even close to any that I know.

    -alan
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