Taking a small break from the #52Ancestors challenge - will be switching between this and that and maybe some other things. BACKGROUND So as I have mentioned in previous posts my maternal paternal 2nd great grandmother's name was Bertha (Bassie) Tillinger born on August 28, 1893 in what was then known as Stanislwow (Stanislau) in the Austrian Crownland of Galicia. Stanislwow is now known as Ivano-Frankivsk. For geographic reference Galicia was comprised of Western Ukraine and

So I am waaay behind the #52Ancestors challenge. Since I am currently unemployed I will try to catch up before the end of the year as best as I can. Stay tuned for updates...

This week’s prompt is about my favorite genealogical photo. Thankfully various family members took and kept great photos. Which makes choosing which ONE photo as my favorite to be challenging. I’d probably say I have different favorites for different reasons. Oldest photographed ancestors. Photo 1 – Thanks to my great aunt I have a scan of a copy of a photograph of my 3rd great grandmother Keetje Mozes Benjamins. Born on May 24, 1827 in Amsterdam to Mozes Benjamins Wing a

This week’s prompt is about fresh starts. In a way this blog post is a fresh start. A few years ago I tried a similar personal challenge to write a blog post a day about an ancestor, in-law, or Spaceball. This post is not meant to be a deep dive, but rather getting my feet wet and seeing where it takes me. Other previous blog posts and pages go more in depth. If asked I can always go into more detail later. As a Jewish genealogist a significant portion of my research inv

So while reading through Twitter I found the hashtag #52Ancestors which is a blogging challenge to write about one Ancestor a day. I don’t know if the challenge counts in-law branches, but I may just do them anyway as I have interesting ones. Fair warning their will be repeats from my self imposed #familytree365 challenge from a few years ago. #52Ancestors #genealogy