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

I have started working on various branches histories.  They are continual works in progress and there is no rhyme or reason as to which ones I put up and when.  If you are a family member (or a friend) and have something to add please feel free to share it. #familyhistory #genealogy