Most Popular Posts

Here is a list of some of my most visited posts over time.  I hope you enjoy reading them as well! (Last updated May 8, 2016)

• How Genealogy Saved (or Significantly Changed) My Life 

• Aunt Shaindel was Lost -- and Found (A DNA Success Story)  

• Funniest Census Record Ever 

• My 4th Great Grandfather's Land--Cadastral Maps  

• How Endogamy Looks in Practice

• Sonia Diamond, July 14, 1922 - January 2, 2015

• Series: How to Find European Records

• Mapping my DNA  

• Holocaust Memorial Day

• My Pedigree Has Collapsed!  

• Leveraging Google Maps in Genealogy 

• When You Can't Find a Ship Manifest

• The Other Shmuel Moshe Rutner 

• My Haplogroup Tree 

• Double Cousins, Double the Fun? 

• Temporary American Immigration 

• Malka Vizel Fuchs's Parents--Compiling the Clues to Find My 4th Great Grandparents

• Surname-Morphing Census Entries (Plus a New 5th Great Grandfather)

• Happy 145th Anniversary--Sort Of! 

• Award for Greatest Distance and Time-Lapse for a Birth Registration

• Endogamy In Action; Sibling Edition 

• Endogamous Diamonds, Continued

• My Great Grandparents' Two Marriages in One Week 

• IAJGS2013 Conference - Day 3

• Sheva Baich and My First A-File

• Finding Eastern European Records--Series of Posts

• My great-great grandmother's maiden name was....WHAT?

• My great-great grandmother's maiden name--SOLVED (I think)!

• My Fifteen (Or More Like Two) Minutes of Fame 

• Paul Diamond's C-File (Part 1/2)

• Sonia Bajcz Diamond: Growing up in Horochov (1922-1935, part 1)

• Paul Diamond's C-File (Part 2/2) 

• Deciphering History

• David Marienhoff's Military Service--And Discharge

• Please Excuse Me from My Court Date--It is my Sabbath

• We Were Slaves--But Became Slaveowners 

• Tracking the Newly-Discovered Diamond Cousins....

• Where Are My Samovars???? 

• There Goes the Inheritance 

• The Mystery of Naftali Hirsh Tolchinsky, Solved

• Lou & Minnie Tolchin - 1989 Interview 

• The Supkoff--um, Zubkis--Family

• Ancestor Deep Dive: Zlata Tzipra Sanshuck Supkoff 

• My Great Grandfather's Signature!!

• Ancestor Deep Dive: Yechiel Suttleman 

• Before Shpikov -- Welcome to Kuna! 

• The Muravitsa Fire of 1858

• Tuesday's Tip - Google Maps in Genealogy

• Tombstone Tuesday - Memorial for Holocaust Victims 

• Starting in Genealogy--for Free