Endogamy : one family, one people / Israel Pickholtz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pickholtz, Israel, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews, European--Genealogy.

Jews, European.

Genetic genealogy.

Pickholtz family.

Endogamy and exogamy--Europe--History.

Endogamy and exogamy.

Europe.

Genre:

Genealogy.

History.

Physical Description:

xx, 201 pages : illustrations (some color), genealogical tables ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Millsboro, Delaware : Colonial Roots, [2015]

Summary:

Endogamy is the practice of marrying within the limits of a certain community, culture, clan, or tribe. In endogamous populations, everyone descends from the same gene pool. Jewish genealogy is difficult, and DNA testing among Jewish descendants can be difficult to interpret properly. This volume chronicles one man's quest for his ancestors using DNA testing. Learn how he selected family members to test and how the results enabled him to determine the probable families of his ancestors. These same principles can be applied to any endogamous population other than Ashkenazi Jews, including Acadians, Polynesians, and Low German Mennonites. People from Arab countries, small European villages, Newfoundland, and many island nations will also benefit from the methods shown here.

Contents:

DNA testing 101

Immediate and stunning results

"No" is also an answer

The Kwoczkas or "what do you want to prove?"

Rozdol

Filip, Jacob, and Rita

Moshe Hersch

Uncle Selig and the traffic light

Nachman, Gabriel, and Mosche

Too good to be true

Small segments: gold or fool's gold?

"I'm a Pikholz too"

Sarah Baar and Breine Riss

Simon and Barbara

What does this prove

Genes from my father

Recreation of the great-grandparents

Cousins of Hersch

Lessons in endogamy

Imperfect triangulation: Amos and Pawel, Ira and Steve

Peretz

Ron and Craig, and maybe someone else

Extreme ancestors

Chromosome twenty-three

A stopping place

Curtain call.

ISBN:

9781680340389

1680340387

OCLC:

916458996