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  • Genealogy success story: DNA finds a surprise family member

    Marilyn Lustig|Mar 31, 2017
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    “My Jewish Roots” Workshops, sponsored by the Jewish Genealogical Society of Orlando continue in April with the workshop: “Analyze Your DNA Results.” In February of 2015, my husband Mitch decided to search for his birth mother. Adopted as an infant, he had always been very committed to his loving adoptive parents and saw no need to look for his birth family. But, after the death of his adoptive parents, he came to realize that he would like to know about his birth family after all. Since Mitch had been raised in Philadelphia, we contact...

  • Jacob Levine's mystery-a research breakthrough!

    Marilyn Lustig|Sep 16, 2016

    Marilyn Lustig attended the first of a monthly series "My Jewish Roots" workshop on Sept. 6. By attending the workshops, sponsored by the Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Orlando (JGSGO), Lustig hopes to learn more of her family's history. More information on the workshop series and the International Conference on Jewish Genealogical to be held next summer, is at the end of the article. While doing research on my family via Ancestry.com, I found a Family Tree very similar to my own,...