Research Catalog

Title

Endogamy : one family, one people / Israel Pickholtz.

Author

Pickholtz, Israel

Publication

Millsboro, Delaware : Colonial Roots, 2015.

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Details

Description

xx, 201 pages : illustrations, genealogical tables; 23 cm

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.

Subject

• Pickholtz family
• Jews, European > Genealogy
• Genetic genealogy
• Endogamy and exogamy > Europe > History

Genre/Form

• Genealogy
• History

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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
• SCSB-10842945

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library