Posts by Colin Cohen
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My grandfather is the architect mentioned and shown here. Vijay, despite what it says, is his great-great-grandson
A while back, excuse my short-term memory loss, I think here I posted about my probable Dutch origins, but FB search does not let me find who or where my past was. Herman Jacob [Chaim] [Ha]Cohen born in Holland 1795=96 according to the 1841/51 census which do not agree. Someone provided some links which I hope I thanked them for. I eventually got round to following it up and found something that m...
I am being bombarded by Black Friday DNA geni kits. For an Askenazi with Sephardic connections is there anything to choose between My Heridage, Ancestry or 23 and me tests? Thanks
Excuse my ignorance. Apart from its hyperbole and the errors corrects at the root of the article is this generally accurate?
This talk by the author of *Plumes* in February recently became available. It's fascinating! [https://www.spl.org/books-and-media/library-podcasts?terms=Abrevaya&types=podcast](https://www.spl.org/books-and-media/library-podcasts?terms=Abrevaya&types=podcast)
Just seen this interesting article https://gizmodo.com/how-dna-testing-botched-my-familys-heritage-and-probab-1820932637?utm_source=digg&utm_medium=email which includes a link to an analysis of different services at https://isogg.org/wiki/Autosomal_DNA_testing_comparison_chart - none of t encourages me to take the plunge!
Is this 'Black Friday' deal any good? https://www.myheritage.com/dna All I know about DNA testing is that it can be very misleading, but I have no idea if any providers are better than others, or if the tests are more or less reliable for Jews [cross-posted]
Am I Jewish, and if so of what flavour?My cousin by marriage, the polymath Jonathan Miller, said he was more Jew-ish than Jewish, not the whole hog as he put it. I hope perhaps people will have the patience to read this complex story through and offer me some advice.I’ve done a lot of family research and have a mass of biographical info as I seem to have had some interesting ancestors. However I c...
This BBC story might be of interest. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-40386777 If you click on the photographer's name at the foot of the page there is information about his book on the subject
Is it just me? I keep getting posts in this group [perhaps one in ten of them] with error messages. Most commonly the top one, but now also
I seem to have 'lost' the post, which I am sure came from this group about the book '¿Tiene usted Raíces Judías. I am told by Shavei Israel that it has been translated into English and is now being edited as 'Do you have Jewish Roots?'
Someone asked me [before Christmas I think] about my portraits 'Mr & Mrs Philips', but now I can't find the post. If you reply to this I'll gladly tell you what I know
Hi, I am wondering if this is the place to get some advice/help. My tree goes back to C18 in England for most of the branches. I have in the back of my mind that one branch is Sephardic and the other Ashkenazi, but I'm not sure how you tell! Was there a point [obviously well before marrying out came about] when marriages between the two stands were rare and exotic, in the UK or elsewhere? Please ...