Posts by Jarrett Ross
33 posts
Has anyone found an 18th century matzot recipe? I am hoping for it to be tied to the Amsterdam community, or at least within the western Sephardic communities. Part of this interest has to do with these records from the Portuguese Jewish community of Amsterdam about the Jews who were assisting bakers in making matzot. https://archief.amsterdam/inventarissen/details/334/path/5.2.8.2.1I also talk ab...
The International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies is recruiting people who would like to serve in leadership positions (President, Vice President, Secretary and Treasurer). Join our team!
Last year, I used the IAJGS conference in London as an opportunity to do some serious family history tourism in London and Amsterdam. I made two videos about my trip, one about my time in London and the other about my time in Amsterdam - correlating the genealogy and history as I discuss my experiences meeting cousins and visiting ancestral locations. This trip focused heavily on my Sephardic ance...
🧬 Introducing the new AutoCluster Endogamy Tool on GEDmatch! 🌐✨🧬✨ We are proud to announce AutoCluster Endogamy, developed by Evert-Jan Blom, together with Jarrett Ross the GeneaVlogger and the fantastic crew of GEDmatch.🔍 What's AutoCluster Endo?AutoCluster Endo is a modified version of the AutoCluster clustering tool designed specifically for those dealing with endogamous matches, such as Sephar...
**Dutch Nunes Vaz Family**Many know my main focus in research is the Nunes Vaz family, with a focus on finding living descendants. I decided to make a graph of the Dutch branch of the Nunes Vaz family, showing the descendants of Abraham Nunes Vaz (born circa 1670 in Livorno), which has 4600 family members. It was made using https://learnforeverlearn.com/ancestors/ and Canva. Adding in a line to re...
A walk through Esnoga and the Names Monument with Rob Nunes Vaz and Ton Tielen. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to record the entire walk and the audio gets a bit muffled at points, but a lot of interesting history is covered!
A walk through Beth Haim Ouderkerk aan de Amstel with Jan Straver and cousins from the Nunes Vaz family. There is a 4k option for viewing if your screen has the resolution.
Esnoga with Ton Tielen and Rob Nunes Vaz. Taped a 4k video walk through that I'll be posting soon.
First full day of the IAJGS conference included the largest in person meeting of Sephardic genealogists in many years, many of whom (if not almost all) are part of this group.
The first time all four of us have been together.
Hello everybody! I am currently working at improving DNA tools for endogamous populations (such as Jewish populations) by testing some modified clustering algorithms for endogamous matches through GEDmatch. I have been working with Evert-Jan Blom, who developed the autocluster tool, and we came up with some settings (min average segment size, min amount of shared DNA between shared matches, etc) t...
A deep dive into the sources behind the claims about Moses Cohen Henriques and Abraham Cohen Henriques, as described in the book Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean by Edward Kritzler. A big Thank You to Ton Tielen for his research and assistance in providing documents for this video.
Researching 17th century Jewish communities in Israel? Time to brush up on your Portuguese and head to the Amsterdam Archives.
The stories of the origin of the Portuguese Jewish Community of Amsterdam are quite interesting, but how true are they? Ton Tielen joined me in this video to discuss these stories. [https://youtu.be/ypsIOgpYvT8](https://youtu.be/ypsIOgpYvT8?fbclid=IwAR0xPaDxEggyAQPTzxbPpdqAK4j2044gYyLdqgnyVzyTzuKGWE2DhrZxmP8)
I was recently contacted by a gentleman who has taken it upon himself to digitize and upload thousands of postcards and letters relating to Sephardic and Mizrahi Jewish communities. I myself have found dozens of letters and postcards for my Nunes Vais family in Italy and Libya. This collection seems to be mostly from the mid-19th century to the mid-20th century but I have also seen a few images fr...
TOMORROW!!!Don't miss out on the Genealogy Battle of the century!This entertaining event moderated by Jordan Auslander will pit two well-known genealogists against each other as they battle to the death (certificate) to prove who has the better-documented tree before our panel of three expert judges. Alternating round by round, the two contestants will have two minutes to provide evidence for each...
I descend from the Dutch branch of the Nunes Vaz family but there are also known branches in Livorno, Jamaica, and Suriname but no documented proof that they were the same family. In my newest video I discuss the research going into working to prove whether or not they are the same family, including an in-depth Y-DNA project.
My newest video discusses how the migration of Dutch Jews in the mid-19th century (Ashkenazi and Sephardi) led to the 8 hour work day. This video is part of #ProjectGenealogy, a collaboration between 7 genealogy youtubers where we all created a video around the topic of Migration.
Genetic Genealogy for those with Jewish ancestry can be an extremely difficult endeavor to undertake. Lack of documentation and endogamy make it difficult to find significant genetic matches. In my newest video I discuss different tips and tricks on how to overcome problems of endogamy and identify significant genetic matches on Ancestry, 23andMe, Family Tree DNA, MyHeritage, and Gedmatch.A lo...
I imagine many in this group who have researched the community in Amsterdam during the 19th century have used the Bevolkingregisters - and if you haven't, definitely check it out ([https://archief.amsterdam/indexen/index.nl.html](https://archief.amsterdam/indexen/index.nl.html)). In 1943 a Dutch resistance group led by Willem Arondeus, an openly gay artist and writer, bombed the public records off...
Just saw Schelly Talalay Dardashti's presentation on Sephardic research at RootsTech. Lots of interest and hopefully some new members joining our group as well.
Amsterdam was a central hub within the Sephardic diaspora and the Amsterdam city archives holds countless documents about Sephardim all over the World. Many of the documents held here are discussed on a daily basis within our group. The documents in the city archives are available for free online (http://archief.amsterdam), but for anyone who does not speak Dutch the website can be a bit burdensom...
While researching the Livorono community I found this interesting chart towards the end of the record book Serie Deliberazioni Unità 4SGov3. I am curious if anyone can give further insight into this. It seems to have something to do with tombstones but I see names listed multiple times. I think this may be of special interest to some as a lot of de Medina family members are listed, a family which ...
== GROUP ANNOUNCEMENT == -- POPULAR TOPICS --A new tool available to our group is Popular Topics, a tagging system which allows us to categorize posts. We are asking members to begin tagging their posts with the Topic(s) which are relevant to that post. You can tag up to 5 topics per post. You can also tag any previous posts of yours in our group if you would like them categorized and easily searc...
Hello Everyone,While this may not directly apply to The Sephardic Diaspora (although it could be applicable), I am helping spread the word about what is happening in some of the Ukrainian archives and I believe this is a very important subject matter. Many in this group know the importance of open access to records, as a vast majority of the research done in this group benefits from the open-acces...