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Tracing roots: Why every Jew should reclaim family histories disrupted by the Holocaust - opinion

Among Jews, tracing ancestry is a voyage of discovery. Many Jews of European background grew up believing that their relatives on both sides of their families had been murdered during the Holocaust

A SECTION of Jonathan Vidgop’s family tree on the walls of the Am haZikaron office in Tel Aviv.

MyHeritage's innovative offices

The family tree decorating Dvora Waysman’s home. She now has four children, 18 grandchildren and more than 30 grandchildren.

JewishGen to add millions of Jewish records to MyHeritage

MyHeritage CEO Gilad Japhet

MyHeritage acquires French competitor Filae for $37m.


Hillel's Tech Corner: Connecting the past to the future

SO WHAT does MyHeritage actually do?

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Which Backstreet Boy is Jewish?

Ain't nothing but some DNA...

The Backstreet Boys in concert, Rishon LeZion, April 22, 2018.

DNA study reveals 130,000 Hungarians are at least 50% Jewish

At least 7.6% of 4,981 people living in Hungary who took MyHeritage DNA test found to have 25% or more Ashkenazi Jewish ethnicity

An illustrative image of a mouth swab for DNA testing

13-year-old locates relatives from Montefiore Census via MyHeritage

Gilad Japhet gives Jonathan Cohen some research tips at the MyHeritage office in Bnei Atarot.

Israel becomes first country to list all cemetery tombstones online

MyHeritage, the company known for its online family tree maker has digitized every cemetery in the Jewish State.

Descendants of Menucha Rochel Slonim at her grave in the ancient Jewish cemetery in Hebron

Abandoned at a train station, two Korean sisters reunited by Israeli tech

MyHeritage later told the two that they were siblings with the same mother and father, and orchestrated their reunion at the train station where they were both abandoned.

Abandoned at a train station, two Korean sisters reunited by Israeli tech.