by Jeffrey Mark Paull | Oct 11, 2018 | Family History Center, Featured Post
Jewish religious and cultural history dates back more than four thousand years and includes hundreds of different populations. Our family’s Jewish lineage and ancestry, as far as this author has been able to trace it, dates back over one thousand years to the great...
by Jeffrey Mark Paull | Aug 24, 2018 | Featured Post, Research Room
Introduction Y-DNA analysis has proven to be a valuable tool in the genealogical research of Jewish paternal lineages. In our research, we have used it to validate the paper trail of pedigreed rabbinical descendants and identify the Y-DNA genetic signature of many...
by Jeffrey Mark Paull | Aug 24, 2018 | Featured Post, Research Room
Introduction Yehuda Leib of Shpola (1725 – 1811), better known as the Shpoler Zeida (Yiddish for “Grandfather of Shpola”) or Saba Kadisha (Hebrew for “Holy Grandfather’), was a beloved Chassidic folk rebbe, great kabbalist, and a revered tzaddik (saintly or holy man)...
