Genealogy

When his mother studied their genealogy, she was horrified to find out they were related to Hitler.

If you're lucky, you'll be able to connect yourself to a relative who has put more effort into studying your family's genealogy than you ever could.

During the last six months, Tom's interest in genealogy has grown. He has heard with delight from his parents about their childhood, youth, university studies and marriage.

A volunteer at the genealogy library told Tom he should summarize on a pedigree chart whatever information he had learned from his living grandparents.

Do you know your genealogy?

Some people think that Greg and I are like Filipino Hispanics. This Saturday morning on the 20th of August of 2022, Greg eats apple chips, and I salted potato chips with black iced tea, at the neighbourhood café. He mentions that he doesn't always go to church on Sunday, because maybe he feels down about life. We talk about the Philippines having mainly three blending peoples, Malays, Chinese, and Spanish. We wonder if most Filipinos really have Spanish and Chinese blood. Many Filipinos don't trace their genealogy. I mention to him that as one just lands at the Manila airport, one sees that the majority are really Malay-looking people. We talk about Jehovah's Witnesses and Mormons. I list some countries, in four continents, to which I've travelled, as it impresses him that I am a world traveller. Greg has only been to the Philippines, Canada, and USA. I assure him that my rich uncle in Oregon, who builds houses in the Philippines, doesn't want to go to Europe. Greg knows that I've lived in Japan and Europe, where I've learned the "walking life."

Genealogy, otherwise known as family history, is an extremely popular hobby.

Most of the people attracted to genealogy are in countries that have accepted waves of immigrants over the years, such as the United States, Canada, Argentina and Brazil.

The book significantly extends on Rosenstein’s monumental 1990 work, “The Unbroken Chain,” which focused on the genealogies of the major Ashkenazi rabbinic dynasties from medieval times to the present.