Tracing the Tribe: The Jewish Genealogy Blog

We arrived in Chicago a few hours ago after a two-day trip from Seattle on Amtrak's Empire Builder, train number 8, which crossed Washin...

Hello, readers. Ta-da! Tracing the Tribe readers have indicated it is difficult to figure out how to add comments to a post. It may have tak...

The KnickerbockerVillage blog covers many aspects of New York history. I found this posting on the early history of a New York Jewish famil...

Wallingford's Beth Israel congregation turns 100 this month and it was a bit of a surprise to members, according to this  story . Th...

Where would we be today if Alexander Murray Palmer Haley hadn't written "Roots"? If it hadn't later been broadcast on tele...

Genealogy can be more than just an amusing pastime, according to an article in the UK's Guardian paper, which talks about the new serie...

This afternoon (Wednesday), we head from Seattle to Chicago by train, arriving Friday afternoon. I'm spending some time scheduling posts...

Thank you to readers who have added more names (please see comments below). This August 6 list (JTA) of Jewish athletes at the 2008 Summer O...