HARRY SASSOON

In 2019, I took my full time hobby of genealogy one step further and started to digitise my family archives - cine film, VHS tapes,...

In an cupboard unopened for many years, boxes of camcorder tapes from the 1990s. Among them, my great-grandparents various birthdays, my...

Ancient family photos are like gold, but way better in my option. Those moments when you come across the photo of an ancestor you've...

There is no easy answer to this. There are three main DNA companies to test with, and I've done them all indivudually. Here's the order I...

Life for Jews in Germany wasn't always bad but it's been heavily tainted by the events of The Holocaust. I'd like to talk about two of my...

My grandad is Peter, his twin brother is George and their parents were Margot and Frank Sommerfeld. They lived in Berlin. They had...

Genealogists are an amazing, warm and kind community. We all try to help one another wherever possible. I started my genealogy journey...

In late October 2020, my wife-to-be Rebekah saw a Facebook post in a local group about a 1935 Nazi-Germany Jewish passport found in the...

The biggest pleasure of genealogy - coming across other genealogists! Unfortunately when genealogy is your full time hobby, the vast...

What will 2020 be remembered for? Coronavirus. Covid-19 has very sadly been added to my family tree for two people. The Husband of a...

If you ask most that old scenario about if their house is burning down and there is only time to grab one thing, what would it be?...

The most important part of DNA tests is who else does them. Without this, you have nothing to compare with. I first saw my results in...

Throughout my research, 1941 stands out to me the most to have been the most terrible year for my ancestors. Murder, the Holocaust, the...

The purpose of this blog is to help people with how to pursue both DNA matches, follow family tree lines, to talk about my genealogy...