For those who are looking for Czernowitz relatives, as I am -
I did the genetic testing with 23andMe about a year ago. 23andMe
provides the user with a list of other users who are genetic
relatives, indicating the degree of proximity.
Recently, someone showed up on my relatives list as a 2nd cousin -
named Rudman, the maiden name of my Czernowitz great-grandmother. I
wrote to him, and it turned out that he had emigrated as a child, with
his parents, in 1990, from Czernowitz to New York. We are not sure
exactly how we are related, but this is obviously much more than a
coincidence, since the genetic evidence is there.
I know that, like me, other people look for links to their relatives
for years, often without a great deal of success. I would just like
to suggest that genetic testing (not invasive, only involves spitting
into a tube) can be another useful way of finding people.
There seem to be a very large number of Ashkenazic Jews in the 23andMe
database. (Incidentally, I found out that my husband is my distant
cousin, and that his Bukovina cousin is also my cousin, on both my
mother's side and my father's side.)
With best wishes to the other seekers,
Marilyn
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