The Jewish Family

The Jewish Family

Find your ancestors. Read their story. Every line sourced.

Your bubbe’s stories shouldn’t disappear. We find your actual Jewish ancestors and the records that prove them — town registers, Holocaust testimony, ancient DNA — and write you a readable, fully cited family story. Your first kit is free.

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Illustrative — not real data

Rivka bat Yosefרבקה בת יוסף

A maternal-line ancestor from Galicia, reconstructed line by line from archival records, a living DNA match, and an ancient sample — nothing guessed.

Rivka was born in Brody, Galicia, around 1861.[1] Her father Yosef appears in the town census as a textile merchant.[2] Her direct maternal line carries mitochondrial haplogroup K1a1b1a, common among Ashkenazi communities.[3] A living descendant shares 214 cM across 9 segments with your kit, consistent with a third-cousin relationship.[4] An ancient sample from a 9th-century Rhineland burial sits within the same maternal clade.[5]

Illustrative archival census register showing Rivka bat Yosef of Brody — a synthetic sample, not a real historical document.
Source verifiedIllustrativeJewishGen — Brody census (illustrative)
  1. [1]JewishGen — Galicia / Brody birth register, 1861
  2. [2]JewishGen — Brody town census, 1880
  3. [3]AADR — mt-haplogroup K1a1b1a
  4. [4]DNA match — 214 cM / 9 segments (3C)
  5. [5]AADR — ancient sample I12345, Rhineland 9c

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Why this matters

The story is slipping away — one generation at a time.

Your bubbe’s stories are disappearing.

The people who remember the shtetl, the crossing, the names are leaving us. When they go, the thread goes with them — unless someone writes it down.

Ancestry gives you a tree — not a story.

A wall of names and dates is not a family history. You want to know who they were, where they lived, what happened to them — in sentences you can read aloud.

Holocaust records exist; most families never find them.

Yad Vashem and the archives hold testimony for millions. The records are there. Families just don’t know how to reach them. We do.

How it works

Three steps. No guesswork.

  1. 1

    Upload your DNA — and any records

    Drop in a DNA file from any major vendor, plus any GEDCOM tree or family photos you already have. We read them all.

  2. 2

    We search Jewish records, automatically

    We search JewishGen, Yad Vashem, Sefaria, Ellis Island and more — matched against your DNA and corrected for Ashkenazi endogamy.

  3. 3

    You receive a cited family narrative

    A readable story of your ancestors, with a footnote on every line, the record images that prove it, and ancient DNA woven into your deep origins.

Why it’s different

Built for Jewish family history — specifically.

Eight things general DNA tools don’t do. Every one is a real capability, not a slogan.

See what “cited” means

A short, illustrative example

This example is fictional and clearly marked. It shows the exact citation style — a footnote on every line — before you upload anything. Public samples never use real customer data.

Illustrative — not real data

Rivka bat Yosefרבקה בת יוסף

A maternal-line ancestor from Galicia, reconstructed line by line from archival records, a living DNA match, and an ancient sample — nothing guessed.

Rivka was born in Brody, Galicia, around 1861.[1] Her father Yosef appears in the town census as a textile merchant.[2] Her direct maternal line carries mitochondrial haplogroup K1a1b1a, common among Ashkenazi communities.[3] A living descendant shares 214 cM across 9 segments with your kit, consistent with a third-cousin relationship.[4] An ancient sample from a 9th-century Rhineland burial sits within the same maternal clade.[5]

Illustrative archival census register showing Rivka bat Yosef of Brody — a synthetic sample, not a real historical document.
Source verifiedIllustrativeJewishGen — Brody census (illustrative)
  1. [1]JewishGen — Galicia / Brody birth register, 1861
  2. [2]JewishGen — Brody town census, 1880
  3. [3]AADR — mt-haplogroup K1a1b1a
  4. [4]DNA match — 214 cM / 9 segments (3C)
  5. [5]AADR — ancient sample I12345, Rhineland 9c

Continue this line back four more generations.

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The corpus

We search where others don’t.

  • JewishGen
  • Yad Vashem
  • Sefaria
  • Ellis Island
  • 23andMe

We search where others don’t. We cite everything — and we never paywall a victim’s record.

In memory

We read the stones others can’t.

A weathered Hebrew matzevah, read and translated — the acronyms decoded into a name, a date, and a blessing. Shown with dignity, never as an upsell.

In memory of an illustrative ancestor

Illustrative
Illustrative weathered Hebrew gravestone (matzevah) placeholder — a synthetic sample, not a real memorial.

OCR + acronym decode shown illustratively — פ״נ = ‘here lies’, תנצבה = the traditional closing blessing.

Source: Illustrative matzevah transcription — synthetic sample, not a real memorial. Real stones are cited to their cemetery and the JewishGen / JOWBR record.

Pricing

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  • Full Jewish-corpus deep search
  • Endogamy-corrected match review
  • Priority record retrieval
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