Featured articles

• Human Mutation, 9:86-87 (January 1997): "Probable Identity by Descent and Discovery of Familial Relationships by Means of a Rare Beta-Thalassemia Haplotype." 

• Waldheim Cemetery Breakthrough

  • Waldheim Cemetery graves result in breakthrough, by Barbara Krasner-Khait. Chicago JUF News. May 1999.

  • A breakthrough: two graves in the Waldheim Cemetery, Chicago

  • Link to Jewish World Review, May 5, 1999
• "Geneticists, Genealogists Find Common Ground," The Forward, August 20, 1999.
• The Jewish Sentinel, August 25, 2000
• "About a Genetic Disease of Polish Jews," The Yiddish Forward (Forverts), August 2, 2002. Click the image below to view the article in Yiddish. (The family photo [New York City, 1925] includes many carriers of the Beta-Thalassemia trait, descendants of the earliest known carrier, Herzk Tsvi Widelec born 1785 in Ostrow Mazowiecka, Poland.)

• "Jewish Genetic Research Showcased on National Television," The Jewish Tribune, March 18, 2004

• "A Lifesaver: No longer mere lists of ancient ancestors, genealogy now saves lives," Jerusalem Post, July 2, 2004

• "Historia, ktora leczy: Polskie archiwa pomoga mieszkancom Izraela," Zycie Warszawy, July 12, 2004

Links to more articles

• Family Chronicles, Jan/Feb 1999
• "Combining Genealogic and Family Trait Genetic Research and Family Trait Genetic Research" - for insight on how to reconstruct a family tree for genetic or family health reasons.