Threads of Generations
The Names DNA Never Forgot
Every name has a story. I started searching for mine.
What began as curiosity about my own family became a journey through photographs, records, DNA, oral histories, and the stories passed from one generation to the next. Threads of Generations is where I bring those pieces together—not simply to trace where we came from, but to preserve the people and stories behind the names.
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The Plaque That Preserved a Family Story
An old synagogue plaque helped preserve the story of Moshe Yosef Mizrahi and his family across generations.
Two Countries, One Marriage
Summer 1954
One marriage, celebrated across Israel and Panama, preserved through a ketubah, civil records, photographs, and family memory.
A Family Tree Written in DNA
The Abadi Branch
Y-DNA is helping trace the Abadi paternal line—and revealing where a new branch of the family tree may have formed.
This is where it all started for me…
Years ago, I started asking questions about my own family. Where they came from, who they were before they became the names I knew, what they carried with them across countries and generations. What began as one or two questions turned into years of research, and a love for the work of piecing together a family's story and preserving memory. Everything I do now traces back to these faces.
The Living Archive
Every photograph, document, inscription, and DNA discovery holds a piece of a larger story. This archive brings those pieces together—following our family from Aleppo and Jerusalem to Panama and beyond, and preserving what might otherwise be forgotten.
New stories are added as the research continues.
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New discoveries, family stories, photographs, documents, and the occasional mystery still waiting to be solved.
