{"id":118014,"date":"2021-04-18T11:06:21","date_gmt":"2021-04-18T15:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jewishtimes.com\/?p=118014"},"modified":"2021-04-16T11:13:22","modified_gmt":"2021-04-16T15:13:22","slug":"high-schooler-finds-30000-relatives-in-family-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jewishtimes.com\/high-schooler-finds-30000-relatives-in-family-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"High schooler finds 30,000 relatives in family tree"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n                <style type=\"text\/css\">\r\n                    \r\n                    #tdi_1  .td-doubleSlider-2 .td-item1 {\r\n                        background: url(https:\/\/www.jewishtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Local1_Family-ari-with-grandma-80x60.jpg) 0 0 no-repeat;\r\n                    }\r\n                    #tdi_1  .td-doubleSlider-2 .td-item2 {\r\n                        background: url(https:\/\/www.jewishtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/local1_family-great-grandfather-80x60.jpg) 0 0 no-repeat;\r\n                    }\r\n                    #tdi_1  .td-doubleSlider-2 .td-item3 {\r\n                        background: url(https:\/\/www.jewishtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/local1_family-great-grandparents-at-wedding-80x60.jpg) 0 0 no-repeat;\r\n                    }\r\n                    #tdi_1  .td-doubleSlider-2 .td-item4 {\r\n                        background: url(https:\/\/www.jewishtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/local1_family-great-grandfather-and-family-e1618585870430-80x60.jpg) 0 0 no-repeat;\r\n                    }\r\n                <\/style>\r\n\r\n                <div id=\"tdi_1\" class=\"td-gallery td-slide-on-2-columns\">\r\n                    <div class=\"post_td_gallery\">\r\n                        <div class=\"td-gallery-slide-top\">\r\n                           <div class=\"td-gallery-title\"><\/div>\r\n\r\n                            <div class=\"td-gallery-controls-wrapper\">\r\n                                <div class=\"td-gallery-slide-count\"><span class=\"td-gallery-slide-item-focus\">1<\/span> of 4<\/div>\r\n                                <div class=\"td-gallery-slide-prev-next-but\">\r\n                                    <i class = \"td-icon-left doubleSliderPrevButton\"><\/i>\r\n                                    <i class = \"td-icon-right doubleSliderNextButton\"><\/i>\r\n                                <\/div>\r\n                            <\/div>\r\n                        <\/div>\r\n\r\n                        <div class = \"td-doubleSlider-1 \">\r\n                            <div class = \"td-slider\">\r\n                                \r\n                    <div class = \"td-slide-item td-item1\">\r\n                        <figure class=\"td-slide-galery-figure td-slide-popup-gallery\">\r\n                            <a class=\"slide-gallery-image-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jewishtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Local1_Family-ari-with-grandma.jpg\" title=\"Local1_Family ari with grandma\"  data-caption=\"Ari Geller with his grandmother, Alexis R. 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             <div class = \"td-slider\">\r\n                                \r\n                    <div class = \"td-button td-item1\">\r\n                        <div class = \"td-border\"><\/div>\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                    <div class = \"td-button td-item2\">\r\n                        <div class = \"td-border\"><\/div>\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                    <div class = \"td-button td-item3\">\r\n                        <div class = \"td-border\"><\/div>\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                    <div class = \"td-button td-item4\">\r\n                        <div class = \"td-border\"><\/div>\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                            <\/div>\r\n                        <\/div>\r\n\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n\r\n                <\/div>\r\n                \n<p>Ari Geller, a senior at Beth Tfiloh Dahan Community School, had intended to start his counselor in training program at Capital Camps in Pennsylvania in June of 2020, but the pandemic ended those plans. Instead, Geller participated in online programming on Zoom for two months, while also delving into his family tree.<\/p>\n<p>But what started as a project to pass the time during COVID-19 turned into a mega project yielding no less than 30,000 family connections using the databases and websites of Ancestry.com, JewishGen and Geni.com, Geller said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wanted to start a project that would occupy me for the summer,\u201d said Geller, who is planning on attending the University of Maryland Robert H. Smith School of Business after he graduates this June. \u201cI have always had an interest in genealogy, but I had never taken the time to make an extensive tree, so I decided to start one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This was not Geller\u2019s first venture into genealogy. As a seventh grader at Krieger Schechter Day School, Geller had started a family history project, which at the time yielded 200 or 300 family connections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI started by calling my grandparents and asking them what they knew about their family \u2014 names, dates, pictures, countries, towns, etc.,\u201d he said. \u201cI also asked for the contact information of other family members who may know more about the family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Each telephone call resulted in more names of family members he could call and interview about the family\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p>As of right now, Geller has 30,726 family connections on his tree. \u201cSome famous names that appear on my tree, in no particular order: Marc Chagall, Elie Wiesel, Reuven Rivlin (president of Israel), the Vilna Gaon \u2014 the famous 18th-century rabbi from Lithuania \u2014, Rashi \u2014 the famous 12th century rabbi known for his commentary \u2014 and Billy Crystal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On the Elie Wiesel family connection, Geller explained, \u201cElie Wiesel was one of my most recent discoveries. Our common relative is a man named Chaim Eliezer Basch, who lived from 1800-1863. Basch is my fourth great-grandfather and Wiesel\u2019s two times great-grandfather, going back six generations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Geller verified the family connection to Elie Wiesel with a DNA test through Ancestry.com.<\/p>\n<p>Another connection Geller has verified is his family relationship to the Vilna Gaon, from whom Geller and his family are direct descendants on his father\u2019s side.<\/p>\n<p>As for Billy Crystal, he is a sixth cousin, twice removed.<\/p>\n<p>Geller has advice for anyone wishing to start delving into family history. \u201cTo kids my age, start now while your grandparents are still alive. I have spoken to people in their 50s and 60s who say they [wish] they had spoken to their grandparents. To anyone else, ask a lot of questions of your family, gather information, names and stories. Also, be careful with what you find online. You don\u2019t want to copy other people\u2019s work without verifying the information.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jonah Geller, Ari Geller\u2019s father and CEO of the York JCC in Pennsylvania, said that his son has introduced them to family members they didn\u2019t even know of.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the best moments during his research was hearing him on the phone saying, \u2018Hi, we are sixth cousins, do you have a few minutes to talk?\u2019 Ari was fearless in trying to make connections to family,\u201d Jonah Geller said.<\/p>\n<p>Deborah Geller, Ari Geller\u2019s mother and a program coordinator supervisor at Maryland EXCELS, a project of the IDEALS Institute of the Johns Hopkins University School of Education, said she is pleased that her son found this project during the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInitially I was pleased that he found something he was interested in and became passionate about at a time when everything he was involved in stopped happening,\u201d she said. \u201cHe\u2019s always been into family, and he couldn\u2019t go to camp [because of COVID], so he looked for family. 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