News: 18 Feb 2021: Merged the Israel Fishel family into the Yaakov Azriel Zelig family as descendants of Levi & Feige. 25 Jul 2020: Added the Chaim & Frajdla family who lived in Chelm, but were originally from Kobrin. If you know this family, please let us know! 29 July 2019: Elise and Hariette gave a presentation about the Palevsky project at the 39th IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy in Cleveland, Ohio! 6 Aug 2018: Y-DNA results back for the Israel Fishel family. October 2016: Y-DNA results back for the Abraham Jacob branch. 15-Feb-2014: Welcome to our NEW Palevsky website! Previous version: http://old.palevsky.org.
Abraham Palefsky was born in Abt. 1897 (son of Yedidiah Palefsky and Freida Leah Buckstein?); died on 2 Apr 1947 in Brooklyn, Kings, New York, USA; was buried on 3 Apr 1947 in Baron Hirsch Cemetery, Staten Island, Richmond, New York, USA.