The primary goal of this project is to identify, through DNA, Eliezer Mordechai ben Tzvi Persky's siblings and their families, living and dead. Members of our group are also interested in discovering other Perski/Persky/Perskie family members who once lived, (prior to WWII), in Volozhin, then located in Russia, now in Belarus.

For example, Shimon Peres, once a Persky from Volozhin, has recognized that our family is related to his. However, we have no DNA evidence to support this.

We would also like to see where our family came from before they lived in Volozhin. Family lore has it that "Perski/Persky/Perskie" means "from Persia" in Polish and Russian. It has been said that my family has origins in Persia, now Iran, and we would like to discover through the DNA project if this is true.

For more specific information regarding this line, see www.perskiefamilygenealogy.com/