Roots Expert
Sabine Akabayov
Research your German Roots and German Emigrants to Israel and the US
How they can help
- Remote research
- Heritage travel
- Researches in
- Germany, Israel, United States
- Based in
- Israel · Rehovot
- Languages
- German · English · HE · RU · LA
- Time periods
- Nazi persecution era (1930s–1940 · genealogical research across all
About
Genealogist specializing in German ancestry research with expertise in translation, DNA analysis, and document retrieval. PhD in Chemistry with formal training in genealogical research and translation.
Sabine Akabayov is a genealogist born and raised in Germany who earned a PhD in Chemistry from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. She has lived in Newton, MA (USA) for 8 years and currently resides in Rehovot, Israel. She specializes in researching ancestors with German roots, including Germans in Germany and German emigrants to Israel and the US. Her services include document retrieval, translation and transcription (German, Hebrew, English, Latin), DNA analysis, locating living relatives, and advising on German citizenship reclamation for descendants of Nazi persecution victims. Her own ancestral lines trace to Hesse, East Prussia, Lower Saxony, and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in Germany, with additional ancestry from Dagestan and Yemen.
Specialties
- German ancestry
- German roots
- German emigrants
- document retrieval
- translation and transcription
- DNA research
- locating living relatives
- German citizenship reclamation
- Holocaust genealogy
- Hebrew documents
- old German script
Additional credentials
PhD in Chemistry (Weizmann Institute of Science); Certificate in German-English Translation (NYU – SCPS); Certificate in Genealogical Research (Boston University)
Rehovot, Israel
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