Mandy: I have had limited luck with smaller cM matches (down to single digits), BUT I also know the names of the majority of my 2G grandparents (and some going back much farther), so that makes a huge

Jorge Sexer, your comments brought up some questions about my family. My great grandfather had a Russian passport. I have a copy of part of it. Three of his children are listed on it. If I understand

Yes! I have even met my 3rd cousin once removed and my 4th cousins! I lucked out finding my paternal grandfather's family. I found my Great Great Grandparent's names including my Great Great

Are you able to supply additional information, such as your father's uncle's name, how his name is listed on your birth certificate, or anything else to help people help you? -- Barbara Sloan Conway,

I have a letter postmarked 1973 from Israel Fiselsons to my uncle, Reubin Weitzman. The letter contains his then mailing address. Israel was living in his mother's apartment with his wife and ten year

My cousin sent me these two letters from her great grandmother. While I can make out a few words I do not have enough knowledge if Yiddish to translate.(Hebrew , yes- Yiddish - no). Can anyone

Thanks for the peer-review discussion. The article is a pre-print, which usually means not yet submitted to the peer-reviewing process, and made available for various purposes (see below). By

I am researching the Znayde (Snayde,Znaide) family from Chernvitsi Ukraine. The records I am looking for are in Potuguese and Spanish and Ancestry is requiring I enter the info in those languages as

This reminded me of a different volume with lots of information on the Jewish community of Balassagyarmat, also including many victims' names. It seems to be published by the Nógrád County Archives

Many programs will also be in languages other than English. My Sephardic Resources program in English will also be presented in Spanish and Portuguese by Rabbi Jordi Gendra Molina (Centro Sefarad NM),

Chuck, you got me curious. How do you do it? Hardly anyone replies to my emails, even my known cousins! -- Bob Silverstein bobsilverstein@... Elk Grove Village, IL Researching Kaplan (Krynki,

Descendants of Twins My great grandfather had two sisters who were twins. Should I expect to find twins among the descendants of the twins? Among the descendants of my great grandfather? Joe

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Does anyone recognize the name of this town where one of my relatives came from. Karschan is what I think it it, but in putting it into the jewishgen database of towns, I got no answers. Can anyone

i trying to find some info about a event in 1985 , the city of dusseldorf invited my grandmother and other citizens who emigrated because of the Nazi persecution, it was in august 1985 approximately

I agree with David, these changes were likely made aboard the ship by the purser or other officer. The occupation information in particular was made more specific. Instead of simply "laborer" or

I think it depends on the longest segment size in GEDMatch. There are 2nd, 3rd, and even 4th cousins who have a long (50 cMs) strand and we were able to figure things out. If the longest segment is

My guess is that it's a way to AVOID peer review. Their first screen says "Academia is the easiest way to share papers with millions of people across the world for free. A study published in PLOS