I think I come down somewhere in the middle on the value of these small-segment matches and autosomal DNA research generally. DNA doesn't show how you're connected - but finding patterns among my

at https://www.wien.gv.at/advuew/internet/AdvPrSrv.asp?Layout=stvar&Type=K&st=MA&AUSSEN=Y you have a list of all Austrian departments I have often got answers from mag mag 8 - the Vienna state

I'm sorry, but that is simply not true. From this post, dated back in February: This post dates back to July, when Ancestry announced the 8.0 cM cutoff: This thread dates to January 2019:That thread

My grandfather (George (Manas) Gottfried) and his mother and 2 sisters, sailed from Rotterdam in 1891. Larry Briggs

I'm researching the early life of my grandfather (Bennie ADELSON/Baruch IDELZIK), who left Belarus for Montreal in 1913. Once he had his Canadian papers, he went to New York in 1916, and then to

On a ship’s manifest the city of birth was noted as Cewck ( could be Cewek) Poland . Any ideas what the town this was referring to? I expected the birth town to be Rozan so it might be very close

I don't understand what this is all about. I haven't seen any reduction in DNA matching results below a total of 20 cM. Totals under 6 cM are gone, if they ever were there. And I have hundreds of

I beg to differ. In all my shared matches until about 7 days ago, I had matches down to 6.0 cM. So did my cousins I've been working with. If we didn't, we wouldn't have found some of the links

I never said that Ancestry gave no notice that they were removing matches below 8.0 cM. I said that they gave no notice that they were changing the cut-off in the shared DNA from 6.0 cM (at the

Can someone please I.D. the language. The word Pistrong means "trout", my paternal grandmother's surname. But the word, as written, does not appear with this type of spelling, in my Polish

Tens of thousands of prison portraits captured in 15 jails over a 50-year period are now accessible in a remarkable online database. In recent years the NSW State Archives digitized 46,000 images

Does anyone know what language this is written in? ..or what the document is And can anyone translate any of it? All I can make out is the year 1913! Thank you, Daniel Gleek in London Virus-free.

Bingo I found that my cousin Paul STRANSKY was a foreign volunteer in the French army under Laval. Marvellous. Daniela Torsh Sydney, Australia

"Holy Silence" an excellent 72 minute documentary that was released earlier this year just before the archives were opened, includes Kertzer among others, and aims to be as dispassionate as one can

I'm searching for any information about a distant cousin Paul STRANSKY. He was born in Vienna 1905 to Else and Emil and somehow managed to leave Austria and ended up living and working in Paris by

In response to Jerri Friedman's post about no advance notice about Ancestry's eliminating DNA matches below a low threshold, I posted the following to this discussion group and the IAJGS Leadership

Only the 8.0 cM cutoff is a recent change. The bit about the shared matches was never announced because it is how AncestryDNA has always worked, at least since I tested. Your main match list (the

My paternal grandmother was Fannie Leibovitz who came from Kiralyhaza born around 1885. My cousin David Leibovitz, who was very involved with JewishGen, died several years ago at a much too young

Hi Mark - I'm replying to the group for the benefit of others who may also have an interest or roots in Canton, Ohio like myself. We're fortunate that the Stark County Court's naturalization records

Update on Ancestry Situation: I just got off the phone with corporate HQ. The man agreed with me and is going to look into returning the shared DNA matches to the full 8.0 cM. I told him that to