Let me add to Bernie's response. In the US, you can upload to FTDNA and MyHeritage but not to 23andme and Ancestry. GEDmatch has been up and running for about a week now. I recommend uploading

Looks like the ship Dee or Off Upla or Ufla to Quebec and then by train to NY. You need to search online for a correct possible ship and then go to stevemorse.org to search the Canadian Passenger

Am looking for descendents of the Potashnick family(s) from Velozhin, Belarus.. My great-grandfather was David Tzvi Potashnick. He was born in Velozhin in 1838. Steve Diamond

It's genteam.at or genteam.eu [they're synonymous], but not genteam.com. Whenever you find a record in the overall search on genteam, it has an icon of a page that leads to "details" of the database/s

If you find an individual on a Detained Persons list, but not on the manifest itself, you can use the list to locate them. The list has a column after the name that indicates where they are located

I found Itsko Yankel SHEPSENVOL among the Belarus Deaths index and am wondering if his father's name Matus could be equated with Moshe Yoneh. Also, what does the private source refer to in this

Thanks for your reply, I'm thinking that by that time (1905) emigration might have been organized, probably by the JCA or Baron Hirsch, as thousands of families came from Besarabia to Argentina. So

Sheri, It's the database of Roman Catholic baptisms. Archdiocese Vienna, parish Waehring, baptism register 1897, folio 165, row

One comment regarding the city Marburg from which the name Morpurgo allegedly is derived. It may not be Marburg in Germany but Marburg in Slovenia, now called Maribor. Slovenia is next door to

In classical Hebrew hiss specifically relates to husbands of two sisters. This a narrower definition than modern usage of the word, as brother-in-law. Best regards Laurent Kassel Moreshet, Israel

Jewish tombstone fragments gathered from a roadbed on the bank of Hook Creek in North Woodmere, Nassau County Hook Creek in North Woodmere, Nassau County, New Yuork was the site of finding a bed

To clarify what Yelena Volk wroteThe Russian Empire included only part of Poland. Galicia, for example, was part of the Austrian/Hapsburg Empire (known in the U.S. as Austria-Hungary). Records from

Michael Headstones don't indicate what the person's name was. Headstones indicate what someone who outlived the person thought that the person's name was. If someone's children died before them and

Thank you very much for your reply! It is of great help! My grandfather did renounce to his Polish citizenship but htat was after 1951 and after my mum was born, so it should be ok. But when we

I have discussed this topic with Ancestry DNA You can UPLOAD your DNA file to most other DNA sites from Ancestry, BUT you cannot DOWNLOAD your DNA file from other sites............ Yes GEDMATCH is

Karen: There is a list of arrivals - Quebec City and other ports, 1865 - 1900

Of course, I told about Russian Empire, not about modern-day Russia. Russian Empire included Poland, Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine, and Latvia and Estonua and some other contries too. All vital records

2 сентября ей 22, ему 26 Земледелец колонии Лейпун Олькеникской волости Овсей Мордухов-Хеслев

Hello, what archives in the former Soviet Union are you interested in? What do you want to find in archives? What is preliminary searching? Do you know where your ancestors lived? The cost of copying

I found this company mentioned on the FEEFHS website. They claim they can do a preliminary search of a number of archives in the former Soviet Union for $80. Has anyone had any experience with them?