Peter I completely agree with you. I collect records of people on FamilyTreeMaker in digital version and a printed paper version. Parallel I also keep filing the same records the old way, simply by

CDs and DVDs may be the best digital media. CDs have been used for data for about 30 years, with no incompatibilities with contemporary technology. This said, there are differences in the raw media.

I also left a hard-bound book version at the genealogical branch of our Houston Public Library, but it likely 10 years or so out of date. Max Heffler Houston, TX -- Web sites I manage -

David JONASSOHN: Has anyone come across him in their research? I need to know where and when David Jonassohn was born in about 1796. It may have been in Groningen, Holland. Who were his parents? Did

I also want my tree to survive me. I have been putting copies of it at different places. My main and up-to-date tree is at Ancestry, because that is where I find most of my documentation. I also

Hi everyone, I posted three Russian birth records for the ROZENOWICZ family of Zambrow, Poland on ViewMate. I would really appreciate it if someone could translate the birth records for me, especially

I am looking for an obituary for an Israeli artist Hannah BEN DOV, who died ca. 4 March 2009 in Paris. Which newspaper(s) would most likely publish it and is it possible to search them online, similar

Hi. A little bit of follow-up: 1) Thanks to Sherri Bobish for mentioning my find of a published notice of my grandfather's court-approved name change in a newspaper from 1940 (I clicked on that link

Birth certificates are routinely amended when a name is changed legally. This can happen with adoptions, petitions for name changes, etc. However, it's important to understand that a person can use

On the question of whether antisemitism could reasonably be a factor in name changes in the 1940s, especially for those running professional offices in their names, note this passage from James

There is this book: Petitions for name changes in New York City, 1848-1899 Kenneth Scott National Genealogical Society, 1984 I thought this book was full searchable on GoogleBooks, but now it does not

Sad. Was hoping you'd say Alex Krakovsky had scanned them. I have potential Weinhouse/Weingus cousins in a well-sourced tree in a faraway section of the geni forest, with DNA hints that need

I am a firm believer in written records. I do not expect any online company to exist 20 or 30 years from now. And even while they exits, the odds are that they would purge data that had not been

Ethan mentioned finding a newspaper notice of a name change in NYC. A good (and free) site to search NY newspapers (and some other states now also)

Family History Today: Portuguese Citizenship - Reconnecting with your Sephardic Iberian Ancestors Wednesday, September 9, 3 PM ET While Spain has ended its Law of Return for descendants of Sephardic

Harvey - all I can add to Chuck's comment is a photo of what is left from the fire now sitting in the Khmelnitski Archives....its not pretty Gary Pokrassa gpokrassa@... Data Acquisition

Thank you Rainer. During the holiday of Sukkoth (Feast of Tabernacles), September 1942, my paternal grandmother Frieda Kohn and my paternal aunt Rivka Kohn, were transported, with many others

#15 1944, October 30 From the act of the Rezekne district commission on the atrocities of the GERMAN-Fascist invaders and their accomplices in the town of Rezekne and the surrounding area. The

I have not had a good experience with MyHeritage. Main problems: - Places. It wants modern names of places instead of the genealogically-correct name at the time of the event, and there are many,

The town name in Russian would be Kirovgrad. In cursive script, lower case д looks exactly like our cursive g. Dave Mason