For the most part, you would likely not be able to assume this match's ancestors were your *direct ancestors* even along the direct female line that is traced by mtdna. The issue is that the common

A cutter is more than someone who just cuts fabric. When I did theatre (props) in my prior career, the Cutter translated what the designer sketched, into actual pattern pieces, and designed how to

Rollie Stamps JewishGen ID#51898 Jody, I am not an expert on the subject, so I contacted FamilyTreeDNA, due to your issue on the mtDNA sequence. This is their reply : Thanks for contacting

A cutter is usually in the garment business. Also if your Karlin family was from Belarus And possibly originally Karlinsky, we should talk further. Diane Jacobs geniediane@... Sent from my Verizon,

mtDNA certainly serves a purpose, but one must be cautious about reaching any conclusions regarding its actual value. My 92 year old mother belongs to haplogroup K1a1b1a, likely the most common group

In the movie "Breaking Away" (a great sports movie, if you don't know it- check it out), a cutter was a pejorative term for the local Indiana students on campus at Indiana University, named after

The person cuts things. In NYC, usually he cuts fabric for sewing. In Polish records, he often cuts grain (like kasha). Sally Bruckheimer Princeton, NJ

Hi Barbara, NYC did not enforce the filing of marriages until circa 1900. It is very possible that a rabbi married them and never filed any civil paperwork. I searched here:

Altho not a Litvak, my paternal GF came in through Galveston and went to KC (my maternal side is Litvak--the name is LAP(P)IN).

Hi, My ggparents and their 8 youngest children left the town of Puchovichi, Russia in either late 1913 or early 1914 on a journey to Brazil where they had been offered land and an opportunity to

Thanks everyone. Does it make sense that someone could be killed in a work-related accident? I could see injured, but killed? Maybe it was not work related.

I'm looking for Jewish synagogue birth records pre civil registration for Ludany in Nograd, specifically the Klein family there, for the children of David Klein and Karolina Klein (I think they were

My grandmother was coughing upon arrival at Ellis Island. Authorities feared TB. She was not allowed entry. Her name was crossed out from the manifest. The arrival vessel, SS Mt. Clay, showed two

I have one for my great grandfather and it is about 15 pages or so with entries about all of his service time. It included a marriage that I did not know about. I have attached a scan of the cover of

Looking for descendants of Matel (possibly Matla) Zanger Miller (1883-1952) and husband Jacob Miller. Her headstone is in the Jewish cemetery of the synagogue in Fargo but I do not know where Jacob's

Amelia, Your last name is interesting to me. My name Malakoff/Malakhov (Малакхов) comes from the Hebrew maloch (מלאך) which means angel. Maybe we are related :). Alternative version of

Unfortunately, like for most of what was Borsod county, the civil registers were only filmed up to 1908 from Harsány (https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/1023412). The other obstacle is that

I assume your middle initial is related to יצחק . What does the I stand for. My middle name is Irwin. I would have preferred Ivan or Isaac, but nobody asked me. Bob

A cutter was employed in the garment industry . Bolts of cloth had to be cut in accordance with a pattern and a cutter did that work. You can look up fabric cutting on the internet. The job

I also worked on the transcriptions for John Martino, but most images were of indexes, not the actual documents. I spent extra time sorting my work in any number of ways to cut down on errors due to