I agree and it has the option to go online IF you want to do so. I don't but others do. So they use the appropriate settings. Susan Diamond

Looking for further information about my grandfather Harry Boyarsky who joined the 38th Royal Fusiliers in September 2018. Born in Lida nr Grodno he emigrated to Montreal after the war.

Hi Leah, My great grand aunt Rebecca Plotnovosky from Raczki in Suwalki gubernia married Solomon Berkowitz Karobelnik from Kovno in Hull, UK in 1887. He dropped the Karobelnik as apparently it means a

In terms of DNA results, MyHeritage, 23andme and FTDNA are all vastly superior to Ancestry (and less expensive) in that the other companies give you the size of each chromosome segment you share,

Hello, I am doing some research on the same subject. You might find some information at the following address: http://www.arch.be/index.php?l=fr&m=en-pratique&r=nos-salles-de-lecture&d=agr Best

Jim, In 1787, Emperor Joseph II laid down by law that Jews, who at that time only bore first names and nicknames, had to take German surnames with immediate effect. In addition, there was a list of

The darker paragraph on top of a table reads -- "Dupa porunca prea stralucitului feldmarsal... ci s-au fost dat ca asupra ...urilor cetatilor si sa puie bir si sa implineasca s-au facut urmare

Even though I regularly trawl through other sites looking for new information, many times now My Heritage has sent me useful hints. The most exciting hint enabled me to discover that a branch I

On July 29, 2020, the US Department of State released its report to Congress on the Justice for Uncompensated Survivors Today (JUST) of 2017 Act, which was adopted by Congress with broad, bipartisan

Yesterday a mention was made that a person's information was removed/lost from an online tree. This was in the Ancestry vs MyHeritage thread. I have written this in the past, documents should be

I’ve never even seen a manifest on MH.

I don’t have enough facts about my ancestors or even my original surname. It certainly was not Love in the Pale. So, the wide net that you seem to really dislike can be helpful to people with

The Israeli element drives me crazy. The app is always switching to Hebrew.

I need translation of the Russian records from Lomza Poland. They are two marriage records and three death records. The full translation is not needed. On most of the records I only need the date

I use wikitree for my main tree. One of the problems I have with other sites, as previously mentioned, is that references are not required, so someone can repeat their family lore as if it were known

#USA #jgs-iajgs Introducing the newly-launched JewishGen U.S. Research Division - focusing on all time periods 1654 - present! Collaborating with JOWBR, the Memorial Plaques Database Project,

Family Tree Maker is not free, but I have found it to be excellent, stable and comprehensive--and inexpensive. It is priced at $80, but does not have to be renewed annually. (I still use FTM 2017.)

In addition to what I said before about Ancestry and My Heritage feeding data from my own tree back to me, I have found most of their “record match” emails useless because if you have been on

I am requesting a translation of Russian census records 1882. Please respond using the Viewmate online

My family name is Hantz and they came from Hungary and were Jewish. I have been hitting roadblocks in my research. A huge dead end.