A few days ago I coined here the expression "Retroactive Samification" to describe the phenomenon of immigrants to the US Americanizing their father's name as "Samuel", even though that was not his na

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A few days ago I coined here the expression "Retroactive Samification" to describe the phenomenon of immigrants to the US Americanizing their father's name as "Samuel", even though that was not his na

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my ancestors whose name began with "S" became "Sam", regardless of what their original name was. This also included retroactive "Samification" for the names of their parents when they listed father's

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my ancestors whose name began with "S" became "Sam", regardless of what their original name was. This also included retroactive "Samification" for the names of their parents when they listed father's

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My paternal great-grandfather remarried after about 8 months. We're talking about the 1880's here - men couldn't fry an egg then and would have no idea how to handle a small child. Having small childr

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My paternal great-grandfather remarried after about 8 months. We're talking about the 1880's here - men couldn't fry an egg then and would have no idea how to handle a small child. Having small childr

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Hi Allan, I have no idea if this is relevant in your case; however I have the following story: Someone whose address was definitely known did not appear in the 1930 census; however several of their ne

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Hi Allan, I have no idea if this is relevant in your case; however I have the following story: Someone whose address was definitely known did not appear in the 1930 census; however several of their ne

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I of course meant to say "the 'honest mistakes' always made the date of immigration earlier and the year of birth LATER". Don't drink and post to JewishGen at the same time... Lavie Meron Original Mes

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I of course meant to say "the 'honest mistakes' always made the date of immigration earlier and the year of birth LATER". Don't drink and post to JewishGen at the same time... Lavie Meron Original Mes

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My favorite story on the subject relates to a relative of mine who married the relative of a friend of mine - close to a century ago. The friend and I had no idea previously that we were related. So w

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My favorite story on the subject relates to a relative of mine who married the relative of a friend of mine - close to a century ago. The friend and I had no idea previously that we were related. So w

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I have been having an offline correspondence with someone >from the group who claims these are honest mistakes. However, I have found that the "honest mistakes" always made the date of immigration ear

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I have been having an offline correspondence with someone >from the group who claims these are honest mistakes. However, I have found that the "honest mistakes" always made the date of immigration ear

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I find the one-step tool uniformly accurate but also uniformly tricky. Aside only provides an approximation of street number location (which I discovered only the hard way), so if you used Google maps

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I find the one-step tool uniformly accurate but also uniformly tricky. Aside only provides an approximation of street number location (which I discovered only the hard way), so if you used Google maps

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After researching my family, it has become clear that quite a few of them were lying about immigration year (to appear as if they had arrived earlier). In addition, I noticed that quite a few male rel

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After researching my family, it has become clear that quite a few of them were lying about immigration year (to appear as if they had arrived earlier). In addition, I noticed that quite a few male rel

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If this is Hebrew, it means "lioness". I'm certain on this, as my last name is LAVIE, which means "lion". I find it difficult to believe that this was a Hebrew word, as the name is a modern Israeli na

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If this is Hebrew, it means "lioness". I'm certain on this, as my last name is LAVIE, which means "lion". I find it difficult to believe that this was a Hebrew word, as the name is a modern Israeli na

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