I also want my trees to outlive me, both my Jewish one or ones and my husband's non-Jewish ones. I am planning on at least one book for his tree and possibly one for mine. I do however have my own web

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I like Legacy Family tree. It is important to me to keep my tree on my computer. The paid version ($35) offers cloud backup, it also has many more capabilities than the free version, but you can start

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Please look up Alexander Beider's book Jewish Surnames from the Russian Empire. It is available on Avotaynu.com or may be available through inter-library.com

#poland #names #holocaust

I got tired of scrolling looking for these - so I went to the shared cM tab and put in 19 cM to 20 cM and they opened right up. Everything above 8 is still there. I am personally having problems findi

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Legacy charting does this as a type of fan chart

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There is a Facebook group called FreeObituaryLookups. https://obituarieshelp.org/ is like a Cindy's list for obituaries - it links to newspapers based on geographical location - but you may need a sub

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I have a non-Jewish friend who had a "second" cousin at Ancestry - whom he did not recognize. Both were from England. Both had very well done paper trails. He did recognize 4 surnames in his match's s

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Do a North American to the European country that your family came from using Jewishgen's given names database, https://www.jewishgen.org/databases/GivenNames/search.htm

#russia #names

Roots Magic also has a Mac version. (I am a PC person married to a Mac person). Roots Magic also has a free version that you can start with, and then if you like it you can upgrade to the paid version

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A Gedcom is a standard genealogy text file that can be read by any genealogy software. There are free genealogy software programs out there, that can read this file (import it). It may depend on wheth

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L' Shana Tova Tikutevu v' tikutema. May you all be inscribed and sealed for a healthy, happy and prosperous New Year.

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Kherson is a guberniya in what is now the southern Ukraine. It is not in Galicia. You can find information in the Ukraine SIG or the Jewish communities database on Jewishgen

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Amazing. I am so sad that so many states have so little awareness, and glad to see that my former home state Iowa is among the ones with a greater awareness. When we lived there, there were a number o

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L' Shana Tova tikutevu v'tikutemu.

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I do use the JGFF, but I agree with the idea of cleaning it up. So many of the researchers have not been on in the last 10 years. I do know that they do add RD for the deceased researchers, when someo

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Sometimes - especially if you are using US records, search for a child with his/her parents and siblings in the appropriate location with no surname at all. If you know for example that a child was Fr

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Are there any records from Kolonie L'vove, Kherson Guberniya, which was one of the former Russian Jewish agricultural colonies. BTW I am one of the webmasters for this shtetl on the Kehilla links.

#ukraine #records #russia

Your family may have shortened their name to Heller. When my husband and I were first married in 1968 we lived in Albuquerque, New Mexico and bought our meat by mail from Heller's kosher meat market i

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I put a small tree on Geni years ago and keep getting messages about smart matches with my own My Heritage tree. I too would like to delete it. If there is a process to do that, please let me know. I

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I consider it a reliable primary source for Deaths and secondary for births. If there is nothing else (no census records, no birth records etc) I will take it. I also consider the month and day more r

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