It is in my Polish line from my maternal grandfather to my mother to my sister and I and to both my children.

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I keep my genealogy on my computer (and yes I do have trees on Ancestry (public but not shared), MH private and my own website (see below). You can almost always download the document to your computer

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This is the area where some birth records will say child's name surname = mother's maiden name r father's surname. Did your grandfather have siblings? If so check their birth records. Otherwise the on

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While I did not attend, because of a conflict. The IAJGS conference last summer was VIRTUAL, as were my actuarial conferences. I think unless you have personal knowledge of some genealogical in-person

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A lot depends on where and which court. I had heard that Fold3 had records, but they did not have Illinois, the central US is mostly lacking in online records. I did get my zeidi's record by writing t

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I found Boguchwal in Beider's Jewish Surnames from Galicia. It means bogu chwala which is Polish for praise to G-d. And it is also associated with a village of Boguchwala.

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We are not going to travel, and I will not fly until things are clearer. Also the virtual conferences that I have attended were generally much BETTER for me because I have hearing problems, and there

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I do not believe that the author of this article is familiar with US health insurance law, which prohibits the results of DNA testing to be used in health insurance.

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Deanna, you need to do some genealogy on the names on your birth certificate. Also if you are on Facebook, there are a number of excellent Jewish and general genealogy groups that you can ask to join,

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I would NOT change surnames based on a passenger record. For one reason or another people traveled under different names. I have a family that traveled under my Perlstadt (ultra rare) surname and the

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Are there any birth records from about 1895 from the shtetl Kolonie L'vove in Kherson Guberniya?

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In my family Shua was Yehoshua (Joshua) and Shyka was Ishayahu (Isaiah)

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I made my myheritage tree private. I have a public tree (see the link at the bottom of my signature), but anyone who wants that information has to enter it by typing the information. It is not that ea

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I remember calling my father's first cousin "Uncle Joe". Yes he was my 1C1R but that would not be how I would have addressed him. And "cousin" itself is an ambiguous term. I also had a dear friend who

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I understand that these records are only available on the FHL computers, due to legal requirements from Poland. Since the FHL libraries are closed due to Covid, I am not sure whether using their wifi

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Unfortunately FTDNA counts segments as small as 1 cM, while MyHeritage only counts from 6 cMs up. Both overstate the true identical by descent cMs (the others are Identical by State). The standard is

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Even taking into consideration the fact that we are not a definable subspecies biologically - and neither are Blacks or Latino/as or Asians - a much kinder term than race, the DNA can't bring into con

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In the 19th century Jews married Christians either for marriage or to protect their family from antisemitism or for economic reasons - to get a "good" job, enter college, etc.

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Have you done a DNA test? Your matches could be a key here, especially since it appears that you have one Jewish grandparent. The common recommendations when searching for an unknown parent/grandparen

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I believe that the quote was taken out of context. The original comment was made by a non-Jewish woman who referred to first names or given names as "Christian names" and the comment was that we do no

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