First ethnicity percentages are estimates - not set in stone. As more data arrives they get revised. I do suggest that you upload your results (download the raw data from FTDNA, then upload the zipped

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I have always used the new name and had a tag that said "Former surname". You can also use the aka (also known as) field for that name - and there is no limit to the number of AKAs so you could also h

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You will need to provide names for help. Also have you checked with FEEHS.

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They do; however, they are almost useless, because many people have discontinued their land-lines and cell phones are not included.

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I use Legacy Family Tree on my computer, and TNG for the web. My TNG site is https://www.sarahsgenies.com. Regardless of which program you use on your computer, Legacy, FTM, RootsMagic, MyHeritage Fam

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I agree that the genealogical value of the census, was not the purpose. The purpose is and was to determine the population size so as to properly distribute the number of representatives to the US Hou

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Motke Dornblum, 139 Jerrys St. NY

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I believe that permanent residents and those with a green card have social security numbers. There are legal immigrants who are not citizens - they have TINs but are NOT eligible to vote.

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There is a book with the same name, which I bought a few years ago on Amazon. This has been discussed in one of the FB Jewish genealogy groups with the Hassidim saying that the author excluded informa

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Many older people do genealogy and are not familiar with hashtags. I suggest that if one is required, we be able to create our own. If there is an obvious spelling error let the computer fix it (ie Ge

I too would appreciate this. However professionally, I do know that there are charges for webinars. It would depend upon the meeting. Maybe if you belonged to saya JGS, your membership would include a

Ancestry.com has California Voter Registration records. I do not think Michigan's are online.

Start with finding your families in the Census and other US records, such as naturalization, immigration etc. You can do this using Ancestry.com ($), MyHeritage.com($) or FamilySearch.org (free). Star

You mentioned Reno, but not Las Vegas. Have you checked Clark county Nevada? What about Mexico?

They also have a big sale around DNA day which is April 25.

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Joshua, If it was your maternal grandmother who was Jewish, I would suggest taking two FTDNA DNA tests. First their family finder, which should give you matches on all sides of your family, but should

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I noticed the other day that I could see the young men's WWII draft cards. But I have not been able to see the date on the WWII draft registration cards. I would be very appreciative if someone could

I just had Beider's book on Ashkenazic given names open for another reason and looked up Yukel, which Beider spelled as Yukhel. He says that it is Yechiel. But he also has Yukl as Yakef which is Yaako

Just a comment, but I had a cousin who tested about 4 years ago on Ancestry, and even uploaded to Gedmatch and then he unexpectedly and suddenly died. There apparently is no way to mark that he is no

I like Legacy family tree. I am not sure what you mean by vertical, but you can view pedigree charts and descendants charts easily, and the children go under the parents when you enter the data. Also