Our son was born on Jun 30, 1976, but because that was the summer that my daughter was in Israel and my husband did biological research every summer, we postponed the ceremony until Labor Day weekend

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In RootsTech 2021 Jeannie Milgrom has some advice for searching Sephardic anusim ancestors. I suggest you view her presentations and contact her if necessary.

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Jessica, First this is a common problem with Ancestry or MyHeritage, if you have a public tree. Secondly, unless your family was ultra-wealthy or famous, any genealogical information that is out there

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There is an Italiangen.org I know that it specializes in New York City records but it may have other records and you may be able to ask questions there.

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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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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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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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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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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

#poland #warsaw #dna

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

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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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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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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 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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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 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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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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