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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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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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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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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If he tested at FTDNA, they keep his sample for 25 years - and I have used a 7 year old sample to upgrade Y tests. You can also use that sample for family finder or mtDNA

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I read with interest this discussion. My mtDNA haplotype is X2b7 so not M33. But in my mother's paternal line we all have inherited a slightly Asian or Mongolian eye fold. It shows up primarily at bir

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It is my understanding that those databases that originated on Jewishgen and are stored on Ancestry servers, would be free on Ancestry. Other databases such as JGFF were never available on Ancestry an

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Sometimes it is accurate and other times not. I was looking at it where it had a woman and her daughter with identical names and no data for the other side of my "match". I did have success once at re

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My husband considered taking my name when we married, but decided against it, because it would have dishonored his parents. It might have really helped our children however who had to cope with a situ

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I have had a lot of difficulty identifying matches, regardless of site. That said, I do a surname search on my match list and go through all the surnames that I know are in the family - especially hus

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I don't think those records have been released yet. But check with JRI-Poland.

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It is my understanding that fraternal twins do tend to run in families, but identical twins are purely random events. My husband's great grand father was an identical twin and my daughter has fraterna

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One possibility that I did not see mentioned below would be syphilis. If it had gone into the brain, it could lead to "terminal dementia".

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Let's see if Peter was a nephew and had children in 1963, he may have been born in the 30's so he was probably not married yet. And city directories usually have husband and wife but no children. Have

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Where would you be downloading the Gedcom from?

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Since you have the cemetery, the date of death and even the grave location, I would suggest creating a memorial on FindAGrave.com (register first it is free). Then once you have the memorial created y

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Many Brooklyn naturalization papers are online at Ancestry.com and possibly at Familysearch.org. BTW if you are not an Ancestry subscriber, and your local library has a library edition subscription, y

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They seem fine, but each company has its own reference populations and own algorithms. For a while FTDNA had me with a small percentage of North American. They have since removed it and I am back at 1

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In addition to Ken's reasoning, in this case the wife was the one who had a family member to go to. If it had been a brother instead of a sister, maybe the husband would have come first. But to send h

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A transcript would benefit those of use who are hearing challenged as well.

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