Tedesco was also used, at least during the Renaissance, to designate, in Italian, that a composer was of German origin. .

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In my family, our aunts were called "mima" and our uncles "fetter".

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I visited Har Nebo about 3 years ago, and the cemetery was in very nice condition. In fact, the groundskeeper was mowing the grass when I visited. I have relatives buried there in the Prushin-Shershov

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If this information is from a transcription, perhaps the word should have been transcribed "interment".

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My uncle Max was listed by the person who transcribed the 1910 census as Marx! While Marx could have been this person's name, it also could have been written down incorrectly by the person entering th

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We often had fish, i.e., milchig, on Friday nights because there was always fresh fish from the fish monger who came around the neighborhood to provide our many Catholic neighbors with fresh fish on F

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Jerychem is the Yiddish pronunciation of the Hebrew name Yerocham, Yerocham appears in the book of Samuel as the father of Elkanah. It has nothing to do with Jericho. It is related to the word rachem-

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In the case of Prefseizen versus Presseizen, the transcriber may not have realized that a double "s" can be written so that the first "s" looks like an "f". Take a look at something like a reproductio

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Do you have tombstones for the relatives whose names you're trying to match? The tombstones may give you the answers you need, since both Hebrew and English names are often engraved. Good luck with yo

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I think it is very dangerous when different folks are able to add/change/remove information from someone else's tree. A couple of years ago I found some really awful errors on my family's tree that we

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I noticed that all the responses are in the past tense. This is probably still practiced. I have an acquaintance who is named for his older brother who died in the holocaust. Chana Bonn, Philadelphia

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It says chol hamoed SUKKOT, not Chanukah. Chana Bonn Philadelphia

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The only Munya I ever knew was also an Emanuel. Chana Bonn, Philadelphia

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Using Zillow to obtain an accurate date for when a house was built is not a good idea. Zillow dated the build-date of my grandfather's house many years after my mother had already grown up there! I kn

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