Hi Allan, I have no idea if this is relevant in your case; however I have the following story: Someone whose address was definitely known did not appear in the 1930 census; however several of their ne

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Hi Allan, I have no idea if this is relevant in your case; however I have the following story: Someone whose address was definitely known did not appear in the 1930 census; however several of their ne

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My paternal great-grandfather remarried after about 8 months. We're talking about the 1880's here - men couldn't fry an egg then and would have no idea how to handle a small child. Having small childr

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My paternal great-grandfather remarried after about 8 months. We're talking about the 1880's here - men couldn't fry an egg then and would have no idea how to handle a small child. Having small childr

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my ancestors whose name began with "S" became "Sam", regardless of what their original name was. This also included retroactive "Samification" for the names of their parents when they listed father's

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my ancestors whose name began with "S" became "Sam", regardless of what their original name was. This also included retroactive "Samification" for the names of their parents when they listed father's

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A few days ago I coined here the expression "Retroactive Samification" to describe the phenomenon of immigrants to the US Americanizing their father's name as "Samuel", even though that was not his na

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A few days ago I coined here the expression "Retroactive Samification" to describe the phenomenon of immigrants to the US Americanizing their father's name as "Samuel", even though that was not his na

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Actually, this success story is a few months old - but I just remembered that JewishGen encourages publishing them, so here goes: I knew that my ggg-grandparents >from my all-maternal line came >from

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Actually, this success story is a few months old - but I just remembered that JewishGen encourages publishing them, so here goes: I knew that my ggg-grandparents >from my all-maternal line came >from

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As in many aspects of life, here too - in DNA testing, discretion is the better part of valour. When I took Genetics 101 in college (somewhere around the Jurassic period, according to my children), I

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As in many aspects of life, here too - in DNA testing, discretion is the better part of valour. When I took Genetics 101 in college (somewhere around the Jurassic period, according to my children), I

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Hi all, I have lots of family >from Buchach, Ukraine (nee Buczacz, Galicia) who definitely lived there >from at least the early 19th century until the late 19th century; yet I can find next to no reco

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Hi all, I have lots of family >from Buchach, Ukraine (nee Buczacz, Galicia) who definitely lived there >from at least the early 19th century until the late 19th century; yet I can find next to no reco

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"Gold" in Russian is "zolata". I don't recall ever hearing it as a surname. Meron Lavie

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"Gold" in Russian is "zolata". I don't recall ever hearing it as a surname. Meron Lavie

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I was corrected off-line, and wish to pass on the correction: The Russian word for gold is "Zoloto" and not "zolata". I hear more Russian than I read, and many Russians pronounce the written "o" as a

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I was corrected off-line, and wish to pass on the correction: The Russian word for gold is "Zoloto" and not "zolata". I hear more Russian than I read, and many Russians pronounce the written "o" as a

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I have found in the 1930 census a person whom I believe is a relative of mine, born 1894. The wife's name, his profession and the neighborhood all seem to be a match. The only catch is that the relati

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I have found in the 1930 census a person whom I believe is a relative of mine, born 1894. The wife's name, his profession and the neighborhood all seem to be a match. The only catch is that the relati

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