Dear Cousins, In case you are unaware, Bezeq, the Israeli phone company has the following website in English to search for your family phone numbers: http://english.b144.co.il/ Sarah L M Christiansen

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Dear Cousins, In case you are unaware, Bezeq, the Israeli phone company has the following website in English to search for your family phone numbers: http://english.b144.co.il/ Sarah L M Christiansen

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Dear Genners, Someone had sent me this information: According to Matt Dexter, on the FTDNA Forum, here is a breakdown of sum shared DNA ranges for various relationships: Parent/child: 3539-3748 centim

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Dear Genners, Someone had sent me this information: According to Matt Dexter, on the FTDNA Forum, here is a breakdown of sum shared DNA ranges for various relationships: Parent/child: 3539-3748 centim

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Hi Eli, I looked up NACHATOVICH in Beider's book on Jewish Surnames in the Russian Empire, without success but changing the C to a K yielded "NAKHATOVICH SM See NOKHUM" (sm = secondary surname derived

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Hi Eli, I looked up NACHATOVICH in Beider's book on Jewish Surnames in the Russian Empire, without success but changing the C to a K yielded "NAKHATOVICH SM See NOKHUM" (sm = secondary surname derived

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Genners, There is a commercial site selling mapping software that will track locations through time. My professional genealogist friend uses AniMap. For the US the software is called AniMap, and it wi

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Genners, There is a commercial site selling mapping software that will track locations through time. My professional genealogist friend uses AniMap. For the US the software is called AniMap, and it wi

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Hi Laurie, I am just a bit more advanced than you are, but I will try to answer your questions. 1. The Y test is very helpful when trying to establish a relationship where the surnames are the same (e

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Hi Laurie, I am just a bit more advanced than you are, but I will try to answer your questions. 1. The Y test is very helpful when trying to establish a relationship where the surnames are the same (e

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Hi Michael, On the basis that Schmika could be also be spelled Shmika, I looked this up in Beider's book of Ashkenazic Given Names, he suggests Sime which is derived >from Simcha joy. I expect the mos

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Hi Michael, On the basis that Schmika could be also be spelled Shmika, I looked this up in Beider's book of Ashkenazic Given Names, he suggests Sime which is derived >from Simcha joy. I expect the mos

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Hi David, I have seen this used quite successfully in the past. This is when you send an email to those involved and see if you can find some common ancestors or at least common places of origin. I su

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Hi David, I have seen this used quite successfully in the past. This is when you send an email to those involved and see if you can find some common ancestors or at least common places of origin. I su

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Dear Cousins On behalf of my facebook friend Alexandra Goldberg, I am posting this link, to Jewish Belarus. Others requested that it be posted here. I am not a member of the Belarus Sig, so if someone

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Dear Cousins On behalf of my facebook friend Alexandra Goldberg, I am posting this link, to Jewish Belarus. Others requested that it be posted here. I am not a member of the Belarus Sig, so if someone

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I have posted an image on Viewmate for which we would like a complete translation. It is located at the following http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM24222 It is a tombstone for S

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I have posted an image on Viewmate for which we would like a complete translation. It is located at the following http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM24222 It is a tombstone for S

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Dear Genners, I have posted an image on Viewmate for which we would like a complete translation. It is located at the following http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM24222 It is a t

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Dear Genners, I have posted an image on Viewmate for which we would like a complete translation. It is located at the following http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM24222 It is a t

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