I suspect that a 1% ancestry is well within the margin of error of most commercial services. Estimates of ethnicity are a combination of science (the test) and statistics (who else the company has in

#germany

. 1. What would the Hebrew/Yiddish names be for women named Zenia and Regina (!) No idea about Zenia. If you use the initial sound method for Regina, Rakhel, Rivka or Rut come to mind; using the trans

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Initial letter is a W-- compare the Ws in lines 1 and 9 with the M in line 10. Looks like Woloderky, but there is no W in the Russian alphabet, so read it as Voloderky, changed to a W by a German purs

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An initial word of caution. DNA analysis is a combination of science and statistics. If either is incorrect, the results will also be incorrect. Since statistics are involved, we are dealing with prob

#dna #hungary

The position of notary varied from place to place. I can only give you a general idea of the notary in systems descended from Roman law. You might wish to google "notary Hungary" to get more specific

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This is a Levite name, and the third most common Jewish surname in both Vilna and Vitebsk guberniyas, according to Alexander Beider. My greataunt married into such a family in Usviaty, Vitebsk guberni

#belarus

The Supreme Court will not directly decide the issue of return of the painting. The grant of certiorari is to decide whether a trial court, in a case where jurisdiction is based on the Foreign Soverei

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It was often not possible for people in Europe to save enough money for their trans-Atlantic passage. I know nothing about Canada, but in Philadelphia, several "banks" were established that allowed pe

#ukraine

Some Jews in that part of Galicia were shenkers. They ran inns or taverns and, under lease from the local noble, had a monopoly of the making and selling of alcoholic beverages. It was common for thes

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Before the 1920s, most births occurred at home. Different jurisdictions had different ways to assure that births were registered, but none was foolproof. Philadelphia required the midwife or doctor to

#poland #records

Metrical records in Nezhin Ukraine, just down the road from Chernigov and in the Chernigov guberniya, are available from 1852, and generally include surnames. Bert

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One website is lootedart.com. Bert

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In the U.S., each state regulates its marriages and the forms required. I only know of one situation where authorisation would be required. Where a party to a marriage is younger than the age required

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DNA matches are a combination of science and statistics. Whenever statistics are involved, we are dealing with probabilities. The probability is that someone with whom you share a largest match of at

#dna #education #poland #ukraine #galicia

I am looking to push the whereabouts of the Morris Brown family of Albany earlier than 1900. Here is what I have gleaned, mostly from census returns or their Albany tombstones at Beth El Jacob: Morris

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If the sought relatives are on the father's side, father and son are better because father will provide almost twice the dna sought than both sons, given that he is a generation closer to the source..

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Three areas governed by Russia where the dominant language might have been German: Northern Poland, adjacent to what was then East Prussia. Parts of present-day Latvia, then ruled by Russia, had a Ger

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I have a known third cousin once removed who has tested on Ancestrydna and who matches me at 41, longest string 19. That person's brother, presumably also a third cousin once removed, matches me at on

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Kae Haas is correct that the Portrait of Wally case is similar in some ways. One of the lessons of law school is that no matter how complex a case seems when you first examine it, it is always much mo

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Some women who were naturalized before 1922 by marrying husbands who were American citizens filed their own naturalization papers in th 1930s or 1940s. It is worth checking because the naturalization

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