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

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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

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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

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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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Stephen Katz and Adam Cherson raise excellent points about the Cassirer case. In this case, the parties probably stipulated that the painting was stolen. In 1939, Lilly Cassirer transferred the painti

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The initial question in this case was whether California or Spanish law would apply to determine the ownership of a painting that was bought in the U.S. 60 years ago by a Spaniard, kept in Spain durin

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Those interested in U.S. Jewish Agricultural communities might seek out the book Yoval, A Symposium upon the First Fifty Years of the Jewish Faming Colonies of Alliance, Norma and Brotmanville NJ (Aug

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If you have the pages, you have what exists. Translation is probably not necessary, as Professor Deych organized the work in tabular form. You can use an online translator for the position your ancest

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If you are ordering an autosomal test like Family tree DNA's Family Finder, it is better to order it from either Family Tree DNA or MyHeritage than from Ancestry because Ancestry provides minimal info

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The question is not clear. If you are looking for names Yitzkhak might use in a country where English is not the language spoken, I have seen Icek, Izaak, Aizik and Itsko. If you are looking at Englis

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U.S. law provides that naturalization can be done in any court or by the attorney general. If you are looking for the naturalization of a Philadelphia resident early in the 20th century, there are at

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