I have some family buried in Mount Lebanon in one of the Piliver Podolier sections. Here's what I've learned. Mount Lebanon Cemetery has its own website with a pretty good search function which allows

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We are trying to find out what happened to Sime "Sophie or Fanny" Rosenthal Schwarrzstein, born about 1861-63 in Ukraine, emigrated to the US in 1886. Any help with records after her arrival – beyond

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As a follow-up to my post and the suggestion of several posts, I was able to compare the results of match data for my mother and another person (Mary) at MyHeritage, FTDNA and GEDMatch. MyHeritage Chr

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On Sun, Nov 27, 2022 at 06:00 PM, David Brostoff wrote: Besides the large discrepancy in total shared DNA, the fact that on Ancestry your mother and Mary do not share one of their MyHeritage triangula

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I decided to try to reframe my earlier post, with the initial responses and new data I've gathered, to place the question in context. My original post featured two DNA match reports, one from MyHerita

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I appreciate all the answers, received here and in private, explaining some of the mechanics behind the discrepancy in DNA match data from MyHeritage and Ancestry. It seems that the majority of respon

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I've just encountered a puzzling pair of DNA matches which I hope those with more expertise in this area might be able to unpuzzle. I found what looks like a significant match between my mother Nancy

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I thought this item reviewing the contents of the US Census decade-by-decade would interest other list members. There is a "Research Guide" providing more details connected to each short decade's summ

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This announcement just showed up in my email and I thought it might be of general interest to list members. I've seen the presenter Paul Woodbury in other webinars and highly recommend him. Otherwise

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Please don't do a spring cleaning. The expired information in Family Finder can be useful. I found only one record there for my family in our town, where it noted that the researcher was deceased. But

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I forgot to mention that all 10 family members – 2 parents and 8 children – are included in the 1900 US census. The parents (under the names Louis and Fanny Weinblatt) and the 4 youngest children were

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Thanks for the heads-up about this title. I discovered that Vol 2., Oct 1882-Apr 1886 is available in full text through the Internet Archive for a 1-hour borrowing period to registered users (free). I

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I hope someone here can help find passenger records for my Weinblatt ancestors. I've been researching this branch of my family for years and, though I've had some important breakthroughs leading to di

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I just saw an announcement about an automatic photo tagging utility from MyHeritage that looks like the sort of thing you are looking for: https://blog.myheritage.com/2022/09/new-photo-tagger-now-avai

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Am I wrong or does the name inscription say BR, as in “son of”?

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News item from The Forward Department of self congratulation ➤ The Forward got a grant from the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies to partner with JewishGen to find, translate

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One thing often lost in these discussions is that these metrics are meant to prioritize your DNA matches, to help you identify those most likely to be identified and located on your tree. Hitting some

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Thanks for the suggested “chaver” which seems the most likely usage in this scenario. I was able to find a helpful reference to its significance via a Google search: “Regulations of The Synagogue ‘Alt

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Sorry ... I forgot to include image of the headstone .https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/107332479/chila-koshkin

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I'd appreciate help understanding the meaning of the abbreviation ’’ח (chet) before a father's name on a gravestone. (Please note that the '' are not yuds but my best representation of the faint diacr

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