I use a spreadsheet, as it can be sorted easily. I think I started with a spreadsheet generated through MyHeritage and adapted it for my needs. In the file, I have one sheet sorted by the name/usernam

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Steve Morse has a list of street name changes in Brooklyn at https://stevemorse.org/census/changes/BrooklynChanges.htm, but Boyd Street isn't on the list. So the question now is whether Adrien's ances

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Benjamin's place of birth is written as Galess. (At first I thought it was Gabess, but look at the formation of the letter "L" in the word Belgium below it.) JewishGen TownFinder suggests the modern-d

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The Albany Public Library has city directories from 1813 to the present; unfortunately, they are not available online. Apparently, the U.S. City Directories collection on the MyHeritage website includ

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Thanks for sharing this, Tema. I have saved in a file the names of my ancestors' towns in Cyrillic, so I was able to search for diary entries that mention those places. I also tried searching for refe

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I set up Thru Lines on Ancestry awhile back, but I must say I've been disappointed, as it has errors that apparently can't be corrected. For example: Thru Lines identifies my grandmother's paternal au

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After I sent my last message, I found a Peter Goldberg (1905-1982) in a family tree on Ancestry. His wife's name was Elise, and they had three children (names are private). They are buried in Oceanpor

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You could try city directories from the period, though it would require browsing through them to see if you can locate a Peter with an Elise, or a Roland, etc. I see that the Charles F. Cummings New J

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Stephen, According to a webinar I attended yesterday (hosted by the Center for Jewish History), Yad Vashem's online databases contain "7.5 million records related to 4.8 million Jews murdered and to h

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It would certainly help if you could locate the immigration manifest. Your relative may have arrived at a port other than NYC, such as Philadelphia or Boston. You can also check European records, such

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David, As excited as I felt on seeing (and translating) this post, it is probably not my great-uncle. The occupation is very different, I know for certain that he was born in 1878 or 1879 (from two di

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I don't know how I missed this thread over the summer, but I am very interested in finding information about a relative from the Mogilev guberniya in what's now Belarus who supposedly lived in France

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Rick, There is the website Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness (RAOGK), which has been around for a long time - raogk.org Another alternative is to conduct the local Jewish Genealogical Society. To f

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If the name isn't "son of Morris," it could be Morozov or Morosoff (which actually means frost). A website I looked at suggested Moryson and Moritsan as possible alternatives, indicating that these su

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Here are a few more tips: Ancestry DNA now gives you the number of centimorgans (cMs) in the largest segment you share with a DNA match. Unfortunately, it does not appear right in your list of matches

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Trudy, As Barbara said, where to look for obituaries depends a lot on where your relatives lived. I know of several websites that provide access to upstate New York newspapers, for example. This websi

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In addition to the links and contacts already suggested, you could also try: Sullivan County, NY Historical Society: http://www.scnyhistory.org/ The website fultonhistory.com, which has an extensive o

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I would love to read this article, since my grandfather returned to Russia in the 1920s (but went back to the U.S. after less than a year). Does anyone have institutional access to it? Thanks. Ellen M

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What is Wikitree? I've come across once or twice but wasn't really sure what it is and how it works. I am also interested in the question originally posted. I've done so much research over the years a

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A great idea for a webinar: how to use the jroots forum to search for your ancestors. I've browsed the website a few times, but it's not obvious (at least not to me!) how to use it. Just my 2 cents! E

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