The defective gene is not inherited by all Eastern European Jews, but those who have it have the same mutation. This is the same situation with Tay-Sachs Disease and Stanley Diamond's family's thalass

#dna

"It used to be that family names in capitalization were a required part of our signatures." This was never true. Surnames were required to be capitalized, and you were allowed to include 6 lines of su

#names

"The bride's given name appears on both pages, the 2nd signed presumably by her. " The back was not signed by her, as both signatures are by the same hand. The front was filled out, by him probably, i

#records

"I have been able to find the Declaration of intent (19 April 1850) and Oath (2 July 1843) as components of the naturalization record of my 2nd great grandfather Charles Schiff. They correspond to the

#records

There are border crossing cards which FamilySearch and Ancestry have. We used to bike to Canadian beaches from Buffalo when I was a kid - you didn't need a plane or a train if you were in the US or Ca

#general

"In the late 1800s, if paternal and maternal grandfathers were both deceased when the first son was born, would he have been named after the paternal grandfather, or was it a choice?" You don't say wh

#names

My mother said her mother's family came from Latvia - they were Litvaks after all. She thought Litvaks came from Latvia. Of course, her family weren't from Latvia at all (as far back as I could go), b

#dna

"We are talking about the late 1800s, so is this a geographic/historical thing, that country borders changed so much?" Records of your family beat DNA every time. Much of what was Prussia became Polan

#dna

"Sorry - how do I translate to English?" For any website that is another language, open it in Google Chrome, and it will translate for you. Everyone should have a copy of Google Chrome to translate fo

#galicia #subcarpathia #ukraine #bessarabia

"All the names suggested on the previous list are irrelevant." Our ancestors didn't translate names to or from Hebrew. They didn't know the Latin origin of Clara. They used 'sounds like' names. Shayna

#names

"I cannot imagine sending him across the world never to be seen or spoken with again. I conclude that her love for her son was greater than her self-interest." Childhood, it has been said, is a produc

#russia

My grandmother Matilda, Aunt Tilly to those that knew her, was born in NYC as Rosa, for her grandmother. Anything is possible, but most likely something with the same initial sound. Shirley could be S

#names

"A painter then is the same as a painter now, somebody that puts paint on a surface. It didn't matter if it was applied inside or outside a building or to a canvas on an easel. If the person were a ra

#general

I googled 'Old German Script Handwriting Guide', and surprise, surprise, it came up. I won't provide the link, I will provide a way to find what you are looking for! It is much better to learn how to

#translation #germany

"Who or where is the best place to get help with old german script hand written records translated?" You can put it on ViewMate, use one of the Translation groups, or you can do it yourself. FamilySea

#translation #germany

"I knew my mother's maternal grandmother's American name was Gussie Squire. The name on some of her immigration documents is Gitel Scvirsci. However, while the envelopes they came in are addressed to

#ukraine #yiddish #russia #names

Lots of Jews from Eastern Europe left from Libau, Antwerp, Rotterdam. I assume that they had train tickets for Antwerp and Rotterdam, or took boats. Hamburg was about half the emigrants, and Bremen wa

#hungary

"Did any of your ancestors become US citizens? That paperwork will list where they came from, previous names used, and the ship they arrived on and the date they arrived." Like many other blanket stat

#records

"The records that have been uploaded to jewishgen, certainly to JRI-PL, have usually been rudimetarily translated by poeple working for the archives. They are not in depth and names are sometimes not

#records

Records from Russia or anywhere else are what they are. You can't change them. I have seen impossible dates, registered births a year before the birth, anything. You have to work with the records that

#records