Jim Milch wrote: I would add to that caveat that even the child's name might be wrong. An example: My Uncle Jack, whose legal name on the U.S. was Jacob and whose name on his Paris birth record is Jac

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This may not apply in your case, but a lot depends on how you know they arrived at Ellis Island. I "knew" that my paternal grandfather, who died long before I was born, immigrated from France to Ellis

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Will this be recorded? I'm unable to attend at that time, but I'd very much like to hear the lecture later if possible.

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Looks to me like Yurbrek, Russia. I searched for that in the JewishGen Communities Database using "sounds like" matching and came up with only one result: Jurbarkas, Lithuania ( modern name), which wa

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I'm a retired newspaper copy editor. I don't know what the procedure was in 1908 at the Boston Globe, but I can tell you that when I was working, this sort of information was very often provided by th

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The Forward published an interesting article a couple of days ago about Coney Island history, including Seagate, from the perspective of Jewish immigrants: https://forward.com/news/449621/yiddish-cone

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Always count the generations from the common ancestor to the descendants, not from the descendants to the common ancestor. As long as the descendants' generations are parallel, you'll be counting firs

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As genealogists, we view this information as important to share, but not everyone is a genealogist. I wanted to document a small, private Jewish cemetery in my area several years ago, but the family t

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Try posting an image of the (entire) document on ViewMate. Perhaps the street name is there but not obvious, and someone more familiar with this type of document might be able to identify it for you.

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You don't say where (or when) your great aunt was born. If she was born in a smaller town near Warsaw, someone would have had to travel to Warsaw to register the birth, which may account for the delay

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When my mother immigrated to the United States after World War II, she was sponsored by an uncle and aunt who had left Germany just before the beginning of the war. I knew them when I was small, and m

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It undoubtedly will vary depending on what software you're using. I use Ancestral Quest, which lists same-sex spouses as Partner1 and Partner2, and shows each partner's gender accurately.

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I know this is a long shot, but I'm trying to find information about a Holocaust survivor named FIRST about whom I have no information except that he married my aunt Eva BLOCH in the Riga ghetto. Eva

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Several people have brought to my attention an error in Google's translation. Feyvish is a masculine name and does not mean fish.

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Google Translate transliterates ער רעד זיך אפ וויא פייוויש אין האלץ קאממער as "er red zikh af vya feyvish in halts kammer" and translates it as literally meaning "He speaks like a fish in a wooden cha

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Women got the right to vote in the United States with the ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920. Knowing where your grandmother lived at that time will help narrow the focus of your search.

As Eva Lawrence points out, it depends on when and where. But I would suggest you check FamilySearch.org. They have voter registration lists from a lot of places in the United States (and, I would ass

Building on Sarah's comment: Family Tree DNA generally has a sale on their mtDNA tests around Mother's Day. You should check their website starting at the beginning of May.

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Good idea, Moishe. I hadn't thought of that!

I can't be certain, but I strongly suspect that the first (#968), filed just a few days after the birth, had several errors that were corrected on the second. As far as the number of children is conce