This is just a suggestion, but perhaps there was an unnoticed umlaut (two dots) over the a in bar. It would then be pronounced in the same way as Beer, and the signature could be taken as: Jacob Beer

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Phone numbers are easily lost, and emails disappear at the bottom of one's inbox. If neither of these work, I'd try an good old-fashioned paper letter, with my address at the top.

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Two Jewish men from my German family married Christian women in England i the second half of the 1800s. My grandmother's uncle Julius had travelled to America and back while still a teen-ager, and did

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Like some other people in the discussion group, when asked about my ethnicity on the census, I put 'other' and inserted 'Jewish', because that option wasn't given automatically. In an effort not to hu

#dna

Some people care about spelling, some people don't. At least two of my father's direct ancestors clearly cared a lot. One, David Gimbel, couldn't even write very well. His daughter Amalie was so encha

#germany #names

A little while ago I was calling for the daughter of my first cousin at her place of work. and, yes, I did say that I was her aunt. She was puzzled at the time, as she knew her mother's ony sibling li

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I think that the most likely reason for people to travel to London from Berlin simply in order to marry, was that they wanted a civil, rather than a religious ceremony, and that this was not available

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Perhaps I should have mentioned that HaTikva is the Israeli natuona anthem, since no-one else has. The tune is borrowed from Smetana's Ma Vlast. In the Zionist groupI belonged to as a teenager, it wou

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The hungarian words and the rhythm certainly correspond to HaTikva, as sung in Ivrit.

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My mother, too, considered that Germans were superior to Poles, but I really don't think that this was particularly addressed at Polish Jews, but a general German middle-class attitude. Maybe Polish J

#austria-czech

Hello Yehuda I looked in the index of a very detailed Meyers German atlas, and the only interpretations possible were if you guessed that the dalet was in fact a resh. They can look similar. In that c

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My Swiss cousin has just sent me the book she inspired and initiated, about the work of her Swiss-Jewish grandfather, the architect, Oscar Bloch (1881-1837). Bloch & Guggenheim, Ein Jüdisches Architur

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Firstly, you really need to discriminate between historical sources and indexed information. Secondly, what appear to be historical records have sometimes been rewritten in the archive where they are

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Ancestry.co.uk does have naturalisation records, which often give the names of parents and more exact places of birth. However, naturalisation was an expensive process until the middle of the 20th cen

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FamilyTree Maker itself has a facility for exporting a GedCom version off a tree. Click on File in the People mode, chose Export File and then 'Export as GedCom file' is the bottom option in the dropd

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FamilyTree Maker has its own facility for exporting Gedcom files. In the People mode, click on File, chose Export File, and 'Export as Gedcom' is (in my version) the bottom option on the drop-down men

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You ask whether you Jewish ancestor would have had to cut all ties with her own family on marrying her Christian ancestor in Church. I have a male ancestor who did this, and while I don't know how man

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I believe that some of the records that Berthold Rosenthal saw still exist in the Pfalz and they are probably in the same dusty boxes in which he would have found them The documents haven't been lost,

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Genelogy Indexer is a useful site for finding adresses, I is based on OCR,. searches, and free to use.. Eva Lawrence St Albans, UK.

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You don't say whether the record actually gives the name of the child Regina, which is usually the case in Pfalz birth records. . As quoted, I agree that uneh;lich means unmarried, and I take it, also

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