One possible explanation is that whoever erected the stone did not know the name of his father. I have images of some stones in my family which differ in their post-WW2 design from the design they had

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Even much later, in the 1950s, there were families who were anxious not to tell an adopted child that it wasn't theirs. A newspaper announcement seems a bit extreme, but they may have wanted to make s

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This idea of a perfect bureaucracy is just not possible. No doubt it was in the authorities' interests to present a picture of infallibility, in order to scare people into compliance, but but you only

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Statements like Michael Tobias's do need a time-frame and a place marker. Clerks fluent in passengers' languages have to emigrate too at an earlier date, and not all ports would install such resources

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What's more, has Michael Tobias never failed to make out a surname on a manuscript passenger list? When typed lists came in his statement becomes more credible.

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Yes, what I was suggesting was that the fathers were Familianten from another town, and a way of tracing them would be through the married daughters of the family where the death occurred.

#austria-czech

While LDS microfilms are no longer available, many of the images have been put online under the same film number. You need to search for them by clicking on the Catalogue heading on the Familysearch w

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While I'm not familiar with Moravian laws, I wonder if the two puzzling children's deaths could in fact have occurred in the home town of the mother's family? Perhaps the grandparents were caring for

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-- While ones tree may be a work in progress, the best way not to mislead other people is always to put in one's sources. So anyone examining it can make their own decision as to whether an entry is c

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Most of the people who are being dismissive of the large genealogical companies go on to say that they haven't subscribed for years. All these companies have had to up their game for that very reason.

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As I understand it, every woman inherits DNA from their father as well as from their mother in equal proportions (the double helix). So people you share DNA with are just as likely to be relatives on

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The general answer to the problem of locating the street when the only address given is a house number, is to search for a series of address books for the town in question. At some stage in the town's

#warsaw

Laws about only allowing the oldest son to marry were certainly believed to be in existence in some areas and in certain jurisdictions, whether that was the case or not. It's the only explanation I ca

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Tom Klein writes "either King David's line ended, and no one is, or after 1000 years everyone was his descendant" The theory that everyone's family branches out indefinitely is fallacious. In any popu

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I use FamilyTree Maker 2019, apaid-for upgrade from a disc of an earlier version. All the software, I assume, is on my hard disc. I'm wary of upgrading to a newer version., since several programmes th

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-- I'd try looking for his birth in the home town of his maternal grandmother. In the past, women often went 'home to mother' for the birth of their first child, since she was experienced and doctors

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I've come across instances of of a German Jewish son having the same forename as his father and it was invariably because the family had to adopt a legal surname. The custom.in France and parts of Ger

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I've copied down the very useful technical hints, but here are some new views on what to keep. It's important not to just crop faces, but also scan the whole picture. Clothes can be important for dati

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Can any kind person point me to the marriage record of Elke Eleanore COHEN to Nethanel UNGAR, whose oldest son Löwe was born in Bonn in November 1798?. Elke was the daughter of Rabbi Benjamin Simcha C

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The sentence starting 'In gleich.... ' means, "Please also copy,me in" . it's a piece of office jargon. Eva Lawrence St Albans, UK.

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