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how to print a large tree
#general
Family Tree Maker 2019 has a facility in the Publish mode for exporting a tree as a one-page pdf. You can find it by clicking on the Share icon, top right.. You can then print the saved file in any si
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Family Tree Maker 2019 has a facility in the Publish mode for exporting a tree as a one-page pdf. You can find it by clicking on the Share icon, top right.. You can then print the saved file in any si
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how to print a large tree
#general
-- FamilyTreemaker allows you to export you tree you've constructed and saved in the Publish mode as a single-page pdf file. You can the print a copy of this at any size you wish with your installed p
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-- FamilyTreemaker allows you to export you tree you've constructed and saved in the Publish mode as a single-page pdf file. You can the print a copy of this at any size you wish with your installed p
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Eva Lawrence
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What's a Cutter?
#usa
#general
My grandmother was a homeworker for Swan and Edgar, a London department in the 1940s. She would collect ready-cut pieces of material ) no doubt produced by a cutter (though I didn't see that part of t
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My grandmother was a homeworker for Swan and Edgar, a London department in the 1940s. She would collect ready-cut pieces of material ) no doubt produced by a cutter (though I didn't see that part of t
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Eva Lawrence
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Online trees
#general
One thing that has just become clear to me is that a lot of the difficulties of JewishGen users with Geni may be due to a language problem. Geni was historically run to a great extent by German volunt
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One thing that has just become clear to me is that a lot of the difficulties of JewishGen users with Geni may be due to a language problem. Geni was historically run to a great extent by German volunt
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Eva Lawrence
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Why would my Grandfather travel under his older brother's name?
#names
Emigration passes cost money. If you'd paid for a pass for one family member, they might well send the pass back to be used again. Eva Lawrence St Albans, UK
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Emigration passes cost money. If you'd paid for a pass for one family member, they might well send the pass back to be used again. Eva Lawrence St Albans, UK
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Eva Lawrence
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military notbook
#bessarabia
I also have the military record book of my grandfather. In his case it was for his service as a private in the French army in the 1890s and was issued by the French government of the time. . I thought
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I also have the military record book of my grandfather. In his case it was for his service as a private in the French army in the 1890s and was issued by the French government of the time. . I thought
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Eva Lawrence
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Back and forth to Russia
#records
Surely the thread 'Back and forth to Russia' should be forwarded to all the genealogy sites we've been evaluating, to show that there is demand for passenger manifests for ships going eastward across
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Surely the thread 'Back and forth to Russia' should be forwarded to all the genealogy sites we've been evaluating, to show that there is demand for passenger manifests for ships going eastward across
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Eva Lawrence
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are there benefits of the My Heritage site over Ancestry
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This is a really valid point. There is no need to be tied to one site or the other if you keep your own records on your computer. The difference between the sites has always been that MH offers primar
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This is a really valid point. There is no need to be tied to one site or the other if you keep your own records on your computer. The difference between the sites has always been that MH offers primar
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Eva Lawrence
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are there benefits of the My Heritage site over Ancestry
#general
The basic difference between Ancestry and MH appears to be that Ancestry provides vital records,and a search engine to locate them and then you attach these to your tree, The information on MH and its
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The basic difference between Ancestry and MH appears to be that Ancestry provides vital records,and a search engine to locate them and then you attach these to your tree, The information on MH and its
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Eva Lawrence
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Ship Manifests, immigration
#general
If the person was a stowaway it would explain bot why they wre detained and and why they were not on the ship manifest, as would if they were travelling under a false name.
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If the person was a stowaway it would explain bot why they wre detained and and why they were not on the ship manifest, as would if they were travelling under a false name.
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Eva Lawrence
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family name meanings
#names
The literal translation of your name is simply true (wahr) speaker (Sager), ie. teller of truth. Soothsayer is merely a secondary or implied meaning.
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The literal translation of your name is simply true (wahr) speaker (Sager), ie. teller of truth. Soothsayer is merely a secondary or implied meaning.
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Eva Lawrence
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Naturalisation - Women - Early 20th century
#unitedkingdom
On ,marriage in England, a woman automatically took on her husband's nationality throughout the 20th century. So only single women needed to start proceedings to be naturalised as British subjects. Th
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On ,marriage in England, a woman automatically took on her husband's nationality throughout the 20th century. So only single women needed to start proceedings to be naturalised as British subjects. Th
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Eva Lawrence
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Questions about Document in Germany
#germany
I apologise for the omission. I clicked the link 'reply to this message' and also used the same subject line as the query in my response. Unfortunately that wasn't picked up. Perhaps I should have use
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I apologise for the omission. I clicked the link 'reply to this message' and also used the same subject line as the query in my response. Unfortunately that wasn't picked up. Perhaps I should have use
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Eva Lawrence
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#general #germany Questions about Document in Germany
#general
#germany
It is possible that the document was prepared for some unpleasant purpose. However, in that case I'm surprised that it still exists, and wasn't destroyed by its owner to avoid the post-war Nazi hunt.
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It is possible that the document was prepared for some unpleasant purpose. However, in that case I'm surprised that it still exists, and wasn't destroyed by its owner to avoid the post-war Nazi hunt.
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Eva Lawrence
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Immigration-steerage of passenger ship
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I'm posting an 1851 woodcut of the steerage of a passenger ship which should help inform further discussion on the subject. I hope that the background is clear enough to show how unpleasant the voyage
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I'm posting an 1851 woodcut of the steerage of a passenger ship which should help inform further discussion on the subject. I hope that the background is clear enough to show how unpleasant the voyage
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Eva Lawrence
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When was this picture taken?
#photographs
#germany
Have you considered that this might be a scene staged later for a play or film? I ask simply because the atmosphere seems very phony to me. Eva Lawrence St Albans, UK
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Have you considered that this might be a scene staged later for a play or film? I ask simply because the atmosphere seems very phony to me. Eva Lawrence St Albans, UK
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Eva Lawrence
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How to make sense of two death records that don't make sense to me
#germany
Two sisters/cousins Henriette and Frederiecke Lichtensted married two men, both dancing masters. One of the men was Levi Lichtenstein, the other Israel Levi Lichtenstein, who may have been the brother
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Two sisters/cousins Henriette and Frederiecke Lichtensted married two men, both dancing masters. One of the men was Levi Lichtenstein, the other Israel Levi Lichtenstein, who may have been the brother
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Eva Lawrence
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Mother Instead of Father on Gravestone
#general
#germany
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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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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Eva Lawrence
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Adoptions in the US around the 1930s
#general
#dna
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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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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Eva Lawrence
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"His name was changed at Ellis Island"
#names
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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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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Eva Lawrence
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