Comcast here in Portland, OR says The Genetic Detective will air on ABC, starting May 26 at 10 p.m. Pacific time. Linda Wolfe Kelley Portland, OR, USA

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The shorthand was probably Gregg Shorthand, not Pittman, which I learned. Linda Wolfe Kelley Portland, OR, USA

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Seeking information about my great uncle's wife, Sarah Eisen Resnick, who moved to Haifa, Israel in 1951, and was in the Pioneer Women organization, Mo'ezet ha-Po'alot or מועצת הפועלות. Sarah's father

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There is a web address My shtetl\Bobr Linda Wolfe Kelley Portland, OR, USA

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I just wanted to say that children were sometimes enumerated in their parents' homes, and were also enumerated in other households or locations. The parents may have misunderstood the directions, or t

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When I see a newborn named after a living parent, I check to see if the baby died or was a stillbirth before he or she was given a name. Sometimes a stillbirth baby was given a combination of the pare

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Hello, Barbara, One problem with Julius' death record is that he died in 1947 and was listed as a 7-year old child, but married. Name: Julius Kozloff Gender: Male Race: White Marital status: Married D

Does anyone know if there are travel records of the 400 surviving forced labor workers from the Pfaff sewing machine factory in Kaiserslautern, Germany? I contacted the Jewish Museum, Yad Vashem and t

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Handwriting is hard to read. Cause if death was cirrhosis of the liver, along with myocardial disease. Thanks to Michigan for posting death certificates online! Linda Wolfe Kelley Portland, OR, USA

Sarah’s suggestions are excellent. You can upload your autosomal DNA (FamilyFinder) to My Heritage to see additional matches. And absolutely, upload to GEDmatch.com, which accepts results from all the

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Thank you, Marion. I used the template that ViewMate suggested. Leizer might have gone to South Africa for a visit. Linda

Subj: ViewMate translation request - Latvian I've posted a vital record in Latvian for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address ... http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/view

Please help identify these ladies. They lived in Chicago about 1910. The photos were taken by G.L. Simons. The families lived in Bobruisk and Gomel, Belarus. Associated families were Bereskin, Shcolni

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The Jewish Genealogical Society of Portland is pleased to announce its January program Endogamous DNA presented by Emily Aulicino. The program will be held January 19, 2020 at 10:30AM at Neveh Shalom

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Fascinating story! And good work! I hope you and your half-siblings get your DNA tested by the same company, then load results to GEDmatch to broaden the database. Linda Wolfe Kelley Portland, OR, USA

Jewish Genealogical Society of Oregon will have a Helping Hands meeting Sunday, March 8 from 10:30-12:30 at the Hollywood branch library on NE 41st and NE Tillamook. Everyone is welcome! There is no f

Perhaps Velvel was the original name for the nickname Babel. Linda Wolfe Kelley Portland, OR, USA

JGSO will host a Helping Hands meeting on Dec. 8, from 10:30 to 12:30, at the Hillsdale Library, 1525 SW Sunset Blvd, Portland, OR 97239. The meeting is free and open to the public. Please join us, an

The Jewish Genealogical Society of Oregon invites you, your family and friends to its upcoming Program. Sunday, November 3, 2019 at 10:30 AM Topic: Genealogy “Mini” Boot Camp You’ve done your DNA, got

Looking or Yakov/Jacob RASHAL b. about 1896 in Zalatopol, Ukraine, and wife Hinde, b. about 1897, on the SS RUSLAN, from Odessa to Jaffa, Palestine. This was a famous passage that arrived in Jaffa on

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