Portland, OR, USA KehilaLinks page is under construction! If your relatives lived in Portland, Oregon, USA from 1850 to 1950, we need your family story for Portland's KehilaLinks page. [So far we have

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Hello, Magda, I would like to help you with your Jewish DNA and GEDmatch, and will reply to you privately. Linda Wolfe Kelley Portland, OR, USA

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Graz, Landeshauptstadt, Oterreich, 1901: Graz, State Capital, Austria, 1901: Can someone please translate the listing for Marie Markovik? Marie Markovits/Markovik owned farmland near the castle at Gra

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Google Translate suggests that esboubem means nearby. Linda Wolfe Kelley Portland, OR, USA

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Hi, Marilyn. DNA testing might help decide if the Schaffers were the same family as the Schlifers. I agree that vowels can be disregarded in many cases. But for the ancestors to be closely related, th

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Hello, Connie, DNA testing might help sort out relatives. It would be great if you, and some of the Levines and Abrams all got tested, then upload to GEDmatch. If you want help, let me know. Linda Wol

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Ron, Ben means “son of” and Bat means “daughter of” followed by the given names of their fathers. Linda Wolfe Kelley Portland, OR, USA

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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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