www dot gedcom dot org/gedcom.html Each software can handle data differently regardless of what is passed from the GED file. Also the "options" of some software packages may have ways to change standa

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I have not followed the entire conversation. My advice is to read the various privacy links and decide if you want to upload information, read the "setting" information supplied on the site and set up

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Hello, Please report the mistake to GRAVEZ. They, and Tel Aviv have made corrections when reported. I have not communicated with other sites, but IZKOR does ask me for "how do you know", although I on

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A birth certificate can be ordered by the person or a few others that meet qualifications (close family members), but I was disappointed. I think the IP address needs to be in Israel. I ordered my own

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A few remarks. find-a-grave. I only upload photos when the person tells me the deceased is a relative. I have had many requests for former soldiers and no earthly reason but the requester has over a t

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I will take this opertunity to continue. There are many mistakes in the indexed listing. My sister is listed was Shimchi שימחי while her family name was Simchi . שמחי The shin probably is recorded wit

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Simple answer: No. There are a number of online data bases but no central database. BillionGraves, Find-a-grave, and Gravez all cover a number of locations. IZKOR is a data base of the Ministry of Def

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Your name may have been changed by anyone. My name was spelled "Dan", but pronounced as in Hebrew. All my US teachers would claim my name was Daniel. When told them it is pronounced Dan, they would th

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Hello, There is no way to know without contacting the "match" and attempting to trace a connection. I have a number of second cousins at Ancestry that are not even listed as matches to my sister, moth

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Hello, This is a reply to George's post. There is no good to come from claiming the earth is flat (or roundish). That is what happens when people constantly copy and publish wrong information. I am in

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Hello, Probably what I say will not help. There is a contact at the bottom of findagrave page, write or call them. The terms of service are the photos belong to the person whom uploaded the photo. (Bi

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A few years ago and my memory about specifics is fuzzy. Familysearch OR Ancestry put out that they have un-indexed records from a number of courts. In the early years of the 20th century, many courts

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Very short explanation of GED. There are hundreds of field types, these are the ones I use to record my father. I changed some information. More notes at the bottom. == first line of new entry, begins

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The forward slash is to offset the family name. I have not tried, but I think the software (Ancestry) should have refused the forward slash as part of the name. The exported GEDfile line comes out as

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Hi, I have reviewed again my grandmother (b.1904) and her older brother Joel (b. 1882) Ellis Island and naturalization papers, as being born in Ciedcilys and Mendzlesh in Poland. I do not find either

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My name was spelled Dan in the US, but every teacher changed it first to Daniel and then when I said how to pronounce the Hebrew name which is what I have always used, they would change it to Donald.

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Hi, Very few I have found since 1940 in Israel omit both family names. Either the family name or father's family name. One I found did not have the family name, a Rabbi with only his title as known Mo

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I entered my grandfathers name and his US draft card and a separate box for his UK service with a link to UK Archive. It seems to work fine at least for US and UK records. Dahn Zukrowicz

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Hello, I had a "due to privacy", about taking photos of graves. Email was no help but I sent a printed letter and a reply that matches the British policy. No movies, stills are fine. I did NOT include

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I know a BLATKO, who has relatives in England named BLACK. Dahn Zukrowicz When you start to read readin, how do you know the fellow that wrote the readin, wrote the readin right? Festus Hagen Long Bra

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