Hi. After you read the following and do not understand, I will answer questions off-list, I work in this 30 years, I do not expect everyone to understand in a few words. There are 2 ways to create a P

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I suggest that people add year of birth when mentioning an ancestor. Then if you are 20 or 40 or 70, people will know when you write "mother", the time frame. My mother was born in 1920s, my sisters 1

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MHeritage also has/had a download but had to be searched for in the settings. I am asking it of Ancestry. There was a app that, IMO, caused DOS on the Ancestry site but would build a spreadsheet. I tr

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There are a number of missing tools at Ancestry, but I'd like to be able to get a spreadsheet file of DNA matches. I would then be able to compare the 50k 4th and closer relatives of the 9 accounts I

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I have been using Brother's Keeper. I do not know how long, but I purchased it soon after the Pentium chip came out. I like that I can download or print-to-pdf and link the files to the person. There

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At one company I am told I have 92% Ashkanazi, 5% N.Africa and 3% Italian ancesrty. At another company I am 100% European Jewish. I can trace 3 of 4 families back over 150 years - Ashkanzi. The third

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You wrote: The other main sites you need to be on are FTDNA and 23andMe, otherwise you have to sit back and wait for relatives to do a test. Do these sites find people in other ways? Do they scan all

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An opinion. Try to have more than one known relative to submit DNA. Best a sibling. If a person is your 3rd cousin, but does not appear in your sibling list, they are probably not relatives. But if a

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Yes, Leo and Leon and Arieh all mean lion. When you start to read readin, how do you know the fellow that wrote the readin, wrote the readin right? Festus Hagen Long Branch Saloon Dodge City, Kansas (

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I agree the date is 26. The bet is written differently the base of the letters are different. But if the Hebrew date is correct, 26 Adar II, 5711, Then the English date should be April not March. The

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Dear Fellow Researchers Google has shown again (not Google again, but cloud services) that the cloud, especially free cloud services, are unreliable for long term use. I strongly suggest purchase of e

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My father is listed as grandson age 3, there are also 2 girls aged 15 and 17 in the house. My father's first cousin never heard of this "grandfather" and has no knowledge of the family. My grandparent

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Randy, I beg to deffer. My sister (Z"L), put up a family tree on Geni. I attempted to update her date-of-death and was unable until the Genealogy conference in Jerusalem. There I was able update her i

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Always, always read the various links you check when signing up to a site ESPECIALLY one where you supply information. Reading a newspaper and registering without a CC, I have no problem checking thei

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If the person died while serving, he should be listed in אתר ההנצחה לחללי מערכות ישראל אתר ההנצחה לחללי מערכות ישראל אתר ההנצחה לחללי מערכות ישראל Dahn Cukier When you start to read readin, how do you

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Hello, The death was in 1930, I suggest searching in the vicinity of the husband's grave. Since you searched by date, they may not have recorded the burial and there may not be a gravestone. This in N

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Hello, I looked at both Ancestry and Familysearch, but I really do not recall which had unindexed scanned documents. I think I heard about the documents here on the mailling list. I only know that I d

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There is no one way or are any of the ones I have used easy. Here are 3 examples. Samuel: Father's father's father (great grandfather). I knew he had arrived in the US after 1905, his youngest daughte

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Today, I received a notice from Ancestry that I am my own 1st cousin. I logged in and did not find any new 1st or second cousins. I did notice there is a dot to the lower left side of the photo. The d

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Printing a large tree. If you want to print on a number of pages there are many ways to do so, but to print on one large page, you will need to use a plotter. * I produce a tree in jpg format from "Ag

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