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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A few words about computers. All the former "matches" are still on the computers as are all non matches. Unless a person has demanded their DNA be removed, Ancestry should not be removing any results.

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Hello, The following is not perfect, but works for me. I wrote a small program in Regina REXX to move fields. I will explain below. If I entered Hebrew names in the main "name" field, there would be n

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I am responding to the original post, but as many have said, the original document cannot be corrected by Jewishgen, but by the document originator, in this case the owner of the Vienna data. There ar

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Hello, 1) The laws change constantly. 2) The 1940 census asks if the person is a naturalized US citizen 3) She would probably be on her fathers papers, that you have not found them may be due to them

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One reason may be the indexer misread the entry. Try to find others on the same pa via Ancestry and you may also find your relative. Each service seems to use their own indexers. My grandparents were

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One must remember most headstones were not composed by the deceased, the person ordering the stone may not know the official name. Especially if not family. But even family, my father's cousin told me

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Brother's Keeper permits names in Hebrew. I know Hebrew can be used in comments but have not tried using Hebrew dates in the date field. Hebrew in GED files can be loaded into Agelong Tree. I do not u

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I suggest Ministry of Interior. They can supply a document of your entry at least. During this time, I suggest looking for an e-mail address or call them by phone. If you get nowhere with a phone call

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The language is set by country. France = French, Israel =Hebrew. This happens with many applications. Help in Google comes up in Hebrew, but the the help I wanted was "how to set the page to English."

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Hi, You are looking for soldiers of the 39th battalion. Volunteers from US and Canada. I do not have full access via Ancestry, but from time to time they open UK or full access for free. I do not reme

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Yesterday a mention was made that a person's information was removed/lost from an online tree. This was in the Ancestry vs MyHeritage thread. I have written this in the past, documents should be downl

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Jeri, You forgot to inform us if you are computer comfortable. Do you know how to create backup and can you create the data on your own computer? If so, I suggest Brother's Keeper for almost everythin

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Access: MyHeritage did not permit access to the DNA section when my cousin was visiting (Israel) from the US. She had no problem accessing other databases. Data: The data from Ancestry is probably lar

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My name was changed by the US. I was born in Israel, 1950. My birth certificate does not have any information in English, not even my name. 8 months later, my parents took out a US Certificate of Birt

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Mr. Bloomberg, I do claim the changes were made at point of departure. It is at point of departure that the manifest was made, and the passenger ship company was very careful that the manifest was cor

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I don't think these are names they used, but the name the purser heard and wrote in the closest way possible considering the limitations of the language used at the port of departure, and of course En

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My name is דן (Genesis 30:6). No one in NYC was able to wrap their head around the name. If I wrote Dan - I was corrected to Daniel. If I said my name, it was corrected to Donald. But while in Boston,

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