All four of my grandparents and two of my great grandparents emigrated to the US from Eastern Europe between 1905 and 1914. I was able to request records from USCIS for both my grandfathers as I had t

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Bayside, Mokom Shalom, and Acacia Cemeteries are not in Bayside NY. They are in Ozone Park. Robert Hanna NYC CHANAN, HANAN, HANNE, GANE (Warsaw); BLUMENBLATT (Sarnaki) KARASIK, THOMASHOW, COHEN (Babru

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Correction: I meant to say you cannot transfer to Ancestry or 23 and me. Robert Hanna NYC

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My understanding (and I'm no expert) is that mitochondrial DNA does not mutate very often, so searching for specifics through mitochondrial DNA is difficult. You would probably do better tracing throu

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You can transfer test results from Ancestry DNA and 23 and me DNA to FamilyTree DNA and MyHeritage DNA, but you cannot transfer to Ancestry or MyHeritage from any of the others. Robert Hanna NYC CHANA

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I've just received an offer for 20% off a World Explorer subscription on Ancestry. The price is $119 for 6 months. My family is from Babruysk & Minsk in Belarus and Warsaw in Poland. I already have a

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I am 100% Ashkenazi. On any form that asks for race, I check other and write in "Semitic." This is probably going to start a whole new discussion on this topic but, what the heck. Robert Hanna NYC CHA

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I sent in a search request on 14 Sep 2020 and two records requests on 16 Sep 2020 and still have not received anything. Robert Hanna NYC

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You are definitely not being paranoid. A woman on MyHeritage has stolen photographs of my relatives and attached them to people on her tree (not the correct people). She claimed she was related to my

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Try right clicking on the image. You might get "Save image as". Click on that and you can save it to your computer. Robert Hanna NYC

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My paternal grandfather Zelik was also known as Joseph. There is no rhyme or reason. I have not been able to find his birth record. Robert Hanna NYC

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Appears to be the same person. Hairline seems the same. The giveaway is the ears. Ears seem to be the same. Robert Hanna NYC

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Your grandfather's gravestone might have his father's name in Hebrew. Robert Hanna NYC

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I just checked their website. Montefiore Cemetery has no way to search by society name. Robert Hanna NYC

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My grandmother and her sister, who were the two oldest of five children, came first. Then their father came a year later with the next oldest daughter. One year after that their mother arrived with th

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From my experience, MyHeritage is least accurate. They claim I have a small percentage from Central America. Not even close. It's possible that ancestors way, way back emigrated to Central America and

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Cindy, I do not recognize them. However, I discovered 2 Max's in my family who were brothers. Neither came to the US, but each of their families in the US called them Max. One was Moshe (my gggf), the

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I trust that Allan Jordan is correct. I've never known him to be wrong. I'll bet that the gravestone, if there is one, is correct. I looked at the death certificate and I can understand how somebody,

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Be prepared. This can be a Herculean task. I have gone so far as to check for just first names. I have found the name "Karasik" spelled "Caress" and "Harasik." I have found the name "Tillie" spelled "

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Suggest to them that they can do it anonymously. Instead of using their name, they can make up a name or use initials and you could be the manager of their DNA. Nobody could possibly know who they are

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