People who have been reading these messages for more than two years may recall that just before the Covid pandemic began, I had made a request to NARA to locate a document, RG 85, 52.271/6. NARA is no

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I think the point would be best made if someone in the Netherlands demanded that all Dutch university staff be required to reveal their ties to Islamic, Palestinian, and terrorist groups. If that dema

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Try Island of Hope, Island of Tears by David M. Brownstone, Irene M. Franck, and Douglass Brownstone, Rawson, Wade Publishers, New York, 1979. It's a collection of newspaper articles from c. 1900. Yal

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I've been amazed by the assistance participants in this group have been able to provide, and hope I can invoke it. I am looking for two half-siblings of my grandfather: 1) Edward "Eddie" MORRIS, born

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It may also have something to do with local accents. One of my Akabas ancestors, who died in Boston, had her name listed as Arkabes on her death certificate: the "r" is the famous "Boston r" that appe

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In response to Karen Weinstock Gwynn's comment: I think there's a basic difference between a researcher who doesn't respond at all to a contact from another researcher and one who allows a corresponde

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The probability of a response depends on how likely the recipient is to believe your message has utility for them. That's why people researching rare surnames are more likely to get a response than th

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It might be helpful to differentiate between German as a cultural descriptor and German as a political/national one. The German Empire came into being in 1871; before then, people might identify with

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Hi Folks, A cousin has asked my help in tracing her father's roots. Here is what she could tell me: "My dad's parents were Max Rose and Irene (Linker) Rose. They were born in northern Hungary in what

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The situation is actually a lot more complicated than has been suggested: The two vaccines approved so far are effective at preventing serious symptoms from SARS-CoV-2, but the medical community is st

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My father's first cousin, Raymond Zussman, was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for his role in capturing a French town during WWII. (See https://www.cmohs.org/recipients/raymond-zussman ) He

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If the word is actually Leuta, rather than Leoto, it could mean Lithuania. --Yale Zussman

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By 1920, Russia had become the Soviet Union, where the Jewish Leon Trotsky, born Lev Bronstein, became foreign minister and head of the army. Mayor of a town/city would have been no great shakes. Yale

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When I send those messages, whether by email or snail mail, I always leave out some detail that the recipient will almost certainly know, and mention, if they are the intended target. This provides a

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Gamaliel is a name born by several prominent rabbis during the Roman period, First-Fourth centuries, and is thus certainly not of Germanic origin. One of them is mentioned in the Book of Acts in the N

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Making posthumous baptisms public is the root of the problem. Mormons should understand why non-Mormons consider this practice offensive and refrain from it, but if they feel religiously obligated to

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I suspect the point of the question is whether there is a site somewhere that researchers can use to identify people like Sally Bruckheimer and others who have been helpful, including some who have an

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The Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, not 1951. Yale Zussman

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One of my ancestral families has a narrative that its surname was created for them as part of a reward for a great service a remote ancestor did for the tsarina. Apparently, she took ill while traveli

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I guess I haven't been paying adequate attention. If the original poster is looking for Kremer in Podolia or Volhynia, I'd like to correspond. Kremer is how my paternal grandmother originally spelled

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