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Name Change Document in NYC
#names
Paperwork for name changes in the naturalization process is first authorized in 1906, so don't expect to find any for naturalizations before then. Yale Zussman
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Paperwork for name changes in the naturalization process is first authorized in 1906, so don't expect to find any for naturalizations before then. Yale Zussman
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Housing Family Trees for FREE
#general
The last place you want to put your data is on a site that contacts you and asks you to do so. This is what a phishing attack in a genealogical context would look like. If Moishe Miller knows the pers
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The last place you want to put your data is on a site that contacts you and asks you to do so. This is what a phishing attack in a genealogical context would look like. If Moishe Miller knows the pers
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Housing Family Trees for FREE
#general
There is a real trade-off in posting your tree on-line that goes well beyond whether LDS still engages in post-mortem baptisms: Anything that goes on-line is hackable and whatever family relationships
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There is a real trade-off in posting your tree on-line that goes well beyond whether LDS still engages in post-mortem baptisms: Anything that goes on-line is hackable and whatever family relationships
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Ancestry Faces $250 Million Class Action Lawsuit Over Auto-Renewals
I realize that in some places this might not be applicable right now, but public libraries often have subscriptions to Ancestry that can be used for free. They won't offer a free trial, nor will they
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I realize that in some places this might not be applicable right now, but public libraries often have subscriptions to Ancestry that can be used for free. They won't offer a free trial, nor will they
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Jewish soldier in Boer War
#general
I have seen some clever approaches to difficult problems here, so I thought I'd give it a try: My grandmother reported that her oldest brother (by about 20 years) left Lithuania to fight in the Boer W
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I have seen some clever approaches to difficult problems here, so I thought I'd give it a try: My grandmother reported that her oldest brother (by about 20 years) left Lithuania to fight in the Boer W
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"His name was changed at Ellis Island"
#names
Tom, If your comment was addressed to me, please be advised that the absence of any legislation addressing this issue, pro or con, guarantees that there won't be any written documentary evidence of th
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Tom, If your comment was addressed to me, please be advised that the absence of any legislation addressing this issue, pro or con, guarantees that there won't be any written documentary evidence of th
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A curious mtDNA question
#dna
It may reflect a propensity for the descendants of conversos to marry other descendants of conversos, even after leaving Spain. That would result in an even higher degree of endogamy than is often the
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It may reflect a propensity for the descendants of conversos to marry other descendants of conversos, even after leaving Spain. That would result in an even higher degree of endogamy than is often the
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What's a Cutter?
#usa
#general
Phil, It may help to determine how "cutting" was done. If it was a single piece of cloth, cut with a pair of scissors, it's hard to identify fatal scenarios. If we're talking multiple layers cut with
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Phil, It may help to determine how "cutting" was done. If it was a single piece of cloth, cut with a pair of scissors, it's hard to identify fatal scenarios. If we're talking multiple layers cut with
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"His name was changed at Ellis Island"
#names
Karen Silver and Philip Trauring, who writes the blog where Avivah Pinski found another claim against involuntary name changes (https://bloodandfrogs.com/2011/05/name-changes-at-ellis-island.html), ma
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Karen Silver and Philip Trauring, who writes the blog where Avivah Pinski found another claim against involuntary name changes (https://bloodandfrogs.com/2011/05/name-changes-at-ellis-island.html), ma
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"His name was changed at Ellis Island"
#names
We should thank James Castellan for calling our attention to the Philip Sutton article (https://www.nypl.org/blog/2013/07/02/name-changes-ellis-island) since it plays a major role in propagating the m
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We should thank James Castellan for calling our attention to the Philip Sutton article (https://www.nypl.org/blog/2013/07/02/name-changes-ellis-island) since it plays a major role in propagating the m
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Settlements in Curaçao and St. Thomas
#sephardic
The US "arranged" the independence of Panama from Columbia so it could build the Panama Canal.
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The US "arranged" the independence of Panama from Columbia so it could build the Panama Canal.
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"His name was changed at Ellis Island"
#names
The grounds for returning an immigrant to Europe were first specified in the Immigration Act of 1882, and then refined in subsequent legislation. All of the grounds listed impose a cost of some sort o
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The grounds for returning an immigrant to Europe were first specified in the Immigration Act of 1882, and then refined in subsequent legislation. All of the grounds listed impose a cost of some sort o
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"His name was changed at Ellis Island"
#names
I am fascinated by the assumption in many of these responses that I haven't done my homework. No-one, including in a flurry of personal contacts, has mentioned an item that I hadn't seen already in my
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I am fascinated by the assumption in many of these responses that I haven't done my homework. No-one, including in a flurry of personal contacts, has mentioned an item that I hadn't seen already in my
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"His name was changed at Ellis Island"
#names
I'd like to ask people to reserve judgment until I have received the document I requested from NARA. If it is what I expect it to be, it should resolve any serious questions about the "no-involuntary-
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I'd like to ask people to reserve judgment until I have received the document I requested from NARA. If it is what I expect it to be, it should resolve any serious questions about the "no-involuntary-
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Cohanim and Levites
#dna
The reason there was no immigration control in New Orleans in 1852 is that the first federal law restricting immigration was passed in 1882. Before then, immigration was left to the states. --Yale Zus
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The reason there was no immigration control in New Orleans in 1852 is that the first federal law restricting immigration was passed in 1882. Before then, immigration was left to the states. --Yale Zus
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Cohanim and Levites
#dna
I am doing what may be the first serious study of the meme that immigrant names could not have been changed involuntarily on immigration. With two exceptions, addressed below, every claim on behalf of
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I am doing what may be the first serious study of the meme that immigrant names could not have been changed involuntarily on immigration. With two exceptions, addressed below, every claim on behalf of
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Cohanim and Levites
#dna
Your status in the Kohen-Levite-Israel trichotomy is inherited from your father and began well before surnames were introduced. There are some surnames that are common for Kohanim and others for Levi'
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Your status in the Kohen-Levite-Israel trichotomy is inherited from your father and began well before surnames were introduced. There are some surnames that are common for Kohanim and others for Levi'
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Fairy Tales my Father Told Me
#belarus
Jeanette, Stow-aways weren't barred from entry into the United States. Section 3 of the Immigration Act of 1917 establishes the conditions for their admission: they could be admitted as long as they d
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Jeanette, Stow-aways weren't barred from entry into the United States. Section 3 of the Immigration Act of 1917 establishes the conditions for their admission: they could be admitted as long as they d
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Vetting family tree submissions to genealogy sites for data soundness
#general
I've been following this thread with interest and some bemusement. Whether the online genealogy sites are useful depends a lot on what you're trying to get from them. Those that post images of origina
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I've been following this thread with interest and some bemusement. Whether the online genealogy sites are useful depends a lot on what you're trying to get from them. Those that post images of origina
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Davidic Ancestry in the First Century?
#general
1000 years is approximately 40 generations. If in each generation, the average number of children who go on to have their own children is 2, after 40 generations there could be a trillion descendants.
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1000 years is approximately 40 generations. If in each generation, the average number of children who go on to have their own children is 2, after 40 generations there could be a trillion descendants.
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