David and Lorraine, Daniel Horowitz provides a good explanation. Lorraine asked specifically about My Heritage and I quote their explanation as follows; You can export a GEDCOM file of your family tre

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Maybe on arolsen-archives.org?

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Michael, is there a link to the list of names? I was unable to locate it. My g.uncle Zachariah (Zac, then Jack) MOSS signed up in Brighton 1901.

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If you are looking for access to newspaper entries in Netherlands you can use "delpher.nl" for free. It is all in Dutch so you might need to use a translator to translate key search words. Once you ha

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Speaking from experience I can say it is not likely you will find a ship sailing from Rotterdam to Caracas unless it was part of the Shell fleet of tankers. You should look for a ship from Netherlands

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Why is it so? A wonderful communicator. He taught for a while at Knox Grammar School, Wahroonga (Sydney). Late 1970's.

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If sourced online a link to the original document might make it easier to view, able to enlarge etc.

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I don't know about name changes upon arrival in a new country except to say you may cal yourself anything you wish as long as you do not seek to gain criminally from the new name. I have in my direct

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[quote] Hi: Our names are Sue and Andrew Laine. My husband has a line of Dutch Jews who immigrated to London in the late 19th century. When their cigar business declined, they moved to Brighton, Susse

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Look also at :- wiewaswie.nl/en/

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As Nick mentioned, openarch.nl has quite a bit of data on this name. Leeuwarden, being capital of Friesland, you will get more data from Frisian records site allefriezen.nl. The site is down for maint

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In Netherlands your cousin is called your nephew, nicht for neice. neef for nephew. Maybe it is something similar in Poland.

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Have you been able to download your Gedcom file from MyHeritage Sam? I have tried a number of times without success and messages sent to MyHeritage to question this remain unanswered.

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Gramps is a free open-source program. gramps-project.org

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Differences in spelling might be attributed to literacy. Not so many generations ago not everyone was literate so a name was recorded by a 3rd party who may not have been known the the name owner. The

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This attached Excel spreadsheet that can be filled in on computer or printed and filled by hand.

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Take your pick Joanne. https://www.google.com/search?sxsrf=ALeKk00nKBCsoSIJDNPq0M_uKREYstuaZQ:1587762183852&source=univ&tbm=isch&q=ancestry+chart+empty&client=firefox-b-d&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwip9NKH-4HpAhV

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May I ask what is the uncle's name?

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On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 01:10 AM, Tafuri, Diane wrote: Diane, I see you are listed as a researcher on Jewishgen so you are not completely new to research. Providing DOB, names of relatives, place of b

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To differentiate from other names. If you are seeking help you want to make your request easy to understand, capitalising surnames is a common standard method in genealogy.

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