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Women profession in vital records.
#general
I have a relative born in Germany in 1900, trained as a lawyer just after WWI. When she married a much older doctor, he told her she could no longer work (she described this to me in a matter-of-fact
I have a relative born in Germany in 1900, trained as a lawyer just after WWI. When she married a much older doctor, he told her she could no longer work (she described this to me in a matter-of-fact
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Peer Reviewed Journals For Jewish Genetic Genealogy?
#education
#dna
#general
Sounds as though there's an opportunity to start a peer-reviewed publication!
Sounds as though there's an opportunity to start a peer-reviewed publication!
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JoAnne Goldberg
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Trying to Find Potential Jewish Ancestors
#germany
To anyone searching for German ancestors, One side of my family is German/Dutch, and I have found good records going back to the early 1700s on almost all lines. The surnames do sometimes shift a bit,
To anyone searching for German ancestors, One side of my family is German/Dutch, and I have found good records going back to the early 1700s on almost all lines. The surnames do sometimes shift a bit,
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JoAnne Goldberg
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Questions re putting family tree on genealogy websites
#general
I want to make an observation given the direction this thread has taken. If you do not post your tree, thinking that this way you are protecting your family's privacy, that's an illusion. Using Ancest
I want to make an observation given the direction this thread has taken. If you do not post your tree, thinking that this way you are protecting your family's privacy, that's an illusion. Using Ancest
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JoAnne Goldberg
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J-P58 genetic testing
#dna
To follow up on Adam's comment: Adam has done incredible work piecing together our Cohanim line. My mother's brother did yDNA testing in 2009, and, thanks to Adam, during the last year I have gained a
To follow up on Adam's comment: Adam has done incredible work piecing together our Cohanim line. My mother's brother did yDNA testing in 2009, and, thanks to Adam, during the last year I have gained a
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JoAnne Goldberg
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English families who fostered kindertransport children
#unitedkingdom
Hi Marilyn and anyone else looking for Kindertransportees -- This is the best resource for information about host families and other notes: https://www.worldjewishrelief.org/about-us/your-family-histo
Hi Marilyn and anyone else looking for Kindertransportees -- This is the best resource for information about host families and other notes: https://www.worldjewishrelief.org/about-us/your-family-histo
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JoAnne Goldberg
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Somewhat crazy questions for this place
#dna
No one has figured out a reliable way to calculate ethnicity based on geography. MyHeritage says in their blog that they rely on customer-reported trees. If MyHeritage has ten customers who state that
No one has figured out a reliable way to calculate ethnicity based on geography. MyHeritage says in their blog that they rely on customer-reported trees. If MyHeritage has ten customers who state that
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JoAnne Goldberg
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USC Shoah Foundation testimonies available online
#holocaust
I have watched a number of testimonies. I complete the form, indicate my relationship to the interviewee, and generally receive the link within a couple of days. The Foundation did an incredible job o
I have watched a number of testimonies. I complete the form, indicate my relationship to the interviewee, and generally receive the link within a couple of days. The Foundation did an incredible job o
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JoAnne Goldberg
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Who Betrayed Anne Frank and Her Family?
#holocaust
I am not planning to read the book, but I wonder if it goes into more detail about the process. As shown in the segment, the approach was almost cavalier, with possible suspects dismissed because "he
I am not planning to read the book, but I wonder if it goes into more detail about the process. As shown in the segment, the approach was almost cavalier, with possible suspects dismissed because "he
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JoAnne Goldberg
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Who Betrayed Anne Frank and Her Family?
#holocaust
The timing of this episode, airing the day after Colleyville, has triggered my ever-present paranoia. Will the takeaway for the masses be "Jews are their own worst enemies -- betraying and killing eac
The timing of this episode, airing the day after Colleyville, has triggered my ever-present paranoia. Will the takeaway for the masses be "Jews are their own worst enemies -- betraying and killing eac
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JoAnne Goldberg
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Location and approximate date of 2 photos
#photographs
My family lived in Kansas City in the 1920s and 1930s and I grew up there. Those photos do not look like Kansas City to me although they could be St Joseph, which had a significant Jewish population.
My family lived in Kansas City in the 1920s and 1930s and I grew up there. Those photos do not look like Kansas City to me although they could be St Joseph, which had a significant Jewish population.
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JoAnne Goldberg
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Hearing recording from 1943 USO record
#general
Hi Helen, I used Mike Tubbs at Vinyl Revival to digitize old recordings: https://www.vinrev.com/index.html Very fast, very affordable, and getting to hear voice recordings from 70 years ago was pretty
Hi Helen, I used Mike Tubbs at Vinyl Revival to digitize old recordings: https://www.vinrev.com/index.html Very fast, very affordable, and getting to hear voice recordings from 70 years ago was pretty
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JoAnne Goldberg
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Names of Kagan and Cohen from the all Lithuania Database
#lithuania
One point of amplification: although Russian does not have the equivalent of an H (so "Hamlet" is "Gamlet") there is a guttural H, eg the first sound in the word "challah." It is represented in the Ru
One point of amplification: although Russian does not have the equivalent of an H (so "Hamlet" is "Gamlet") there is a guttural H, eg the first sound in the word "challah." It is represented in the Ru
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JoAnne Goldberg
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Litvak SIG Discussion Group
#lithuania
I still receive the litvak SIG emails, but "daily digest" might be the problem -- there are so few emails that it would take months to compile a digest's worth, and the system may not be able to handl
I still receive the litvak SIG emails, but "daily digest" might be the problem -- there are so few emails that it would take months to compile a digest's worth, and the system may not be able to handl
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Why St. Louis?
#usa
As a Jew with no known New York connections -- at least not before WWII! -- it's not at all uncommon to find clusters of Jews in cities outside the East Coast. My Lithuanian ancestors (immigrated 1880
As a Jew with no known New York connections -- at least not before WWII! -- it's not at all uncommon to find clusters of Jews in cities outside the East Coast. My Lithuanian ancestors (immigrated 1880
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JoAnne Goldberg
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CRI Genetics?
Apparently their "50+ generations" claim is based on providing your Y-DNA and mtDNA haplogroups -- information that is included with 23andMe tests, or you can drill down deeper with specific FamilyTre
Apparently their "50+ generations" claim is based on providing your Y-DNA and mtDNA haplogroups -- information that is included with 23andMe tests, or you can drill down deeper with specific FamilyTre
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JoAnne Goldberg
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Headstone translation needed
#translation
Genendel (with various English spellings).
Genendel (with various English spellings).
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JoAnne Goldberg
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Can two brothers--alive at the same time--be named Abram and Abraham?
#names
The possibilities range from a name change/borrowing a name to half-brothers or cousins to just a regular mistake. One of my relatives had five sons, two of whom used variations of their names (Israel
The possibilities range from a name change/borrowing a name to half-brothers or cousins to just a regular mistake. One of my relatives had five sons, two of whom used variations of their names (Israel
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JoAnne Goldberg
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How do I find out why my great-grandfather emigrated from Lithuania under an assumed name?
#lithuania
Thanks for bringing this up, Perry. I have wondered the same for years, and still don't have a good explanation for the name changes. In my case, multiple family members traveled from Lithuania to the
Thanks for bringing this up, Perry. I have wondered the same for years, and still don't have a good explanation for the name changes. In my case, multiple family members traveled from Lithuania to the
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JoAnne Goldberg
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Jewish ‘home’ or orphanage in 1940s England
#unitedkingdom
I don't think anyone has mentioned World Jewish Relief
I don't think anyone has mentioned World Jewish Relief
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JoAnne Goldberg
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