You should keep in mind that Hebrew names in Hungary didn’t necessarily match civil given names.

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A first cousin would be the child of a parent’s sibling. You need to provide more information on the amount of cM you share with the other person and if you have other common demographics. Also, it’s

#dna

A committee has been formed in Hungary to organize a reunion in 2024 for people with connections to Jewish Gyor. A website has been established with further information https://jewishgyor.org/en/home/

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This TV segment has generated a lot of uninformed comment on what happened in Holland during the Holocaust. I was even surprised to hear the Dutch psychologist interviewed in the 60 Minutes segment de

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If you think you have the Sephardi ancestry a good place to start would be to do a DNA test with MyHeritage to see if this comes up in your ancestry. There’s not 100% guarantee that it will show up, e

#hungary

I have tested with all four major DNA companies and I have found close and distant relatives on all of them. I manage more than 20 kits and for one of them I even found a half brother. It works best i

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The 1% Jewish ethnicity for your grandmother indicates that her parents were not Jewish. It was not uncommon for Poles who lived closely or worked with Jews to learn Yiddish. Such things even happened

#poland #usa

Her name is written as Gertner. If you’re certain it’s your grandmother then it’s a mistake. I’ve never seen married names written for the bride, but I’ve seen lots of wrong names being recorded.

#hungary #general

A lot people around the world got excited about 7 pre-Holocaust record books being saved from an auction, but there are communal books within Hungary that are literally disintegrating due to neglect,

#hungary #records

I have been connecting the Papa families as many of them are related to each other. These are mostly the Neolog rather than the Orthodox families. Once my file gets updated on the Jewishgen family tre

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My tree is dated Feb 2018 and since then I have submitted updates, but nothing changes. Previous to 2018 I had no problems with annual or 6 monthly major updates. I would also like to know what's goin

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This is the link to the records mentioned by Vivian: https://archives.hungaricana.hu/en/lear/Lakasiv/

#holocaust #hungary

Church St Richmond, is in Melbourne.

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I can top your match. On MyHeritage I have a 4th cousin once removed and we share 164.5 cM across 10 segments, with the longest being 44.1 cM. According to to MH we should be second cousins or second

#dna

Your question prompted me to look on JOWB for a cousin who requested to be cremated here in Australia 20 years ago, The Melbourne Chevra Kadisha doesn't specify that he was cremated, but lists him und

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A link to the actual page would be more helpful. I haven't seen crosses on Jewish records. The marking is the diacritic above the a. Also they wouldn't be noting the father's death on a birth record.

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No site gives you everything, so every few years I take out a short subscription to Ancestry and MyHeritage. If you go to a public library you can try Ancestry for free. Ancestry tends to be a bit wee

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The Jews of Hungary: History, Culture, Psychology, by Raphael Patai

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In most cases there is nothing wrong with this, I add in families from other trees that are linked to families in my database as it often leads to discoveries of new relationships. Just to give you on

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If you searched the 1848 records on Jewishgen you should be aware that it’s incomplete, you need to look at the original documents on FamilySearch.

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