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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In Hungary it was very common, I have lots of examples of this, even came across one yesterday. Once I even found one family where 3 girls had the same name before one survived.

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I can see the advertising from the new company: if you improve your skin you will have a better chance of finding relatives, or sign up for 10 nutritional meals and you will receive one free relative.

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The other main sites you need to be on are FTDNA and 23andMe, otherwise you have to sit back and wait for relatives to do a test.

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You should always test the oldest family member. If you are looking for a paternal relative, then test your father, followed by one of his siblings.

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I have found a number of people on both ancestry and my heritage who have been raiding other family trees and adding them to their database. These people have been around before DNA testing and I can’

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I've posted a short extract from a letter for which I need a rough translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address ... https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM88729 Please re

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All of the major companies are accurate and reliable. Those of who are predominant Ashkenazi will get 100% or close to that from Ancestry, FTDNA and 23andMe. With MyHeritage you are likely to get some

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I have two examples in my extended family with the husband arrived after the wife. In one case the husband came with their three-year-old son. In this case I wasn’t sure if he went back to Poland to p

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You need to be cautious with Hungarian names because in many cases there is no connection between religious and secular names.

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No one can touch them, including you. To update you need to submit a whole new gedcom file. In the past you were allowed one gedcom file per member, which can include multiple trees, I don't think thi

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