Here's a blog post from MyHeritage on how they do it: https://blog.myheritage.com/2017/06/introducing-our-new-dna-ethnicity-analysis/ Basically they start with their users, pick some based on geograph

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I had a similar problem. The answer was in the ships manifest. Do you have theirs?

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I have posted 5 records on ViewMate for which I would appreciate translations. They are BMD files from the Plock region of Poland, written in Russian. I would prefer full translations. They are on Vie

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I. Census timing. Generally it took time to complete the census. According to the JewishGen description, 1848 took into 1849. I have an 1869 image of a relative's, signed and dated January 1870 But, w

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I was surprised to find my my great grandparents on the manifest with a different surname. Then I searched the name on JewishGen for Lithuanian records and found them in multiple birth & death records

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I visited my local Mormon parking lot today and got Morris' marriage record, in which he names his mother as Agnesh Karlin. It seems to me that both Nussa and Gossie could be variations or diminutives

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So some additional information: there were 3 other siblings for whom I haven't found marriage or death certs with parents' names. They are: Peal, b. 1881 Leah, b. 1884 Meyer, b. 1887 So I come back to

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There are 4 people, immigrants from Minsk Gubernia, who lived in New York City and/or Canada who I can identify as siblings via Census records or immigration manifests or other documents. I've tracked

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The images still exist. For some reason they are no longer attached to the index records, but it's not hard to find them. Since my last attempt at this message was rejected by the moderators, PM me fo

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So having addressed the limits of dna, it's back to genealogy. I did a search on Klepfisz, there are almost 1000 in JRI-Poland. Are you sure you can't go back further on your trees? Can you trace your

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Once you get to 3rd cousin, there is a possibility of no shared DNA, though small (2.3%). As you get more distant, the odds of no shared DNA increase significantly. International Society of Genetic Ge

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Yes, the parking lot. I've spent hours sitting in my car. A lot of the images that say No Image can be found, they just aren't indexed. The record can tell you which film to look in and you can find i

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As frustrating as Ancestry is, it has the largest database of users, and It now shows you the longest segment. Shared matches are far and away more useful than any other service. The lack of detailed

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I have the exact situation in the Yaffe branch of my family. I had from a naturalization the month and year of arrival. I could not find any Yaffe's who arrived at that time, so I just brute force sta

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I think the thread title is inaccurate. Virgin is not buying 23andMe. It is going public. From an email received from 23 & Me:

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My grandfather was named after his brother. Shimen Mendel b. 1896 d. 1897 in Lithuania. Simon Manuel b. 1898 in New Haven.

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I have an 1868 arrival in New York, a baby is not named. There's a column on the manifest "Baby" with a 1 in it.

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I tried it for a bit, but for my purposes it didn't add any value. They may have French records that Ancestry or MyHeritage don't. I also just logged in with my free membership for a quick look. You c

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This is great news. The USC Shoah Foundation Archive is wonderful. It's a great resource. I've been trying to get in to a local partner to view one of the interviews that are not online. Covid is prev

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I couldn't find your Viewmate, so I can just speak generally. Lots of helpful links, including Kurrent letters, at https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Slovakia_Genealogy. Find the 1869 Census in the

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