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New JewishGen Partnership with USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive®
#JewishGenUpdates
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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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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1869 Hungarian Census
#hungary
#translation
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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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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50 State Survey Finds One Out of 10 Millennials and Generation Z Didi Not Recall Word 'Holocaust: or Basic Facts of the Genocide #announcements # holocaust
#announcements
#usa
I think those numbers are pretty good. 10% of Americans don't have a high school diploma or GED. Less than 40% have a bachelors degree. Less than 3% of Americans are Jewish. Ignorance of history exten
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I think those numbers are pretty good. 10% of Americans don't have a high school diploma or GED. Less than 40% have a bachelors degree. Less than 3% of Americans are Jewish. Ignorance of history exten
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Ancestry's Drastic Changes Dash Hopes of Finding Connections
#dna
If you want to get nerdy about it, here's a link to an Ancestry support document supposedly explaining it: https://www.ancestrycdn.com/support/us/2020/08/matchingwhitepaper.pd They call their algorith
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If you want to get nerdy about it, here's a link to an Ancestry support document supposedly explaining it: https://www.ancestrycdn.com/support/us/2020/08/matchingwhitepaper.pd They call their algorith
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Searching Hamburg lists for family groups
#records
I had a similar situation. Searching had come up empty. I decided that the only way to find them was to scan (as in look quickly) at every arrival manifest image. I had the month and year, it wouldn't
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I had a similar situation. Searching had come up empty. I decided that the only way to find them was to scan (as in look quickly) at every arrival manifest image. I had the month and year, it wouldn't
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What's a Cutter?
#usa
#general
Thank you to all. In aggregate you've painted the picture I was looking for. I'm looking forward to hunting down the death certificate. Phil
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Thank you to all. In aggregate you've painted the picture I was looking for. I'm looking forward to hunting down the death certificate. Phil
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What's a Cutter?
#usa
#general
Thanks for fultonhistory.com, I did not know this website. I could find no mention of the accident there. I am planning on tracking down the actual death certificate. Covid-19 is getting in the way fo
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Thanks for fultonhistory.com, I did not know this website. I could find no mention of the accident there. I am planning on tracking down the actual death certificate. Covid-19 is getting in the way fo
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What's a Cutter?
#usa
#general
Thanks everyone. Does it make sense that someone could be killed in a work-related accident? I could see injured, but killed? Maybe it was not work related.
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Thanks everyone. Does it make sense that someone could be killed in a work-related accident? I could see injured, but killed? Maybe it was not work related.
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Phil Karlin
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What's a Cutter?
#usa
#general
An ancestor was killed in a work-related accident in 1894, in New York City. I can't find anything specific about the accident, but city directories & his children's birth records give his occupation
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An ancestor was killed in a work-related accident in 1894, in New York City. I can't find anything specific about the accident, but city directories & his children's birth records give his occupation
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FamilySearch Christening records in 1870's New York
#usa
#general
Interesting point. As I noted previously, the record we're looking at is dated July 29 1870, but she appears on the 1870 Census, dated July 15, which says she was born in May. Could the midwife have h
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Interesting point. As I noted previously, the record we're looking at is dated July 29 1870, but she appears on the 1870 Census, dated July 15, which says she was born in May. Could the midwife have h
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FamilySearch Christening records in 1870's New York
#usa
#general
Thank you Barbara. So do you think that the "christening" was not one per se, but merely that the dataset included christenings, so a christening was assumed to have occurred by the dataset builder? K
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Thank you Barbara. So do you think that the "christening" was not one per se, but merely that the dataset included christenings, so a christening was assumed to have occurred by the dataset builder? K
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FamilySearch Christening records in 1870's New York
#usa
#general
I've recently come across christenings records for Jewish relatives on FamilySearch. There are several siblings for whom such records exists. They look identical to the birth records except for the la
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I've recently come across christenings records for Jewish relatives on FamilySearch. There are several siblings for whom such records exists. They look identical to the birth records except for the la
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Adoptions in the US around the 1930s
#general
#dna
I found relatives who got pregnant before they were married in 1934. They put the baby up for adoption then married 3 months later. I can't imagine anyone doing that today. -- Phil Karlin Hartford, CT
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I found relatives who got pregnant before they were married in 1934. They put the baby up for adoption then married 3 months later. I can't imagine anyone doing that today. -- Phil Karlin Hartford, CT
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Sourcing Photos
#general
#photographs
I forgot to mention that I think for exchanging with other people purposes, a code for source is a great idea. I would append it to the end of my filename.
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I forgot to mention that I think for exchanging with other people purposes, a code for source is a great idea. I would append it to the end of my filename.
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Sourcing Photos
#general
#photographs
Personally I don't trust metadata. I name the file to reflect contents: Date in YYYY-MM-DD followed by the names of people in the picture or a descriptive word or two. If I don't know the year, I'll p
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Personally I don't trust metadata. I name the file to reflect contents: Date in YYYY-MM-DD followed by the names of people in the picture or a descriptive word or two. If I don't know the year, I'll p
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Possible Americanized Given Names
#belarus
#names
There's a record in the Revision List for 1874 which I'm trying to determine if it refers to my ancestors. So, what do you think about these names? In Belarus, they were: Gdalia or Gdal, Hinda or Gind
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There's a record in the Revision List for 1874 which I'm trying to determine if it refers to my ancestors. So, what do you think about these names? In Belarus, they were: Gdalia or Gdal, Hinda or Gind
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Trouble identifying city / town on ship manifest
#austria-czech
I suggest Rabka, Poland, which at the time was in the Austrian Empire. Search "Rubacca" with the Sounds Like option in the JewishGen Community Database. https://www.jewishgen.org/Communities/Community
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I suggest Rabka, Poland, which at the time was in the Austrian Empire. Search "Rubacca" with the Sounds Like option in the JewishGen Community Database. https://www.jewishgen.org/Communities/Community
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