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Where was Eiszuk, Russia?
Grandfather is listed at Ellis Island as having arrived from Eiszuk, Russia in 1906 but I cannot locate such a place.
I am aware that the name could have changed or been misspelled, but thought I would ask for assistance. I also recall being told by…
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How to index your own digitalized records?
I recently started to digitalize some church records. A photo of each double page, each double page between 5 and 15 entries. I got over 1000 photos which I renamed (church - running number - year - type of event.jpg).
Now I want to do some basic…
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Which FHL microfilms are available to view online?
My research subjects are two sisters who lived in College Point, Queens, NY. For the sister who died in 1902, I have the date of death and certificate number from the collection "New York City, Deaths, 1892-1902" on Ancestry.com. For the sister…
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Run away to join the army
I have my gggrandfather's military service record from the National Archives at Kew, showing his Royal Garrison Artillery service in the Crimean War.
It gives his place of birth as Montrose, Scotland and that he joined up in Newcastle. It gives no…
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Did 19th century English women sometimes change the first name they used?
I have some confusing, conflicting sources that suggest that the one woman went by two different names. They relate to the parents of Cyril Albert Victor House, born in 1897. His christening record indicates that he was the son of Albert and Martha…
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How to trace Romanian ancestry?
Both of my grandparents on my father's side were Romanian. Both Jewish. My grandmother was born in Bucharest, but there's some discussion about my grandfather (the most he'd say about his birth town is that "I'd go to sleep in one country and wake…
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Transients and New Arrivals in the U.S. 1940 census
I've been trying to find the 1940 census entry of Sara Katharina Guenther, born 05 Jul 1908 in Homestead, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA. She had just arrived back in the port of New York NY on 28 Mar 1940 from a trip to Romania (undetermined…
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How can I access records from Morocco?
My father was born in Fes, Morocco in 1936. He left to go to Israel in the 1950's. Does anyone know what type of records were kept in that time period or earlier? Were any kept at all? I don't really know much about his parents and nothing of his…
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How can I get a link to an Ancestry.com record that doesn't contain search data?
When I find a record on Ancestry.com, the link contains data about the search I performed to find it, presumably so that Ancestry can provide a link to return to the search results. Here's an…
user47
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Digitizing old self adhesive photo albums
I have a ton of old self adhesive photo albums that I want to digitize. Most tutorials I find recommend removing the photos, but the albums are old enough that the adhesive has dried so if I remove the photos I won't be able to put them back in…
user47
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Managing the Multiple Maybes
My question is related to this previous question, but I think I'm looking for a rather different answer because I'm not sure a second software genealogical software package is what I'm looking for. It's also related to this previous question of…
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Letters from US Presidents to persons over 100
When searching newspaper obituaries for an ancestor, I ran across an obituary (unfortunately not an ancestor) of a person who had lived to 100. This reminded me that my father had found a letter from Abraham Lincoln (16th US President) in the…
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What is the significance of "shared centiMorgans"?
I've had my autosomal DNA tested and the site I've used (FamilyTreeDNA) tells me that I have a "Shared centiMorgan length" of 48.08 with my closest match and the "longest block" is 28.89. FamilyTree DNA says:
Based on the extensive Family Finder…
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Finding emigration records from UK to Australia for Annie Smith (1960-1977)?
My Great Grandmother emigrated to Australia from the UK after the death of her husband so that she could be closer to the majority of her children who had travelled there earlier.
My Grand father stayed in the UK and remembers very little these…
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Conducting research on Chinese village named P'an Yu, Guangdong Province?
According to audio recordings of my grandfather, he was from a village called Pung Wu, that he said was as large as the city of Vancouver and filled with many shops. I think that he means P'an Yu (Panyu District), that was incorporated into the…
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