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Finding Romanian ancestors from Sibiu, Gușterița?
I have just married my husband, who is Romanian, and I want to add his family to my family tree.
However, we do not know where to start because we cannot find a website that helps.
His father is from Sibiu, Gușterița and it is his fathers side we…
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Getting started in Irish research?
A friend's wife has started to research her family history, and has fallen at the first hurdle: one of her ancestors is Irish (born circa 1865 and died in Omagh, Northern Ireland in 1948 -- there's a rumour of a church window dedicated to her in a…
user104
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Washington County, Ohio in the 1810 Census
In ancestry.com's "About" section for the 1810 Census, we read the following:
Schedules exist for 17 states and District of Columbia, Georgia territory, Mississippi territory, Louisiana territory, Orleans, Michigan territory, and Illinois…
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Making it easier to read scans of records when other side of page bleeds through?
Sometimes the scans of parish registers and other old records show “bleed-through” from the other side of the page. Is there something I can do to make these images easier to read?
Here are some example images, from the old Warwickshire parish…
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Were British Army families stationed overseas enumerated in any Census returns?
I have located a record for Alfred Clarke in the United Kingdom, Chelsea Pensioners' Service Records. The TNA record series number is WO 97, and the original images are available at Find My Past. Seven images are available on Find My Past for this…
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Cannot find the town of Yobeneks, Russia
My grandfather left Lithuania, actually Russia, in 1910. I am trying to locate his town on a map. a copy of his draft card states the town of Yobeneks, Russia. I cannot find this name. does anyone have any ideas regarding a different spelling?…
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Citing online image copies with inadequate information or provenance
In a recent blog post, Elizabeth Shown Mills asked the question Do You "Just Trust" Citations Offered by Digital Providers?
EE hopes your answer is no. Today’s image demonstrates why. Not only
do we need to double-check the factual details, but we…
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Renaming record image and PDF files with generic download names
I'm struggling with the problem of how to name digital images that I download from FamilySearch.org and other websites.
When the "Save As" dialog box pops up in Windows, there is usually a filename populating the dialog box. If the provider…
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Finding Devon parish marriage records?
My husband's family came to the US from England; some of the family stayed in the US, and some returned to the UK. I have many records from my husband's grandfather's generation that indicate his great-grandparents were Arthur Knowles and Fanny…
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How can I find a female Danish immigrant's name prior to her marriage?
Anna Christine (Kristine) Petersen, b Dec-12-1888 in Flauenskjold, Denmark. A servant.
My GrF Joseph Conrad Kaiser b May 19, 1889 Chicago, Illinois married Anna on Dec. 1912 in Illinois. The info I found shows her last name was "Milling" when they…
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How can I ensure that I am making a reasonably exhaustive search?
I am starting to do research on some veterans who served in the Civil War. Several of the collections available online that describe service records are compiled databases or indexes collecting all the records about the veterans by name.
Some…
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Is FreeBMD complete for England in the 1880s? (Or, finding Annie Louise Deady)
I am researching the family of Alan Ernest Leofric Chorlton the distinguished engineer and Conservative MP. I am having particular trouble getting good sources on his wife and her family.
Here is what I have so far:
A marriage record…
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Where can I find information about Soviet Union arrests in the 1930s?
One of my ancestors was arrested and killed in the purges of the 1930's in the Soviet Union. I've heard of people who got papers from the Russian (post Soviet) government containing the "crimes" they were accused of and the interrogation they were…
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Website software that will display 'stories' as well as traditional lineage-linkage
I've a need to set up a website for a bunch of cousins who (maybe) share a common ancestry but who all definitely descend from people with the same surname in the same small village around 1800 and want to pool efforts to research and display our…
user104
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Working with browsable images of probate records?
FamilySearch.org makes images available for browsing before the (computer) indexes to the collections are available. Recently some probate collections have come online, and I have made a couple of tries at browsing the collections to see if I can…
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