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Including Names That Changed in Online Trees
Say I have a person legally born (for example) as Harry William Smith, but he was known by everyone since his teenage years as Buddy. His father passed away when he was young and his mother remarried a Jones and he started using his step-father's…
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Including name change for transgender person in genealogy
I'm modifying a genealogy (updating an old, written one, that is) which includes a trans man. We will have him listed as male (of course), and will not be recording the (apparent) change in gender (from female).
I'm unsure of how or if to note his…
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How can I number a step-grandfather in Ahnen numbering?
The Sosa-Stradonitz or Ahnen Numbering System is designed to number yourself as 1, your parents as 2 and 3, grandparents as 4 through 7, great-grandparents as 8 through 15 etc.
In my case, my father's father died when my father was only 6 months…
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Naturalization not granted: where to look for additional information?
I found a naturalization record for a person I am researching in the "New York, Index to Petitions for Naturalization filed in New York City, 1792-1989" on Ancestry.com. On the second page of the naturalization form, titled "Additional Facts of…
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What is date of the photo of woman with wrist watch?
I've got the following photo that I'm trying to identify the woman wearing a diaphanous shawl in it, and thus would like to estimate the date and location of the photo and age of the woman:
The watch might be a good clue to help date it (also note…
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Verify facts about military service and use of alias
On the website https://london-medals.co.uk/ it mentions:
William Henry Baker
And states he was using an alias and his original name was Albert Budd. To quote the site:
William Henry Baker, he served under an alias, his real name being one
Albert…
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Finding 20th Century vital records in Germany?
Every person I look for with few exceptions I find no records for. For example:
First: Heinz
Last: Zaun
Birth: Germany
Date: 1928
Death: Germany
Date: 1957
I know this to be true, his son is alive and has given me the dates and information. Yet…
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New York City vital records collections
I had the good fortune to start my online genealogical searching on people who lived in Chicago, and then moved to California. Both Ancestry.com and Family Search web sites provide a number of collections of BMD records from the late 19th to the…
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Finding detailed UK Naval Records (1920's)
I have the Naval summary of an ancestor (Who served in the UK Navy during the 1920's) which lists the bases and ships he served on, with a small bit of other information too.
The document I have isn't titled, but it was obtained from the National…
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Where to find 1911 sub-districts in order?
I am trying to work out which of two death records in Wakefield registration district is my ancestor.
To do this I need the subdistricts listed in the order they come on the census.
I don’t know where to look for this in 1911.
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Can Ancestry.com DNA matches be wrong
I (female) had an unexpected half sister match (1,866 cM across 49 segments) in Ancestry.com. We are about the same age so I'm assuming sibling. Upon closer examination I realized my brother(A) was actually a half sibling match (1,696 cM across 72…
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DNA results from Ancestry
A friend of mine took a DNA test with Ancestry.com a while back. Now I (a trained mathematician) am being asked to help interpret the results, and I am finding myself totally out of my depth.
The main traits come from three regions, A shows 36%, B…
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What is written over some of these Irish birth records?
In the below Irish birth records, two entries that interest me, 476 and 477, were crossed out, with some cursive writing on top of them (most visible in entries 473, 474, and 476). What is written there, and what does it mean?
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How should I interpret this sequence of records?
I'm searching for the marriage of the parents of one of my ancestors, and the baptisms of her siblings, and have a sequence of events that could have multiple interpretations.
Ann[e] Westwood was born in 1811 in Kingswinford Staffordshire…
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What is the difference between 'genealogy' and 'family history'?
The name of this StackExchange site is 'Genealogy and Family History". That is two things instead of one. Why? What is the difference between those two things.
I want to know, because the definitions we hold both shape, and are shaped by, the…
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