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Locating ancestor's birth town in New York State?

I am in the process of applying for my Italian citizenship and need many documents. The last document I need is my grandmother's birth certificate. She was born in 1916. On her marriage certificate and Social Security application (by her own…
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Working with DNA results for multiple profiles across multiple sites

I manage a number of DNA profiles (for related individuals) across a number of sites: FamilyTreeDNA (5 profiles) MyHeritage (5 profiles) LivingDNA (2 profiles which will increase to 5 in the near future) Ancestry (1 profile) 23andMe (1…
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Can this Verlustliste record be excluded or verified based on what (little) I know?

My mother (who is only related by marriage to the family in question) recounted a story that my great-grandmother's little brother died in the first World War when he and a group of fellow young officers were on town leave, and a Serbian soldier…
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Seeking Photo Management Software for genealogical research?

I am searching for a photo management software to help organize and tag all the photos gathered for my genealogical research. I know that there is a lot of software that allows me to edit the Meta-data and to use keywords, but I also would like to…
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When triangulation is not transitive

I'm focusing on triangulation groups and so looking at matching segments that overlap each other. I'm frequently finding the situation where, at a single website, match A's segment is shown as triangulating with match B's segment, and match B's…
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What tools can be used to translate handwritten Danish documents?

Can someone help me translate this Danish death notice? It's for my Great grandfather. I am trying to trace his parents. https://www.danishfamilysearch.com/sogn438/churchbook/source27353/opslag5509650 My great grandfather's entry on Wikitree:…
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Reconstructing autosomal genomes of Mayflower passengers

I imagine no group of 100 people has been as genealogically documented as the Mayflower passengers. And with an estimated 35,000,000 descendants living today, the number of descendants genetic tests should be large and growing. But a typical…
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How long might a couple have 'courted' and been engaged in mid-nineteenth century Wales?

What might the 'courting' and engagement period have been for a young couple in mid-nineteenth century Merthyr Tydfil. Their ages were both recorded as 21 at their marriage in the Register Office (when her step-father was present) but she was closer…
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Deciphering place names in Northern Alsace?

I am having some difficulties with a 1797 marriage record from Birlenbach, Northern Alsace (departement Bas-Rhin), specifically some of the geography. The record is hard to retrieve (all they let me download is a PDF file, which I am having a hard…
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Is longest cM a better predictor of relatedness than total cM for Ashkenazi Jews?

As an Ashkenazi Jew, I'm used to matches being predicted to be closer than they really are. My father recently got a match to an adoptee of 348.3 shared cM, with a longest segment of 57.4 cM (according to MyHeritage.com). Because of Ashkenazi…
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Is birthmother sharing only 1549 centimorgans possible?

I'm adopted. I found my birthmother over 20 years ago. After a DNA test it shows we share 1549 centimorgans over 51 DNA segments. Is it possible that the DNA test had inaccurate results while processing or the DNA was tainted somehow?
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In vital records at the Paris (France) Archives, what is the meaning of "ter" in the Numéro de l'acte (record number)?

In the annual tables for records at the Paris Archives (http://archives.paris.fr/s/6/tables-annuelles/?), I have found some records where the Numéro de l'acte (record number) includes the letters "Ter" - for example "541Ter" (in 1946 deaths, 16th…
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Is there an application that searches for common ancestors of three or more individuals

I've been mapping my DNA for about two years now. Part of the process is finding the common ancestors between three or more DNA donors that match a segment of shared DNA. I spend an enormous amount of time manually browsing through ancestral trees…
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Seeking software which displays (yet) unrelated persons and family trees for overview

I am searching for a software, which displays several (yet) unconnected family trees and unrelated persons. Right now I have 200 people found in old church books with all the same last name over 200-300 years. Somehow they are related to me but in…
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Seeking current location of shtetl from 1900 named Sukaron?

My grandfather came over from a small village (shtetl) near Odessa in Ukraine c.1900. The name as it was told to me was "Sukaron" (I am most likely misspelling it). I am turning 70 years old this year and, all my life, I have wanted to set foot in…
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