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Researching ancestors of someone adopted from Hungary?
One of my close living relatives was adopted from Hungary at the age of two, in 1991. Unfortunately, the only real information we currently have is the full name of her birth mother and her city of birth.
What can we do to start gathering…
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Ways to index a family history collection?
My personal family history collection consists of correspondence, photographs, historical documents and family papers, family tree compilations and genealogies, research logs and reports. I've probably downloaded and/or obtained print copies of…
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What kind of information is in this record?
I am looking at civil records (BMD) from the late 18th-early 19th century from Morschheim the Pfalz region of (then) Bavaria, and I see several instances of images like this (top part shown):
It appears that this is a list of names of some sort,but…
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List of ships arriving in Boston
One of the people I am researching claims in his naturalization form to have arrived in Boston, Mass on 8 Jun 1891. No ship name is given. A naive search on Ancestry.com does not turn up any ship arriving on that date. Searching on his name (Lewis…
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What is the root meaning of the surname "Samovojska"?
I have seem alternative spellings of this name listed as
Samovojska
Samovojsky
Samovosky
Samosky
What is the origin or root meaning of this surname?
For reference, the Samosky variant has just a few examples in the US, mostly in the Ohio and…
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Do authoritative renderings exist for coats of arms?
For a given surname it is easy to find many variations in its coats of arms*. I get the impression that coats of arms were described in records as text and thus were open to interpretation at the time they are rendered. Is this true, or are there…
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Writing GEDCOM Parser for Java 2024
My goal is to have my GedcomService class read a GEDCOM (.ged) file (family tree data used for genealogy) and parse it, and deposit the data into a mysql database for me to then mess with.
The problem with the options I'm finding is that links to…
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Where does Gramps store information?
My wife is concerned some of the information on Gramps will wind up on the Internet. Everything I have read, so far, says the data is stored in the local .gramps file and nowhere else.
Is this correct?
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Unknown First Cousin Matches
I am matched to 8 or 9 different people who all happen to be first cousins to each other, and who also apparently are all my first cousins. They have between 1032 cm’s all the way down to 785 cm’s and between 22 and 35 segments. I know they are…
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United Kingdom 1921 census example forms and guidance
I'm preparing for the release during 2022 of the UK 1921 census records (England & Wales, Scotland, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man). [Note: there was no census taken of Northern Ireland in 1921, nor of Ireland, which was outside the United…
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Who is (was) Gertrude Aubrey Barber, compiler of thousands of Grave inscriptions?
Gertrude A. Barber compiled a great many lists of genealogical interest, does anyone know who she was and her story?
Some background:
My ancestor is alleged to be buried in a 1795 Cemetery in NY. There appears to be no burial register (according to…
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Sharing GRAMPS database between 2 computers
How do I share my database between 2 computers on the same network. One is Windows 10, the other is Ubuntu 20.04. My database resides in the Windows partition but was built using Ubuntu. When I supply the correct path to my Windows version I don't…
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Finding Kentucky records from 1800 to 1900?
I am researching various families in Kentucky from 1800 through 1900.
All the online resources have census stuff but when looking for more details I hit nothing.
Where online can you find Kentucky death, wills, land, etc records?
Specifically…
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Where to find information about Italy - Czech - Poland migration?
Reviewing my grandfather's documents I found evidences that his family arrived in Poland after some generations that left Italy and lived in the (actual) Czech republic.
Where can I find information about it, like birth registries or census data…
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What does column 20 of the 1900 US census mean?
I'm looking at a scan of the 1900 United States census right now. Column 19 says "Occupation". The particular individual I'm looking at has the word "stonemason" written in that box. The next column says "Months not employed". In the box of the…
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