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Isolating DNA segments related to specific ethnicity-location
Almost all genetic genealogy websites will tell you the origins of your DNA. But I would like to go one step further and find out which parts/segments of my DNA are related to a specific ethnicity.
I have a very rough map of my DNA -- as it relates…
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What is the cause of death on this certificate?
I'm struggling to read the cause of death on this certificate:
I can make out:
Chronic ?
6 years
Exhaustion 2 years
? might be rheumatism, but I've never heard of that being fatal before.
user6485
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Researching German relative in WWI
I am trying to find out more about my German Great-grandfather who fought in (and survived) World War I.
I have found a reference to his being badly injured on the 26th January 1917 in the German Casualty list but can't find out more information,…
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Translating German/Latin in German marriage record from 1706?
Can anyone here help me decipher the salacious comments on this marriage record?
I get the main points. On April 6, 1706, my x-great grandfather's brother Christoph (of Untertürkheim, Württemberg) had to marry Anna Riedmann of Zazenhausen (walking…
user3697176
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Distinguishing half sibling, uncle or half nephew using Ancestry DNA?
My husband did ancestry dna to find any info on his biological fathers side.
He just got a “close family” match with whom they share 1440 cM across 49 segments.
Is it possible to be a half sibling?
Or more likely that is match is my husbands half…
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Why aren't census images made available by the US government?
It seems like the cost of digitizing (not indexing, just digitizing) the U.S. Censuses would not be astronomical. Have there been any efforts to either:
Encourage the US government to scan these images and make them publicly available OR
Gather…
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Could "Our Mother" be a term of endearment on 1855 headstone?
In researching my great great grandmother, Elizabeth Cowan Short, I have located her death record in Franklin County, Ohio, USA (1896), as well as her burial record. They record her birth as 29 September 1824, in London, England, to parents Robert…
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Where did this baptism take place?
I'm looking at the record of the birth and baptism of the brother of one of my ancestors (William Prichard) and trying to determine where the baptism took place. (Note: I can read the record; it's the interpretation I'm interested in. I suspect…
user6485
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Adopted and making sense of my DNA matches: which are paternal vs maternal?
I am adopted. I know who my birth mother was and that she came from France. I was conceived in a Brothel in a small town that ironically, my adoptive parents lived only miles from, and that I raised my family in! So many of my matches of distant…
Louise Sarraya
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Is Unregistered Death possible after 1900 in U.S.?
I am researching my great uncle, James Barton (no middle initial), trying to find a death record. I believe he was living in Mt. Victory, Hardin County, Ohio in 1900. I found a 'James Barton' married to Grace Barton with a child (Opalin) listed on…
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Autosomal DNA: Can I tell who is the parent and who is the child?
I have two people who have both autosomal DNA tested. I have both of their match lists which contain all the people each of them matches to.
For each person that each of them match to, I have:
The number of segments they match on,
The total…
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Is DNA match between two parties that ought not be related by "blood" possible?
I recently completed a autosomal DNA through ancestry. They reported that I had a possible match to another ancestry user with:
30.0 centimorgans shared across 1 DNA segment
However, it turns out that while we are related by marriage we don't…
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Interpreting 17th century German dates?
I am working on the biography of a distant relative, Anna Bertschinger. The hand-written notes I got handed down from my grandfather state:
verm. 2. post trin. 1649
I understand that this refers to a wedding date, presumably corresponding to the…
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What does location Boshte mean?
I've got a Status Animarium from Ljubljana in the early 1800s written in German using Kurrent handwriting and it lists a birth location as ditto Boshte, underlined in red, but I don't understand what that is exactly:
In later records, loco is used…
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Determining a relationship from the 1871 census?
I am trying to identify the parents of my great-grandfather Thomas Jones (born 5 March 1870 in Dowlais, Merthyr Tyfdil, which ties up with all his census entries from 1881 onwards.) I know their names but cannot track them down before or after the…
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