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Finding Romanian birth certificate from 1957
Just a shot in the dark:
I am trying to find my mother's birth certificate from Bucharest. I don't know much about her, just her name, birthday and possibly her last name. She didn't have a middle ...
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Deciphering a birthplace in an 1850 marriage record in Hungary
Does anyone by any chance recognize this placename? It's from an 1850 marriage in Pest, where it is recorded as the birthplace of a 27-year-old groom (third entry on page: https://www.familysearch.org/...
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I'm confused about my Ancestry DNA test
On my DNA results page, initially there is woman who matches as Close family - first cousin so I assumed she could be the daughter of my great uncle (my father's uncle). Then a recent update occured ...
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Why Wegene and Gedmatch (raw data uploaded from wegene) gives me similar results in everything except on the European part?
The first is wegene， the second is Gedmatch with raw data uploaded from wegene and the EUtest V2 K15.
In everything both websites seems to coincide.
However, what I cannot understand is how could ...
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What did a colour mixer do in 1830 in Manchester?
My great great grandfather lived in Salford, Manchester. In 1833 his marriage certificate indicated his profession as colour mixer. I believe this involved work in textile- finishing/ printing but ...
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Does 25% Spanish mean grandparent was born in Spain?
I took a DNA test through Ancestry; it shows I'm 44% Indigenous America's Mexico and 25% Spanish. These are the main percentages, there are many others! I'm wondering about the Spanish component.
Does ...
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Brother or cousin or both?
My DNA matches with an adopted brother 45-51% DNA and 3504cm across 50 segments. My ‘brother’ has my aunts name on his birth certificate. We have the same father but working out if we have the same ...
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How close is someone with 751cM
I am 75 years old. A guy on Ancestry is in his mid/late 80s. We live on opposite sides of the Atlantic (UK/Canada) but his grandparents came from the same town as my maternal grandmother and was a ...
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Numbers above marital status on ship's manifest
I found a copy of the ship's manifest record from when my great-grandfather came over from Italy. His name is Giovanni DiDomenico. To my surprise, he was listed as a widower, which I was not aware of. ...
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Translating Spanish birth record into English
Can anybody translate or point me in the direction of where I can translate my great-grandfather’s Spanish birth record?
He was born in 1909 and I was sent over three photocopied pages of his birth ...
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Lady of the house?
In the 1861 census ,my ancestors in rusholme Manchester are listed as James Cook as head then sophia as what looks like lady of the house ,it's not easy to read .was this term used at all ?
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Finding Polish 1921 census records of town called Wola Raniżowska
Where can I find the Polish 1921 census records of a town called Wola Raniżowska?
My grandmother immigrated to the USA from there.
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Does Chinese gravestone belong to James Hudson Taylor?
My wife has an ancestor who died and was buried in China. Their grave was desecrated and no longer exists, but apparently, this gravestone was found hidden under a church crawlspace, and was placed ...
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Genetic distance, different surnames
I see that in talking about genetic distance between two Y-DNA, STR test results frequently use the phrase "having the same surname", or some similar phrase. Why? "Illegitimate" ...
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Using Y-DNA and mtDNA from an ancestry file
Ancestry.com DNA results for me and my wife apparently contain Y-chromosome data and mitochondrial data. How can we use that to find patrilineal and matrilineal matches on sites like FTDNA and ...
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