Month: July 2012
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AncestryDNA results mildly interesting
The results of my AncestryDNA test pointed to a surprising component of my genetics, but where can I go from here?
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My grandmother’s baby sister, Sophie Kerstman
Isadore and Anna Kerstman gave birth to a daughter, Sophie, who died at the age of 19 days.
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Looking closer at handwriting solves a mystery
The birth record I attributed to a mystery “Track” Landes is probably attributable to Irwin Landes. Bad indexing led to a bad assumption.
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The two marriages of Fannie Landes
Fannie Landes first married Albert Paltiel, then married Adolph Goldenberg after Albert died. The two marriage certificates expand the family tree but don’t definitively answer questions about Fannie’s mother, Bertha.
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Celia Neckameyer and George Walcoff
Celia Neckameyer is a newly-discovered relative, if census records are to be believed. Here is some information about her family.
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Bertha Jereslawitz Landes’s death certificate
The latest of three death certificates I’ve received in the mail is the least conclusive, yet I am inclined to consider some of the facts accurate enough to include this death certificate for Bertha Landes.
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Is this the real Joseph Lustig?
Just like I had difficulty reconciling Eliza Strumwald Lustig’s death certificates with the facts I considered to be true, I now have the same concerns about this death certificate for Joseph Lustig.
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The Lepianskis in Lithuania
Just days ago I had little information about my great grandmother. Now, I know about her entire family in Lithuania.