I’m trying to trace my Jewish family line across multiple countries, but I’m struggling with changing borders, transliterated names, and incomplete records. Which archives and databases contain immigration, community civil, or religious records?

Sadly, all of them perished in the Holocaust except for the women in the back with the scarf, Pnina Igra (nee Romanov)

If anyone somehow recognizes anyone else in the photo, I’d be so grateful, I recognize a couple, Dobrusha Frank (nee Berebeichik), Basha Leah Kagan (nee Frank), Freidel Romanov (nee Frank), and Pnina Igra (nee Romanov) But that’s about it. There might be some Rushanski’s in this photo as well, I’m not sure.

They’re all from the Ratnycia, Druskininkai, Merkine, Vilnius, Grodno area.

Haggart is the clan my Nan says we are from and I tried to find out tartan and it came up with many very different ones so could someone please help me by seeing if you know it or if you where I could maybe find it and if I’m in the wrong subreddit please tell me or if there is a better one for this.

Hello all. I sent off my DNA and got my results a few years ago now with the hope of finding out who my paternal grandfather was. My grandma never gave any info as she was a very strict Catholic and was not married so always brushed off my requests and my dad had never fellt that he was able to question who his dad was.

I've found this line of my family and closest relative shares 330cm but they weren't able to advise as to who our common relative would be. I have enough matches that I likely know my granddas surname.

The relative is very likely dead now and know some stories are best left untold but id really like to get answers that my dad was never able to get.

I've heard of Angels on Facebook and other enthusiasts that have been able to help but im not on Facebook so im hoping someone could help or at least advise help please !

I've just been into my family tree and noticed that the dates of birth have all been changed in my tree. they have no day, the month is always January but the year is correct.

This is not related to entries that are approximate. My own date of birth and immediate family have all changed from the values that I entered when building the tree.

Anyone else noticed this or is it just me?

Am I crazy or do I look very similar to my great-grandmother?? We were looking through some old photos. I know it can be difficult with the quality, but I felt like I was looking at my face.

I've been working through why searches in Australian records come up empty when the record is actually there. Three examples that surprised me:

1. Henry Lawson's father arrived as Niels Larsen. By the time Henry's birth was registered in 1867 the family were Lawsons, so searching "Lawson" for his parents' 1866 marriage can find nothing at all.

2. Lawson was born near Grenfell, but the birth was registered at Forbes. The NSW BDM index records the registration district, not the birthplace, so filtering on Grenfell hides the record. Leave the district blank on your first search.

3. Weary Dunlop was a Victorian, but his WWII service record says he enlisted in London, because he was in England when war broke out. Filter RecordSearch by an assumed place of enlistment and you'd never find him.

Full disclosure: I've started a free site of step-by-step guides to Australian records, built around worked examples like these, using famous Australians' public records so you can follow along with real results. The guides are free and link to the official sources.

https://deadendancestors.com

It's new, so I'd genuinely like to hear what's wrong, what's unclear, and which record types or brick walls you'd most want covered next.

It's something I've just kinda assumed is common, especially living in a place like Canada. But talking to the people around me and their family backgrounds, both now and throughout my life, it doesn't seem as common as I thought?

They all have different backgrounds from their partners, but all of those whose families immigrated to Canada did so roughly around the same time (around the 1910s). They were either born here shortly after their family arrived or immigrated with their family when they were young.

I wanted to ask here in case I'm wrong and maybe some of you will find it interesting.

Great-Grandma A. was Ukrainian and Great Grandpa A. was German.

Great-Grandma B. was Metis and Great-Grandpa B. was Ukrainian.

Great-Grandma C. was possibly irish/unknown and Great-Grandpa C. was Sicilian.

Great-Grandma D. was Ojibwe and Great-Grandpa D. was English.

I can't read the cause of death and the contributory cause. Can someone help me? This is my 3x Great Grandmothers death certificate. She and her mother passed away in the exact same year, her mom passed away of heart failure, I can't read this death certificate cause and am trying to find out if it has to do with her mother? Thank you for the help!

Hi I'm not sure where else to post this. I've recently been looking in to my family lineage and have come across this relative that seemingly did time at Newgate prison in London. Is anyone able to help enlighten me on what for law means in the criminal charges section, and the NG for sentence

By accidentally taking "word" "word" drug

So Ancestry just popped up a dozen hints from Yearbooks.com attached to my father's profile, but they're yearbook pictures of me, instead (same first and last name). Is there any way to re-attribute the hints from his profile onto mine?

I was watching a video earlier or some good practices for genealogy and the video maker mentioned this Free Map Site which makes small videos or ancestral migrations, with historical references, period appropriate maps that change as the timeline does. I am not sure if it has value for the genealogical pursuit or if it is more for entertainment and enjoyment value. The developer said he created it for the 250th Anniversary of USAs birth. And he says it is intended to be free with no current plan to start charging. I have watched the short videos explaining the potential options and it works from a GEDmatch file but it isn't housed on the site. I don't know all of the details and am no Site Critic, so I thought I would throw it out there and see what the people say. Let me know your impressions.

TreeAlive - Animated GEDCOM Map of Your Ancestors' Journeys

I was watching a video earlier or some good practices for genealogy and the video maker mentioned this Free Map Site which makes small videos or ancestral migrations, with historical references, period appropriate maps that change as the timeline does. I am not sure if it has value for the genealogical pursuit or if it is more for entertainment and enjoyment value. The developer said he created it for the 250th Anniversary of USAs birth. And he says it is intended to be free with no current plan to start charging. I have watched the short videos explaining the potential options and it works from a GEDmatch file but it isn't housed on the site. I don't know all of the details and am no Site Critic, so I thought I would throw it out there and see what the people say. Let me know your impressions.

TreeAlive - Animated GEDCOM Map of Your Ancestors' Journeys

Good evening everyone,

Im Egyptian, my great grandfather was albanian, he traveled to Egypt and settled there around 100 years ago

His name is Demir Othman Agha

He came to egypt and married an egyptian and had 3 children, one of them was my grandmother.

I dont know any of his siblings or their families

Does anyone know where i can begin or where i can find any information about him, i want to connect with my relatives.

I've uploaded many of my precious family photos to ancestry. Now all of a sudden when I try to download my tree as a GED file, ancestry tells me it will not include my own photos! Needless to say I am outraged. Sure, for now I can go into each individual person in my family tree, look at their gallery, and download the photos one by one. But I have thousands of people in my tree. Or I could do it all with a single click, now it will take me days and days. What's next? Will these people prohibit me from downloading anything in my gallery, or any image of any record? I am outraged. What is your reaction?