dear friends can someone help me translate this death record. I want to know the cursive parts of it, I know the typed parts. I am really interested in the part about the parents. I believe this person was born to unknown parents? could possibly be related to mistress of royalty. here is the link to the record: https://antenati.cultura.gov.it/ark:/12657/an_ud17640811

thank you so very much for your help. I am working on learning the cursive Italian but its a slow process!

Hi all,

So I found the Marriage supplement documents for a brother of my 5th Great-Grandmother, and I think I may have found a death record for their grandfather, Silvestro Pallottino. It looks to me like it’s written in Latin, but I can’t read it. I assume it’s an old church document that was transcribed. This is the only real record I have for this guy. If anyone could help me read it, that would be amazing!

Here’s the record: https://antenati.cultura.gov.it/ark:/12657/an_ua18920593/Lz9QlWm

It's the main thing I'm looking for, that and a birth date

This one requires some preface to explain.

I’ve been following what has seemed like a dead end for over a year now. 100 years ago, my grandfather’s grandfather left his family in a small eastern Slovak village to seek success in the Americas. His fate was a mystery at the time, and understandably, as he left his wife and two young children behind, his memory was kind of lost to time. His next of kin assumed he wound up in the US or Canada and became a farmer somewhere.

That is what we believed until about year ago, I found an individual passenger file, Form 30A, that incredibly matched every single detail we had on him, from his age and birthplace to the name of his wife. It confirmed that he immigrated to Canada, and did not intend to return.

This was an on-and-off project for me, so it wasn’t until very recently that I found his name in the 1931 Canada census (line 18). Everything lined up—his birth year estimated as 1899, his 1924 immigration year, and his Czechoslovak roots. Just his name, Juraj, had been anglicized to George Sustrik. He was then living in Princeton, British Columbia as a coal miner.

This is where I reached my first real snag. The only other document I found that matched with him was a death certificate under the name George Sistrick. There are slight discrepancies in the data on the certificate and the other data I’ve collected, and I’m trying to decide whether I can draw any conclusions. Here is what I know:

Name: Juraj/George Sustrik DOB: 25 April 1899 Birthplace: Slovakia Year of immigration: 1924 Occupation: coal miner in Princeton

Here is what the death certificate states:

Name: George Sistrick DOB: 24 April 1889 Birthplace: Czechoslovakia Year of immigration: 1941 (?) Occupation: gold miner in Wells DOD: 19 August 1963 Residence: Wells, BC

Sustrik is not a very common name, even in Slovakia. What are the odds that there are two Slovak miners in British Columbia with almost identical names born within a day of each other? Do I have enough evidence to assume they are the same person? Or is the immigration year the biggest issue? Please let me know what you guys think.

I recently found my half-sister, and we'd like to do a DNA sibling test, however I have no interest whatsoever in adding my information to a database, be it public or private. I would just like to do a split kit and have a confirmation report issued to at least one of us, if not both.

Our shared father is deceased, as is her mother. I am not interested in finding any other siblings, loose relations, or knowing any more about my ancestry than what I can already glean from FamilySearch.

I haven't found a single lab that explicitly states the DNA results/profile are not saved. I don't care if they're "not sold to marketers", or "used for research only". I just want a test with no strings attached.

Am I hunting for a unicorn, and if so, I think it says a lot about just how valuable this information is.

Edit: Because location likely matters, this is for Canada and the United States.

Hi guys,

I'm looking at old Scottish Parish records from 1832 in Glasgow. This John Freeland Robertson might be a relative and I'm trying to figure out - at the bottom of this 'record' there's a James Robertson and a John Robertson listed. Would these be witnesses? Here's the record I'm talking about: https://imgur.com/a/A2ze79p

Here is the full record, too: https://imgur.com/a/uGnJ6xt

Thank you for your help(s)!

Yall I need help.

I’m tracking my family tree and I came into a problem. I don’t know how I’m related to these royals but every genealogy website insists that I am. First off relatives let me plant this out for yall

We have Jane Wilkinson Locke married to Michael Locke whose parents were William Locke and Catherine Cooke. I found ALOT of cool stuff down that line.

From Jane we go up and have her father Sir William Wilkinson sheriff of London and her mother Jane Mercer Wilkinson.

Up from her father William we have Sir William Wilkinson Duke of York and his wife lady Jane De lacy Duchess of York.

No here’s the problem.

The listed parents for Sir William Wilkinson Duke of York are Sir Thomas Wilkinson Duke of York and lady Mary Plantagenet Duchess of York. They are real famous people. But the Mary that’s a daughter of Edward the 4th was too young and died without kids right? Then how is this happening? And the other royals by those names ? Do they have children matching my families names?

I know the Wilkinson family have royal ties, they also married into the Locke family who also have royal ties to both king Edward the 4th and king Henry the 8th. My great grand uncle was sir Anthony Cooke, the tutor and companion of king Edward the 4th. The lockes, cookes, and wilkinsons, all married in and eventually tie together. And I know noble families marry into other noble families. Can someone help me sort this out? Thank you so much.

Edit: I have looked in several different genealogy websites not just ancestry and they all say the exact same thing

Hi!

I am looking to find a marriage record for my grandparents. In the past, I’ve found marriage records for Florida really easily. But this one has been difficult.

My grandpa has passed, my grandma is still living but has dementia and can’t remember the date. We believe they were married about 1954 in Duval county, but it could possibly be Nassau county.

Could anyone suggest a helpful website? I wasn’t able to find anything on familysearch, my usual go to.

Thank you!

Just Wondering.

My great grandfather arrived in Liverpool, UK in 1919 and I wanted to find out the exact date in which he arrived but am not sure where to find ship records of arrival. Is this possible? Please can anybody help me.

I contacted Ancestry today to find an old family tree I had printed out a decade ago on Roots.

At the shell of the site it clearly says this:

WorldConnect family trees have been removed from RootsWeb and will be migrated to Ancestry early in 2024.

So, after explaining myself several times I got this answer from the Customer Service Help Chat. And it was a real person after the bot transferred me.

---->> They are still converting trees and will inform the owners as they are converted. However, the one I want is not mine. So, guess I will search more on Ancestry and see if I can find it. Seems a lot of confusion even at the Ancestry Help Desk on this conversion.

I already went thru the 30 people registered at Ancestry by the owners name and didn't find it that way, now a clear match.

Anyone have another suggesting? Sure seems like a boondoggle to use a nice word.

Hi all, I need to figure out what district my grandfather was born in to be able to request his birth certificate for my citizenship application. I’ve talked to the consulate and they aren’t able to provide any assistance. Where else should I try?

According to a number of sources, my 11th ggm Anne Lemaitre/Lemaistre was a "Fille du Roy," or one of the young women brought over to "New France" by the king. However, she was born in 1617, so she would have been at least 46 at the time, and the "Filles du Roy" are described as young girls, their average age being 23. Many of these sources also agree that she came over with her daughter-in-law, also widowed, and two grandchildren.

I'm connected to her through her son Nicholas from her first marriage, confusingly and unverifiedly to a man named Louis LeRoy, who appears to have passed away in 1663; perhaps this is where the confusion comes in. Wouldn't she have been called by her married name as a widow?

Her daughter-in-law -- or, at least, my ancestor -- supposedly also widowed, is not listed as a Fille du Roi, under her maiden or married name. There is also a plaque that was dedicated by the Roy family to this couple, Nicholas and Jeanne Le Liefvre LeRoy, commemorating their arrival together in 1661, two years before the Fille du Roi began coming to North America; Nicholas died in 1690.

I'm beginning to feel that there's a very good chance there were two Annes, and someone has accidentally combined them; what do you folks think? I feel like the Anne who was brought over as a 'daughter of the king' can't possibly be the same person as the Anne who was the mother of Nicholas.

Then there's Catherine Prevost, the first wife of Anne's purported second husband Adrian Blanquet; she is also listed as Anne's sister; that they don't share a surname seems odd, as well as the fact that there are no other siblings listed, and Catherine died in 1631 when Anne was 14, yet Anne didn't marry Adrian, ostensibly her sister's widower, until 1663. It's possible that the 'daughter-in-law' mentioned was actually her future step-daughter, Marie-Madeleine, though, I suppose, but Marie-Madeleine came to North America in 1660 and her husband of 3 years at that point came with her, as well as their one living child (of two;) they went on to have eight more before he died in 1708.

Can anyone help me untangle this mess? Or offer perspective?

Are all the records gone? I'm interested in finding anything (birth/death/marriage, property records, military, citizenship) anything really. Can you help point me in the right direction!

Thank you!

Hi all, I've been waiting on USCIS's genealogy program to deliver a C-file for an in-law's ancestor, Vincenzo Giuffre. USCIS records request letter included the details of his naturalization that they located in the records search:

Name and Age: Vincenzo Giuffre / Age 26

Naturalization Court: Supreme Court of New York

Naturalization Date: January 6, 1913.

Vincent / Vincenzo was born 31 Dec 1886 in Termini Imerese, Palermo, Italy. He first immigrated in 1905 and then came back again in 1908. He lived in Albany, New York until he moved to California after 1920.

While I wait on the C file, (probably only another 2 years), I wanted to try to find his original naturalization paperwork at the New York Supreme Court on Jan 6, 1913. I have looked in the following Ancestry collections to no avail:

• New York, U.S., New York County Supreme Court Naturalization Petition Index, 1907-1924
• New York, U.S., State and Federal Naturalization Records, 1794-1943
• New York, U.S., Naturalization Records, 1882-1944
• New York, New York, U.S., Index to Declarations of Intent, 1907-1924
• New York, U.S., Index to Petitions for Naturalization filed in New York City, 1792-1989

I don't think I fully understand what USCIS meant by the Supreme Court of New York - didn't every county have their own Supreme Court? I've also looked in Albany but wasn't able to find anything. I've also tried looking at the various collections in https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/New_York_Naturalization_and_Citizenship ; still haven't found an index entry in either New York County or Albany for Vincenzo.

I guess I'm hoping that Vincenzo's declaration of intent or petition for naturalization is scanned somewhere on Ancestry or FamilySearch and just unindexed. Any help would be much appreciated!

For the last several days, I've been unable to post web links to Ancestry profiles. I also could not include a link in a message to another member. Has anyone else had this problem? Any idea why?

When I find a document or photo, even if it's online and added to my tree (in FTM or Ancestry), I will still save that file in a Media folder on my computer. Do any of you do this, AND, if you do, how do name the files to make them easier to find later?

I started using prefixes for files but I'm curious if there is a better or tweaked way to do this?

For example, if it's an image of a page in the Census, I'll name the file something like this:

Birth Cert 1939 John Smith

Census 1950 John Smith Full Page

Yearbook 1955 John Smith

Military Draft Card 1960 John Smith

Gravestone John Smith and Mary Jones

Other thougts?

My mom's parents were born in Canada and their parents all the way back until 1700s but never noticed it doesn't show on any dna site.

Thought that was curious

I'm doing research on behalf of my distant cousin. His ancestor was George Washington I (2 January 1815, Culpeper City, Culpeper County, Virginia - 24 August 1857, Alexandria County, Virginia). Who was George's enslaver? His father was George Washington's great-nephew, Samuel Washington (14 February 1787, Berkeley County, Virginia - 18 March 1867, Newport, Campbell County, Kentucky). Note: Berkeley County is now part of West Virginia.

Hello. My great-great-grandfather, St. John Steuben Wood was born in Tamaulipas according to family legend. His parents were American expats due to his mixed-race mother. His father, David L Wood died there, in Matamoros, in 1858 according to Mexican records. Is there any way to find birth records from back then in Mexico?

Looking to do this myself. Would visiting the offices in person be my only option, or are there any services in Romania that do this?

Should be available in the State Archives but I’m unable to find it.

If anybody can send a link to the page to view churche records like marriage I would appreciate it.

I struggled with births/deaths for awhile until someone sent me this link to mdgensoc.com where I can select MD Research guidance and then there’s 2 drop downs for births or deaths and then it is very easy to find the certificates.

I’m looking for Laura (Wolf) Youngbauer/Jungbauer re-marrying to Joseph Dersch in Sep 10, 1906 at St. James church in Baltimore (eager st, I think)

As well as a marriage of Charles Sellner to Rose Dersch in 1915-1920 at a church in Laurel, Maryland

Why would an age and birth date be visibly lowered on a Death Certificate? Age was obviously changed to age 60 from age 63. I'm not sure how that happened on an official document. (Birth Date on grave stone shows age 63.) Thanks.

I cannot figure out how to progress in my research of my father's grandfather. My family know he came to Canada as a child. There were rumors that he had a brother, and became separated from the brother in foster care. No one ever talked about any of it, and all the people who would know are now dead (this also means anyone who would be offended with me unearthing this family secret are dead). Based on the timeline, I am curious if he came to Canada under the home child / assisted juvenile immigration program, but I truly have no idea.

He went by John or Jack Holder.

I have a marriage license (details: 1 Mar 1919, Pancras, Middlesex, to Winnifred Hearn). This document lists his father as Thomas Holder, and his birth year as 1896. I also know where his grave stone is, which lists a birth date in 1896.

I have found Canadian census records from 1921 onwards. My father confirmed the addresses of these are correct. On these, he states his date of arrival as 1911. These documents support an 1896 birthdate [1] [2]

Using the military service number on his marriage license, I have a service record. This tons of detail, all contradictory. He lists his birth year as 1893, his birth place as Sheffield, UK, and puts a distant and unfindable British aunt "Alice Booker" as his next of kin. Once he meets my great grandmother, which appears to have happened when he was serving, he changes it to his fiancé's mother and then his wife after marrying. Other than the birthdate, this pretty much checks out. [3]

However, this is where the discrepancies begin. I don't know why he'd lie to make himself 22 when he was already 18. I know lying to enlist young was common for teenagers at this point, and lying would absolutely make sense if he was younger and trying to get out of a bad foster home. Or, maybe he just didn't know his birthdate - but then I question the other details like birth place in his service record.

I also can find literally no records at all of his birth, immigration, or existence prior to enlisting in the Canadian military in 1915. I have scoured immigration records and home child databases and I can't find any child entering Canada who has a similar name and birth year. I can't find a John Holder born to a Thomas Holder anywhere near Sheffield in any of the provided birth years.

I am not sure how to proceed. I would love to know who he was and where he came from. I feel like I have found enough information to track down a birth record, but I can't seem to find anything. I am spinning my wheels.

Any tips? Or do I let this one go?

[1] https://www.ancestry.ca/sharing/12216127?mark=7b22746f6b656e223a226e43756f374761752f70495873576f4d4a456f5652346b7a4473373744514b3745396a437551624348636f3d222c22746f6b656e5f76657273696f6e223a225632227d

[2] https://www.ancestry.ca/sharing/26113407?mark=7b22746f6b656e223a227853537a6562486c366f3274396449783450554d714e65376e4c706357654f763364546a797270757637553d222c22746f6b656e5f76657273696f6e223a225632227d

[3] https://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.item/?op=pdf&app=CEF&id=B4434-S037

Hi all, I'm new to GEDMatch, but I was able to discover that upon one to one autosomal comparison I have a match with an archaic Neolithic female (Ballynahatty Woman, F999805). There is just 1 segment match and it's 11.4 cM. Can it perhaps mean that she was my ancestor as the segment is >10 cM? My DNA uploaded was from 23andme.

Hi all, I have been struggling to find any information in regards to my ancestry. My great great grandad came to the UK at the end of the 19th century, we are unsure on his true identity but here is some information that we have.

His name when he came to the UK (Scotland) was George (Jurgis) Leleszis (Leliaszus) and was then changed to George Campbell. He then moved down to Lancashire for work.

He married Hannah Holden and had several children with her.

There doesn’t seem to be any records of his mother but ancestry says that his father was called John Leleszis (Leliaszus) and was born in Russia. Now I’m not sure if that was his surname in Russia or if it was changed when they moved to Poland or Lithuania (some sources say George was born in Marijampoles in Lithuania). I put ‘Leliaszus’ in translate from Polish to Russian and got ‘Lelias’ (Лелиас) so I’m not sure if George’s father was called John Lelias or Leliaszus or Leleszis.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Me and my family just want some answers as to where our family come from. I have done some searches in some Russian records but I fear that they aren’t the right sources. If you know any useful resources for finding Eastern European ancestors please let me know 🙏🏼

Tracking down ancestry records of my family. Their immigration records to the US say they were from Kiew/Kiev but most recently lived in a town called “Liban.” Where is that? Ethnic Ukrainian/Polish mix

My grandmothers dad moved to canada in the 1900s to live with his dad and step mom. We no idea his birth mom's name or why he came. He came with a little girl, he himself was 15 - she was 6....she is listed as his dads sister in law - so we are thinking she might be the sister of my grandmothers dad?

Anyone experience anything similar? Trying to figure this out