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[Headstones] [Photo Gallery] [Heinerich and Bertha Millis] [Contact] The URLs in this site are provided for the benefit of our visitors. If website owners do not wish for us to link to their sites, kindly inform Lucian MILLIS and the link(s) will be removed immediately upon receipt of specific instructions. All these sites can help your research, but they also take you out of Lucian's Family Research! The newest updates appear at the top of the page. How I Discovered My Jewish Background by Prof. Horacio Calles, Bogota, Colombia "I want to keep my ancestor's name.... I want to be what now I feel: a Sephardic Jew." THE STUDY OF GENEALOGY IN IRELAND by Anthony Crofton, Burke's Peerage & Gentry "It is sad history that on 13 April, 1922, the building known as the Four Courts in Dublin, the central repository of Ireland's public records, was set on fire and burned; the flames deliberately fed with the collected muniments of centuries. The main bulk of the state, domestic, and ecclesiastical records of the country was then destroyed. [...] Apart from this lack of minor records, it must always be remembered that the difficulty of identifying persons one from another in such a country as Ireland, where surnames were largely clan names, is much greater than in England, where names from quite early time were more frequently derived from a place of living or origin, or allusive to a trade, calling, or some idiosyncracy." Fifty Questions for Family History Interviews About Genealogy "A great way to uncover clues to your family history or to get great quotes for journaling in a heritage scrapbook is a family interview. By asking the right, open-ended questions, you're sure to collect a wealth of family tales. Use this list of family history interview questions to help you get started, but be sure to personalize the interview with your own questions as well." Searching with Search Engines by Ruby Coleman, Genealogy Today "It is a good idea to use more than one search engine. Information varies between the search engines. Keep track of the search engine you have used, what you requested and the date. Search for the same information again at a later date when new web pages may be listed." Hidden Stories in Pictures by Bob Brooke, Genealogy Today "There's an old saying: A picture is worth a thousand words. Old family photographs are worth a million. These frayed and faded mementos may provide clues to names, dates, and places, as well as occupations and ethnic origins of ancestors." History in a Cell The Atlantic Monthly "Steve Olson, the author of Mapping Human History, retells the story of humanity-including the creation of different 'races' - through the information encoded in our DNA." The Genetic Archaeology of Race by Steve Olson, The Atlantic Monthly "DNA analysis is explaining where 'racial difference' comes from-and what it does and doesn't mean. The study of human genetic variation has become the most contentious area in modern science." Internet Research: It too can be a Pitfall by Sue Roe, GenealogyToday.com "Please be careful about adopting information that you find on the internet and believing that it is true just because you found it on some wonderful genealogy site. Any information you find, no matter where it is published, is almost useless if the author has not cited sources. It can be used for clues -- but that is all." Shaking Your Family Tree by Myra Vanderpool Gormley, Ancestry.com "Don't make it easy for thieves to steal your (or your children's) identity by posting your Social Security number, birth date, address and mother's maiden name on the Web either. Of course, you wouldn't do that. However, if you want a real shocker, take a look at the way some naive genealogists are exposing themselves and their relatives online." Psychogenealogy GeneaNet "Psychogenealogy is the study of how our family and the generations that have gone before us influence our psyche and as well as our children's and grand-children's..." Working the web: Genealogy The Guardian "Patience and an enquiring mind are absolute requisites for tracing family histories, but Mike Anderiesz has a few tips to ease the work load." Copyright Law and Genealogy by Sue Roe, GenealogyToday.com "Anything original that is posted on the on a webpage or a mail list is owned by the person who wrote it. If someone posts a list of facts, you may copy it and send it on to others. If someone posts a family record with original format and/or original comments, you may not copy it or send it on to others without written permission from the author." Genealogical and historical societies can be a real boost to your research efforts. Read the "Top 10 Reasons to Join a Society" Check the Ellis Island Web site (http://www.ellisislandrecords.org/) and the Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild's site (http://istg.rootsweb.com/) for possible information, even outside of what you already think you know. Fiddler on the Roots: Researching Your Jewish Heritage by Dena Eben, Genealogy.com "According to noted Jewish genealogist Gary Mokotoff, approximately 95 percent of Jewish families in America crossed the Atlantic after 1881. Most present-day Jews in North and South America have roots in an immigrant group from Eastern Europe." Beginner's Guide to Austrian-Jewish Genealogy by E. Randol Schoenberg "The first task of anyone researching his or her 'Austrian' ancestors is to determine from where in the vast Austro-Hungarian Empire the ancestors originated. For example, a U.S. census entry from 1880 may indicate the nationality as Austrian, but this could mean any number of cities that are now located in Austria, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary, Ukraine, Romania, Italy, Slovenia, Croatia or Bosnia." Posting an Effective Query by Juliana Smith, Ancestry Daily News, 04 November 1999 "Posts to message boards, mailing lists, and newsgroups are great ways to connect with researchers with similar interests, to seek information, or to locate long lost cousins. But getting results requires more than just a little luck ..." Why U Can't Find Your Ancestors RootsWeb Guide Lesson 8 "Names were rarely changed intentionally at Ellis Island. The majority of passengers were detailed on the ship's manifest before the vessel left the port of departure. The purser or ship's officer was familiar with the name and ethnicity of the many passengers who typically used the port, and the ship visited the port several times each year." JewishGen FAQ - Jewish Names [Thanks Warren Blatt] "Most Jews did not have fixed hereditary surnames until the early 19th century. ... Very few Jewish surnames are monogenetic, i.e. there was more than one progenitor with that surname. Many Jewish surnames (e.g. Cohen, Levine, Katz, Kaplan, Weiss, Klein, Feldman, Greenberg, Freidman, Finkelstein, Epstein, most patronymics) are extremely common, each having tens of thousands of bearers." [Headstones] [Photo Gallery] [Heinerich and Bertha Millis] [Contact] For Private Use Only. Israel © 1999-2008. Page last updated 04 March 2005 |