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Где да направим породично стабло? На myheritage.com багује нешто. Додам пар особа и појаве се, а после их не учитава.

За поједине сам додао до генерације мог деде. За поједине не знамо ништа до генерације прадеде, за сад је 77 имена ту. Остаје да додам генерацију оца, моју и онда оних који су моја генерација а имају потомке.

Додајем и потомке удатих сестара јер што да не. Тек сад видим колико нас има заправо. Овде у селу је 4 живе куће остало, а ко зна колико је њих у директној линији отишло и никад више нису дошли овде.

Волео бих и да штампам ово у неком већем формату, тј. да је све фино видљиво. Планирао сам и да пронађем неке од њих и бар им у електронској форми доставим стабло.

Hi there :)

What I did was start building my family tree on MyHeritage.com and once you have something there, it will automatically look in other people's family trees, the official registires and christening records and offer you potential matches. To accept them is paid though, but you can start for free and decide later.

Then there is of course FamilySearch.org which has a huge database of the christening and marriage records. It's photos of the original books and then digitalized, so you can serach in full text but then it will also show you the original for confirmation, or potential manual search.

The best option of course would be to come to Slovakia and look physically in the books and visit graveyards where your grandparents are buried.

One last thing, if you look in the Family Search or the physical books, try mutations of the names. So let's say someone's name is Mikulas, look for Mikuláš, Mikulasz, Nicolaus and so on. The same with surnames, try endings from different languages, like Hungarian and German. For women try with and without -ova. You know, the times were difficult in Europe and people were doing everything they could to avoid being labeled as wrong nationality/religion/race. Also, the people writing down the registries might have been hungarian in the south of Slovakia, so they wrote the name as a hungarian mutation of the same Slovak name.

And good luck, I had lots of fun building my family tree, talking to my grandparents, digging on the internet and I even met some distant relatives I otherwise wouldn't have know even exist :)

Go to myheritage.com. Log In or Create Account (free). Under Photos tab, click on Animate Photos link. Upload this photo and it will animate it for free. I did it but can't share here due to r/pics rules. You'll be glad you did!

Both 23&Me and Ancestry.com are pretty much American centric in their data bases. Also while you can make contact with DNA relatives at 23&Me and share information that company is really more genetic health trait focused. You used to be able to transfer your raw data from 23&Me to MyHeritage and Family Tree DNA which have been the sites most Europeans had access to and thus used over the other two. I don't know what their policies are not however. If you are unable to transfer the 23&Me results I would suggest an additional test at MyHeritage.com. ---- I transferred the DNA of an American based relative with an entire German immigrant paternal line to MyHeritage and via the matches there was able to extend their family tree two more generations from what I had.

Yeah, it's quite crazy. There's actually someone who married into my family (close-ish cousin's father) who admitted on his death bed he had an affair and fathered someone who is semi famous in Hollywood circles. This guy went his whole life thinking he was full on Italian LOL. It's kind of a secret so I won't tell you who it is but it's quite interesting. Let's just say my cousin and him (half siblings) look extremely similar and it's no denying it.

Have you heard of GedMatch? You can upload your raw DNA file to it and you can match to more people from multiple other sites. The UI looks like it's from about 25 years ago, but the site is useful. You can also do this for MyHeritage.com as well to get more matches but that might cost $30 USD whereas GedMatch is free.

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Regarding the place of birth thing - my point is that Jews have been in these places for awhile. It is completely possible that the furthest Jewish ancestor you can trace back to at the moment was born in say England and maybe their parents too. If you are looking for individual countries, you could miss what is the answer right under your nose without realizing it. With genealogy, you have to pretty much open your mind up to these possibilities to find thing. I agree it's frustrating, but that's the name of the game with anything research oriented, especially when you're dealing with historical records dating back over 100 or 200 years

It might take you years to find an answer, or maybe you'll find it in a month. Just keep digging and be positive about it :)

Start with your own birth certificate because your father's name, birth date, and place of birth should be on there.
Use that info to order your father's birth certificate, and there should be some of your grandmother's information on there.
Once you have her name, you can start digging on ancestry.com , familysearch.org , myheritage.com for more of her information. You will want to look for a birth, death, or baptism certificate.

Good luck!

French here. According to Myheritage.com , my DNA is 95% Iberian (seems consistent, I'm from south of France) & 5% Finnish (wtf why?). I'm so proud of it. Have finnish stickers on my car since.

I had worries about my children for 'reasons'. I told everyone I was interested in our family genetics/history and I purchased the 23andMe test last year on Black Friday when they were half price.

I bought 3 kits. For my father, my daughter, and myself. After the results arrived it was a relief to see we were all related. (And I found out later from my Step-Mom that my father was relieved because he had the same worries for 'reasons'.

Now we've created a Family Tree on MyHeritage.com and have been tracing the family. So far the earliest American relative I've found is from the 1600s. Its great knowing we are a family and where we came from.

Good luck brother. I hope your story turns out as well as mine.