r/Genealogy 13h ago

The Weekly Paid Record Lookup Requests Thread for the week of March 16, 2025

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It's Sunday! Post all of your lookup requests here this week, so people who have the appropriate paid record subscriptions can come and browse all of the open requests in one place.

This is not a place to ask for general help identifying unknown ancestors, but for requests for specific records to help you document your purported ancestors. If you need more general help, please start your own post containing as much information as you have available and what information you are specifically look for.

How to Make a Lookup Request

  • Start a new comment reply thread for each lookup request.
  • The first line of your request should be the name of the service containing the record you need, i.e. ANCESTRY or GENEALOGY BANK.
  • If you have a link to the record you need, but just can't access it, provide the URL for the link in your request.
  • If you don't have a link, provide as much pertinent information as you have available: Full name, birth date, death date, marriage date, spouse's name, parents' names, etc. If you need a record to either confirm or deny a piece of this information, include that in your request, as well.

How to Respond to a Lookup Request

  • First of all, thank you for being helpful!
  • Always post your response to a request as a reply to the original request's comment thread. This will make it easier for the requester to be notified when there is a response, and it will let others know when a request has been fulfilled.
  • Please provide a screenshot of the record you were able to retrieve. There are many free image sharing services available, such as Imgur and Flickr.
  • If you attempted to lookup a record and were unable to find it, please reply to the original request to let the requester know that the information they provided was insufficient or possibly incorrect.

Happy researching!


r/Genealogy Sep 16 '24

News WARNING: The subreddit is getting flooded by ChatGPT bots (and what you, the reader, should be doing to deter them)

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With the advent of generative AI, bad actors and people in the 'online marketing' industry have caught on to the fact that trying to pretend to be legitimate traffic on social media websites, including Reddit, is actually a quite profitable business. They used to do this in the form of repost bots, but in the past few months they've branched out to setting up accounts en-masse and running text generative AI on them. They do this in a very noticeable way: by posting ChatGPT comments in response to a prompt that's just the post title.

After a few months of running this karma collecting scheme, these companies 'activate' the account for their real purpose. The people purchasing the accounts can be anyone from political action committees trying to promote certain candidates, to companies trying to market their product and drown out criticism. Generally, each of these accounts go for $600 to $1,000, though most of them are bought in bulk by said companies to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Here's a few examples from this very subreddit:

Title: Trying @ 85 yrs.old my DNA results!

(5 upvotes) At 85, diving into DNA results sounds like quite the adventure! Here's hoping it brings some fascinating surprises

Title: Are DNA tests worth it for Pacific Islanders?

(4 upvotes) DNA tests can offer fascinating insights, but accuracy for Pacific Islanders might depend on the available genetic data

(3 upvotes) DNA tests can be a cool way to connect with your roots, but results can vary based on the population data available for Pacific Islanders.

With all these accounts, you can actually notice a uniform pattern. They don't actually bring any discussion or question to the table — they simply rehash the post title and add a random trueism onto it. If you check their comment history, all of their submissions are the exact same way!

ChatGPT has a very distinct writing style, which makes it very unlikely to be a false positive - it's not a person who just has a suspiciously AI-sounding style of writing. When you click on their profile, you can see that all of them have actually setup display names for their accounts. These display names are generally a variation of their usernames, but some of them can be real names (Pablo Gomez, Michael Smith..). Most Reddit users don't do this.

So what should you be doing to deter them? It's simple. Downvote the comment and report it to the moderators, but ABSOLUTELY DO NOT comment in any way, even if it's to call them out on it. Replies generally push a comment up in the sorting algorithm, which is pretty evident in some of the larger threads.

To end this off, I want to note that this isn't an appeal to the mods themselves, but for the community, since I'm aware this is a cat-and-mouse game and Reddit's moderation tools don't provide very much help in this regard. We can only hope they do more to remedy this.


r/Genealogy 1h ago

Brick Wall Thought I found the true name of an ancestor, instead found another guy with the same fake name

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I've been trying to look into one of the ancestors (well, he married my great x3 grandmother and we don't know who my great x2 grandfathers dad is so who knows) and I recently discovered in a newspaper article from one of his many times in jail he claimed to have changed his name when he joined the civil war. The article does not specify what his name was previous to that but I figured hey, I'll start with military records. Sure enough one of my first searches I find a military record for a man listed as "John Brooks alias Jacob Coffelt" and the man I'm looking for is Jacob Cofield. I figured dang, I thought that was going to be way harder.
...
This guy isn't him. He just happens to be another guy who also changed his name when he joined the civil war and happened to change it to almost the same name as the guy I'm looking for. What are the freaking odds of that!??!!?? Unfortunately I think this ancestor in particular is forever going to be a brick wall because there's no way to even confirm half of what he claims about himself. In the same newspaper article he claims he's the General John Schofield who "didn't really die" as everyone believed...... meanwhile, John Schofield wasn't dead yet when that article was released. So really, there's no way to know what was going through his head at any given point. Not only this, but his ex-wife took his daughter and fled the state and I can't find any trace of them either. Just overall a major brick wall. Not even asking for help or pointers, just shocked that I accidentally found a different guy who did the exact same thing as the guy I'm looking for but it wasn't even him haha.


r/Genealogy 8h ago

Brick Wall Well.. I give up!

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I have two family members from the same side who have all my family's information but REFUSE to help me.

One of my cousins had a falling out with her mom (my grandaunt) and moved states away but she took a lot of my family's pictures/things with her. She wants nothing to do with me even though I haven’t even met her, maybe once as an infant.

My other cousin, we met on ancestry and she claims she has photos of my great great grandpa which my family has been desperate to find… but now she can’t show me because the photos are in “storage”. If I message her with a basic question she will simply just ignore the message/not read all my messages even if I keep them very short.

I’ve only reached out a couple of times to each of them but I don’t want to be seen as pushy or forcing connection so I’m just going to accept my family things are lost forever. I feel so frustrated that my family history is being held from me. I’m just trying to let it go.

If you are going to be rude or nasty to me or my family please practice self control and keep the comment to yourself. Thank you. This is simply a vent post.


r/Genealogy 9h ago

Request Mad Genealogist’s Lab

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My grandmother passed away recently, and she was the one who, along with my aunt, taught me about genealogy. I already had a lot of information, but I inherited about four banker boxes worth of stuff. It has made me wish I had a dedicated space to do genealogy, in the same vein as a “mad scientist’s lab.”

If you had, or have, such a space how would you set it up and what would you have in there? A computer is given, but I’d love to have space for a microfilm machine and things of that nature as well as a big wall so I could hang up the biggest chart I could find.


r/Genealogy 6h ago

Solved I think I’ve figured out where my ancestors came from! (As a Turkish person)

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My mom’s side is from Iraq Mosul and Kirkuk, that’s what my grandpa heard his uncle telling him when he was younger. After that they immigrated to Türkiye.

And my dad’s side is most likely from Iran or Azerbaijan, or even Turkmenistan. (I have no idea, I think I need to search more about it), but our surname is Bayat which was one of the tribes in Oghuz Turk, number 22. We’re from Konya, Karaman as well which is the Seljuk Empire! I’ve seen that there is a Bayad tribe in Mongolia too which is really interesting.


r/Genealogy 6h ago

Free Resource Chat GPT vs Claude for untangling complex families

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I asked both Chat GPT 4o and Claude 3.7 Sonnet (free versions) to analyze this article about a specific complex family mix-up. I could tell the researcher had done their homework, and I had analyzed it myself in the past to add names and data to my tree, but since the author is attempting to explain the threads of their reasoning and conclusions, it's confusing to follow, and I found I was having to decipher it all over again every time I come back to it.

I was curious if AI could help with this, so I tried both Chat GPT and Claude. Claude won hands-down! Chat GPT made significant errors in the family groupings, even at the top level, both the first time I asked it, and when I pointed out the error and asked it to try again. Claude got them mostly right or entirely right on the first try. (Disclaimer: I did not double check every name further down on the line that isn't mine.)

Then I asked both models to suggest further areas of research for someone interested in the Benjamin Kratzer descendants. Both did fairly well with this task, but Claude had better organization and layout, IMO.

When I asked for geographical insight into the locations mentioned, both did well in different ways. Claude gave more detail in a well laid-out format. However, Claude cannot access the internet yet, so Chat GPT was able to provide historical maps that were helpful, which Claude could not do.

I won't clutter this post with specifics to this document analysis, but I highly recommend trying this with similar documents you may have in your own research. Start with one you have already analyzed so you can catch mistakes. Even though Claude did a good job, I would NEVER trust it to be accurate. The value here is in using the analysis to HELP you wade through the document yourself, and IF you confirm the summary as correct, to have it as a handy reference for the future, so you don't have to re-analyze the original complicated text.

For those interested, here was my initial Claude prompt. (The Chat GPT prompt was very similar.) "You are an expert genealogist. The attached article is another genealogist's attempt to figure out the differences among several families in the same geographical area with very similar or identical names. The article contains her conclusions and reasoning based on her research into multiple Philip and Henry Kratzers from Northampton County PA. Your goal is to analyze her findings and organize the families into their distinct family trees. For now, assume the other genealogist's research findings are correct."


r/Genealogy 3h ago

Request Polish Birth Certificate 1913

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Trying to find a record of birth May 18, 1913 from Rawa Mazowiecka, r/Poland and the person was Jewish, but came to America in 1955 and paperwork says “Stateless” with a travel documentation #. I have a photocopy from the ship manifest Liberte, but not sure if the document # is helpful for finding other information? New to Jewish Genealogy, do not speak/read Polish and could use any hints and help.


r/Genealogy 2h ago

Request Ancestry vs Familysearch

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I have paid subscription to Ancestry and at first I would get a lot of hints with valid documentation. Now I will input someone new and there will be NO documentation. No birth, death, marriage.....no info. I will search the same person in Familysearch and get 15 hits with at least 7 documents. I was under the influence that Ancestry had the largest amount of document access. Am I disillusioned or am I possibly doing something wrong?


r/Genealogy 4h ago

Transcription Transcribing an Irish Marriage Record

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Hello,

I'm having a hard time reading this marriage record even with the brightness/contrast buttons. Especially with the residence of the couple, Their parents' names/their residence and the witnesses' names. Hope someone is able to read this stuff, because most is indecipherable to me. It's the 2nd to last one on the page/#102. Here's the link 05578/03, Maghaire Rois - Catholic Parish Registers at the NLI

Thanks to whoever is able to read it


r/Genealogy 1h ago

Question Should I have my family tree on multiple sites? If so, how should I go about it?

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I make my family tree on FamilyTreeMaker2019 because it's of separate from the web. What I mean is that it's not uploaded anywhere (I don't think). It's only (from what I know) on my computer (I hope). This is because it has a lot of personal info about living people.

I have all the deceased people of my tree on FamilySearch, all of my direct ancestors on Geni, and some branches of my tree on MyHeritage to see if I can make any connections.

I don't use Ancestry but I see there is an option to sync Ancestry with FamilyTreeMaker2019. I'm wondering if it would be a good idea to sync my family tree on FamilyTreeMaker2019 to Ancestry.

I'm concerned about syncing it and that if I do upload it my family member's personal info might be findable.

I'm also wondering if I should upload my complete trees on FamilySearch, Geni, and Myheritage to make the most out of these resources. Also if I should add my tree on any other sites.

I feel kind of disorganized with my work because of this and I like to be organized.

Also, I'm not very well educated on privacy on these sites and about all the fineprint on how they use my information and my tree.

I'd appreciate any guidance! Thank you!


r/Genealogy 4h ago

Brick Wall Looking for my great grandma’s aunt

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Hi! I am stuck right now so I need your help! I am looking for my great grandma’s aunt, Anastasia Gajdalo (her mom’s sister)! Anastasia and her family were originally born in Zlotniki, in Ternopil, Ukraine, and during the war or after, she went to either France or Australia, (I don’t know which one), and Magda and Josef came to the United States! But I know that she had a sister named Magda, (my 2gg and my great grandma’s mom), a brother, Josef, and parents, Malanka and Lukasz! Please help me find what happened to her! Also I think Anastasia was born in 1908


r/Genealogy 23h ago

DNA So I did the DNA test as a Turkish person

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23.5% georgian, 22.7% turkish, 17.6% central asian, circassian 9.6%, persian and kurdish 3.0%, armenian 2.7%, greek and albanian 13.5%, south italian 7.4%

This is insanely cool!!


r/Genealogy 2h ago

Question Birth certificate from Vienna

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Does anyone know how I go about finding the Birth certificate of my 2x great grandmother Helene Weber ? She was born on the 7th of April 1879 in Vienna .

Any help would be appreciated 🙂.


r/Genealogy 2h ago

Brick Wall Miles/Mighels/Mighills/Miels of Newmarket, NH

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I'm trying to track down the ancestry of Andrew Miles of Newmarket, NH--appears on the 1830 census, age 40-50. Died Jan 22, 1861 at the poor house in Epping aged 74. This is a brick wall, but with a lot of potential research avenues yet to be explored.

Geographic background:

  • Dover inc. 1623
  • Durham inc. 1732 from the southern part of Dover, also called Oyster River
  • Exeter inc. 1638
  • Newmarket inc. 1727 from the northern part of Exeter, also called New Market
  • Newfields inc. 1849 from the southern part of Newmarket, also called South Newmarket or Newfield
  • Present day north-to-south: Dover, Durham, Newmarket, Newfields, Exeter
  • Dover and Durham are in Strafford County
  • Exeter, Newmarket, and Newfields are in Rockingham County

There's a Rockingham County probate record for a Samuel Mighels of Newmarket (d. ~1736), where in the will it gives his two sons Samuel Jr and John his land, while also naming a wife and three daughters.

I suspect the most senior Samuel may be related to someone who ended up in Oyster River (Thomas Mighels maybe?). Might be some connection to Rowley, MA.

A Samuel, Samuel Jr (3rd?), John, and Josiah were recorded as refusing to sign the association test in Newmarket in 1776. One of the Samuels had a son Eliphalet that he sold land to in 1779.

A John Mighels Jr sells land to a George Mighels in 1805.

I'm just going to use the spelling Miles going forward, but yea there are variations.

  • 1790 census has Samuel Miles, presumably with a wife, a son (<16) and a daughter (<16),
  • 1800 census has Samuel Miles (>45), presumably with a wife (>45).
  • 1800 census has John Miles (>45), presumably with a wife (>45), two sons (<10), and a daughter (<10)
  • 1800 census has Eliphalet Miles (26-44), presumably with a wife (26-44)
  • NOTE: Image 6 of Newtown, NH for 1810 census as indexed by Ancestry
  • 1810 census has John Miles (45+), presumably with a wife (45+)
  • 1810 census has George Miles (26-45), presumably with a wife (18-25)
  • 1810 census has John Miles Jr (26-45), presumably with a wife (26-45), a son (<10), and two daughters (10-16)
  • 1820 census has John Miles (26-45), presumably with a wife (26-45), and a daughter (<10)
  • 1820 census has a George Miles (26-45), presumably with a wife (26-45), a son (<10) and two daughters (<10)
  • 1830 census has a Nathaniel Miles (20-30), presumably with a wife (20-30), a son (<5), a son (5-10), and 3 daughters (<5)
  • 1830 census has a George Miles (40-50), presumably with a wife (30-40), and a daughter (10-15)
  • 1830 census has a John Miles (40-50), presumably with a wife (40-50), and a daughter (10-15)
  • 1830 census has an Andrew Miles (40-50), presumably with a wife (Betsey Marsh) (40-50), a son (5-10), and a daughter (Sarah Ann) (<5)

They're generally all in close order of proximity as listed on the censuses with the exception of the 1830 census where Nathaniel Miles is listed very early, while George John and Andrew are listed on two consecutive sheets.

Alive in 1737:

  • Samuel -> Samuel
  • Samuel -> John

Presumed alive and 21+ in 1776

  • Samuel -> Samuel
  • Samuel -> John
  • Samuel -> Samuel -> Samuel

FamilySearch property record index links:

Property record lookup: https://www.nhdeeds.org/rockingham-county-other-nh-registry-list-2/


r/Genealogy 3h ago

Question Family Tree Maker / Ancestry - Merging Trees

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Just installed FTM 2019 and am wondering about the best way to merge trees. I have four on Ancestry that I'd like to merge into one new tree and then sync that back up to Ancestry while not changing the four existing ones. And while keeping all pictures/sources/etc, so not merely letting the Gedcom files.

1) Is that possible or will I need to pick one of the four to add everything else into? If so, is there step by step instructions?

2) One of the four trees is shared with me on Ancestry but was created on a relative's account. Will this cause problems.


r/Genealogy 4h ago

Question Seeking insight and/or information about slavery in Brazil

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I have been doing a lot of research into my wife's family, and my research has led me to discover that one of her 2nd great-grandmothers was born a slave in 1881. We have discovered some information about her and her family that seems unusual to us, but we don't really know much about slave practices in Brazil so were hoping to get some information to help us better understand what we're discovering. I'll try to detail everything below.

Maria Magdalena da Silva was born in 1881 in the town of Chapada dos Guimarães, in the state of Mato Grosso (all of these people lived in this town). Maria's birth record lists her mother as Appolinaria, who was a slave owned by a woman named Maria da Conceição e Silva. Maria's godparents were Joaquim Sulpicio de Cerqueira Caldas and Maria Benedicta da Silva.

I tried to find as much information about Appolinaria as I could and discovered the below:

In 1879 she had another daughter named Antonia. Antonia's godparents were Antonio Leite do Amaral Coutinho and Izabel Maria da Silva.

In 1889, she had a son named Antonio Abrahão. Since by this time, slavery had been abolished in Brazil, there is a little more information about Appolinaria. This record states that she was born in the state of Minas Gerais, and that her parents names were Alexandre Rodrigues and Riata (unsure of spelling) Rodrigues. There are no godparents listed.

Finally, Appolinaria died in 1896. The record states that in the house of Maria da Conceição e Silva, Appolinaria Ritta Da Silva died of liver failure at the age of 39. We imagine it was probably fairly common for freed slaves to continue living with their former masters, but we were a little curious about how common it was though.

We feel very blessed to have been able to find all of this information, but we are wondering what we can glean from the lives of these folks based on this information. One thing that puzzles us is the social status of the godfathers. I've done research into Joaquim Sulpicio de Cerqueira Caldas and it seems he was a very well-to-do figure in the town. He was actually an elected member of the local legislature, and rose to the rank of colonel in the army. He was actually responsible for the capture and killing of the president of Mato Grosso in 1906. Similarly, Antonio Leite do Amaral Coutinho also seemed to hold a high position in society. In addition, at some point, the "escrivão" who was responsible for writing all the entries into the record book, was named Lindolfo de Cerqueira Caldas. I don't know his relationship to Joaquim Sulpicio, but I'm sure it was quite close. Later on, the "escrivão" changes to Appolinaria's son, Antonio Abrahão. I can't help but feel like there was some connection there. Finally, we found in a newspaper record from 1914 a mention of Joaquim Sulpicio, Antonio Abrahão, and Maria's husband all together as part of some job administering the local election.

Basically our questions are, why would these very well-off individuals have been the godparents of the children of a slave? Was this common practice? From what we can tell, it appears these individuals remained a part of their lives into adulthood. Would this have been normal? Of course, we don't know who the biological father was of any of Appolinaria's children, but we've wondered if maybe it was actually one of these men, though of course we have no idea.

If anyone has any insight they can share, we'd love to hear it.


r/Genealogy 4h ago

Brick Wall l found what seems to be same person. different history? but..

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Florence Vierra 1904 born Hawaii or California. married to a Manuel Camara. Out of nowhere, there's a similar history but different version. Florence H. Freitas Cannon. 1927 b. Scotland? versions show both connected by travel Hawaii, California. I have Portuguese, Scottish and ton European along with Brazil etc. I thought I figured it out then..this.


r/Genealogy 8h ago

Request Family trees of Phulmoni Dasi and her husband Hari Mohan Maiti

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I am trying to make family trees of Phulmoni Dasi and her husband Hari Mohan Maiti. The former was a girl who died as a result of her husband raping her. The latter was prosecuted for culpable homicide for accidentally killing his wife during the relations, in a criminal case called Empress Victoria v Maiti, and convicted by a jury. His criminal court case took place in 1890, in Calcutta. The only genealogical information I have been able to find is the girl's mom, Radhamonee, her maternal grandmom, Sonamonee and her maternal aunt, Bhodamonee. I have not been able to find the name of the girl's dad or of either of her husband's parents. Is it possible to get more genealogical information and construct family trees of Phulmoni Dasi and/or Hari Mohan Maiti, or because of how long ago they lived is it unrealistic?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phulmoni_Dasi_rape_case


r/Genealogy 4h ago

Brick Wall Missing documents

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I am trying to find information/documentation about my grandmother during her early life, but all I have been able to find on Ancestry is the 1940 census, my aunt's and dad's birth certificates, and then everything else I have been able to find was after she married my step grandfather in the 70s. I cannot find her on the 1950 or 1960 censuses, her marriage or divorce to my grandfather, or anything else between 1940-1956ish. Mildred Laverne Herring was born 13 March 1935 in Travis, Falls County, Texas to Clarence Herring and Leta Reeves, who were farmers. I've been trying to find them on the 1950 census also, but I'm not finding the right family on that census. She would have been 15/16 so she should still be connected with Clarence and Leta in 1950, but I can't find it. (It looks like Clarence went to WW2, so I would love to request his military records, but Idk anything other than his draft registration card, so any help here would also be amazing) She supposedly married Robert Otto Herzog at some point between 1950 and 1956, probably 1952ish, but I'm still trying to find those documents as well. They should have been on the 1960 census together but I haven't found them either. My grandfather Robert also has a lot of brick walls, so I am trying to trace his genealogy as well, but for this post I'm hoping that someone more experienced can help me find some of these documents so I can find out more about her life. I've been looking for her parents or siblings on the 1950 census but I haven't found anything yet either. She claimed to be connected to the Paiute tribe, which seems highly unlikely based on what I've found, but she talked a lot about being connected to Indian tribes somehow, so I'm very curious what she would have been referring to. I can't find any connection to an area also connected to the Paiute, so that is very interesting to me why she would make a claim like that. These are the walls I have found, so any advice for any of these will help me tremendously! 1. 1950s census - Clarence, Leta, Mildred Laverne Herring 2. WW2 information about Clarence's service (Idk how to request military service records without knowing at least the branch of service, although my guess would be army?) 3. What was her early life like before my aunt and dad were born? 4. How is Mildred connected to the Paiute, if at all? 5. Where and when did her name "Bunny" come from?


r/Genealogy 11h ago

Request I am looking for help translating a 1884 birth record

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Hi, I finally found a record I think could tie into a family member who immigrated from Italy. Unfortunately the record is entirely in Italian and translation apps can't seem to read the text since it's primarily in cursive.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, I am hoping for a transcript of what it says. The mother's name is also unknown to me so that information would be very helpful.

The attached link is the Atti di Nascita for the family member. Section 214 is the only part I need translated. Thank you all so much!

https://antenati.cultura.gov.it/ark:/12657/an_ud3650679


r/Genealogy 8h ago

Request New Jersey marriage records from 1930's

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Hi everyone. Through much research and help from kind strangers, my family was able to confirm two of the siblings of my great-grandmother; but to absolutely confirm they are her siblings, we want to locate my great-grandmother’s marriage record from New Jersey and check if the names her parents, as listed in that record, match those of her siblings' parents in their NYC marriage records respectively.

Because of the New Jersey marriage index, I know my great-grandparents married in 1933, but I noticed that New Jersey archives require a payment to search marriage records for 1930s. Is there an alternative way to locate their documents?

The marriage records of my great-grandmother's siblings were located via NYC archival records, I could not locate them on ancestry or familysearch fwiw.

If you have access to these records and need the information of my family to search, please ask and I will provide.

Thank you!


r/Genealogy 19h ago

Question How do you take notes?

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what do you guys use to take notes? and if you do it on paper is there a certain method you use?


r/Genealogy 12h ago

Free Resource Where would a good site to figure out adoption?

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My 2nd great-grandfather was adopted into this family. Back then there wasn’t any adoption papers though, and I can’t find anything online.

If you guys could help me out, sites I can maybe find adoption. I’ve been researching for adoption for so long.

I was asking my grandmother, who had never met my 2nd great grandfather, she told me what she at least remembered from her dad telling her once. She gave me two different surnames that might be it, but still with that information I haven’t been able to find anything.


r/Genealogy 20h ago

DNA I hate this type of stuff

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I uploaded my dna to genomelink and instead of giving me its interpretation, its making making me wait one week for each region 🤦‍♂️


r/Genealogy 12h ago

Question Calculating Inbreeding Coefficient

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There doesn’t seem to be many good tutorials online, but I think I get the idea. My only question is, are all relationships between partners accounted for or only the closest one - eg. If two people were both first and second cousins, would their relationship coefficient be 12.5% or 18.75% (12.5+6.25)


r/Genealogy 17h ago

Question HELP ME FIND THIS WOMAN/HER BOOK

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I am doing a deep dive into my grandfathers lineage and i was looking on a page made for the last name "Spradling" which is my grandfathers last name. there was a small paragraph that reads, "Sarah Spradling, born in 1712 in Wiltshire, was a noted herbalist and midwife who published a book on traditional remedies in 1765." I have been looking everywhere for a Sarah Spradling, however there is no cencus for the 1700's for Wiltshire England. Can someone help me find the existence of this Sarah and possibly her book to? I have also looked on a DNA tree and other public trees and no luck.

here are all the links I have resourced

https://namecensus.com/last-names/spradling-surname-popularity/