Arts & Humanities: Genealogy: “Question: Quien es mas macho? Fernando Lamas or Ricardo Montalban?” plus 5 more |
- Question: Quien es mas macho? Fernando Lamas or Ricardo Montalban?
- Question: Is Slenderman a Jewish or German last name?
- Question: Can Geni.com AUTOMATICALLY add members to your family tree?
- Question: Ancestry Help (Can you Translate this)?
- Question: Is my grandmother's last name Jewish?
- Question: Hi i was wondering if someone could tell me which country first name Johnsena comes from?
| Question: Quien es mas macho? Fernando Lamas or Ricardo Montalban? Posted: 14 Apr 2015 07:08 PM PDT Report AbuseAdditional DetailsIf you believe your intellectual property has been infringed and would like to file a complaint, please see our Copyright/IP Policy Report Abuse Cancel Report AbuseAdditional DetailsIf you believe your intellectual property has been infringed and would like to file a complaint, please see our Copyright/IP Policy Report Abuse Cancel Report AbuseAdditional DetailsIf you believe your intellectual property has been infringed and would like to file a complaint, please see our Copyright/IP Policy Report Abuse Cancel  |
| Question: Is Slenderman a Jewish or German last name? Posted: 14 Apr 2015 06:30 PM PDT People have all sorts of nonsensical ideas. The mann or man ending doesn't indicate Jewish, Catholic or Lutheran ancestry. Many people dropped the extra "n" when coming to America. German names can be Jewish. They can be Catholic. They can be Protestant. When surnames were taken in Europe during the early part of the last millennium, Jews took them along with Christians. They weren't started originally to identify a person as a member of a family but just to better sort people out on records. There were too many men with the same given name in the same town or village. When they got through it was entirely possible that legitimate sons of the same man could have wound up with a different surname and still each could have shared his with others with no known relationship My maternal grandfather was Jewish and his family name was originally Altmann which was changed to Ault. However he has Jewish cousins who dropped the extra n. Also the Talmud defines a Jew solely by the mother. If a person only has a Jewish father the only way Orthodox and Conservative Judaism views him/her as Jewish is to go through the rite of conversion. Since surnames traditionally come from the father a person could be born a McGillicuddy amd be Jewish by birth. He could be born a Levy with a Jewish father but not a Jewish mother and not be viewed as Jewish at all. A lot of names in the U .S. are viewed as Jewish as a large portion of immigrants with certain names were Jewish while back in their country of origin the same name was used by Jews and non Jews. |
| Question: Can Geni.com AUTOMATICALLY add members to your family tree? Posted: 14 Apr 2015 04:26 PM PDT I looked at their home page. It says, in part, "Our automatic tree matches let you discover cousins who are researching the same shared ancestors that you are. Connect to new relatives easily to collaborate and share research." So, if you and I both have ourselves as the love children of Elvis Presley (1935 - 1977) and Marilyn Monroe (1926 - 1962), their automatic tree matcher will see that, compare names and dates, decide we are siblings, and show you the tree I built, which "proves" that we are descendants of George Washington, Betsy Ross, King George III and Jenny Lind. Is that the feature you were asking about? Ancestry.com has a similar feature. Both will save lots of time, neither is any guarantee of accuracy. |
| Question: Ancestry Help (Can you Translate this)? Posted: 14 Apr 2015 03:24 PM PDT Can you tell me what the cursive text says. The names of the people im looking at is Nelly Coakley and Calvin Mayo. |
| Question: Is my grandmother's last name Jewish? Posted: 14 Apr 2015 02:11 PM PDT She might have been, but you'd probably know that. The name isn't. Hambrick Name Meaning and Hambrecht Name Meaning Source for both: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press ---------- I copy and paste this just about every time someone asks if a name is Jewish. Before Hitler, Germany had a large Jewish population. With three exceptions - "Levi", "Cantor" and "Cohen", all with many spelling variations - there are no "Jewish" surnames. With some exceptions, there are no "Christian" surnames, either. One exception is "Christian" itself; you may remember Fletcher Christian from the Mutiny of the Bounty. Others are "St. John", "St. Paul", "St. Hilarion" and any other surname that starts with "Saint". Some other occupation name that is also a Christian job - "Pope" and "Priest", for instance - point to a Christian family. (Someone named "Pope" wasn't necessarily the result of His Holiness trifling with a cleaning maid; he may have worked for the Pope as a gardener or carpenter.) Every other European surname could be Jewish, Christian - or Druid, for that matter. Given the number of Jews vs. the number of Christians in Germany, pre-Hitler, chances are over 90% that someone with a German last name is Christian. |
| Question: Hi i was wondering if someone could tell me which country first name Johnsena comes from? Posted: 14 Apr 2015 12:33 PM PDT I looked on https://familysearch.org/search/ (Free). They have 9 records for people with that exact spelling. There is one each from Denmark, Norway and Sweden, plus 2 from Scotland, and the rest from the USA and Canada. By comparison, they have 69,087,460 results for Elizabeth, which I picked because it is a common name. You'd really have to research your grandmother to see where she came from. |
| You are subscribed to email updates from Arts & Humanities: Genealogy To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. | Email delivery powered by Google |
| Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States | |
0 comments:
Post a Comment