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Saturday, 9 January 2016

Arts & Humanities: Genealogy: “Question: Finding lost relatives?” plus 5 more

Arts & Humanities: Genealogy: “Question: Finding lost relatives?” plus 5 more


Question: Finding lost relatives?

Posted: 09 Jan 2016 06:58 PM PST

I'd like to find my birth father who left when I was a couple of months old. I don't have much to go on, I know the areas he lived in but changed his surname by deedpoll just before I was born. I don't have his original surname and the surname he chose is pretty generic.
I don't have much more than that, although he was married to my mum, she has long since lost the divorce papers.
He's not on facebook, the last my mum ever heard was that he was living on a houseboat and had gone blind due to his diabetes.
I don't have details of relatives or anything, except his mothers first name.
Where do I even start?

I'm from the UK if that helps. Thank you.

Question: Why did my partner's ancestor speak Bulgaria but was born in Greece/Macedonia?

Posted: 09 Jan 2016 06:21 PM PST

My partner's ancestor Stavre Tole Gershanoff was born 1893/1894 in Xin Nero, Greece (Macedonia back then). His father Tole Gershanoff and mother Sophia M. Mackuzeva were also born around that area as well.

Would his family be called Greek, Macedonian, Slavic, or Bulgarian?

Question: Where does the surname 'Gershanoff' originate from?

Posted: 09 Jan 2016 05:49 PM PST

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