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Behind the Aegis

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7. So you know, there are some really detailed Jewish geneology sites.
Tue Nov 5, 2013, 05:21 PM
Nov 2013

They have gone to great lengths to restore Jewish lineage back to Europe. Some sites even have pretty good translations. If your husband's ancestors are from Russia, they may not really be. We were always told ours were from Russia, turns out they were from Belarus, so when we had been searching Russian sites, we couldn't find anything. A real problem, though, are the name changes many of us underwent when we entered the country. My great-grandparents arrived from Belarus in 1916 (I think), but their Belarusian name was altered, so we had to check several different spellings. The two other places to check are Latvia and Lithuania, those places seemed to have the largest concentrations of Jews. Those three countries are the best place to start.

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