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Galileo126

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3. Sadly, there isn't much point

Sat May 10, 2014, 12:11 PM

May 2014

If no one can spell our last name, how can I do research?

Anyone who could have are all dead now.

I, too, am interested in what people thought/were as they traveled to the US. Why leave your country? What was the motivation? What were you hoping for?

O, the questions do linger...

Keep up the writing - it doesn't matter if YOU think it doesn't matter... it will certainly spawn a discussion, if not a flood of ideas and emotions. Rock on.

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A Painting Hangs Over My Life [View all] cali May 2014 OP

Wow Galileo126 May 2014 #1

thank you so much. Writing has kind of been my "dirty" little secret for decades cali May 2014 #2

Sadly, there isn't much point Galileo126 May 2014 #3

I think the census bureau has some kind of a soundex SheilaT May 2014 #4

Ancestry has a Soundex - indexing by how name sound as well as spelling variations csziggy Jun 2014 #12

Many of my own ancestors are "lost" and untraceable... hunter May 2014 #8

pauline and fanny neustatter konrad May 2014 #5

I have never heard of another portrait and cali May 2014 #6

I responded to your private message cali May 2014 #7

It's amazing the rich family histories people have Shankapotomus Jun 2014 #9

My father's family, originally from Denmark, homesteaded in South Dakota Jackpine Radical Jun 2014 #10

Amazing. Thank you for sharing! derby378 Jun 2014 #11

Beautiful! McCamy Taylor Jun 2014 #13

Thank you so much, McCamy cali Jun 2014 #14