Tips on Searching for Ancestors in Europe. Genealogy Secrets that Ancestry.com doesn't tell you

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  • Опубліковано 23 гру 2024
  • Finding information about your ancestors can be challenging. We guide you through our search, starting with the information we learned from Ancestry.com, and discovering the hidden information that we never would have found without help from an expert. Our travel lifestyle made it possible to explore the place where my grandfather and great grandparents were born, piecing together the puzzle to form a clear picture of their life in Europe before World War 1. But you can do the same, learning from our mistakes, and finding resources that help you form a clear picture of the past. Join us as we tell our story of exploration and discovery.
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 22

  • @LehmanTeam
    @LehmanTeam Місяць тому +1

    What a very cool story. So fun connecting with our ancestors!

  • @davidweltman3138
    @davidweltman3138 Місяць тому +1

    Enjoyed this video, no surprise there, 2 thoughtful, intelligent nomads.

  • @kateevansnomadicwriter
    @kateevansnomadicwriter Місяць тому +1

    I love this! So fascinating to see how you started to dig into this--and very moving, too. Steve, I grew up with my father saying our ancestors were from the Austro-Hungarian empire--and that we were Hungarian. However, my grandmother spoke Slovak (that's what she called it) and came over to the States at age 2 on a ship, but I'm not sure from exactly where--or possibly her mother was pregnant with her when they came over (I got different versions of the story). When she was little, her father was hit and killed by a trolly car in Cleveland. Her name was Anna, same name as that elder you met (I love, Chris, that you're holding her hand in that sweet picture). I loved her cooking, lots of paprika and handmade noodles and pasties and prune rolls. Thanks for this video. Obviously it got me reminiscing. I'm not sure I'll ever dig more deeply into it all, but if I do, I'll use your tips.

    • @EatWalkLearn
      @EatWalkLearn  Місяць тому

      That's so lovely Kate. Maybe we can cook some of those recipes in BA together?

  • @J9KingTrav
    @J9KingTrav Місяць тому +1

    Wow, so happy for you that you made such headway in your genealogy research and to actually go there in person is something special. The stories from my great grandfather were always that he was also from Hungary, but if you look at the maps back then, as you were mentioning in the video, borders changed a lot during that time from Poland to Galicia to Hungary. In my case my family was from what today would be Ukraine. I hope, with help from genealogists you’re able to uncover even more. Good luck!

  • @Fell214
    @Fell214 Місяць тому +1

    Very interesting. Every Europe country has its own requirements for citizenship by ancestry. We are pursuing citizenship in Croatia through my wife’s ancestry. Her great-great grandfather was born outside of Dubrovnik in the 1840s and moved to California in the 1870s. We were able to find his birth certificate using a Dubrovnik legal firm. We found a copy of the manifest from the ship he sailed on to Philadelphia and later found the cemetery in California where he was buried.
    Croatia doesn’t have a limit on how far back you can go for ancestry. Just need to prove your ancestor was born in Croatia and moved to the U.S. permanently. After that, it’s a matter of tracking the subsequent family line and obtaining birth certificates, marriage certificates, FBI report, etc and getting documents apostilled and translated to Croatian. We will soon be meeting with Croatian Embassy staff in Los Angeles to submit our application materials. The catch is that it can take the Croatian government 1-2 years to approve applications.

    • @EatWalkLearn
      @EatWalkLearn  Місяць тому

      Good luck and congrats on finding your family

  • @billihall
    @billihall Місяць тому +1

    Great news. Do it. I did it was worth the effort

    • @EatWalkLearn
      @EatWalkLearn  Місяць тому

      It really is!

    • @billihall
      @billihall Місяць тому

      This is funny also I thought my dad was Polish but ancestry found out he was Lithuanian. Boundaries changed during the war.

  • @lindadorman2869
    @lindadorman2869 Місяць тому +2

    All my life, we thought our family was from Germany because our last name is common there. Researching our family tree, SURPRISE! We’re from Lithuania. I even found an author who wrote a book on Lithuanian Jews immigrating to America that featured my family, so I have a few pictures. Unfortunately, they came in the 1880’s so I don’t qualify for citizenship by ancestry. When I went to Lithuania and asked how to get to the village (shtetl) they came from, locals told me there’s nothing there anymore.

    • @EatWalkLearn
      @EatWalkLearn  Місяць тому

      I also had a German name that was americanized, and I'd love to know how my ancestors got to eastern Slovakia. It's hard to imagine what life was like for our ancestors.

  • @BryanBashaw
    @BryanBashaw Місяць тому +1

    Thanks for the video. We have been looking into our ancestors and hope we can have as much luck as Steve. We have run in to a similar problem with eth borders of Prussia/Poland/Germany. My great grandfather's ancestral cannot be found on today's maps.

    • @EatWalkLearn
      @EatWalkLearn  Місяць тому +1

      The Mormons keep an index that cross references old city names with new names.

    • @BryanBashaw
      @BryanBashaw Місяць тому

      @@EatWalkLearn Wished we'd known when we visited SLC a few months ago. I will have to see if it is online as well.

  • @barabaramohon
    @barabaramohon Місяць тому +1

    Something similar happened for my family. Deutsche Libau (formerly southern Germany) is now Sumpérk, New Czech Republic. It isn't common knowledge that after wars many names of cities were changed!

  • @carolinacadabra8278
    @carolinacadabra8278 2 дні тому

    I would love to get citizenship by descent but my ancestors were too adventurous! My father’s family came to the “new world” in the 1700s and my mother’s relatives came over in the early 1800s.

    • @EatWalkLearn
      @EatWalkLearn  2 дні тому

      Wow. That's incredible. It's hard to find where they kept records even 100 years back.