Category: Names and Places
Surname studies and the places our families came from.
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Using AI to organize a mailing list of Czernowitz sources
I gave an AI assistant my archive of the Czernowitz-L mailing list, 577 messages going back to 1998, and asked it to sort out the genealogy sources. The result is a new Czernowitz page, and a method worth sharing.
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The PLACHTA / PLEETH / PLICHT / PLIGHT Family
One of my research lines is the PLEETH family, as represented by my great grandmother, Selina PAVLOVE (nee PLEETH) (1888 – TBD) and Evelyn SHACK (nee PLEETH) (1908 – 2006). According to posts on the Ancestry.com PLACHTA surname message board, originally the family name was PLACHTA. When the family moved…