Research journal
Research results, techniques and recent findings, posted as time allows.
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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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Finding a place in the tree for a DNA match
In November 2017 a new name appeared in my AncestryDNA matches. I’ll call him L. Ancestry rated him a first or second cousin with “extremely high” confidence, and my mother, a generation closer to him, shared even more DNA with him than I did. His shared matches were people on…
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The website has a new look
The website has a new design, made to feel like a family archive. Each family now has its own page with a migration map, and there’s a search that allows for the many ways our names were spelled.
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New Mittman cousin found!
Last month, I received an email from Karen A Mittman, of Cleveland, Ohio, grand-daughter of Leo Mittman. Leo and my grand-father, Bernard Mittman, were brothers, making Karen a new second cousin! Welcome to the family, Karen!
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Czernowitz Birth Record for Bernhard MITTMANN (1901 – 1979)
I recently came across a wonderful resource for Czernowitz Birth, Marriage and Death records, the Czernowitz Birth Marriage Death Index, and was able to locate the birth records for Sidonie (Sylvia) MITTMANN, Bernhard MITTMANN, and David MITTMANN, my paternal great-grandfather’s three youngest children. Here is the Czernowitz Birth Record for Bernhard MITTMANN…
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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…
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Blogging about Genealogy
I’ve recently begun spending time on my Genealogy hobby, and have made some really interesting discoveries about my family history. In order to better share my findings with friends and family, I’ve decided to set up my own website at www.davidmittman.org. It’s somewhat surprising that after so many years in…