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Ancestry blog - Protected

Discussion in 'Ancestry' started by At home in NZ, Sep 19, 2019.

  1. I have received notification of the UK blog:
    Immigration Challenges: Tracing Eastern European Jewish family to England
    It is password protected, I'm using my Ancestry password but it does not work.
    Is anybody else experiencing the same problem?
     
  2. jorghes

    jorghes LostCousins Superstar

    I can't access it either... which is a shame, I'd love to know what was in it!
     
  3. So would I, I am always interested in Jewish things.

    I raised it with Ancestry and they, as usual, totally misconstrued the problem. I replied as best as I could then they came back and told me to call their support centre here in NZ. Could I be bothered? of course not, I'd probably lose my temper.
     
  4. peter

    peter Administrator Staff Member

    I've sent a message. The password protection may be a reaction to the spam comments to previous postings.
     
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  5. UPDATE
    I clicked on the link for Ancestry UK blog from within a page I was looking at. The password protection is no longer there.
    There is one comment in the blog, it's not genuine as you will see, if my own comment gets posted (I used the name Madeleine).
     
    Last edited by a moderator: Oct 4, 2019
  6. jorghes

    jorghes LostCousins Superstar

    It's appeared now, and I can see your comment about the scammer!

    It's nothing that I hadn't already figured out (considering my closest Jewish ancestor had anglicised his name from Coenraad Helschau Leben to "Charles Collins") but it doesn't really offer any ideas about how to back trace possible names!
     
  7. That's a pity, my personal opinion of some of these Ancestry 'specialists' isn't favourable.
     
  8. jorghes

    jorghes LostCousins Superstar

    Depends I suppose on where they're meant to have learnt their specializations from!

    I would have loved a possible way to trace back, I have another Jewish relative with the surname "Hart", which I presume was anglicised. Again, I would love to know a way to trace this back another generation and possibly removed a brick from that relatively long standing wall.
     
  9. Perhaps you've already tried this
    There are many sites listed when you Google 'tracing jewish ancestry'.
     
  10. peter

    peter Administrator Staff Member

    Something to bear in mind is that people with foreign surnames didn't necessarily change them just once - sometimes the names went through several iterations before they found something that 'worked'.

    In some cases this will make the challenge of working out their original name more difficult, but in others it will make it easier - a lot will depend on on what paper trail they left behind. For some naturalisation records are a good place to start.
     
  11. jorghes

    jorghes LostCousins Superstar

    Always a good point - this family was in England for a while, so I'm not sure when the change took place!

    At home in NZ - I have used, and do use: Jewish Gen, the Dutch Ashkenazi Jewish site (dutchjewry.org) which is unfortunately shutting down, and Synagogue Scribes (synagoguescribes.com) all of which have been useful, but I'm always open to more ideas!
     
    Last edited: Oct 10, 2019
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