150YearsofCare.org website header Since most of what I view on Youtube are genealogy subjects, and I subscribe to some genealogy channels, much of what is shown at login is genealogy. RLP 378: Interview with Gavin Beinart-Smollan * showed up, and I wanted to listen because my most recent genealogy project is all Jewish immigrants and their descendants, who mostly came to New York City from areas then called "Russia." Wikipedia says, " The Pale of Settlement included all of modern-day Belarus and Moldova, much of Lithuania, Ukraine and east-central Poland, and relatively small parts of Latvia and what is now the western Russian Federation."  Part of what makes this population challenging to research is the difficulty in locating records, and the confusing, even overwhelming DNA data. This is a result of the laws and customs governing life in the Pale of Settlement, described by Wikipedia: "The Pale of Settlement was a western region of the Russian Empire... th...

By MaryLynn Strickland 1 Are you looking for the Clements family who immigrated to Minnesota in the 1880s?  Or maybe the Pheil family who left Germany for Virginia in the 1700s?  Are you frustrated encountering all those McBees you aren’t related to while you seek the ones you need? Or are you a wealth of knowledge about the Wood brothers who lived in Franklin County, Vermont?  Have you connected with unknown cousins because of DNA matching, giving you previously unknown surnames to research?  If you answer yes to any of the above, you need to be using the society’s Surname List. One of the popular items at early society meetings was a long narrow box, like a library card index drawer, filled with surnames that had been collected for many years.  You could browse through the box and take down contact information.  One drawback to the surname box was that only one person could access it at a time and there were a lot of cards!  Another drawbac...