{"id":6783,"date":"2018-05-26T12:05:27","date_gmt":"2018-05-26T16:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogygals.com\/blog\/?p=6783"},"modified":"2018-09-06T07:53:42","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T11:53:42","slug":"another-language-52-ancestors-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogygals.com\/blog\/another-language-52-ancestors-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Language – 52 Ancestors # 20"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have learned over my years of researching family lines (both direct and collateral, for my families as well as my husband\u2019s), that there are many points in our history where other languages were mother-tongue or parents\u2019 language or the language that records were written in.\u00a0 I\u2019m not sure what my first experience of this was, but one that comes to mind was discovering German newspaper listings in Cincinnati for some of my collateral Schenk line (I wrote of Cousin Jessie<\/a> being raised speaking German as well as English).\u00a0 And at some point not long after that I discovered that a work friend read German \u2013 had done a college semester in Germany \u2013 and so I had a willing translator for small bits.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Of course I assumed that some of my husband\u2019s family records would be in Russian or Yiddish, and sure enough, I discovered via a gravestone that it was tradition for many Jews to have stones that had Yiddish as well as English carved into them.\u00a0 Again, I discovered several willing friends who could help translate \u2013 one of whom still does it for me and is proficient \u2013 and I discovered to my delight that often part of what was written in Yiddish was the name of the father of the person.\u00a0 This is a real boon especially for women ancestors but even for men when you are trying to link a family or don\u2019t have much information going in.<\/p>\n

Probably the next place I encountered another language was an Irish line (another collateral line) although in the beginning it wasn\u2019t so much that there was another language, per se, but that I had to learn about researching in another country and all the details that requires learning about.\u00a0 I\u2019m still not sure what homeland is, or of the order of governmental and church administrative units making it sometimes tricky to know where to look for the information I need.\u00a0 I haven\u2019t yet found anyone in my circles who reads Irish!\u00a0 Luckily most of the records I have come up with so far are in English.<\/p>\n

The most recent time I have run into another language was just this past winter when my husband\u2019s young cousin came back from a trip to visit her grandparents in Vietnam and sent me a listing of the relatives with dates and places (just as I had hoped she would!).\u00a0 I rapidly discovered that the usual Vietnamese name order is different than I am used to: family name, then one or more middle names, and then one given name, which is the Chinese system of names more or less.\u00a0 Of course the place names are also exotic to me, and as with researching in Ireland, the various administrative units are new to me and I haven\u2019t really begun learning how to research there.\u00a0 The years of fighting and foreign powers running the government makes this even more tricky I suspect.<\/p>\n

The other relatively recent other language I have run across in my genealogy research is the genetic genealogy and DNA testing language.\u00a0 These of course are not languages like Yiddish or Irish, but disciplines that have their own \u201clanguage\u201d in the words and terms used.\u00a0 There are a multitude of different terms and techniques to learn about, as I have begun to want to learn how to use this recent development in my own research: autosomal DNA, mitochondrial DNA, YDNA, centiMorgans, SNPs, and the ever-popular MRCA or most recent common ancestor which is what we all look for with anyone who matches us.\u00a0 Usually, in my experience, this is actually an ancestral couple to start out with.\u00a0 I\u2019m always interested in ways to fish for cousins and this is the current hot thing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have learned over my years of researching family lines (both direct and collateral, for my families as well as my husband\u2019s), that there are many points in our history where other languages were mother-tongue or parents\u2019 language or the …<\/p>\n

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