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Apr.05.2012 Why Did My Ancestors Change Their Surname? It Seems Suspicious Quite possibly because they were Jewish. Sometimes it was only the dropping of "berg" or "stein" from the end of their name but it often meant changing it altogether. Jacobi to Banta, Shereshevsky to Sherry and Cohen to Craig, these are all examples of surname changes. We are given a variety of...	Mar.06.2012 Rebellious Jewish Surnames If you were forced to convert to Christianity and forced to come up with a new name, what would you do? How could you rebel without being killed or exiled? Some Jews had no desire to take Christian names so drew their names from nature by picking plants, bushes, trees or chose the names of places....
Mar.05.2012 Christians Who Refused to Acknowledge Jewish Ancestry The Jews of the Middle Ages were not unlike the Jews of Colonial America. They wanted to blend in. They frequently chose names from geographical locations or occupations and often had the same common names popular with the Christians of that area hence the difficulty in finding them now and the...	Nov.14.2011 What Does It Mean To Be Jewish? Why Search For Jewish Ancestry? After spending years on the genealogical websites, I have come to believe that I can help millions of Americans who have reached dead ends in regard to their family trees. Even after several years of hunches that my ancestors were Jewish, there was always doubt, but the...