Hi Wal',
Good to see you. I follow your "book reports" with interest and admiration.
My Levines are actually Levitts. mlevitt and I have been in touch thanks to Edna's acute eye and memory.
We are distant cousins!
The Ada Levin angle is not one I have pursued. The name hasn't come up in my research but anything is possible until proven otherwise. You are right about Dublin being the hub and the key to that line.
Decoding transcriptions and names is part of the process. I have come across so many name variations on documents for my grandmother including Levin and one incomprehensible French sounding entry. Talk about cryptic! lol The best discovery was on another branch where the census was transcribed as Sarah
but upon checking the original document it was clearly an error and my missing Norah was indeed right where she should have been!
The only Ada I'm sure about in my family is on another branch entirely and related by marriage.
I am sure that your Fred knew my Myer. That article I shared way back in the dark ages makes that pretty clear if your Fred is the one mentioned.
My Freemans were a Belfast family and married into the Lipson family of Liverpool. That's the connection
that intrigues me. The social connections were undoubtedly there. The genetic ones are much less certain
and DNA will only help with contiguous male line relationships as I understand it.
I have that in the works but it will only reveal all the gentile gents if I'm lucky.
Happy New Year and best wishes.
'lil'
Good to see you. I follow your "book reports" with interest and admiration.
My Levines are actually Levitts. mlevitt and I have been in touch thanks to Edna's acute eye and memory.
We are distant cousins!
The Ada Levin angle is not one I have pursued. The name hasn't come up in my research but anything is possible until proven otherwise. You are right about Dublin being the hub and the key to that line.
Decoding transcriptions and names is part of the process. I have come across so many name variations on documents for my grandmother including Levin and one incomprehensible French sounding entry. Talk about cryptic! lol The best discovery was on another branch where the census was transcribed as Sarah
but upon checking the original document it was clearly an error and my missing Norah was indeed right where she should have been!
The only Ada I'm sure about in my family is on another branch entirely and related by marriage.
I am sure that your Fred knew my Myer. That article I shared way back in the dark ages makes that pretty clear if your Fred is the one mentioned.
My Freemans were a Belfast family and married into the Lipson family of Liverpool. That's the connection
that intrigues me. The social connections were undoubtedly there. The genetic ones are much less certain
and DNA will only help with contiguous male line relationships as I understand it.
I have that in the works but it will only reveal all the gentile gents if I'm lucky.
Happy New Year and best wishes.
'lil'
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