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October 2023 Research Tip of the Month: NAMES IN TRANSLITERATION: Why might I suspect that this is my ancestor?

10/12/2023 10:24 AM | Ron Gallagher (Administrator)

October 2023 Research Tip of the Month

TOPIC: NAMES IN TRANSLITERATION: Why might I suspect that this is my ancestor?

Vol. VI, No. 10 – October 2023

Contributor: Elise Norman Cundiff, JGSC Member

Transliteration is a more complex task than translation. It involves rendering records from both another language and another writing system into a different language and system (example: Russian/Cyrillic letters into English/Roman letters). If you throw in the likelihood that the translator is a native speaker of a third language, with its own unique customs (such as adding endings to names to indicate sex or marital status), it can become even more challenging to determine if a record is that of the person you seek.

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