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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 4377905, member: 110350&quot;]Congratulations on the imminent blessed event!</p><p><br /></p><p>Actually, my grandfather was born in April 1887 in Paris, where my great-grandparents met while they were living there after leaving Lithuania and Poland, respectively.&nbsp; They came to New York in July 1888, which is when my great-grandfather started using the name Julius instead of Jules (which is what he called himself in France) or his original first name.&nbsp; I have no idea why my grandparents gave my father the middle name &quot;Jules,&quot; instead of &quot;Julius,&quot; when he was born in New York City in 1920. (My great-grandfather Julius had died in 1915.)&nbsp; Perhaps they just liked the sound better.</p><p><br /></p><p>My first direct ancestor to arrive in the USA came here in 1883.&nbsp; The most recent to arrive was my mother, who was born in Berlin and came to the USA in 1943 from England, where she had been since her parents sent her there on the first Kindertransport in December 1938.&nbsp; (I would say that genealogy has always been my primary &quot;hobby&quot;; I&#039;ve been interested in it since I was a child and have traced my ancestors in some branches as far back as the early 1500s.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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