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Just wanted to say a huge thank you to Rootschat for their part in a small success story.
In 2014 I posted ‘WW2 Italian RAF Dog Tag’ regarding a Dogtag I had kept for 50 years since my father died in 1973. The family story was that it had belonged to an Italian airman that my father befriended during his time in Italy in 1944.
Nine years later, last month, I was so surprised to receive an e mail from the son of that Italian airman, who had been searching on the internet and came across my Rootschat entry.
After exchanging many e mails and information I have at last been able to return the dog tag to the son of Angelo Leonardi, who is sadly no longer with us. Not only have we become friends but we have both started to research more into the circumstances our fathers were in,  in Naples in 1944. We still don’t really know the circumstances of how my father came into possession of his dog tag, but we like to think it was a token of friendship.
So, a huge thank you to Rootschat for their part in this story, from us both.

Hi, I was wondering if anybody knew how likely it was for a Jewish immigrant from Russia to change their name when arriving in England,. I dont mean to anglicise it, but to take a relatives surname. I have an ancestor of my husband who Im pretty sure took the surname of his Uncle, even though he shared his Aunt's maiden surname. This was in about 1900 in London. Would he have to legally change his name at this time, and is there anywhere I could check that out.? I am suspicious because Esther, who I think is his sister, seems to have used two surnames all her life, even on her marriage certificate she is known as Litiger aka Weinberg, as well as in other documents. Her other siblings keep their name of Litiger throughout their lives. But Harry calls himself Weinberg on his marriage certificate, even stating his Father is a Weinberg.

Can anybody explain what this actually means to me. I did an Ancestry DNA test and results show 24% Jewish. I uploaded my file to MyHeritage and DNA Land and they gave me a result of 21% Jewish and 12% Jewish. I have no Jewish ancestry at all, so I assume that this means that somebody had a relationship with somebody of Jewish ancestry outside of marriage. No problem. But how far back would this be, can we tell? Would 25% mean it was a Grandparent. I am fascinated to discover where this heritage comes from. Any help much appreciated as I really dont understand DNA at all. Thanks.

On a 1854 marriage certificate, in The Oaks Church, Charnwood Forest is written in the 'residence at time of marriage' box some words which appear to say 'in the consolidated chapelry' . It says the same for both parties.
Can anybody tell me what this means or have I misread it? I've never come across this before.
Thank you

Lisa