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I am doing family research and have noticed something interesting that has made my job much harder.
Was it common during WW2 for US citizens to suddenly change their birth country on official records? I have 8 family members that for decades had listed Germany, Switzerland, Austria and 1 who refers to his birthplace as Prussia over and over, then suddenly right between 1939-1940, they change their birthplace to things like Poland, 1 as "Denish" and 2 suddenly became Swiss, even though they had listed Germany for the better part of 30 years. Funny enough, the guy who listed Prussia, always kept Prussia, even during WW2.
What the deuce here guys?
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>>1440547
Hatred for germans was pretty high during both world wars
They weren't put into concentration camps unlike japanese but were still hated
> Funny enough, the guy who listed Prussia, always kept Prussia, even during WW2
Probably because american people didn't have the capacity to figure out that Prussia was part of Germany
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How do I do this? I have a family tree with around 20-30 registered births/deaths of my family, but how do I check the validity and go back even further? The document which outlines my tree has many sources all listed in a bibliography, complete with a coat of arms, including descriptor and which family it would have been awarded to.
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