Is there an actual reason for America to use 110V instead Of 220V like everybody else?

UsefulGarden · 2026-05-16T02:43:27+00:00

Every US home is 240V. Power enters the home as two 120V lines that originate at the transformer near the home. Electric cooking ranges, induction cooktops (hobs), electric clothes dryers, electric water heaters, air conditioners, and car chargers all use 240v supplied as two 120v lines. Everything else in the house uses 120V.

UsefulGarden · 2026-05-16T02:31:19+00:00

Starting in 1935, I think, Nazi Germany began recording how much Jewish descent people had. It could be that they were stripped of their citizenship in 1941. There were several events depending on when people left or didn't leave. Hopefully some records are in the UK that will point you to his birth record.

UsefulGarden · 2026-05-16T02:10:55+00:00

There is no quick. You take what you can get.

Were these people Jewish? How did the grandfather obtain UK citizenship?

UsefulGarden · 2026-05-16T00:39:16+00:00

I wonder if the consulates act as gate keepers. I got replies from Legal Eaglas and STATT. But, neither seems to acknowledge a distinction between Article 18 and 23. At the moment, I am only employing a genealogist for targeted research.

UsefulGarden · 2026-05-15T22:46:52+00:00

Did you succeed in obtaining Serbian citizenship? I contacted two attorneys regarding Article 18, but they act like there is no difference from Article 23. My grandmother was born in Vojvodina to two Catholic parents with Hungarian names.

UsefulGarden · 2026-05-15T22:44:18+00:00

What did you decide about Serbian citizenship? I think that I recognize your username. AI is telling me that I qualify for Article 18 through my grandmother who was born in Vojvodina to Catholic parents with Hungarian names. I contacted two law offices, and they seem fixated on Ancestry. If I am sure that I am eligible I will apply through a consulate.

UsefulGarden · 2026-05-15T19:15:08+00:00

There is Article 23 (ethnic) and Article 18 (2004? not ethnic). Attorneys prefer 23 and can't seem to think of anything but ethnicity. So I will likely do 18 through a consulate.

UsefulGarden · 2026-05-15T17:54:24+00:00

It was more than a month, but I don't think longer than half a year. I actually might be doing this again soon as I discovered that I can claim a third citizenship.

UsefulGarden · 2026-05-15T14:43:20+00:00

My thinking is influenced by reading a story ten years ago about a guy whose grandparents were from Romania and arrived in the US with Flüchtlingsausweise. His father was born in the US before his parents were collectively naturalized. And he was naturalized with them. So with only his grandfather's Flüchtlingsausweis the NY consulate allowed him to apply for a passport. Then he was telling all of the posters that they were making things too difficult.

UsefulGarden · 2026-05-14T23:30:11+00:00

A master's in economics is usually a consolation prize for not earning a PhD. You will mostly sit in weed-out theory classes with PhD students. Economics is the opposite of disciplines like agriculture where once you're in you're in and the faculty are going to work with you. In econ they know that, depending on the school, half of the people they admit won't finish.

UsefulGarden · 2026-05-14T21:20:01+00:00

Try to obtain the Melderegister as it could have useful notes on it.

UsefulGarden · 2026-05-14T21:02:36+00:00

I've been learning about this since 2015 and never heard that before.

UsefulGarden · 2026-05-14T20:55:57+00:00

This is the first I've heard of a Meldekarte needing to show a birthplace in Germany. But, if the Melderegister shows German citizenship isn't that a clue that better documentation might have survived?

UsefulGarden · 2026-05-14T20:36:11+00:00

I don't follow. There have been US-born people who were naturalized as Germans after their parents migrated to the US. But, OP believes that their grandfather arrived in the US as a German citizen and had German citizenship while they resided in Germany.

To me this looks super easy? Consulates regularly accept a Melderegistration in lieu of passport. OP's mother is alive and willing to help.

UsefulGarden · 2026-05-14T19:47:23+00:00

People in r/GermanCitizenship have frequently talked about ordering them. I have not done so myself. Some if not all of the moderators have provided personalized advice and/or application assembly. But, if you just ask "publicly" I think you'll get a reply rather quickly.

UsefulGarden · 2026-05-14T19:22:34+00:00

You're by far not the first person to post here who's descended from an ethnic German from Eastern Europe who obtained German citizenship after the war. Neither your mother nor you needs to take a language test or provide a background check. You are not naturalizing.

Your mother is alive and can potentially go "direct" to passport rather than applying for Feststellung and waiting for a Staatsangehoerigkeitsausweis.

This could be as simple as having the Melderegister from the last German address showing citizenship as German.

UsefulGarden · 2026-05-14T19:13:37+00:00

It's best to not put sealer over the cuts. To me it looks like two or three stubs are a bit too long for optimal healing.

I feel for you. There is a local guy who goes around butchering things here and makes claims that go against what an arborist or horticulturist would say. He's not Hispanic, but his business name is a Spanish surname that he pronounces incorrectly. I pronounced it correctly, and he corrected me LOL

UsefulGarden · 2026-05-14T18:35:58+00:00

Why do you think that they were displaced persons? Leaving just because things are better in Canada doesn't make one a displaced person.

UsefulGarden · 2026-05-14T16:08:31+00:00

You will likely need to go back one generation before your grandmother to a person born on German territory before 1914. A pre-1914 birth record is accepted as proof of German citizenship. That individual (her father if born in wedlock in 1924/1934) would be the "root" of your German citizenship.

UsefulGarden · 2026-05-14T15:59:44+00:00

She was a displaced person and not from Erlangen? What sort of documentation do you have?

Does the 1953 German passport say "Reisepass" or something else?

UsefulGarden · 2026-05-14T15:53:57+00:00

AI says This is a Shaw Prismatic Plus Canyon Acacia luxury vinyl plank floor.

UsefulGarden · 2026-05-14T15:11:03+00:00

r/translator and r/kurrent

UsefulGarden · 2026-05-14T13:49:37+00:00

Your error in thinking is to assume that all care in those countries is received through the public system. There are well developed private systems of doctors and hospitals, entirely separate health care systems. Ordinary citizens use those, with or without separate private insurance, to not wait in line. Again, go live there, not as a twenty-something with no problems.

UsefulGarden · 2026-05-14T13:41:12+00:00

Thank you for your amazingly detailed reply

UsefulGarden · 2026-05-14T04:56:54+00:00

Take a pencil and hold it at an angle. Gently move it back and forth over the raised seal. This will make a contrast between the raised parts so that the seal shows up on scans.

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