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Re: Look-ups requested in Rosenstein's The Unbroken Chain, newest edition #poland

Volume 4: Page 416 - Rebecca Leah, (2'nd wife of Rabbi Moses Judah Leib Zilberberg ABD Kolo, Dobri, Lask & Kutno) was the daughter of Rabbi Zeev Wolf, ABD Piotrikov and Dabie. She died in 1892,

By Yossi Jalas · #650267 ·

Re: Family of DAVID BARNETT b 1831 & ANNA SAMUEL b 1837 Russian Poland #poland

Unfortunately, I don't know where in Poland (other than Russian Poland on the census) my BARNETT family came from. However, my father's much younger, now octogenarian, first cousin and sole living

By Barry Clarke · #650266 ·

Re: Translation request--GERMAN or POLISH--Viewmate 86449 #translation

If I had looked a bit further I could have seen that what I read as an 'i' was in fact a 't' which makes it a Matrikelschein, in translation 'a registration form/card'. Ron Peeters Ulvenhout (NL)

By oodrual@... · #650265 ·

Re: Warsaw immigration visas, 1925 #poland

Hi Jenny, They do exist today, the only question is exactly where they are filed. The visas came to the US with the immigrants in 1925. They were taken up by the Immigrant Inspector at the port of

By Marian · #650264 ·

Re: Look-ups requested in Rosenstein's The Unbroken Chain, newest edition #poland

As all my knowledge about Zeev Wolf Landau comes from the book The Unbroken Chain Vol 3, and there no mention is made of any Tiktin, I can unfortunately not help you any further. I would suggest that

By N. ARONSON · #650263 ·

Re: AA File for Grandfather #romania #usa #records

I recently learned from an online seminar presented by the JGSGW that children born on ships going to the US were listed on the last page of the ship’s manifest. If you can find that, it might help.

By Kathryn Kanarek James · #650262 ·

Re: Sailing up and down the river from Raseiniai to Königberg(Kaliningrad) #russia

Dear Ruth, Exactly the information I was looking for. You may have seen I changed my original question to 19th century which I assume showed similar usage of the water ways. Thanks a lot, Ron

By oodrual@... · #650261 ·

Re: Yiddish/Hebrew name Shirley and Libby #names

My sister Shirley was Shajne or Shaine in Yiddish. #names Avigdor Ben-Dov

By Avigdor Ben-Dov <avigdorbd@...> · #650260 ·

Eva FINKELSTEIN ABREMOVICH #canada

In 1896 my great aunt Eva FINKELSTEIN (later Abremovich) (1877-1953) was the first Jew to graduate from what became the University of Manitoba. During her life she touched the lives of many people

By Paul Silverstone · #650259 ·

Warsaw immigration visas, 1925 #poland

My grandmother's siblings immigrated from Poland (now Belarus) to the US in 1925. The ship manifest says that they were issued immigration visas in Warsaw, along with the date that they were granted.

By Jenny Rappaport · #650258 ·

Another finding among Bessarabia records (2) - Merchant Dues List and Signed Petition #ukraine #bessarabia

Hello researchers, Here is another in my opinion interesting finding for Bessarabia records. It is a Merchant Dues List. The list I found so far was for town of Khotin, 1865. The reason it was not

By Yefim Kogan · #650257 ·

Re: JewishGen Discussion Group Town of Yaroslavl, NE from Moscow #russia

what do you want to find in Yaroslavl oblast? That is the site of archive https://af.yar-archives.ru/ sincerely, Elena yelena.v.volk@...

By yelena.v.volk@... · #650256 ·

Jewish Ethnographic Museum #galicia #subcarpathia #ukraine #bessarabia

Dear researchers, I was responding today on an email and was looking up something on internet, and found a terrific place about Jewish towns and shtetl in Ukraine. Some of them were part of

By Yefim Kogan · #650255 ·

Re: Vinnitsa 1811 & 1834 Census #ukraine

Dear Shmiel, Ooh. I would love to know if Gelburd and Gordy show in those censuses. I do note that I expect at some point Alex Krakovsky will be scanning them in the next year or two.

By Jenny Schwartzberg · #650254 ·

Thank You # general

Recently I posted a question about Mt. Sharon Cemetery in Philadelphia. Today a truly generous woman visited the grave sites of 8 of my family members resting there, put stones on the headstone, and

By Carole Brewster · #650253 ·

Re: What did Jewish children in the Pale of Settlement call their parents? #names

My parents called their parents Ma & Pa. They were from Volhynia. Linda Baker Bonita Springs, FL USA

By Linda Baker · #650252 ·

Re: Look-ups requested in Rosenstein's The Unbroken Chain, newest edition #poland

Hello . I read with interest your info. & wondered whether u cld tell me whether my 4x g grandmother Rachel Landau whose daughter married Salomon Abraham Tiktin & whose father was Wolf Landau is

By KAREN SAUNDERS · #650251 ·

Re: contacting family of Leslie Ernest Scott, born Leopold Ernst Schick, #unitedkingdom #austria-czech

David, Have you tried searching for U.K. marriage and/or death records for Leslie SCOTT at: https://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/search.pl Regards, Sherri Bobish

By Sherri Bobish · #650250 ·

Re: David Bresler :Ukrainian Jew who became Cuban citizen 1920s-1930s #latinamerica #ukraine #records

Sarah, Have you seen the information on David and his wife on Ancestry in this database: Canada, Immigrants Approved in Orders in Council, 1929-1960. It gives a lot of info on his wife (including the

By Sherri Bobish · #650249 ·

Re: Naturalization record #usa #records

Toby, Search for the person who naturalized in Bronx County court here: https://www.germangenealogygroup.com/records-search/naturalizations.php When you find their name & info click on: "Documents &

By Sherri Bobish · #650248 ·

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