Hello Susan I worked with a researcher in Ukraine who found records for my family in Zhitormir. His prices were reasonable. Send me an email and I will provide you with his contact information. --

I am from Finland and three of my eight great-grandparents were already born there, the first one in 1857. Finland was a part of the Russian empire from 1809 to 1917. Although it has an autonomous

Dear Cindy, I know of a Winer from Romania who when he went to live in the UK (England) he changed his name to Cooper. In your case as Sam Winer was a carpenter, obviously he must have been a wine

https://www.amitys.com/webtrees/index.php?ctype=gedcom&ged=Gedcom.ged The page linked above has an option to request a user account to make full use of the site, which is indeed marvelous. My Finnish

My mother, too, considered that Germans were superior to Poles, but I really don't think that this was particularly addressed at Polish Jews, but a general German middle-class attitude. Maybe Polish

The issue has now been resolved and a volunteer was able to tell me the vital data on this record that is not (yet) completed on JRI Poland. -- David Ziants Ma'aleh Adumim, Israel

I found another possibility with a village called Kokhanovo in Belarus https://www.jewishgen.org/Communities/jgcd.php This place is also not very far from Verba village but most of all it is only 60km

Bonjour Giannis, This is a real possibility, I heard that this Verba branch was holding her name from a village called Verba situated in Poland at just 240km from Kazankow, that would be quite

Hi Sebastien, Since the document was French then the place is pronounced as Kazankow. Perhaps you are looking for this place,

I did not see the episode, but I am addressing privacy issues in general (and building on Deb's excellent points): * Even if you opt to have your individual DNA shared, no one will be able to, for

For nearly 30 years I have been searching for my paternal grandmother's family passenger manifests. Names: Leah KAPLAN b. 1820, son Chaim b. 1863 wife Liebe b. 1863, daughter Ettel b. 1865. Per

Update (February 1, 2021): As registration for the National Genealogical Society (NGS) 2021 Family History Conference opens, NGS has made a proactive health-based decision to change from holding an

The next IGRA Show & Tell session is coming up on Monday, February 8, 2021 at 9 pm Israel time (2 pm EST). This time we host Megan Lewis talking about Accessing United States Holocaust Memorial

I'd love to get in touch with the woman with a web site who located info about your family. Would you mind telling me her name and the name of the web site? If you like, you can send it to me at my

It might be helpful to differentiate between German as a cultural descriptor and German as a political/national one. The German Empire came into being in 1871; before then, people might identify with

Are there any records of those who perished in this mass grave? Or, against all odds, survived? Thank you, Judy Cohen jdthcohen@... Researching: Zawelowicz, Schneider, Kissen

I simply can't jump aboard the "panic about dna data privacy bandwagon", even though that seems to be a lonely road to travel these days. I have three key comments in regard to the 60 minutes

My mother was born in a town in Buchovina named Seletin. My maternal grandmother was born in a town in Eastern Galicia named Zabie. Until WW1, both Buchovina and Galicia were in the Austrian Empire.

I have, or had, relatives from Finland. Historically Finland admitted no Jews--it was without Jews at the beginning of the 19th Century. But Jews who served honorably in the Russian army and were

Thanks, everyone, for the very interesting stories and explanations. It seems that Jews, I guess like any group, stereotype subgroups and find reasons to look down on the ones to which they don't