I have a copy of a Russian passport from the 1890s, when my paternal great grandfather traveled to the USA with some of his minor children. The children's names are included on it. Because it is

Hi everyone I've been searching for lists of victims killed at Babi Yar but have not been successful. Does this exist? In general, it has been hard to find names of my family members who died by the

Has any been able to discover how, in 1917, someone would travel from Graewo or Augostowo to the Port of Rotterdam to board s ship to NYC Similarly, in 1911 to travel from GraJewo Poland to

I sent a screenshot of the wrong line item (these manifests are confusing!) Correct: Line 19 (link below and upload are corrected) I need some help figuring out the town name for this relative from a

Geni has a maiden name field and the name shows up in parentheses. There is an “also known as” field and all variants in the maiden name and AKA field are found in searches. I normally use the

Hi Yoni, I too have family that came from Kletzk and finally took the bull by the horns and paid for a researcher to do some research in the Minsk archives. I would suggest you do the same. Despite

Hi everyone, I need some help figuring out the town name for this relative from a 1903 passenger manifest The town is most likely somewhere south of Kiev Below is a screenshot of the word The entire

Women's name change with marriage, so generally the norm is to record a woman by her maiden name. Every online genealogy program, EXCEPT Geni, follows this. Since women often married 3 or 4 times in

Oh no, multiple Roses! My great-great grandmother married Samuel Friedman and then moved to Philadelphia, PA. Holly Koppel

Phone numbers are easily lost, and emails disappear at the bottom of one's inbox. If neither of these work, I'd try an good old-fashioned paper letter, with my address at the top. -- Eva Lawrence St

How would I go about finding jews in Novarodok by the name of ABRAMOWITZ during the 19th cent. ? Yoni Ben-Ari, Jerusalem

Searching for family name of Rabbi David, ben (son of) Moshe of Kletzk. David was the Rav of Novarodok during most of the 19th century. His son, Moshe, who died young (age 30) adopted the

Hi All, In December 2020 I posted, in part, the following: "Several years ago, I found a September, 1963 letter addressed to my maternal grandmother, Gussie Levine SCHULTZ, signed by a nephew,

I’m wondering about the preferred naming conventions or approaches for family trees. I primarily work on Ancestry.com and Family Tree Maker. I guess the question is related to optimizing automatic

Domestic passports were necessary in the tsarist empire if one left one's place of residence for longer than six months or to travel outside the home region. Numerous Jews left the tsardom only with a

Catherine, Probably: https://www.jewishgen.org/Communities/community.php?usbgn=-543820 Alternate names: Dobruška [Cz], Gutenfeld [Ger], Dobruschka Try searching for old records at: the JewishGen

Greetings, I would like to hire a translator for World War II family correspondence, some of which is written in the Suterlin script. Any leads would be greatly appreciated. These are from the

My sister is Leah Ganessa (Linda Gail in English). I also had a great-grand aunt called Gnessa Yocheved. She came from Pasvalys, Panevezys, Kaunas, Lithuania. My husband never heard the name either

I have a photograph of my maternal great grandparents, Dov Ber Sossinsky and Chaya Malka Ekstein, taken some between 1901 and 1911 by photographer L. Epstein. As well I have separate large portraits

Perhaps my gr-gr-grandfather had intended to emigrate, but he never did. His eldest son did, in 1889, followed his two eldest daughters (including my gr-grandmother) in about 1891, and all the other