I've reposted an enlarged and enhanced version of the text of a postcard (see link below), posted earlier, in the hope that it will be easier to read and translate. As before, it is from a postcard

Hello Gerson First question: What the records really say? How did you figure out from them that ” there must have been a mass execution of Jews on 7 March 1612 in Poznan”. Aren’t there any

I'm helping my son-in-law search for a descendant of the Alter Rebbe Schneur Zalman BORUCHOVITCH of Liadi, founder of Chabad (1745-1813). The unindexed, partial genealogies that are online are, not

Your town is definitely the Galician town of Gwozdziec, now called Hvizdets in Ukraine, located at coordinates 4835, 2517 about 19 km ENE of Kolomyja. This town had a famous wooden synagogue. The

It looks like Jubilee Street to me but I’m unable to translate for you. Kind regards, Adrienne Ross

Gerson, I'm afraid that Jewish pogrom in 1612 Poznan is not noted in Poland's historiography and the reasons for Ukraine Khmelnitsky 1648 Uprising is not related to Fettmlich's Frankfurt pogrom

I apologise but had to laugh. The language is yiddish - you have to reverse the photo to read it . Regards David Barrett Dear sister, we sent you all the photographs for David your husband

My Grandfather's family was from a small Shtetel in Galicia, Knhynicze, My Grandfather and all the men and boys in his family were sent to work camps in Russia, When the Russian troops invaded and

I’m trying to research my parents and great grandparents. I was told by my Mother that they lived in Givozits also mentioning Galicia,Kolomya and Bukovina. ( This must be a city , state, geographic

Hello, The writing is upside down and it is in Yiddish. Shalom, Malka Chosnek

hi, appreciate someone's help in translating all the hebrew in this document from the great synagogue. In addition, I am having difficulty reading the street (in English) for Simon SHERATSKI best,

Dear Gennies, I hope someone could put me in contact with Mrs. Ernestina Kanner, widow of late Adv. Artur Kanner. They used to live in Bucuresti. My late father, Enrich Kanner was Artur's Brother,

My great great grandmother, Rivka ABRAMOWITZ, came to the USA as a widow with 4 orphaned children. To the best of our knowledge-we have no records of any kind-she came around 1870-1880 to New Haven.

My father, born in 1906 in Tarnopol, was given the Hebrew name, Zelig. His given name was Zigmund. Later, Sigmund in the USA. Adelle Weintraub Gloger Beachwood, Ohio agloger@...

Neither "Yrlja" or "Irlja" generated an idea for me for a Yiddish name (not that I am an expert) or a likely American one. She was going to a brother, B. Edelstein at 15 Genesee Street in Boston.

Perhaps we should be thankful to the pandemic for putting at least a temporary halt to travel to Poland, Ukraine, et.al. What appeared to me most cynical were the developments in Poland in having

One of the key takeaways from this article is the following: "Is genetic information protected? In some places (like the European Union), genetic data is protected as personal information. In others

Canadian Cohens: Do you have Goldstein/Shateliss relatives? Looking for descendants of Isaac Cohen (likely from Toronto) who hosted Grandfather as he migrated from England to U.S. (1910-1913.) Thank

I do not believe that the author of this article is familiar with US health insurance law, which prohibits the results of DNA testing to be used in health insurance. -- Sarah L Meyer Georgetown

Hello, Is there anybody who could explain to me how to send an international banking withdrawal to the Historical Archives in Sankt-Petersburg in Russia, please. Thank you very much for your response.