I have two pieces of good evidence for this. 1. A member of the Sephardic-turned-Ashkenazic family Abugov (the Russified form of Abohab) studied in Dvinsk, a city which is now in Latvia under the name

DNA ethnicity estimates are not the only, or the most accurate, way to determine this answer because they can give false positives as well as false negatives. MyHeritage DNA's and Family Tree DNA's

For anyone NOT subscribed to this, i just want to say you're missing out on some fabulous information! Thanks, Jan, for the work you do in these. Margie Geiser Arizona, USA LEVINE/LEWIN,

Hi Debbie, Contact the St Louis Genealogical Society which has a Jewish SIG see https://stlgs.org/ access the communities section for Jewish. also see the following

I belong to 'Find a grave' website, it's worth joining in my opinion. You can put out a request for a headstone photo and it also works by someone who has joined Find a grave to pop along to their

This may not apply to your fact pattern, but I have sometimes seen the patronymic style of naming, A ben B, turned into the name A B. In other words the father's given name becomes the surname of the

There are a few photos of headstones in the Fawcett Road Cemetery in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England. The cemetery is actually in Southsea which is adjacent to Portsmouth but the community was one. If

I have some old family photos - coloured - one oil painting with a Chinese outfit on and a photo that appears caricature type. I just wondered if anyone knew of these? What year? One of mine will have

Re VINITSKY/WINITSKY. Do you have any first names, or where they were from? We have traced VITENSKY/WITENSKY that arrived in England and the U.S.at the beginning of the 20th century. Maxine

As mentioned previously, every month I post a listing of the IAJGS Records Access Alert topics from the previous month for you to see the variety of issues…some were posted on this discussion group

Also note that Russia encouraged not only ethnic Germans to establish colonies in Russia (Ukraine), but also Jews were allowed to do the same. See previous JGen Discussion List messages by Mel

"who is buried in the Portsmouth Jewish Cemetery". Portsmouth, England; a US Portsmouth; or maybe an Australian one? Even London has this problem, as I always think first of London, Ontario, then

"My other question is about the American rendering of the initial Узд as Usd rather than Uzd. I have come across at least three Usdansky lines in the United States" Us- is less 'foreign' than Uz-

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Maryellen "Germans from Russia" are ethnic Germans, not Jewish. The Latvia theory, suggested by some in this thread, is the likely scenario. Königsberg should not be considered here, as it was never

Paula, There are numbers to the left of the family information, indicating family ID in the "Census #10", which took place in 1858 and this being a supplemental update in 1874 to the new or missed

I'd be very grateful if someone could locate and photograph the headstone of Samuel FLETCHER, possibly buried as Samuel Lazarus Fletcher, who died we think in around 1950, and who is buried in the

To what Mr Radu said I would add that Mr Preschel Isac was given this exemption on 19 September (19/9) 1942 and the medical examiner signed alongside the Secretary.. Rafael Manory, PhD Researching

I am trying to determine if someone is who I think he is... His gravestone says his Hebrew name was Yitzchak ben Chona and that he died in 1954 at age 84. The Lithuanian birth record that I think is