Since I wrote the email regarding searching for Harry and Morris I had a breakthrough and found them due to a communication from a descendant of Morris. He was in touch with his relative who, it

Hi all, I am looking for a way to be able to access the actual photo at the LVIA. Do the other numbers mean something? Any help would be fully appreciated. Elani L. Joseph

Hi- My great-grandfather, Icek-Hersz Grynberg, had a shoe shop in Lodz pre-WWII. Attached to the shop was apparently a factory and warehouse where the shoes were assembled, and people worked piecemeal

Do you have the link to the Bialystoker album at the NYPL? Thanks! Karen Lefkowitz

Does Cele Marcus belong in anyone’s family tree? This photograph is in my grandmother’s album. The sitter is labelled as Cele MARCUS, mother of Hannah STEINER. Neither of these names have

Stephen Weinstein, You wrote "At http://usdine.free.fr/dvinskcensuscontents.html there are the links to occupation-based pages that I listed at the top of the this post and then there are an even

Hello Rick, Hello everybody, These are interesting questions, that is why I am replying to the whole group. It is not clear if you did any searches at the JewishGen / Romania (Bessarabia)

Well, guys sounds like none of you were ever in the garment trade. The cutter or cutter/marker, as they were also called, laid out multiple layers of fabric on a table. He then placed the pattern

The earlier posting on my Human Geographies Within the Pale of Settlement: Order and Disorder During the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (Macmillan-Palgrave, 2019) dropped the table of contents

I am looking for records on Josef Pinchas Schewach (@1865-@1922), his wife Ethel Kletinitski Borrison (@1865-?), and their children, Chai Schewach (1885-1936), Dore Schewach (1889-1964), Borukh

In familysearch.org (free) you can find three children of Herman and Henriette Toppel, born in Rochester, NY but later living in Cleveland, OH. In ancestry there is a "Horn family tree of Rochester"

Hi Mark, I enjoyed your talk on the state of Bialy-Gen. I had a few questions (I missed the first 10 minutes of your presentation, so you may have answered this then in your remarks- my

There are many books, mainly in Hebrew , with lengthy rabbinic family genealogies. see some of my research at https://www.davidicdynasty.org/descendant-family-trees/ Chaim Freedman

From the 1854 revision list you can find by searching the Bessarabia records under Romania-Moldova database, the family lived in Khotin and you learn all the names and ages of Kelman's family as well

The link to see the movie doesn't seem to be working. I registered as requested and then clicked on Click to Watch and a still picture comes up with no way to view the movie.

Barbara Singer speaks of “ Machine Operators?” In 1910? When the bulk of Eastern European Jews came to USA and Canada? No such thing. Suits,(garments) were made by hand. The Schneider (Tailor),

See some of my research https://www.davidicdynasty.org/descendant-family-trees/ chaim Freedman

I have an extensive Ejdyngier tree-- (many originated in Lodz area) please e-mail me privately to see if there is a connection. Regards, Mady Land

A cutter is referred to in Yiddish as a Schneider. A Schneider was in essence a tailor. Quite simple. We are making a big tsimmis here about nothing. “ Tsimmis”. A concoction, a stew, containing

Many thanks in advance, Francis AMAR - Geneva / Switzerland www.amarfamily.org