When I wanted to find family in Israel, I asked on the jewishgen Discussion group for help finding a person. With only her name, the I found her and called to tell who was looking for her. The rest

Looking for possible 1958/1973 obits. Couple had lived in Passaic, New Jersey but are buried in

My father CHARLES GALATIN was born in in BERESTECHKO in 1907 in what is now Ukraine. I think the family then moved to ROVNO from where they possibly travelled via Odessa to the U.K. in 1911. Has

I have two cousins, since deceased, who traveled to Philadelphia, PA (US) in 1947 to live with my grandparents. They were 13 1/2 and 9 1/2 years old when they arrived in the US.I have a record that

Dear All 5th September 2020 PISZTRANG is indeed a Hungarian word--name of a fish As for the letter ' Z' -- not

The USCIS rates do not increase until October 2nd. Marjorie said the rates increased.That is incorrect as they do not for another several weeks. So if you are planning to order records this is the

Once again, Wikipedia to the rescue! Found this in the Wikipedia articleon the topic "GEDCOM" I think you should check on the Ancestry website to see if they say which version of GEDCOM they

I'm curious: has anyone successfully gotten records for ancestors who immigrated in the 1880s (pre-Ellis)? According to what I see online, the first US Office of Immigration was founded after that.

In Russian, Катя (“Katya”) is the most common diminutive of Екатерина (“Catherine”). Being subject to pogroms as well as official discrimination, Jews apparently assumed

My family all came, many separately different years, through Rotterdam. Susie Krumholz

I couldn't find my grandfather's sister's naturalization papers at all, which were from 1945. As a result, I requested an index search, then ordered both records the USCIS found. I did this last year.

I am somewhat baffled on how to proceed with my search for my Israeli relatives. Many years ago I met my cousin Zev Altbaum(Altboim) when he was here in the US (after being injured in '67 war)for some

Try contacting Baruch Huber from Ungvar, not far from Kiralyhaza. You can also find him on the JewishGen researchers list. His email huberbelay@... All the best Mark Friedman

Stefan, Have you seen this? It is on Ancestry. There is no link to view on-line any info beyond this. Sergiu Godeanu in the Romania, Jewish Names from the Central Zionist Archives Name:Sergiu

Peretz, There is a database that may help you in your search. It is called something like "coming here" and it has a lot of documents about people who immigrated to England, including the time frame

"I knew my mother's maternal grandmother's American name was Gussie Squire. The name on some of her immigration documents is Gitel Scvirsci. However, while the envelopes they came in are addressed to

Another possible source is the National Archives. It took repeated requests and about ten years, but I received about two inches of material regarding my great grandmother’s immigration including

I figured they would eventually change the rules, but I didn't think it had happened yet. It's obvious that they just don't want to be bothered with genealogy requests, and charging exorbitant fees

Natan Nama Or Not a son of Abraham Hope this helps Diane Jacobs Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone

Hebrew Jargon = Yiddish Doug Cohen Sarasota, Florida Lexington, MA