Amazing. I am so sad that so many states have so little awareness, and glad to see that my former home state Iowa is among the ones with a greater awareness. When we lived there, there were a number

Kherson is a guberniya in what is now the southern Ukraine. It is not in Galicia. You can find information in the Ukraine SIG or the Jewish communities database on Jewishgen -- Sarah L

L' Shana Tova Tikutevu v' tikutema. May you all be inscribed and sealed for a healthy, happy and prosperous New Year. -- Sarah L Meyer Georgetown TX ANK(I)ER, BIGOS, KARMELEK, PERLSTADT, STOKFISZ,

On Thu, 17 Sep 2020, 22:49 Avraham Groll, <agroll@...> wrote: Wishing you all a Shana Tova, and a year filled with health, happiness, and only good things!

Expanding a bit on Adam's excellent reply: whether your ancestors were Jewish or not, what it comes down to is that geography is not genetic, no matter what Ancestry and the other DNA companies would

Shana tova from Boca Raton, FL and thanks for all you do

My grandfather,Michael GOLDSMITH, was from Volochisk. He once told me his father was from Podvolochisk. Looking for information on either/both towns and trying to locate any family.

Andrzej Puchacz Warsaw, Poland

Speaking English does not necessarily indicate your family spent time in England before arriving in the US. My assumption would be that by the time they applied for US citizenship, they had picked up

Rosh Hashanah begins this evening, and here I bring you two excerpts from Yizkor books about the holiday, one from Gorodets in Belarus and the other from Podhajce in Ukraine. The sounds of the shofar

JG members might be interested in viewing a fine online exhibition of materials in the Harvard Yiddish Theater Collection that is currently freely available online at the following

Forgive the silly question, but it's worth clarifying, since some non-Jewish people do post here occasionally: the ancestors you're referring to in your father's family were Jewish, right? Because

I've posted a vital record in Polish for which I need a translation. This is the death certificate of my grandmother's lost sister who died in Lublin when they were living in Warszaw/ It is on

I am a volunteer for Find A Grave, and photograph gravestones at my local cemeteries when there is a request. I have not done the reverse (someone please correct me if I am wrong), but I think you can

Zagradowka was the Polish spelling. It's Заградівка (Zahrivka) in Ukrainian and Заградовка (Zagradovka) in Russian. Classified as a village (population 717 in 2001) in

I have a ship log (Umbria, arr. NY Feb. 19, 1906) for my great grandfather Shmuel Raskin, his wife, and 7 children, the youngest of whom is Wolf, age 4. In the last columns on the ship log for Wolf

Both Zablotow & Kolomyja are part of the region Galicia. This region was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire until WW1, then it was part of Poland and now it is part of Ukrain. Both Gesher Galicua and

The first line is adapted from the book of Lamentations 3:48. -- Madeleine Isenberg madeleine.isenberg@... Beverly Hills, CA Researching: GOLDMAN, STEINER, LANGER, GLUECKSMAN, STOTTER in various

Everyone else has pretty much covered all the bases so I wish you all a hearty - AMEN! -- Madeleine Isenberg madeleine.isenberg@... Beverly Hills, CA Researching: GOLDMAN, STEINER, LANGER,

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