This is another brick wall that I have been trying to breakdown for years. My ggf was known as Jack Silver in the UK and the marriage authorisation just gives his birth place as Russia/Poland. It

Mechil (מעכיל) which is usually a nickname for Yechiel (יחיאל) is spelled by many Michel (מיכל).

This is a brick wall I have been trying to knock down for many years. I probably asked about this a couple of years ago, so I'm giving this another try. My ggm in the UK was known as Jane Cohen,

At 14:29 14/07/2020, Kathy Miller wrote: There is no point having multiple translations If you get no response, I will do it for you David Lewin London Search & Unite attempt to help locate people

It has just come to my attention that Alex Krakovsky has in the last few days posted scans of true index files from Odessa rabbinate - births 1908, 1911-1920, Marriage 1918-19, deaths 1919

The legislation to hold the census in England and Wales on 21 March 2021 is now official. It became law at the may Privy Council on 20 May 2020. The order may be read at:

1) Does anyone recognize/know this word ESBOUBEM? It might be Russian or Yiddish or English transliterated of the word? The writing, as best as I could read, was written by a 99 year old man.

Ellen Kowitt, past president and current outreach chair of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Colorado, will give two virtual lectures for the Sunday, July 26, 2020, Jewish Genealogical Society of

My hearty thanks to Barbara Manheim, Jules Levin, Avivah Pinski, Max Polonovski, Judy Floam, and Dick Plotz, and anyone else I might have missed for sharing their valuable and insightful knowledge

Hi Jim, There were many U.S. ports of entry. Ellis Island was a large and well known one, but hardly the only port entered through by immigrants. Try searching your ancestor's name at this free

TO: rroth - I mentioned the UK in my response because Tom Klein, who posted the inquiry, is from Toronto, Canada, and Canada is a dominion of the UK. His deceased relative may have also been from

"The name "Michal" is a girl's name." If you are looking at Polish records, you will find that Michal is a man's name. Sometimes Michale for women, but not often. Michał, MICHALOWICZ as a

My Feld family tree dates back to Abraham Feld in Lviv who was born in the mid-1700s. If anyone has Feld roots in Lviv, I would love to compare notes. From Lviv: FELD, WOSK, ORDNER, CZOPP, SCHIMMEL,

The Library of Congress has the 1938/1939 Warsaw telephone directory and a 1923 commercial directory for all of Poland and Gdansk at https://www.loc.gov/rr/european/pdir/index.html. Brest-Litovsk

Cousin at 136 Ave de la Republique, Fontenay S/Bois, 94 France a suburb of Paris. Name is Michel Bronfenbren(n)er. Born in Ukraine either Cherson or Odessa in 1890. Left there around 1914-1918.

Hi Michael, Try searching this free site of old digitized Eastern European city directories https://genealogyindexer.org/ Regards, Sherri Bobish Princeton, NJ

A very big thank you to Bernard Flam and Svenja (itencorinne@...) for the time you spent helping me. Good research to all. Best Regard Un très grand merci a Bernard Flam et Svenja itencorinne@...

My wife's grandfather's brother, Ruben Myer ROSEN (JERUSALEMSKY) was born in Schucin (Europe) about, 1860 and moved to the USA . He married Sophie BRANSON daughter of isadore (died 1945). Their

Thank you, Rose for the link to this site. I had not heard of this previously. I will definitely look through here!

Thank you for your help....yes, I do have this record for her coming into the US (2 different times). I was trying to find records for her leaving the US to go back to Alexandria in 1903. I'll check