Subj: New York City 1940's Street a View Old City Tax Photos These images are a wonderful resource for seeing the buildings where our ancestors lived. On that same site, there are also tax photos

Alan, Have you found any naturalization papers for this family? What are the names (as you know them) of the original immigrants? Regards, Sherri Bobish

Google “hamburg lists”. Barbara Stern Mannlein Tucson, AZ

I have noticed over the months I've read this blog that contributors have mentioned a great many sites that offer particular kinds of data. It seems to me that it would be really helpful to collect

The Arolsen records as found at the US Holocaust Museum contain some surprising information unrelated to Germany. I found passenger lists of Jews traveling from Shanghai to Israel after the

I first would like to thank Miriam Bulwar David-Hay for her detailed commentary on the problems relating to errata in databases. I also want to use this opportunity to clarify the original subject

Rebba Solomon, At this time, Ancestry.com does not require a subscription to have a family tree. To access the tree, a person need to have a login. Their guest login option is free. I set up a tree

David Mason, DVDs are not a long term option. Today most laptops & desktops no longer include a DVD / CD reader. It is considered to be an obsolete options and is no longer supported. Richard Werbin

Dear Group, The first edition of the Encyclopaedia Judaica was published in Berlin (late 1920, in German). As a part of my family roots research, I'd appreciate help retrieving a particular entry in

A relative from Zhitomer had the surname INGEROSE. I have been trying to determine its etymology. It is not listed in Beider’s compendium “A Dictionary of Jewish Surnames from the Russian

My husband's grandparents lived in Kopaigorod (yet often some of their records indicate Beltz). The family names are LEVOVICH and DATZ. Many thanks. Janis Datz

Hi I often receive messages from people who found lists of the Arolsen Archives on ancestry and don't understand what this lists are. Some people even don't realize that this lists come from the

I like Legacy Family tree. It is important to me to keep my tree on my computer. The paid version ($35) offers cloud backup, it also has many more capabilities than the free version, but you can

I also want my trees to outlive me, both my Jewish one or ones and my husband's non-Jewish ones. I am planning on at least one book for his tree and possibly one for mine. I do however have my own

Last week, I shared how I was able to discover through genealogical research that two of my grandmother's first cousins who she believed died in the Holocaust actually survived and lived out their

There is such a place 30 km+ SW of Vienna, which was a focus of a social study in the early 1930s David Barrett

In early April, the prisoners of Buchenwald could hear the distant sound of artillery from General George Patton's advancing Third U.S. Army, At about 2 p.m. on April 11, American tanks appeared in

Kudos on your research. I wish it is successful. I wrote to Hamburg re: my father's departure in 1923 but I got an odd answer . Where did you find the Hamburg lists - online? Ed Just eej787@...

VM85114 In Rusian: Замбров #73 Состоялось в посаде Замбров, 15-го (27) июля 1894-го года, в 11 часов утра, явился лично

VM85113 In Russian: Замбров #106 Состоялось в посаде Замбров, 9-го (21) декабря 1894-го года, в 11 часов утра, явился лично