Sad. Was hoping you'd say Alex Krakovsky had scanned them. I have potential Weinhouse/Weingus cousins in a well-sourced tree in a faraway section of the geni forest, with DNA hints that need

I am a firm believer in written records. I do not expect any online company to exist 20 or 30 years from now. And even while they exits, the odds are that they would purge data that had not been

Ethan mentioned finding a newspaper notice of a name change in NYC. A good (and free) site to search NY newspapers (and some other states now also)

Family History Today: Portuguese Citizenship - Reconnecting with your Sephardic Iberian Ancestors Wednesday, September 9, 3 PM ET While Spain has ended its Law of Return for descendants of Sephardic

Harvey - all I can add to Chuck's comment is a photo of what is left from the fire now sitting in the Khmelnitski Archives....its not pretty Gary Pokrassa gpokrassa@... Data Acquisition

Thank you Rainer. During the holiday of Sukkoth (Feast of Tabernacles), September 1942, my paternal grandmother Frieda Kohn and my paternal aunt Rivka Kohn, were transported, with many others

#15 1944, October 30 From the act of the Rezekne district commission on the atrocities of the GERMAN-Fascist invaders and their accomplices in the town of Rezekne and the surrounding area. The

I have not had a good experience with MyHeritage. Main problems: - Places. It wants modern names of places instead of the genealogically-correct name at the time of the event, and there are many,

The town name in Russian would be Kirovgrad. In cursive script, lower case д looks exactly like our cursive g. Dave Mason

Beit HaTfutsot in Tel Aviv is another option https://www.bh.org.il/databases/jewish-genealogy/ They collect digital genealogies in their Goldman genealogy section. -- Louise Goldstein

In the case of Prefseizen versus Presseizen, the transcriber may not have realized that a double "s" can be written so that the first "s" looks like an "f". Take a look at something like a

My personal opinion, regarding the USC Shoah testimony. I think it's great. My grandfather and his brother both recorded testimony, as did other family member's. I don't feel betrayed at all. Honestly

Michael McTeer: FS has multiple parts. You're talking about the collaborative tree. I'm talking about the Genealogies section, which is an archive that anyone can look through but nobody can change,

Here is a terrific verse I found on a tombstone of Olga Shraybman (in Kishinev Jewish Cemetery): Dear Olga! You are not dead. With that beautiful soul, With that great love to people You live among

I have had my tree on WikiTree since 2014 and find it excellent. It is entirely free and is a worldwide collaborative tree. The profiles will never be deleted. The only drawback I can see re. what

There are no known records of births, deaths, or marriages. There are voter lists in both the Khmelnitski and Vinnisia Archives, as well as several other record sets pertaining to the Jewish

I originally put my family tree on MyHeritage, but when I exceeded the number of entries, I created a family tree on Geni because it was free & unlimited AND so that I could link up with the World

"JewishGen records do not exist in and of themselves, for no reason except documentation. JewishGen records exist to aid people searching for ancestral family, and as such, should, as far as possible,

Before computers helped us organize our genealogical information, there were a variety of numbering systems. I have a couple of old articles in my files from those days. But, since we live in the

I will look into this. I have contributed to Yad Vashem but did not know they archived genealogies. Thank you. Reba Harris Solomon