Thank you, Karen! You are right: Those are my grandparents. I know FamilySearch and also the Dutch archives. So there is no new information for me. Even if I follow all the links in there. For

I had an uncle who passed away at roughly 15 months old. He died in May 1918 in a hospital in Brooklyn where he had been for a little over a week. Cause of death listed as measles. This was right at

Suchowola is right on the borders with the Suwalki Lomza gubernias, so may be records there. See JRI Poland for any shtetel in this area.

Philips is almost certainly certainly either a patronymic or anglicisation of another name. Names were changed often on migration. Names from the Suwalki Lomza gubernias of NE Poland, some areas now

My great great grandfather's Chicago death certificate says "Chronic bronchitis with asthma" with contributory cause "old age" -- he was about 58, & had been treated by the doctor for 5 days. This may

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Hello Ze'ev, I found an interesting record in Familysearch.org. If you are not familiar with the site, you will need to establish a free account to access it. Have attached two Family Search links

I am Sephardic and it is an accepted custom to name new born babies for living relatives. Generally if the first born is a boy he will be named after his paternal grandfather. If the second child is a

Hi all, JewishGenners are terrific! I posted a message saying I was excited to learn that some Romanian Honig relatives had moved to Israel around 1962 and almost immediately started receiving

This is a 1940 death record of my grandfather, Mendel Konigsberg, registered in Lipcsemezo. Can someone read the cause of death, located in the last column? -- Researching:

The 1918 death certificate of a relative in Cincinnati called it "la grippe". Her doctor was related to her. Josephine Rosenblum Cincinnati

The death certificates of my maternal grandmother and my paternal grandfather said death from pneumonia due to the flu. Remember, there were no antibiotics in 1918. Sent from my Galaxy Tab® A

Looking for any records available for the towns of Suchowola and Sidra near Bialystok in Poland.

For a friend, I am searching for her grandmother's maternal ancestors who came to New York City in the late 1800s. Abraham Philips, born about 1844, married to Diana Solons (Solonosky?) and immigrated

We were surprised to find a daughter named after a mother on our family tree, but then we learned that the mother died in childbirth so the baby was given the mother’s name. Estelle

#earlyamerican Although the full text of this book is available online, and free, through the American Jewish Archives, I'm interested in obtaining a hard copy for my personal library as I embark upon

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My father's 1917 Manhattan birth record names him Louis, but starting when he was 3 years old, the census calls him Lawrence. In my lifetime, he was always known as Larry, though he never formally

My great aunt died in the 1918 pandemic. Her death certificate reads “Influenza Complicated by Lobar Pneumonia.” Kathy Lorber Montville, NJ LORBER: Poughkeepsie, NY, Poland, Austria-Hungary,