No one's name was shortened or changed at Ellis Island by any clerk. The guy is wrong unless he can show the original manifest showing the old name crossed out and a new name written in. His religious

I add a precision to my previous message : I am looking for any information about Pessia Schliomovna BIALAIA, born in 1886 in Vitebsk, married to Itska LEBSKI from Mogilev. Envoyé de mon iPad

Seeking information on siblings Abraham (1886), Lewis (1893) and Hannah (1896) KATZ of London. Their parents Sarah (nee LYONS) and Marks KATZ both died aged around 40 in 1902. The kids they would

There are religious reasons why some Cohanim lose their Cohen status. Interestingly my father was an Israel, but when I had two paternal "second" cousins DNA done, I was asked after the first one was

I always wonder how immigrants, then and now , had time and money to travel back and forth. I understand going for a bride and maybe some successful traders going back and forth but who else goes and

According to the JRI Poland database, photographs have been taken of graves at the Lodz Cemetery. The names of the people I am interested in are Mordka Maslanka buried in Section C, Row 6, Grave 69,

While I'm not familiar with Moravian laws, I wonder if the two puzzling children's deaths could in fact have occurred in the home town of the mother's family? Perhaps the grandparents were caring

Yizkor Book Update - April and May 2020 by Binny Lewis Dear JewishGen Community, The JewishGen Yizkor Book Team has been very active in the past two months. Here are some highlights of what we have

Hi All Sorry about the number mixup, I blame it on the heat. The numbers of the tombstone photos are VM 82552 and VM 82555. It's been a while since I posted messages here and all the new process with

Hello everyone, Please,translate Tauba Bukowska Wachtenheim and Israel Shapiro Epstein's wedding record I think, it's my grandfather's parents from

I have a question about the application of the Familiant Laws, which I’m hoping someone might be able to help me with. For several years now, I have been working on the family tree for the MASSARSIK

Does anyone know of anyone with the surname Komishane? Meaning of the name? Was it an area in Ukraine?

I am not an expert or anything but I have a little insight into how one might find out f they are descended from a Cohanim . Sometimes an engraving on gravestone can let family know that a Cohanim or

The likelihood of immigration authorities just handing out the name Cohen, is remote. It just didn't happen. My name is Moshe ben Josef Woolf HaLevi. That is the name used in the synagogue. My

Hi Teodora, My grandfather Michel Mayer was born in Iasi in 1866; he emigrated to Egypt and lived there the rest of his life. I have a certificate from the romanian embassy in Cairo delivered in

Hi! I am brand new to this. Hope I am posting correctly. I am looking for someone to translate German documents to English. I just learned of information of my grandparents and it is all in German

DNA studies show that many Cohenim share a common direct line male Ydna signal (a variant of J2 haplogroup) and many Levites also share a separate and different direct male line Ydna signal (a variant

Looking for descendants of the family of Leibl/Leibel Goldberg (born Falticeni, Romania, d.o.b 15 Dec 1890). He was born to Morris Goldberg/Moshe Ben Avram and Rosa (nee Itzic/Swarz and then latterly

I am seeking Geff NEWMAN (born Godfrey Nejman) of Westcliff, Essex. He would now be 90+, a widower and was a baker (pastry chef). I am looking for Geff's son Robin NEWMAN who is 65+ and is married to

Mike, Julius Levy is in the Gedenkbuch. He spent time in Sachsenhausen in 1938, and was deported from Berlin to Auschwitz on 26-Feb-1943. No date of death is available, but it seems he did not