My mother’s Hebrew name was Chaya Sarah and English name Sarah Ida. Jeff Miller Maryland

To edit my response: Anyone in New York State can get a New York Public Library card. Right now, while they are closed for the virus, you can use the SimplyE app to get a digital library card.

I would like to purchase a not too expensive 7-generation family tree of descendants of my great great grandfather to give as a gift. Can anyone give me general advice here and specific

Thank you for clarifying the names of these towns. Mine is : Haradok, (current modern name), is identified in JGFF database as Haradok, (near Molodechno). This is probably town that the initial

To #645232 (sorry, I don't see your name): Biri is probably a transcription error. The date of the marriages is the same, so this is not a case of a man marrying sisters at different time.

Dear Teodora. My ancestor from Iasi is Pessie Zazulia B. Jan. 1851 d. 1900. Her Father was Gavriel Zazulia. Anything you can provide will give me a lead as this is a bit of a brick wall for

Looking for a translation for this postcard. Believe these young men are my Ticotsky ancestors. Maybe Yiddish or Polish? Thank you.

You paint far too rosy a picture of Geni Randy. Yes people make additions and corrections but they also add a lot of their own errors and sometimes a load of crap which is then very difficult to

Joseph Godelnik asks about the name "Nesseha" for a girl in Poland. The first question is where you saw this. It is hard to imagine any Polish document containing this spelling. If it was in an

The person writing down the name spelled it incorrectly probably due to the accent being difficult to understand. Names were not changed at Ellis Island. Arlene Beare

Hello, I've posted vital records in Polish for which I'd appreciate a translation. They are on ViewMate at the following

My parents had a total of 25 first cousins. I at least met as a child or have located since I started pursuing genealogy 22 of them. I recently posted about Herbert (Naftali) BACHARACH, and with the

Geni is more accurate and complete than any individual tree on Ancestry or MyHeritage in almost all cases, since it is a collaborative tree. Why? Think of it this way. What would be more accurate

Sorry I can't help you on your Resnicks but my grandfather Lieb Frankel was from this Pohost. Stuart

Hi Toby, Simchat Torah is celebrated on Tishrei 23rd outside the land of Israel. Brest-Litovsk was in the Russian Empire in 1866 and Russia adopted the Gregorian calendar only in 1918. Therefore, two

Correction for Kazhan - Haradok There are 80 entries for this town by Genners in JGFF database. The total number for all searches for five towns named Haradok, Belarus is 504, by 242

I think we are getting very defensive. I haven't seen anyone who claims that names were intentionally, willfully changed. I don't believe they were. What I think many are saying is that the system,

GOOGLE is your friend. Searching for simchat torah 1866 brings up a site a genealogist should know. www.hebcal.com try it, it’s easy to use. Barbara Mannlein Tucson, AZ

This became oddly contentious. Like many others, I'd heard to stories about Ellis Island name changes and later learned that this would not have happened. My own tree shows numerous name changes, both

I haven't been following this topic, but my grandmother's name in St Petersburg was Ita, pronounced /EEta/. If you say it with an American accent the t becomes d, and you get Eda, which was her