My wife's great grandmother was Sarah Frieda Press (1884-1958). She was born in Šiauliai, Lithuania. She was the daughter of Issac Simon Press and Rachel Leah Reya. Issac was born in Rietavas,

On Sun, Jul 26, 2020 at 04:31 PM, David Choukroun wrote: Gheorghe@ Reiner Dear Reiner, I had a look to the usual french database for the soldier dead during WW2 here :

Thanks. There is a Star of David on the grave marker. The question related to my grandfather since I recently found his birth record and it shows his father's name to be Meier. He came to the U.S. by

mtDNA does not reflect very recent ancestry very well. So perhaps deep in your family roots you had a Sephardic maternal ancestor. In other words a common ancestor who's descendants are now both

Ken, thanks for sharing your insight. This is certainly a plausible theory as to the origin of his Jewish DNA. One thing I know is that his family tradition held that his ancestors in Ireland were

On Jul 27, 2020, at 11:25 AM, Herbert Lazerow <lazer@...> wrote: If you are ordering an autosomal test like Family tree DNA's Family Finder, it is better to order it from either Family Tree DNA or

This is a good question for Genie Milgrom....https://www.geniemilgrom.info. If anyone knows the answer to your question, she does.

We may have corresponded in the past. I, too, have conducted an extensive search on Jewishgen and found little that can be used decisively. My maternal great grandmother was Rachel Leah Press/Pres

If you are ordering an autosomal test like Family tree DNA's Family Finder, it is better to order it from either Family Tree DNA or MyHeritage than from Ancestry because Ancestry provides minimal

I had a similar question recently and called FTDNA. They told me that they do sell to Israel all their DNA tests. Why are you looking at mtDNA? Unless you are interested in a very specific maternal

pls let us know what you find out as if they were detained, the actual manifest does not seem to be findable !! judy glock az

Milchig was not part of my growing up family experience, but my wife's maternal ancestry is Sephardic. Their Shabbos meals were often milchig and included fish. Since I am the family cook I have

Could Hoffert be a previous husband's name and Nuseaue (or whatever it actually is) Esther's maiden name? As others have implied, an index is simply a finding aid. Trust nothing, verify everything

I'm sure there is a library system in Israel. Have you spoken to the librarian re obtaining the article ?

We were not religious, but every Friday nite it was chicken soup & chicken. (And my mother was a lousy cook!)

Does anyone know the English equivalent of Asnel or Zammel? Are these names Yiddish or Hebrew? I found them in a letter written in Yiddish to my in laws but cannot connect them to anyone in the family

I have read in several references that the decree forcing Jews to take family names, promulgated by Emperor Joseph II in 1787, included a list of about 1500 specific names (some also say: "of which

Tom, I think the Ellis Island meme now is recognized as false for how it is usually understood--a US official caused the name change. Before I started my research in my own family, all my older

Thank you to all. In aggregate you've painted the picture I was looking for. I'm looking forward to hunting down the death certificate. Phil

Thanks for fultonhistory.com, I did not know this website. I could find no mention of the accident there. I am planning on tracking down the actual death certificate. Covid-19 is getting in the way