It would be helpful to add what resources you have already used and any birth/death dates places of residence and other information you may have. You will be more likely to find help when we know

Noel - The introductions are extremely helpful, but they're geared towards using databases themselves--(indispensable) partial indexes of the original records rather than original records

It doesn't cover specifically Jewish registers, but the FamilySearch Wiki page on Hungary Church Records has a variety of examples of headers and their translations:

Mihai Grunfeld from Cluj: Hi, this is me, at grunfeld@.... Can you confirm receiving this email? Mihai

Perhaps we should let Betty White have the last word. In her Saturday Night Live "census taker" sketch with Tina Fey, the dotty Mrs. Smith (pronounced BLAHR-fen-gar) reports that "The names were all

All this viewmate is in Polish

Thanks for the tip, Mark. Does anyone know if anything similar exists for forms in Hungary (some of the German terms on the Galician forms are are also on the Hungarian records forms I've seen, but

Yes, I think so. This is a case where "the ears have it." Ear shape and also hairline shapes tend to be pretty individual and distinctive. I worked as a photo archivist for more than 25 years and

Hi Erika, I'm not sure if all of JewishGen's Research Divisions handle their introductions in the same way, but each data set within the Holocaust Database has its own "Introduction". The purpose of

The name HOLLAND was on the Ellis Island manifest because that name was inscribed on the embarkation manifest, not because of anything the older brother said.

The legend in my family is that when a relative named Baum was asked their last name their accented reply sounded like Bum. The immigration officer (I don't remember if this was in England or the US)

I'm searching for the married name of my great aunt Rakel GOLUB born Minsk 1884 and the names of her children who were probably murdered in the Minsk ghetto around 1942. Her parents were Aryeh Leib

What happened to the shtetl, Zabie, in Bukovina. I believe it was near Storozynetz now in the Ukraine.

How can I get information on Tuetz (Tuczno) and Marienwerder (Kwidzyn), formerly Prussia, now Poland? My grandfather and his brother fled from Russia to Tuetz (1860s) and later lived in

Trying to obtain a photograph of the grave of Rav Yidele who died in 1981 and is buried in Tiberias.

Requesting translation of a handwritten message on the back of a photo, most likely Yiddish, that is from the 1930's. It is on ViewMate at the following address

I've posted a vital record in Polish for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address ... http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM82724 Please respond via

I've posted a vital record in Polish for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address ... http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM82725 Please respond via

As far as she knew. She was skinny enough to make it through the opening.

A short time ago I posted a search request for KESSLER of Brooklyn, NY, and the answer, complete with crumbs to follow, came in shortly thereafter, thanks to Renee STEINIG. THANK YOU RENEE! I HAVE