Could someone please translate the attached tombstone? Thanks, Karen

ANSWER: Thank you for all your answers, public and private. I understand the concept of naming the cousins. The question was around the issue of what to do when it is asymmetric, which is always the

Hello Avivah, Here lies or here is buried (Abbreviation on top) The young man Haim Mordechai Milkah Passed away 30 Tishrei In year 5679 May his memory be bund in eternal life (abbreviation on

Do you mean Rozdol (not Rozdal), previously in Poland, now in Ukraine? If so, it would be pronounced the Polish way, with J = Y and W = V. Therefore, TAYVIL, or depending on how you pronounce your

The Yiddish nickname is sometimes Itche.

I think it’s a wonderful idea to help trace loved ones & to keep in touch with family members long forgotten. I agree with Matt, if you want to keep it private, don’t place the plaques in a public

In Polish Yiddish, mima = aunt Perets Mett London From: Aline Petzold Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2020 11:32:44 EDT I have come across a notation of items sent to a relative of my grandmother's in Romania.

My uncle was Shapsel Nikodemus on his 1907 English birth certificate which later became Stephen Nicholas

Can be Icek in Poland. My grandfather, Yitzchak, became Isidor. -- Abby Barry Bergman New York

On the 1862 summary of the marriage record of her daughter, my gggrandmother is named Chaia Sura Tywel, but in the body of the text her father's name is given as Faivel. I have always assumed that her

Hello, I am researching the WURMs from Hungary. There are several teories concerning the origin of WUM as a surname: 1. The ancestors of the family originated from the medieval German town of

Dear Jackie, I would think the place you mentioned might be Magyarkomjat in the Subcarpathian area, now in

Unfortunately, there are so many evident and intentional (!!) errors and ommissions in this book to treat it as a serious source of data. Mr Grabowski "corrected" the documents to show that Polish

This is the backside of a postcard sent from Galitzia to Argentina in the 1920´s or 30´s. Can someone please translate the text for me? The front side shows a young lady, but I do not recognize

I attach a picture of the back of a postcard sent to my father Ire Schechter from his sister (from Rohatyn to Argentina) Would appreciate reading/translating because the calligraphy is so strange to

I've posted a vital record in Russian for which I need a translation. This is the marriage certificates of my great grandparents from Zamosch at 1867. Any information regarding their occupation, year

In Kharkov, which became the capital of Soviet Ukraine in December 1919, the provincial Cheka was successively headed by the Russian Vasily Nikolaevich Blinov, mentioned above Schwartz (May-June 1920,

I've posted a photo of a matzevah in Cleveland Ohio. I need a translation for the right side of the stone, which is in Hebrew. It is on ViewMate at the following address

My great-grandfather (father's mother's father), Moritz Schwebel, born in 1864, migrated from Czortków, Galicia, to Vienna, in the 1880s or 1890s. My grandfather (father's father), Samuel Schwarz,

My father Gabor Hoenig (1922-2015) was part of group of forced labor survivors who wrote a short collective history of the IX/1 Battalion of forced laborers. It's in Hungarian and is named after a pop