HELLO, YONKERS! Reclaim The Records has won our Freedom of Information fight for the birth and death records from Yonkers, New York! They're now online, and free! After literally years of negotiating

Trying to make contact with the family of Eliot (Eli) Pollak who died in 2010 and was a member of Congregation Etz Chaim in Midwood, NY. His children - Gloria married Simon (Sy) Belsy who died in

It is a fallacy that names were changed at Ellis Island. Immigration personnel used the names on the passenger manifest. They were forbidden to change any name as that might be contributing to

I'd like to ask people to reserve judgment until I have received the document I requested from NARA. If it is what I expect it to be, it should resolve any serious questions about the

I'm grateful that JewishGen-created indexes to microfilmed Hungarian birth (and other vital) records contain so much data. But I understand that with limited resources only part of the data in the

Most if not all names were changed by the immigrant after arrival in the US. Clerks were very careful not to change or modify names. Since the manifest was used as proof of legal arrival immigration

Souza Mendes Foundation is live streaming two interesting events on the next week-ends: On June 28 the event is on the extraordinary life of concert pianist and Holocaust survivor Alice Herz Sommer

"However, family lore is that they had to buy papers to travel from Lithuania to the United States, and could not get their own so bought them from someone named Goldberg" The thing is, there was no

Seeking siblings Arthur, Ruth & Ada BENJAMIN in New York. All 3 were born between 1905-1915 approx. However, the siblings may have gone under their mother's maiden name. Thus they’d have been

These birth two records for the same person, registered in the same town, each give a different birthplace. How did this happen and why? I can see that they’re from two different microfilmed

The two records below are clearly the same marriage for the same two people, but registered in two different towns. Is this because the bride and groom were residents in different towns and hence from

Is this the same as "David-Horodok"? My mother in law's family came from there, but I don't know much about it. They have a large, active organization in the Detroit, Michigan area. Look on Facebook:

Made a terrible mistake. This grandfather that was in Gorodok came from a village in the region called Kopach/Kopache, not Trellisy. Got confused between my grandfathers. Sorry. All the other

- HELLO CORINA.WHRE WE CAN SEE THE FAMILIES FROM HESSEN

My grandmother, Rosa Weisberg nee Brucha Horowicz grew up in Radom. She always spoke about how on friday nights her father would read to her from a youth newspaper or magazine about the spanish

Immigration inspectors did not ask an immigrant what his name was. It was already right there on the ship's passenger list and on the immigrants tag. One name was changed at Ellis Island. A woman

My grandmother Rosa Weisberg nee Brucha Horowicz grew up in Radom. She always spoke of an orphan girl (who was older than her) her parents took in for a while after the Przytyk pogrom in 1936 named

The reason there was no immigration control in New Orleans in 1852 is that the first federal law restricting immigration was passed in 1882. Before then, immigration was left to the states. --Yale

I'm pleased to announce the posting of an infofile I wrote about how to find your ancestor's town of origin: https://www.jewishgen.org/InfoFiles/latvia/FindingTown.html The file is listed under

If one were born in Tomaszów Lubelski in the 1920s or 1930s and was living, would one's birth record still exist, and if so, how would one request a copy? Thanks. Steve Stein Highland Park, NJ