Hello all, I've posted a vital record in Russian for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address

Ernst-Peter Thank you very much for searching the register books and providing translations to the information listed therein. I had not realized that there were 2 sets of books and that the books

Shelley Mitchell has posted a surprising statement (transcribed below) with which I strongly disagree. There are many studies both academic and non academic which can illustrate readers on the

I had a neighbor growing up in Philadelphia named Dr. David Milstein. He lived and practiced on Christian Street in the 5800 block, at the corner of 59th Street. My family always said he was a

Robert, my great great grandmother, I believe was from Pakruojus, Lithuania her name was Minnie (Sphrintz) Bernstein (1850s - 1921) She married Solomon Brenner (1840s - 1905). They lived in

I asked this question of 5/18: Does anyone know what the abbreviation “OT” next to a name in the 1910 US census signifies? See, for example, the entry for Harriett HARRIS in the cropped attachment

Hello, (I tried to use the links at the bottom to reply, but it opens some email window that I am unfamiliar with.) To everyone, please add dates to ggggrandparents, such as

Hi Larry. Just an aside -- are we sure that this grave is in Odessa? Who is in the picture? What does the grave say? My dad's grandmother (Zelman's daughter Leike/Elisabeth)

Another factor is that Polish does have German influences since Poland-Lithuania rules Prussia for 250 years. As a result Rabinovitz was in Polish Rabinowicz, pronounced as Rabinovich.

This is from Prof. Ing. Felix Gundacker, Vienna from GenTeam.eu: The website is: www.GenTeam.eu Initial checks of the archival fonds of the "Vermögensverkehrsstelle" (Assets Transfer Office)

I am researching an illegitimate birth in the Stanislawow region of Galicia in 1906. The story in the family was that the mother was later sent to America because of the shame, but the child was a

you are looking for consistency in transliteration between at least 3 different alphabets, and 5 or more different languages? -ovich, regardless of spelling, is a slavic suffix meaning "son of". it's

When your message includes the name of a place that's not familiar to everyone (Proskurov) please include the country. The JewishGen Gazetteer says Ukraine for this one. - Moderator Searching for

Any way to find family club /landsmanshaft? My father remembers his grandmother going to meetings somewhere in ny either lower east side or the Bronx. My gg grandmothers maiden name was Hanna Neumann

Moderator note: If your message mentions towns or regions that aren't well known places, please add the country to the local name. Does any of this ring a bell? If so, would be interested in hearing

Hi Siggers, My great grandfather, Zelman BERKOWITZ, died in Odessa on 16 Dec 1924. I want to get a copy of his death record. How do I do it? A photo of his headstone is attached. Do any of you

Following the Roman conquest of Judea, Jews were scattered throughout the Mediterranean, Europe, and indeed, the world. The Romans (and before them, the Greeks) took many Jews as slaves, and, as

Avigdor Ben-Dov asked: "Does anyone know a linguistic reason to prefer a transliteration of the Hebrew suffix bet-yud--tzadik sofi such as in the name Rabinovitz in the absence of documentary

Marty Rice asked: Is there a source for the names of Romanian survivors who made it to Israel 1946 to 1960? It isn't that lists don't exist, it is the fact there is privacy laws and lists of less than

Hello all, I am looking for information on Bercu (Beryl) LITVAC and Golda YUZVINSKY, my paternal grandparents, who traveled from Vinnitsa, Ukraine, through Bucharest, Romania, where their first son