Have you tried telephone directories for Amherst and surrounding towns. There are at least four other colleges/ universities in the area. Maybe he transferred to another school Deanna Levinsky Long

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=VM80687 Please respond via the

Friends, I cannot find my wife's grandfather's naturalization record by searching on his name or a Soundex. Yet, I do have what I am pretty sure is the date of naturalization and the document number.

Hello everyone, I've posted 5 vital records in Russian for which I need translations. They are on ViewMate at the following addresses... 1. Birth Record of Szya Heszel ROTMAN:

Please join the Jewish Genealogy Society of Long Island for a virtual program on Sunday, May 17, 2020 at 2:00 pm Eastern time Life Lessons from the Dead Speaker: Alec Ferretti Alec Ferretti has

I wrote previously asking for suggestions on reaching Dr. Ervin Staub from Hungary, who was on the faculty of University of Massachusetts, Amherst. I am hoping he might be related to my husband's

Dear friends, Fay Bussgang (below) commented about the Brzeziny records which she is extracting for the JRI-Poland database. Thus, it is timely to point out a feature of searching via the

JewishGen Viewmate request for transcribers Having researched my ancestors for over 40 years (shortly after my father's death), and being a first generation American whose ancestors all were born and

I am trying to update a part of the Hubert family history that I have very little information on.. Alexander Rothschild born in Bavaria in 1816. His wife Rebecca Hubert born in the village of

I should have been more specific when giving the following link for users to find images while the links in the Hessen Gatermann database are broken: I wrote: In the meantime, note that the images

My 4th great grandfather, a rabbi in central Poland in the mid 19th century, was clearly divorced from his first wife. Though I never found divorce records or reference to the divorce, town records

My mother's family came from Torda and Kolosvar and one was married to a Weiss, Samuel Weiss (1882-1961) who settled in Philadelphia. He was married to Minnie Hermina Rothstein from Torda. They had 3

As someone who has been taking oral histories for 43 years, I think better ways to understand a statement like "nobody got divorced" are "nobody I knew of got divorced" or "I never heard of anybody

Hello. I have been fortunate in the past 3 years to find family on both sides that I did not know existed. Three years ago, I knew absolutely nothing. Now. I have met/connected with family in Israel,

My late mother born Phyllis Brown (ex Brin)(1917-1995) in Edinburgh had a school friend called Rose Schulman who married a Scottish Michael Gandz. They moved to - by coincidence - Gants Hill in Essex

Paul, I find it useful to use this search pattern -- search for a child's given name, together with both parents' given names, omitting the surname -- to find families where the surname may be

The Nagy Karoly (Carei, RO) Holocaust memorial was indexed by H-SIG: https://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Hungary/HolocaustMemorials.htm I remember it had pictures of the name plaques, but I can't find

Hi Barry, I have spent the weekend sorting out years and years of old papers and come across some more Ellenbogen information by chance. 1) Simon Hill - who is married to a relation of mine - wrote

Where can I email the photos?

Sorry I cannot help you with tracing the Mintz name but I am looking for a Karin and Seth Mintz. Karin's maiden name was Hirschkrohn and her son's name was Stephen. I last saw Karin and Stephen in