Oh, forgot to add, first order of business should be to check at the property/land registration office what happened with that property right after your grandma's ownership, maybe she just sold it and

Renee, So it sounds like my best bet would be to write to the National Archives at College Park and request a search. Those files don't appear to be online. And I wasn't able to find the House of

Hi Moses, There are variable laws depending on specific countries and there are no hard and fast rules. Our family owned property in Transylvania (Romania) which was first confiscated by the fascists,

Decades ago, we attempted to reclaim land in Csenger, Hungary. Our significant property was first stolen by nazis, then confiscated by communists in 1956. After significant expense and effort, the end

Dear Moses et. al. My father spent more than 50 years pursuing a claim for his parents' property that was "aryanized" in 1938 in the small German town of Ilmenau. The Thuringia region was part of

Jon, You did not write if you haveexhausted absolutely all possible sources of information available to you inEngland. For example, what is“Jewish community”? A synagogue? Which one?

Interesting article: "Like much of Eastern Europe, Romania’s synagogues and "other symbols of Jewish life are in decay. As the community dwindles and cemeteries become parking lots, will Jewish

Have you checked the British National Archives? They have files on many immigrants and with a name like Samuel Rosenberg there are many candidates but when I have found a relevant file it usually

Any family?? jndockery@...

It would have been better if you had given more information, such as the time period of these photos. Here are some ideas: 1. Send copies to relatives and ask if they can identify anyone. Or post

The last two columns on the right in ViewMate 79365 are for cash back payments. Vreemde munt means foreign currency and Ned. crt. probably means the corresponding amount in Netherlands currency (the

The Sabbath has arrived, and in these troubled times, I found this excerpt about the celebration of the day and its loving description of shtetl life comforting, and a reminder that there were happy

Hi, I am a retired lawyer from Texas. I had a German client, who emigrated after WWII, who was contacted By a distant cousin to sign a deed because heirs were trying to sell a small apartment

Excellent question. I don't have a definitive answer. With some photos of unknown people in the collection of my husband's great-grandmother, I posted an inquiry on an Ancestry Message Board for the

I am searching for information on a RZESZOW family. Family members probably also lived in Brody and Lviv in the late 1700s, during the 1800s and in the early 1900s. I have some information from Gesher

I found two instances of the name Shereshevsky in my English translation of the Zelva Memorial Book. Both seem to be excerpts from Newspaper articles. Since this is Belarus, there is a chance there

Hi Ellen I researched a couple who immigrated from Switzerland to the United States in 1914. They were not naturalised until 1944 and they had children born in the United States before 1920. They all

The Israel Genealogy Research Association (IGRA) will be broadcasting a free webinar and a “Show and Tell’ free Zoom meeting both on Wednesday, April 22nd. “The IGRA Collection”, a webinar in

Yad Vashem has an online exhibition, Rescue by Jews “One for All”. Throughout the Holocaust, in the shadow at the hands of the Nazis there were Jews who attempted to save their fellow Jews

CeCe Moore The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) announced a new program, The Genetic Detective, which follows investigative genetic genealogist CeCe Moore using her research skills for crime