You should check out LitvakSIG on Jewish Gen. There is a district called Oshmiany which is part of the wider Vilnius (Wilna) region. That may offer you some clues about the origin of Moshe Oshman. The

I posted on GerSIG on August 11, 2009 asking about the NORDSCHILD family of Niederwerrn in the present-day Landkreis Schweinfurt in Bavaria. I think that this family has a common male-line ancestry

Presumably Asriel Geller died of cholera in Galicia in October 1848. In June 1848 three members of my ancestral Glazer family died within a week of each other in Lipcani, Bessarabia - two brothers and

Stephanie No, citizenship is not needed to get a social security number. Anyone eligible to work in the U.S., including legal permanent residents ("green card" holders) and those who are here on

Dear Geners, My DNA result shows my 2nd ggrandfather Moshe Mordecai BARNETT, lived in Kutno, Lodz. The only information other than that wonderful finding is that His daughter Miriam, my

There is information at www.jgsny.org Look here: https://jgsny.org/ny-area-research/jgs-cemetery-guides and here: https://jgsny.org/ny-area-research/repositories/nj-repositories These are NJ Jewish

Searching for the descendants of Auguste ZOBEL born 1888 in Pleschen daughter of Nossen ZOBEL and Helene WERNER died in November 1940 in the sinking of the SS Patria in Haifa Harbor. Her second

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Looking for maternal grandfather of Maria Gordon Kosfiszer. Her maternal grandmother was Miriam Goldzicher, born on December 22, 1888 in Warsaw,Poland. Miriam had 5 siblings Miriam Married around 1915

To answer the question— Check with the county board of elections wherever this person lived to see if he registered to vote. In order to register to vote proof of citizenship— either birth

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To all our family and friends at Jewishgen.org We wish you a Chag Pesach Sameach. Keep safe and well! Jill and Eli Rabinowitz Perth, Australia eli@... https://elirab.me/kehila

I am desperately seeking a translation of pertinent information from this marriage record for Gitla Klepfisz and Josek Joskowitz. I am specifically in need of the names of Gitla's parents to

Thank you. To the best of my knowledge, one does not need to be a citizen to get a social security number. -- Fredel Fruhman Brooklyn, New York, USA

Hello Friends, I posted last week about a document located in the Kriegshaber Synagogue in Augsburg Germany referred to as a Schnoder Plaque by the synagogue's research assistant. From replies I

Family back story: The surname wasn't always Slonimsky. We were told it was changed to avoid conscription. No one living knew when it was changed or what the original name was. Jacob Slonimsky was

Hello Alex, Here are a few records that might help identify 2 possible children for Herbert Spencer FEUERLICHT and "maybe" also a grandchild. It's a bit confusing because both Herbert and his

Hello Nancy S, Would you be interested in a copy of the Marriage Certificate of the marriage of a Harris Liss to Rachel Shamrock, which took place in London, ENGLAND in 1898, Harris Liss's father is

Hello, I hope you are all in good health. i have a research request regarding the Chilean poet and diplomat Gabriela MistraI. I am seeking to access a book of her letters due to the Covid virus

According to today's UK Guardian newpaper in an article by Laura Spinney, quinine was much in use during the 1918 flu epidemic "even though there was no evidence it worked for flu" and "doctors often