Lara Thanks very much for this! Does anyone know if it's possible to search for surnames in the documents without going through each page as there are hundreds! I have tried to do so but it doesn't

I believe your ancestors almost certainly came from Vidz (now called Vidzy) - the former home town of my grandparents. In the body of your post, you spell the town's name Vidg which is the giveaway.

Further to my request for details as to Moshe of Kletzk, father of Rabbi David, who was the Rabbi of Novarodok during the 19th cent. and authored the "Galya Mesechet", I was given a partial family

My family was also variations of your own Solomonski. I found ours coming from the area of LIda, Belarus and Eisiskis, Lithuania. The name I found furthest back was Solomianski. All but one sibling

Unfortunately Rabbi Zushe Kinstlicher passed away in the Korona times. His institute Zikaron still operates the Email is: alyzecharon@... Yehuda Aharon Horovitz Jerusalem

Use wise.com to transfer money. It is cheaper than a wire transfer. And write to them in English providing the archival reference to the records you are seeking. Jody Tzucker Carmel Indiana

If his name was Philip Eisig, wouldn't his fathers name be a variant of Isaac? -- Loes Buisman, Amsterdam

We were able to get a copy of the 1949 discharge paper of my father-in-law Sabeto (Shabtai) Yahia (Yichya) who at the age of 17 volunteered to fight the Israel war of independence in 1948. He was one

According to family lore, my great grandfather's brother, David ABRAMOWITZ (seems to have changed his name), who was born in Novarodok , and emigrated to New Haven, Ct. with his widowed mother, in

The Israel Genealogy Research Association (IGRA) has just released new and updated databases on its website. There are now close to 2.5 million records available in our databases. With each release we

I am still trying to research children of Moshe of Kletzk, besides his son R' David, Rabbi of Novarodok (author of the "galya Mesechet") during the 19th cent. I believe that this Moshe was not Rabbi

The Ephrussis were a famous and very rich family who went from Odessa to Vienna and Paris, and they had a fabulous villa near Nice in the south of France, which is a tourist hotspot. I visited it in

In 1950 in New York there must have been hundreds of English women married to returning GIs. They all would have been used to the term charwoman as it was and still is used here. Perhaps she was

The Rebellion of the Daughters: Jewish Women Runaways in Habsburg Galicia by Rachel Manekin investigates the flight of young Jewish women from their Orthodox, mostly Hasidic families, in the late 19th

FYI, Philip is not solely a Christian given name. I had a paternal uncle Philip and his parents were Orthodox. Also, there were also females from Kohen and Levite families who "broke the mold and left

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Maybe Vidz or Vidzy, where my family came from. One of the nearby big cities was Dvinsk, but this does not sound like Disner. -- Yehoshua Sivan

Please write in English. If you have found a record on the ALD, plese copy of all the details with your reguest t(below is sample record) KARNOVSKIS / [KARNOVSKI], Judelis15 - 1 - 1915AronasMasa

I wish to thank all who answered my request. The original death and burial records of the Paris archives are indeed exactly what I was looking for. Once you learn the way the information is recorded

I'm 99% sure the year is 5665 or 5668. If one compares the third letter in the year to the 'samekh' (60), 'mem' (40) and 'peh' (80) letters elsewhere on the inscription, I am convinced it is a