Yehuda Ben Chaim imeans Yehuda, son of Chaim. The inscription should say, for a woman ____ bat (daughter of) ___ (father's name). Yehuda is a man's name, so it's odd. If you have a photo of the

The 1875 Nikolayev Podalia census was translated a number of years ago by a private party who indicated to me that he donated it to Jewishgen. I found valuable information when it was on that private

I wonder if anyone can help me, on my great grandmother's burial ledger at Plashet Cemetery London, it gives the following information: Sora Yehuda Ben Chaim. Her married name was Sora Bober, what

Hi, Thank you for such a wonderful website! I wanted to ask the group and researcher about the below: My surname is Rashap, which is an abbreviation of the famous Rabbi Shlomo Pinsker or

Laurence, The following email is from Marcel - I hope this is helpful to you in your search. Best regards, Sherri Hi Sherri, I just made a family search about Barsky and the problem is

Dear JewishGen Community, With deep sadness, we regret to inform you of the passing of Susan E. King, the legendary founder of JewishGen. When Susan first created JewishGen, I doubt she expected the

My father was a big fan of the Barry Sisters. He had many of their records and I grew up hearing them singing the Yiddish favorites that we all know and love. There is this Ukrainian sister singing

We’ve again uploaded 100,000 newly-transcribed Ukraine records in December -- as promised! Each record has a link to the page of the original document where you find your ancestor's

Dear Friends and Family, If you are receiving this email, then you have benefitted from one of the many resources JewishGen offers the community. Perhaps you: Discovered the record of a relative in

Finding Your Roots begins its 9th season on January 3rd on your local PBS station at 8 PM ET/PT/7PM Central. This runs in the USA and parts of Canada-I do not know where else it is shown. If you

Hi- I'm Gerson Panitch, one of Rabbi Panitch's sons. My father advises that the reports of his death are greatly exaggerated. He will be 90 years young next month, and has deep knowledge of the

The US Census Bureau has estimated the US population on January 1, 2023 at 334,233,854 people. The combination of births, deaths and net international migration increases the US population by 1 person

Dear friends, researchers, Here is an update for the Bessarabia projects for the month of December 2022. See also at What's New at Bessarabia website. Bessarabian Databases. Updates ready for

I'm trying to track down Esther's identity (the woman in the photo below) but need more eyes and heads on this mystery. The back of the photo, I understand, is addressed to "Aunt Ella" who was my

When further looking into the suggestions from Steve Toub, I found ships maneifests documented Nosekowsky, Nosikowsky, Fusikowsky. I do not know if that was the London side of the travel to the US or

I am writing about a tree I found posted for a Moshe Tennenhaus on JewishGen Family Tree. I am trying to figure out if this Moshe Tennenhaus (Son of Eliezer Tennenhaus and Henny Nussenbaum) is my

I have Olechnowicz and Olegnowicz distant relations who came from Suwalki gubernia in NE Poland and are scattered in UK/Mexico/USA. Are you sure your translation relates to a place as opposed to a

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Hi Laurence, I know about Bassky, but I think the name was Barsky. He was chazzan at the sjoel of the Machzikei Hadas in Antwerpen, starting somewhere in the early 1920s. The conductor of the

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