Hi Tony, There are also a lot of documents in the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien (IKG). I they cover at least birth, marriage and divorce documents. You can find their contact information at

Correction: The last citation to Jacobi in my previous post should have read: Vol. 4, p. 8, B.5 -- Adam Cherson,NY, NY https://independent.academia.edu/AdamCherson

Greetings, It's late where I am so at the risk of bungling the discussion here is how I see things: There is no question that ReMa's brother Elieser Isserles brought the RaSCHI ancestry into his

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Rick Pinard wrote that: "Schvarcz, Testv. (not sure what Testv. is exactly). VI." Testv. is short for Testverek and usually means that the business was run by brothers. My grandfather ran two

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Hello Tony, I am not sure what you mean with the passports but if you need proof that they lived in Austria and had Austrian citizenship, a good start may be the archives of Vienna.

Jules, Does Chaim Dembitzer say that the Rema descends from Rashi? And, I believe the Rema did have children. I am not sure what you mean when you say he only had collateral descendants. Kol tuv,

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It is my understanding that Isserles has only collateral descendants, from his brother. My wife, a direct descendant of Chaim Dembitzer, and I visited the Rema's shul and