People named Leib usually ended up as Louis in the US. Of course, like all of Yiddish to English name changes, not always. -- Peter Cohen California

Hello Jewishgen I'd like to thank you for your great site and for all the information that one can find in it. In one of your charts, under "publication type/Archive" is written "Jews repressed

PBS usually streams its "live" shows as well and sometimes the entire series is available to PBS members on or before the first date of a series. If you join any PBS station for a minimum of $75 a

I am so glad that there are a number of folks following this thread about patients living in the NY State psychiatric hospitals. Here is what I learned this week (caveat- this could change) *

Thank you everyone for your responses. With some more research, I'm drawn to the conclusion that Helen was not actually a new person in my family tree, but was the the person previously-identified as

David, I did a search at The Ellis Island Database: https://stevemorse.org/ellis2/ellisgold.html for surname starting with letter A, and town starting with Polon, and came up with a possible surname

Deborah, Have you searched the NY State Death Index? New York, State Death Index, 1880-1956 https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/2803479 If your aunt passed on in NY State during the years

Thank you all for the responses before. My Great Great grandparents is the subject. Therese cejka,chake arrived in 1889. She married steven kennick. He was stephan konig but changed names. Family

Eva, Neil Rosenstein's work mainly deals with the descendants of the Maharam of Padua - roughly speaking from 1500 to now, not from 1000 to 1500. Yoav, I have a list from Rashi to the Maharam of

Have you tried the Given names database at Jewishgen.org? You can do a search from "foreign" to "European". Note that the answers will vary depending on the country where your ancestor originated.

Renee Stern Steinig is correct about them being different locations. I apologize for my error. I did read in the articles that the Cemetery near Central Islip was used for burials from all three.

Thanks for the Heads Up. There are also discussions on September 8 and September 15 at 7:00 PM with Ken Burns and others. Fay Bussgang Dedham, MA

Hi David This is due to Ancestry.com (as well as the Ancestry-owned fold3) taking license with the title of their digital index. The source for these cards is actually titled by NARA as General Index

There are records of this type in the official German archives. I have seen some, indexed by town but the earliest ones are in Hebrew, so not easy to search and not reliably indexed. . . I have al

Sent from Mail for Windows Moshe Fink <mosfink@...> 11:27 AM (2 hours ago) to main@... Hello My mother's aunt, Riwke Reichman (nee Willner) born 1876 in Potok Zlote Galicia Austria and her two

The most comprehensive book I have read on this subject is "Hitler's Pope" The Secret History of Pope Pius X!!. by John Cornwell 1999 Dr Neville Silverston Cambridge UK

Hello Joachim, I descend directly from the MEYER family from Mülheim an der Ruhr and I have some information that might interest you. Since your message, you may have some information which might be

One of my wife's cousins called herself Helen when she arrived in the USA. Her Polish/Hebrew name was Gendla or Genendla. Alan Cohen

Leib is the Yiddush word for Lion. In the Torah in Bereishis (Genesis) (49:9) When Yaakov (Jacob) blessed his 12 sons before he died, he blessed his fourth son, Yehuda, (Ancestor of King David)

The Names and Fates Database completely changed my understanding of my family history. I look forward to this very much! Renee Carl Washington, DC Latvia names: Ketcher/Katscher Bortz Budovnitz