Bob, 1. She was Bathya (pronounced as Batya, the second letter in Hebrew is tav, which is "T" in Hebrew, but "S" in Yiddish (gut shabeS) 2. She was Batya BAT-TSIYON, I think it is her surname and

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"Bat-Tsion" is Batya's second name. You can even see the faint dash between the Bat and the Tsion. Her father was Yaakov Moshe HaCohen. -- Odeda Zlotnick Jerusalem, Israel.

One resource that you did not mention is a will. My husband's gg grandfather, 1824-1889, left money in gold to some of his sisters in Neunkirchen, B-W, Germany. From those names and location I was

March 22, 2022, 7:00 EDT ZOOM MEETING Using Facial Recognition to Identify Unnamed Ancestors Speaker: Scott Genzer Photographs have always been a genealogical challenge because, unlike

A DNA cousin and I are working to identify people in a group photo that includes members of 3 families. She has pictures of some people who might be in that photo but were taken when they were much

Are there any data or have any studies been done on typical distances that individuals or families would travel in permanently moving from one town to another? Reasons for such relocation could be

Dear fellow researchers, Our wonderful Ukrainian translator continues her work in spite of the difficulties and hazards of war. Tax censuses (family lists) from the Konotop uezd (district) in 1888

A late 1951 entry in the Bronx (NY) County Divorce and Civil Case records lists a Max I. Kleinberger as the plaintiff and the defendant is noted as "Appt of Committee". Any guesses as to what that

Dear Sheri, Can you please share if he married somebody before emigrating to the US in 1865? There is a record in the French National Archive that may correspond to your research However, no

I suspect her given name was Basya Bat-Zion (the female equivalent of the male given name Benzion) and her father was Yakov. Harry Auerbach Portland, Oregon

They said roughly, "These two ladies are saying that they are Jewish and they are also saying how much they are grateful to you for help and for the things they need so much ! To donate to our

From Mykhailo Zubar, Gesher Galicia's representative in Ukraine: Vinnytsia, 19:30 local time [17:30 GMT/UTC, March 14] "The weekend passed relatively calmly in Vinnytsia, with only occasional air

Alex has not posted a site in English. His site is in Ukrainian. If you use the Chrome browser, it will automatically translate the site (sort of). The site is

Please join JGSCT for our March 2022 program, to be held on Sunday, March 20, 2022, at 1:30 pm, via ZOOM. Researching US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Records Marian Smith presents an

Not only is Bessie's father's name there but also the grandfather. This is new to me. Does this mean the father whose name does not have h'Kohane did something to lose the status of a Kohane? Next

Hi, I'm not at all familiar with U.S. records so please bear with me! I found a record (below) on Ancestry that appears to be my ancestor travelling to the United States from Ireland. He was back in

I’m quite sure the birth year is 5668. The last letter in the year certainly looks like a ‘khet’, especially when you compare it to a definite ‘heh’ elsewhere on the

I worked with a genealogy researcher in Italy who was wonderful. If you have a sense of where in Italy your relative died, he may be able to help you. He works primarily in the Abruzzi and Molise