A few people are asking about Mt Zion in Maspeth. Queens, NY so if the weather continues to improve I am happy to make a trip there to get photos. Process I follow is fairly simple in offering to

Just like my own sister: Matya Batya, Bat Shimon Wexler. Jonathan Wexler

Unless buying it works. The first thing that came to mind was buying the identification papers of a dead soldier and using them. Not legally appropriate, but certainly practical in a time of chaos,

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Hi All, I know we're all anxiously waiting to be able to find our family in the 1950 census! If anyone needs to have an address looked up in Cleveland, OH, I'll be happy to do that for you. My library

Besie has a double given name: Batya bat-Tzion See: https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/daughter-zion-bat-tzion Compare to: https://www.kveller.com/jewish-baby-name/benzion/ She is

Odeda is correct. No way Bat Zion is a parent or Surname. It’s a derivative of Ben-Zion (son of Zion), a reasonably common male name. Bat-Zion (daughter of Zion) would have been pretty much an

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I agree with Odeda that Bat-Zion is part of her given name (or perhaps her "maiden name"). One should note that the name Batya, would have been pronounced by Ashkenazim as Basya, from which Bessie is

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

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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