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Hi, I've posted a marriage record for Lejwi vel Kiepski and Ruchla Apelsztajn in Polish, for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address

We are delighted to announce the release of the March 2022 issue of the Galitzianer, the quarterly research journal of Gesher Galicia. The articles in this issue traverse borders and time periods as

I have learned that my great uncle (and cousin), Josef Erlich of Otrowiec, Poland, survived the war based on documents received from the Arolsen Archives. I know that he was in Germany at one time and

Yankel Leib SANDBERG a/k/a Jacob Louis / Lou SAND (b circa 1890 Pinsk, Russia) traveled from the US, probably NY where he was then living, between January 1914 and March 1916, to the UK where he

I've encountered this similar situation regarding the surname changes that didn't really look at all like each other. After looking into this (a while ago), I've found that this was called something

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Hello Fellow JewishGeners: Avotaynu used to produce a CD-ROM of the journals of Jewish Genealogical Societies. If someone has it, I would appreciate their looking up something for me. Please reply

Not all name changes were done through the courts. My father and his brother changed their names informally. This is legal as long as it is not done for fraudulent purposes. That said, it should be

In researching my husband's WONDELOWICS (later GREENBERG) family, his grandmother, mother and three more sisters traveled from Ostrow Mazowiecka, Poland to finally reunite with their husband/father

I am doing research for my wife. The paternal side of her family comes from Bessarabia, specifically what was the Hotin Oblast at the beginning of the 20th Century. While I have a good deal of

Many thanks to Harvey, Jill, Tony and Marsha for your responses to my query. I have now been able to find most of the births of the siblings plus an additional one. I am used to finding alternative

I hang my head in shame. I've just gone back and added the following response to the ViewMate post: "I am returning to correct my error re the father's name. I correctly read it as Yeshayahu

I have found the index info for "violations" recorded for my maternal great-grand parents. The location is Galicia in Poland, but was under Austrian jurisdiction in 1900, when the violation was

Professor Daria Nalelcz played an important role for those researching their Jewish roots in Poland. Her support of the efforts of the advancement of Jewish Records Indexing-Poland and contribution

Hi all I have adopted the Lviv Ukraine KehilaLink, my first website in the Ukraine. Links to my other sites are here: https://elirab.me/kehila The Lviv site is now located

I am looking for someone to take pictures of 2 graves at Mount Zion Cemetery in Maspeth Queens, NY. Scholnick/Scolnick. Thank you, Esta Kawaoka

Thanks to all who responded. Dan's comment corresponds with other information I have. Isaiah can be shortened into 'Shiah' or 'Scheim' as a nickname, and then into the Anglicized 'Simon'. Alan

This strikes me as likely. My father’s family emigrated in 1880 as ‘Lische’ and my father’s branch almost immediately assumed the name ‘Reische’, which is more Germanic. (The older

I found my mothers on Ancestry.com