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Re: What given name is it? German #translation

The name appears to be Meier Steven Warner

By Steven Warner · #667957 ·

How to find UKRAINE birth and marriage records #ukraine #records #russia

Hi all, I am looking for any and all records that may exist for my paternal grandparents, who were from Ukraine. The towns I know of are Uman, Vinograd, and Evanka. Their names were Velvel

By DALE ZEIDMAN · #667956 ·

Re: What given name is it? German #translation

The last 3 letters of the word between Isak and Haller are repeated before the name Sara. I cannot decipher the word, but that may give a clue. The script is difficult, but an expert in old German

By familyjaffa@... · #667955 ·

Re: What given name is it? German #translation

Münster. You may find him here: https://ofb.genealogy.net/famreport.php?ofb=juden_nw&ID=I304272&nachname=M%C3%9CNSTER&modus=&lang=de Regards Marion (Weber), Stuttgart

By weber_genealogy@... · #667954 ·

IGRA video “Genealogy of Eretz Israel” #israel

The Israel GenealogyResearch Association (IGRA) has posted a new video on its website, “Genealogyof Eretz Israel” , a presentation given by Garri Regev, IGRA’s President. This presentation was

By Elena Bazes · #667953 ·

Re: How to find UKRAINE birth and marriage records #ukraine #records #russia

The vital records for Ladyzhin were destroyed in a fire in 2003. I recognize the name Milkis. I think my great grandfather Sam Lasken may have traveled to the US with someone with that name. I need

By Diane Katz. SURNAMES/TOWNS: Laske/Ladyzhin;,Steinberg Kiev; Grunberg Rheinhorn/Iasi; Milston/Slutzk; Bicz/Mogilev; Glas/Varniai; Moskowitz/Nagy-Saros Klein/Eperjes; Hefliech/Hungary; Marks/Machester/Suwalki; Shedrofski/Suwalki · #667952 ·

Re: Abramovich's Sephardic genealogy #sephardic

I am responding to David Mendoza's JewishGen message #667933 dated 5 April 2022. Dear David, Although there are multiple flimsy aspects of Abramovich's application's supposed "evidence", such as the

By Kevin Brook · #667951 ·

Re: "First cousin" from DNA suggests common grandparentS, right - or could it be just ONE common grandparent? #dna

Richard, If 23AndMe is predicting a 1st cousin, it means that the amount of DNA you share with that person is equivalent to what you would expect to see if you shared a full set of grand-parents (i.e.

By superimmune@... · #667950 ·

Re: What given name is it? German #translation

It looks to me like Minsker or Minscher. Linda Gordon Higgins Spring, TX

By Linda Higgins · #667949 ·

Translation assistance needed. #translation

I have posted a family letter on ViewMate and request translation assistance. The letter is posted as

By ryabinkym@... · #667948 ·

Major new Andrzejewo, Lomza area, Poland records extraction project has started #poland

- Long-time Andrzejewo and area researchers will be pleased to learn that Jewish Records Indexing - Poland https://jri-poland.org// has undertaken a huge new “Phase 3” project to fully extract

By Aaron Roetenberg · #667947 ·

Re: Kovany, Russia #russia

I believe it's a translation/transcription error... It's actually Kovno (or Kovno Governorate). It's was a temporary Capital of Kaunas and later a Ghetto within Kaunas, Lithuania. At one time, Russia

By Brian Kerr · #667946 ·

Kovany, Russia #russia

I am doing some family history research for a friend. According to the 1921 Census his grandparents were born in Kovany, Russia. A Google search has not produced any references to such place. Can

By John Cutmore · #667945 ·

Re: NY Times Obit Look-up (Dates not in Newspapers.com) #usa

I'm a professor who teaches grad students in an information school (library science, information science, etc.) and regularly teach my students about newspaper access -- I'm attaching a tip sheet some

By casmith24@... · #667944 ·

Revision Lists vs. Family Lists #russia

Dear fellow researchers, In discussion of a question from April 3 regarding two brothers in a “Russian family list” whose names seemed to be the same, Peter Cohen mentioned that he was unclear on

By Beth Galleto · #667943 ·

Re: Need help with locating the origin of a birth certificate from 1904 in Przemysl #galicia

Thanks to everyone who responded to my inquiry. As Jennifer and Michelle discovered— this is not my grandmother’s record after all! -- NTalbot Brooklyn, NY ninaitalbot@... NEGER, SPINRAD (Dynow,

By NTalbot · #667942 ·

Re: NY Times Obit Look-up (Dates not in Newspapers.com) #usa

ProQuest also suffers for the late in the year gaps in newspaper coverage. I used the service at my local library extensively for census searches because back a few years ago their search engine was

By EdrieAnne Broughton · #667941 ·

Re: Is "Shmuel" (Hebrew name) likely to have a son called Samuel ? #names #ukraine #unitedkingdom

My great-grandfather Sam was Sheftel. -- Elynn Boss Frisco, Texas, United States bossgen_1@... Searching: Abrahams (New York); Gichtin/Gechtin/Gertin (Buffalo, New York and Canada); Dreishpoon (New

By Elynn Boss · #667940 ·

To Michael Gerber #usa

Michael Gerber--Hello from San Diego--not sure if this will help but my great grandfather Hyman Ludwig from Lithuania was married to Dora (Dobra) Gerber (or Garber, we are not sure) in 1886. They came

By DEBORAH STONE · #667939 ·

CHOL Session #1 #education #announcements

Hi All Here is the YouTube link for Community History ONLINE - CHOL Series 2 Session 1 held last week: https://youtu.be/q5k5fhJa7sQ Below are the details for Session 2 in the 3 part series, from

By Eli Rabinowitz · #667938 ·

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