Jewish Genealogical Society of Toronto How to Read and Interpret Russian Birth-Marriage-Death (BMD) Documents David Price Wednesday, 23 February at 7:30 pm. ET. Virtual Meeting: Join

There is believed to be a plaque in a synagogue in California in memory of Isaac Elchonon BLOCH (1897-1962) who served in his later years as a rabbi in Desert Springs CA. I would be most grateful to

I understand that what i will write is not exactly the abouth the item,into the only museum of the american congress you have 23 o 26 bibliorath all digitalized with the name is amited of the polish

These records are still at the vital registry office, town hall Michalovce. -- Peter Absolon Kosice, Slovakia

Two synagogues and a Jewish bath in Aizpute, Latvia, in the 1930s are now a community center. When the Soviet Union fell, most Jewish owners had died in the Holocaust, and many buildings became

The book 'The Promised Land' by the Jewish immigrant Mary Antin, has a chapter about her family's journey from Plotzk Belarus to the US in the 1890s. It will give you a flavor of what it was like to

I am trying to find Joyce Locks Davis. She was born in Cleveland, Ohio in about 1945. She later moved to Cleveland Heights, Ohio. I believe her mother was divorced. Joycie attended the Cleveland

Try worldgenweb.net/poland Linda Gordon Higgins Spring, TX

Are there online death records available for Michalovce (Nagy Mihaly) around 1917. I'm searching for Yehuda Friedman's death record Thank you. Kenneth Berger

- If you post a question about the Jewish records of Poland, please remember that you may be inspiring multiple people to answer the same one. Please don't hesitate to write the Town Leader for the

Revision Lists (“Reviski Skaski”) are comprehensive lists of the taxpaying population to which almost all the Jews belonged. They were first recorded in 1772. The last Revision List was compiled

Thank you, JewishGen, for yesterday's extraordinary presentation, "The Hare with Amber Eyes”: A Glimpse into some Jewish Families of Vienna, featuring author and artist Edmund de Waal in

In 1973-75 the Province of Alberta Archives tape-recorded interviews with many of the Jewish pioneers in Edmonton and Northern Alberta. Most of the interviewees would have been born between 1890 and

Koloma is most likely Kolomea Galicia (now Kolomiya Ukraine) Jacob Shayzaf, Israel

Hi Trudy, People have forgotten how census records were researched before the Internet behemoths. For ferreting out vague, ill-formed names on U.S. census records, nothing beats the Soundex system

Hi Rennie, Jewishgen has a KehilaLinks website for Husi and an English translation for Husi chapter of Pinkas Kehilot Romania. Valentin Lupu ISRAEL

Peter There is a book written by one of our past members, Sid Sorkin, on most of the Chicago Landmanshaften. Below you will find an extract from his book. If you write to me privately I can help you

Dear Tzipporah, I don't have a directory for Slovakia from 1944. The closest I can get are the following: The 1938 lists of doctors in Czechoslovakia which has a MUDr. Ladislav Kemeny listed as a

If they recorded arrivals and departures, was there also a list of people who had not moved? It would not be a census if it only recorded changes of abode. Jeffrey Herrmann

I've posted two sides of a postcard written in German shorthand. It was sent by a woman in Berlin to her daughter in California shortly after the latter's immigration., and is dated June 1938. (The