I am looking for Kessel and Charipper in Brody if anybody sees those names in this list. Thank you so much! Tara Blieden Rothman

DNA testing may help, as there are several DNA signatures that link to Jews who fled Sicily and to Converso Jews generally (such as the Belmonte in Portugal). Some of the Sicilian Jews went north to

The date the property was built listed on the NYC Dept of Finance's Property Tax web portal may not always be accurate. I just checked my family's home in Brooklyn, NY and the date built was noted as

The full document show two groups of identical questions. The upper group, which contains the text you want interpreted refers to the groom. The groom's Hebrew name is Moses son of Dov. The text after

Link to the NYC Department of Finance's Property Tax Public Access web portal: https://a836-pts-access.nyc.gov/care/forms/htmlframe.aspx?mode=content/home.htm From there, you'd follow the following

I can't improve on Michele Lock's excellent strategies for this particular name search. I think it is helpful for researchers to keep in mind that civil records were recorded in the prevailing

There is a Nebraska Jewish Historical Society, that may be able to answer some of your questions about Eastern European Jewish immigrants coming to Omaha: https://www.nebraskajhs.com I strongly

The second post above asks about finding Jewishgen entries for persons using the name Levin in the US, who were originally from Lithuana: I had this situation with my Lavine family branch, not knowing

Linda, Perhaps you would take a look at this map at my website that shows Sandomierz and Staszow in the view chosen. http://easteurotopo.org/leaflet-maps/congress-poland.html#11/50.6052/21.4707 The

Kathy, The map referred to by Marian is very helpful if you are interested in a historical image. The map will take you past the borders of Austria-Hungary and there is a measure tool, although it is

Join us for our next free JewishGen Talks webinar: Topic: The Three Great Myths of Jewish Genealogy Speaker: Chuck Weinstein Date: Wednesday, November 3, 2021 Time: 2:00 PM Eastern Time Join Chuck

One point of amplification: although Russian does not have the equivalent of an H (so "Hamlet" is "Gamlet") there is a guttural H, eg the first sound in the word "challah." It is represented in the

Jay, Congrats on finding that the original spelling of WRIGHT was REIT. That should open up avenues of research for you. Glad you updated all of us that were interested in your search. Best

It took me awhile before the "ah-ha" moment, but some years back I had this realization...Not only is there no H in Russian, so it would be written as a G, but the Litvak pronunciation spoke the O

My biggest brick wall is my maternal great grandfather,SHIMON TOPF. Born in 1855 in Rohatyn, Ithink there is a decent possibility he’s related to PAJE TOPF FRANKEL, born1849 in Podhajce. I believe

Hello Jorge, don't know whether you can find here any hint: https://collections.arolsen-archives.org/archive/80985912/?p=1&s=Raciaz&doc_id=80985913 Otherwise you could ask here which archive is

Greetings, I recommend "Chapter 20: The Expulsion" from Simonsohn's book "Between Scylla and Charybdis" (ISBN: 978-90-04-19245-4). This 50 page chapter details events in Sicily at the time of the

My Uncle George T Rosenstein was born in Omaha. His story was that his family was poor that he was put in a Catholic orphanage where he served as a choirboy. Here is is profile on Geni. I don't have

A fixture of the Jewish shtetl was the shabbos goy on whom people relied to perform tasks that were prohibited by Jewish religious law on the Sabbath. A section from the Yizkor book of Zgierz in

I have heard her talk and the story is riveting. Do not miss Deborah. -- Bob Silverstein bobsilverstein@... Elk Grove Village, IL Researching Kaplan (Krynki, Poland) Tzipershteyn (Logishin, Pinsk,