Shalom Veronica, There are a few people listed on google (in Hebrew) here in Israel…. One lady a dentist.. I can try phoning some of them if you wish… to enquire if they are descendants . Best

Hello everyone, I'm looking for some advice from more experienced people about my desire to find out if my great-grandmother was Jewish. My great-grandmother, born 1903, had 10 children. Some of her

At 14:45 16/11/2021, Jorge Frankon wrote: I am interested in reading old handwritten Yiddish, especially coming from central west Poland and the "zone of transition" of Yiddish dialect at the north

Brian, I recently read the book you mention and found the title to be very misleading. As you say, it is more about the history and movement to that part of the world that "Pirates." That being

I have questions about the status and origin of the military service of my paternal grandfather Yitzkhaq Moshe KNISBACHER, for whom I am named. For years I have had a postcard (sent to me by a

For what it's worth, there is also an ABRAMOWITZ tangentially related to my tree, Masha, apparently an earlier spouse of my great-aunt's second husband. I have no information other than his name and

Dear Veronica, Your note got my attention because you mentioned the name of the town of Drohobych. My mother, after WWII got married to a wonderful man Oskar Russ who was born in Drohobych about

Hi, Simon, I would love to read your book. I don’t see it on Amazon, or am I missing something? I am very interested in Caribbean history *and* Jewish history, so it sounds perfect. How can I get

I see that the name of the father of Dvorah Fine was spelled differently, once Kapil and once Kopil. The traditional Jewish name involved here is Koppel. In Yiddish, many times, the letter "aleph"

Hi Ellen, I read the towns as Hamerstein (probably a misspelling of Hammerstein, now known as Czarne), and Krotoschin (Krotoszyn). Jonathan Spencer-Todd Oxford, UK

Trying to make contact with the family of Sara (nee Wagschal) Licthenstein who immigrated to Israel in 1943 and lived in Ramat Gan. Her father, Shlomo Wagschal was a descendant of the Wagschal

Daniella, Found at ancestry.com: On the NYC 1924 Voters List there is a Henry V. AGINSKY listed in Brooklyn, NY at 299 Hopkinson Ave. Also at that address are Hyman S. and Ida AGINSKY. On the 1925 NY

I cannot find much information on my paternal grandmother's family. She was born Julie ROSE, in Stamford, Connecticut, in 1906, daughter of Nora and Morris ROSE. I do not have further information

You can also phone your local LDS Library and ask if there is someone who can help you or when such a person might be in. Barbara Stack Berkeley, CA [JewishGen.org] JewishGen.org Discussion Group -

The marriage of my great great grandmother and father have the towns they were born but I can not read the script. Encolsed is the marriage certificate from NY in 1867. Thank you in advance.

Jack Certainly this also happened in The Netherlands. I have a large slice of an ancestral tree in which a series of first cousins have the same given name with a ripple of third cousins all using

Family History Library Lookup Service https://www.familysearch.org/en/family-history-library/family-history-library-records-look-up-service __ Lee David Jaffe Surnames / Towns: Jaffe / Suchowola,

I am also searching for my Abramowitz family. Could you provide approximate birth-death dates for Kalman and Deborah and where they originated from. I am looking for relatives of Tsvi Hirsch HlLevi

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

I have in my possession a book likely written in the 1950s (no publication date) entitled Jewish Monumental Inscriptions in Barbados, by E.M. Shilstone. It is a list of burials and headstone