https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/11/22/how-your-family-tree-could-catch-a-killer Jan Meisels Allen Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee

Vera Miller’s Find Lost Russian and Ukrainian Family website posts about Geneteka expanding its free database to add indexed Russian vital records. Geneteka is known for its indexed Polish vital

Reading over more carefully the request from the original poster, she wrote that she is not looking to put together a family tree, and that she is primarily interested in finding out whether this

It is also possible that the census information was provided by a neighbor or someone else who did not know her exact status. And it is not impossible that a lazy census worker might have invented

Adam, On the 1930 census in Petaluma is Batia Munchin, born in Palestine. Her two daughters born in California. I do not find a Mnuchin spelling n Petaluma. According to the CA Birth Index of the

Since divorce was so rare in the early 1900s, it is possible that the census taker only asked the woman if she was single, married or widowed, so she chose from amongst those three. -- Michele

For those looking for issues of the Landsmen, worldcat.org has records of library holdings worldwide. If you enter your location information, it will rank libraries closest to you. I've made a

Dutch "House Book" records would tell you not only the religion but also if Jewish, if Ashkenazi or Sephardi. David Harrison Birmingham, England

I am trying to find more information on this person Anna rupar If I own the original documents unfortunately I can't find her ancestors or her descendants and what happened to her after the

I’m looking for Hena Tarant, who died in a Vilnius, early 20th century and was able to find Gena Tarant , who died in Vinius,in 1911. Could this be the same woman? Also, if I could add an external

I wonder if Rishkon/Riscani belongs to Bessarabia. In this case, I would like to know where can I find civil records of this town (JG seems to have rather few data). I am particularly interested in

Can someone please tell me what language this document is and what it tells the reader? Thank you David Lewin London

The three times I divorce you is the Muslim not Jewish method of divorce. In Jewish law the husband has to write, by a scribe, a ‘get’ a bill of divorce and give it to the wife who accepts it.

LitvakSIG has an extensive database searchable on the ALD All Lithuania Database for the Suwalki Gubernia. A contribution of $100 entitles one to five full years of access to all of the excel sheets

Odeda Zlotnick sent me this link for the Records of the Beth Din of Brody. The images are much clearer than those I had posted on ViewMate. Clicking the grid of four small boxes brings up all of the

Hi I'm looking for someone who can help me translate a birth record (Alter Samuel Bernard Sojka, Zawiercie, 1903) from Polish to English. He was killed in the massacre of Ardeatine Caves (Rome, 1944)

Could you be referring to a woman who - in Jewish orthodox tradition - is NOT told by her husband three times "I divorce you" even though she has obtained a divorce decree from a Civil Court?

You are here touching on the age old question of "who is a Jew"? Judaism is not uniform. There are very many streams and variants. So depending who gives you the answer, you may get totally

Hi Dorann, Actually, your post, and the terms you've chosen to use seem to me to be in agreement with what I posted. For you, the first indication you may have Jewish roots was a cultural one: Your

Could you please explain the funding part of this? Which towns have records that have still not been uploaded? Thank you, David Brostoff Berkeley, California