Congratulations to Jan Meisels Allen, President of the JGS of the Conejo Valley and Ventura County! At the Society Fair of the New England Regional Genealogical Conference, the Massachusetts

Well I can speak with experience on this. My husbands grandfather was Samuel Block from around Kiev, Russia. I looked for probably 15 yrs before I finally found his passenger list. And I was

Sheri, I don't think that it is a town name at all, but rather says "a widower" and is meant to fill in the blank above regarding marriage status, especially since no name is entered for the

in theory, they should be part of this https://szukajwarchiwach.pl/78/10/0/?q=LUDNO%C5%9ACI+Mi%C5%84sk+Mazowiecki&wynik=16&rpp=15&page=2#tabZespol If you plan on sending a researcher to deal with

Yoni, over the years, I have noticed that in different Countries the Wedding Ring is on different hands and fingers. In England Wales and Scotland most Men and Women use the second shortest finger of

At 02:31 18/05/2021, Jx. Gx. wrote: Tziyun lanefesh = literally recording for a soul Any action performed to indicate the place of burial or to retainthe memory of the deceasedDavid

Hey everyone My previous post wasn’t really clear, I would like to know if I can find a book of residents for the town of Minsk Mazowiecki ? What would be the archives where to find it and how ??

I have no doubt it's the latter intrerpretation. Whoever suggested Zion may know how to read some Hebrew words, but is unfamiliar with the language and its grammar. A "nefesh" in Hebrew in not a

You'll get a better chance of getting a reliable reply if you: 1) submit your document on Viewmate ViewMate - Instructions (jewishgen.org) and 2) submit a copy of the full document, in addition to

My fourth great grandfather, Michel Herschel, (b. abt 1770) married his father’s sister, Rane Herschel, (b. abt 1755) in Hamburg. She was only four years younger than Michel’s father, Meyer Wolff

At the top of my ggf's tombstone are the words ציון לנפש I'm trying to get an appropriate and grammatically correct translation of these two words. I received two translations from another

The Starokonstantinov Birth Records Project of the Ukraine SIG has been completed. A total of 11,813 birth records were translated. The birth records cover the years from 1866 to 1916. Nine of the

Hi Christine You don't give your great-grandparents' name, but have you looked for them in the Warsaw address book? The 1930 edition (which would have gone to press in 1929) is here:

Someone asked me ,when he saw my wedding ring, if I was from Romania. I said no . Was a man wearing a wedding originally a Romanian custom? Yoni Ben-Ari, Jerusalem

I am requesting translations of the following Yiddish,Polish or Russian text on these documents. They are birth the record/records for my great grandmother Rebecca Farbstein and the marriage

I'd appreciate help identifying the birthplace for my ggrandmother as shown in the Dec of Intention that was filed by my ggrandfather in 1921. She was born in about 1865, I believe in Galicia. A

Relly, Using The JewishGen Communities Database (soundex search) is helpful: https://www.jewishgen.org/Communities/Search.asp Droyanov perhaps: Troyaniv [Ukr], Troyanov [Rus, Yid], Trojanów [Pol],

Thanks for this, Jan. On a related note, I must mention "The Enemy I Knew: German Jews in the Allied Military in World War II," edited by Steven Karras, pub 2009 Zenith Press. It's a powerful

My great grandfather’s sister was Esther Birnbaum (née Kanarek), widow of Joseph Birnbaum. Her family came from Galicia. She had two daughters who died in NYC (Rose Appel and Rebecca Lichtblau). I

Thanks for sharing that, Mr Goldfarb- I hadn't seen that page. I'm the daughter and granddaughter of refugees from Vienna and have been working on my family tree since I started the Austrian