-- Belinda Dishon Melbourne Australia bdishon1@... PECZENIK JACKER PRAGER KATZ KURZER

Can someone please tell me the name of Solomon's father, listed on the top of his tombstone. Thank you. Virginia Cohen

Looking for anything on Newman Eligator who likely immigrated from Russia in 1887. Bruce Clark

Thanks for the tips, everyone. I located a record from the Old Snipishok Cemetery provided by LitvakSIG: Surname Given Name Father Age Comments day month year Town Uyezd Guberniya Type of

Thanks Jill, I now see that R' Salis is the 2x great grand nephew of R' Avraham Shimon Preger, HaGadol, Dayan of Vilna circa 1750 -- Adam Cherson

I also have a passed-down family story about my father’s family having been in Spain before the inquisition, escaping to Izmir Turkey, and later to Poland and then Hungary. One way I have validated

According to family lore, my great grandfather's brother David left New Haven to Boston in the latter years of the 19th cent. and started working in a dept. store there and worked his way up to

I also agree that it is worth looking into the ethnicity of your closest DNA matches, and see if you can figure out how you are related to them. In addition, its important to put together your family

There is a Royal Warrant Holders Association, that goes back to the 1840s. They may be able to tell you about warrant holders from the early 1900s. There is an email address to contact

Eric, Try The UK National Archives: How to look for records of... Royal Household and

This appear to be the town known in Polish as Chorostków, currently identified as Khorostkiv in Ukrainian. There are 94 entries posted by 53 researchers for Khorostkiv in JGFF database. There are

", opis (inventory) 1 is the Jewish vital records for Kiev city. Opis 2 contains the Jewish vital records for other towns in Kiev uyezd" I searched for ' E-Archives of the Central State Historical

I am 1/2 Mizrahi/Sephardic and looked to see if you and I are related on MyHeritage...unfortunately, we are not. One suggestion that I have is to contact some of your DNA matches....if you have 2nd

I would have guessed that Arkes was “the son of Arke”. My litvak ggfather was Feive Zippes (Feive son of Zipporah). Judith Diamond nee Letchner researching Glick & Epel, from Leckava; Lechner &

Dear Rose, You can find pictures and a little bit of history about the "SS Président Doumer" here : http://www.messageries-maritimes.org/pdtdoumer.htm Also according to this article (in French

Could Chortkiv (Czortkow) in Eastern Galicia which was part of Austrian Emprire be possible? I am guessing not Tony Hausner Maryland, U.S. thausner@...

I found a mention of a marriage record for the town of Lodz, it is labelled as Lodz 1919 Marriage #498 on JRI-Poland Project Lodz 1919. How do I get the original copy of the marriage record? Frank

Hello Reba, Like you, my Bubba always made Potatonik (we nicknamed it, Nik, as kids). Recipes differ from region to region and I have two. My mother's was as follows: take lots of peeled potatoes

I think this is the same family as that of Rabbi Salis Daiches, Rabbi of Edinburgh in Scotland in the early 20th century. His immediate family came from Neustadt Scherwindt (its German name) in

Hi Shimi, Please see below a translation: Jakób Spasser, born and living in Żabie, cattle merchant - illegitimate son of Mordka Samson Vogel and Sura Spasser both living in Żabie Aged 34 years, 2