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

Just to agree with most people. I was surprised to find that my great-grandparents (originally from Galicia but then living in Budapest) had a synagogue wedding in Vienna in 1905. They already had

Dear Group I'm currently trying to ascertain the date when the SS President Doumer departed from the port of Marseilles, France, bound for Shanghai, China. My parents and sister were passengers on

Hello, I am from Jordan and we have a family story talking about how my mom's side came from spain after the expulsion of Jews, although I couldn't prove that. I did a dna test on Myheritage, and the

On Thu, Jul 29, 2021 at 05:01 PM, Ted Gostin wrote: In addition to finishing the digitizing of the Jewish birth, marriage, divorce and death records for Kiev city, the E-Archives of the Central State

In the article 'Deiches' from the Jewish Encyclopedia, Louis Ginzberg writes: "Samuel b. Aryeh Löb Deiches: Lithuanian rabbi; died at Wilna March 23, 1825. His father was rabbi at Lida, near Wilna;

Thanks, everyone, for your help. Thanks to you, I now see that the village of Lak, 17 miles north of Miskolc, is the most likely candidate. And it helps reinforce my conjecture about relationships

Elias, This must be the family living in Waco in 1930. Julius is proprietor of dry goods store. https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:HXC4-V3Z Household Role Sex Age