MyHeritage has purchased the French genealogy firm, Filae.com. According to CompGen, there was a fierce bidding war with Geneanet but MyHeritage’s bid was substantially more. The shareholder’s

1st column: Consecutive number: 282 2nd column: Birth Day: 12; Month: July; Year: 1897; Place: Schodnica 3rd column: Circumcision Day: 19; Month: July; Year: 1897; Place: Schodnica 4th column: About

Thanks for the detailed and useful information. One other wrinkle in the story is that my great-grandfather Max Shorris (“Jossel Flink”) came in 1898, and his wife and two daughters came in 1901.

On Sat, May 22, 2021 at 09:48 AM, David Levine wrote: I have the Death Certificate number from the Index for a 1915 Death Record in Manhattan, NY Is the place to find it this source only available in

David, Some of the death cert info is transcribed at FamilySearch: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2WHT-X14 Name:Max LevineSex:MaleAge:32Residence Place:New York City, New YorkAddress:30

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I was surprised to find my my great grandparents on the manifest with a different surname. Then I searched the name on JewishGen for Lithuanian records and found them in multiple birth & death

"It is no easy thing for a family to get a passport. If for any reason the birth of any child has not been properly entered upon the records of the community, and this happens quite frequently in the

A number of families in Lithuania claimed descent from R. Isaac Luria, the Ari. Over 40 years ago I discussed this with early genealogist Shmuel Gorr, and he told me that he was able to trace one of

Thanks for bringing this up, Perry. I have wondered the same for years, and still don't have a good explanation for the name changes. In my case, multiple family members traveled from Lithuania to

Explanation follows: Three years ago, someone in this group graciously sent me the attached Polish document, possibly a census record or a military conscription record for a Chaim Ber KNISBACHER of

I had an uncle who came under a different name. I was told that he bought the papers of someone who had already gone through the process, and that this was known to happen.

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Hi Can anyone decipher this town name in Russia? The traveler and her son are in rows 1 and 2 Esther married in Slutsk, Belarus and was living there when first her husband (who is confirmed to have

Asking for a friend (really!). He got this from JRI Poland. He believes the middle entry (name= Eisig) may be his maternal grandfather. Neither of us can translate the column headings and certainly

Arthur, Now that you've found the town, you can search for records at: https://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Lithuania/ Good luck in your search, Sherri Bobish

Hi Harvey, There may be more than one Lotte Friedmann from Breslau. In 1938 Hans Friedmann (age 25) and his wife Hildegarde, arrived in NY, and he left behind his mother in Breslau named Lotte

My great-grandfather, born Mordkhel Eliash Shores, emigrated from Kovno to America in 1898 under the name “Jossel Flink” (the name on the ship’s manifest and referenced in his naturalization

This was taken at the Wolpe studio (name embossed bottom right), probably around 1920. It was in the collection of Minnie Burns (Bernstein), one of the Swirsky/Swersky sisters. Minnie lived in

Coopersmith could also have been spelled as Kupferschmidt. I have cousins by that last name and also several of its variations. Adela Weinstein Peoria, Arizona