Fold3 is part of the Ancestry family of companies is offering free access for Memorial Day through May 31, 2021 at 11:59 p.m. ET to its 550+ million military records extending back to the

Hi all, Birth indexes for 1876 and marriage indexes for 1854 (about 2300 records) were added to the All Odessa database on the Odessa Kehilalinks (https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/odessa). Ariel

Thank you Michele for sharing the link to the Cowen Report. My grandfather came over in 1906 so this report is like finding a gold mine. Did anyone else have problems trying to download the report or

Thank you all, so much, for the informative and helpful responses. I've been making my way through the Cowen report and am so impressed with all the stories and persons that Cowen engaged with. It

I've posted a handwritten letter in Yiddish for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address ... https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM93790 Please

The spelling of my mother's surname changed after she was born, as did that of her first name. The new spelling was standardized, one might say, when my grandfather was naturalized in the 1930s and

Hi Sheryl, Most people just started using a different name, whether it be first name and/or surname, and there is no legal paperwork. Some people did use the naturalization process to change their

It may never have been changed through the courts. My grandfather's name changed almost every time he (or someone for him) filled out a new document. I changed my name in 1979 without going through

My grandfather changed his name in 1908. When he applied for a passport in 1927 he had to show a court order changing his name, and that shows on his application. This was in New York but his

Admixture reports cannot do this because of the many genetic recombinations over 8 generations (one cannot determine which ancestor(s) are producing the Sephardic signal). The only possible DNA

Hi from Paris, Dear Yael, Michael gives the best answer if you wish to find names of children who had been hidden in homes located in South of France. But if you which to contact those who are still

Hi from Paris, Dear Julie, I reply in English to give a general answer, then we will switch to French for further private discussion. French Revolution had given full citizenship to Jews living in

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Hello to everyone. My name is Julie and I'm about to help my husband with his family tree. This will take me a while, because I am visually impaired and can't spend too much time looking at a

Thank you so much for the link to the Cowen report. I have only skimmed it, esp. the section on travel you highlighted, and it is very informative and fascinating. It is great to read a contemporary

I entered my grandfathers name and his US draft card and a separate box for his UK service with a link to UK Archive. It seems to work fine at least for US and UK records. Dahn Zukrowicz

I tried this before I posted about it and after Madeleine's posting "I tried this link out, but it appears to be restricted to just records for those who served in the USA. If otherwise, perhaps

The JewishGen USA Research Division (USA-RD) is a group of volunteer genealogists exploring the lives of Jews in America from 1654 to the present. With goals to educate, and to identify, index, and

Hi DNA can go back quite far. There are three types of DNA: YDNA - males only carry this (father's father's father's etc...) mtDNA - from mother, male and female can carry (mother's mother's mother's

The other day, a person posted about the Cowen report, written by a US immigration judge who traveled to Russia in 1906 to investigate various matters pertaining to the Jewish immigration from there.