Jeff, If it's any help, here is a photo of Julius' tombstone: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/98725610/julius-fine And, Samuel's: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/98725641/samuel-fine This may

I am searching for my relatives with the last name BOROK. My grandfather (Kissel Borok) and his siblings were from Akkerman in Bessarabia, but I know records don't exist for this. His brother, Lova

A very interesting article about the history of and the search for the creators of Hebrew typeface. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/hebrew-type-printing Laurie Sosna San Francisco, CA

Muni in our family was a nickname for Shimon.....(in Israel.) Heidi Farkash

To give you a summary, this is a marriage contract between the bride Amalie (Amalia) Steiner, assisted by her guardian (her mother), widow Therese Steiner, and the groom, Samuel Schwarz. At the end

Dear friends: Recent posts about obtaining a Polish passport, lead me to share a few thoughts: 1. Why pay for search archival sources when JRI-Poland may have the needed record information

They can be found on FindaGrave.com David Rosen Boston, MA On 4/9/2021 11:32 AM, fredelfruhman wrote:

Regarding the Conversos, according to Professor Netanyahu, a historian of the Inquisition, approximately half the Conversos were sincere converts to Christianity. By the way, as I recall, Lenin's

Could you envisage as an "extreme way" that jews married christians because they were in love ? :-))) Kind regards, Francis Amar

Dag, Have you searched The JewishGen Latvia database? https://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Latvia/ A very quick search finds the STEINFELD family you mentioned in Grobin, and also in Grobin names

Fredel, Thank you for the suggestion. I didn't know about ViewMate as I have just joined Jewishgen. I will check into how to post them on ViewMate. I took these photos from findagrave.com so I do not

Thanks for shedding light on these records. It turns out the records are digitized ( but not indexed) on FamilySearch. The records are not very well organized, but are accessible. Here is a link to

Can someone please transcribe the Hebrew letters and translate them from the attached short record? Thank you so much, Larry Bassist

All my family used the word to describe Eastern European Jewry. Perhaps they did not like saying “Pullaks”. I think it is only my generation that has ceased using it, I guess because nobody would

Munya and Muni are diminutives of Emmanuel; they may be for other names, as well. The late father of a friend was called "Muni" and his name was Emmanuel. -- Louise Goldstein

Did you check the FamilySearch website? They have some death records on the site Dassy Wilen

These photos seem to be very low-resolution. They become pixelated when I zoom in on them. Do you have higher-resolution versions? Also: why not post them on ViewMate, under

Long-time Brok and area researchers will be pleased to learn that Jewish Records Indexing - Poland has undertaken a huge new "Phase 3" project to fully extract all Brok birth, marriage and death

I have a six-page document that I would like to post for translation on ViewMate. (I thought it was Hungarian, but when I posted the first page, a few people informed me that only the first few lines

Dear George, are you 100% sure about the birth date for Hélène ? Here is one records from French Insee database (might be an homonym only) -- Regards, David