Note that HANS would be pronounced Hansch in Hungarian, which is a different surname. HANCZ is pronounced like Hantz. -- Vivian Kahn, Santa Rosa, California Researching families

I found a Jezow near there in case it was a misread of a few letters, Max Heffler Houston, TX From: main@... [mailto:main@...]On Behalf Of kosfiszer8 via groups.jewishgen.org Sent: Saturday,

I am 100% Ashkenazi. On any form that asks for race, I check other and write in "Semitic." This is probably going to start a whole new discussion on this topic but, what the heck. Robert

The Ancestry DNA results show that there is a sub-population of Jews (Ashkenazim) who share certain identifiable genotypical patterns. I would go one step further to say that these genotypical

Following record found before. Today accessing Unified Search : on town name Islington not found; on town name London 1 found different person ID 22406; UK census 9 records found all from Leeds; tried

On Fri, Apr 2, 2021 at 07:24 AM, J.R. Silver wrote: Wladyslawow was in my ancestral area of Suwalki, NE Poland during 19th century, but it went into Lithuania in 1919 after WW1 Peace settlement.Jill

Freud lived in an apartment block in Vienna which I have visited when on holiday about 10 years ago. His home is a tourist attraction which is online. From memory, there is a fair bit of info about

Lita is in a border area. It is now part of Belarus (since 1945) but has also been part of Lithuania (1918-1945) and also Suwalki gubernia in Poland in the19th century and up to WW1. My late cousin's

Yes, indeed. According to Genteam.eu, Max Gans Schiller, born 9 Feb. 1853 Lobositz, Leitmeritz, died on 4 Oct 1910 in Vienna. He is buried in the Central Cemetery, gate T1, group 053B, row 14, tomb no

Protections? I am not clear on what those might be. Given the history of the 20th century, I am not about to fill in a box marked "race" on any form. I have always lived in the US and have felt

I checked around Pabianice and there are no towns with that name near by. There is a Lukow near the Belarus border, where many Jews were transported to during the 2nd WW. -- Angel

Hi Rick, Those things can be check in the "Adoph Lehmann's allgemeiner Wohnungs-Anzeiger (Adoph Lehmann's general appartment directory) at

My response to the race question is "Human" -- Steven Usdansky usdanskys@... researching Usdansky, Turetzky, Sinienski, Sigler, Namenwirth

My maiden name is Hantz and I was told that it could have been spelled Hanz. My GG family was from Hungary/Czechoslovakia. My family is Jewish and we always thought that our last name sounded German

I am wondering is anyone knows the origin of the term 'Peruvian' used by other Jews and those outside the community to describe in a derogatory way some of the Jews newly arrived on the diamond of

Looking for Gologary/Gologory Marriage certificate from 26.9.1906 L46, Document from the 1st Volume, page 193, number 10 This information was found through JRI-Poland and then AGAD (Fond 300 AGAD

There is a town in Ukraine called Polonne. Lita is Lithuania. -- Alan Shuchat Newton, MA SHUKHAT (Talnoe, Simferopol, Sevastopol, Odessa, Balta (Abazovka), Pogrebishche) VINOKUR (Talnoe), KURIS

When there is no snow you can use some tracing paper and a soft lead pencil. you cover the sheet as evenly as possible with the lead. The sharp edges of the inscription letters will stand out

Race is an artificial construct, though obviously many people have a strong ethnic identity. Vis a vis our endogamous population: you can search "are Jews white?" to get a whole range of opinions.

hi thank you for any help offered. I need help translating the in between bits of this birth record. I have successfully worked out most of the record however it is severl words in the part that has