Hope someone has addn information on the area Thrilby and The Grange which is 8 hours I am told from Harwich and Dovercourt ,,,,,in Jan 39...My fatther age 17 followed that path from the KT leaving

I don't have info about your three relatives, but I'm following this as I have WINOGRODSKI relatives from Vilnius (UK and then South Africa). I think it's a place-based surname, so not everyone with

Hello dear list members, I would like to introduce myself briefly. My name is Hubertus Klatte, I live in Germany/Berlin. For many years I am engaged in genealogy and now I am facing a wall. It is

On 15 September 1955, my grandmother Clara Prager (born Chaje Hinde Lewin) sent a letter to my parents. Clara was, by then, living in New York, having left Berlin in 1939. My parents Helmut and Edith

The U.S. National Archives has recently found a 47-page document, written by the Directorate of Civil Affairs of the United States War Office, that reveals the damage caused to Greek antiquities

There are a number of newspaper entries in Newspapers.com for Nathan. One notes his address in 1911 is 1941 K street, Lincoln Nebraska. Google Street view shows a building still there that looks to be

In Russian: родившейся и живущей с родителями в городе Ломжа. Браку этому предшествовали троекратное оглашение

My apologies--you did say you'd looked in the city directories. Please disregard my earlier response. Sincerely, Em Segal

Hello, There are city directories on Ancestry for Lincoln, NE from 1873 on (that cover the 1908 time period) and Kansas City, MO from 1865 on. If you let me know your grandfather's name I can look him

The two Jewish names are not related. Anything can become Sam. (Anything can become anything, but Sam was particularly popular.) Israel Pickholtz Ashkelon

The Israel Genealogy Research Association (IGRA) has just released new and updated databases on its website. There are now over 1,900,000 records available in our databases. With each release we

I disagree That would be Matit, not matat David Lewin

I've posted the second part of a vital record in Russian of a marriage document for a relative, Chana Szumowska, for which I need a full translation please. It is on ViewMate at the following

Amy: I fully agree with Sharon. Many times it depended on who provided the information and if it came from a neighbor who really did not know the family well she might have said something like "I

I've posted the first part of a vital record in Russian of a marriage document for a relative, Chana Szumowska, for which I need a full translation please. It is on ViewMate at the following address

Hi Schmiel is likelier Shmuel in more modern Hebrew, Samuel to us. Schmerel is more likely to be Shmaryahu. No good American cognate. But nothing is certain. I have an ancestor Shlomo which

I have definitely found census records in which a child's gender was wrong. It happened. As for the mystery name, it might have been a cousin or even a neighbor staying temporarily with the

Sometimes a neighbor gives the information if the family is not there…if the daughter had short hair, she could have been mistaken for a little boy; remember the time period… Sharon F.

Hi Everyone, Hoping someone can help solve a small mystery that might chip away at a brick wall. I found census records for my great-grandfather and his family, years 1910, 1930, and 1940. Both

Occupation is notions. It looks like the haircolor says 'bold' but could possibly be 'black', with the final K going below the line. Cannot read the last part. Linda Cantor New York