Your brief remarks on first name acquisition in Prussia prior to 1850 raise some critical questions. Did the state give names or were parents free to choose names? Naming a child after a monarch was

I would suggest that you try to find their marriage record either in London or in Kovna (Kaunas). Using the All Lithuania Database on Jewishgen, looking for a Zimbler (search Phonetically) marrying a

Hi Simon, Lazarus Zemblin and Rose Segall got married in the summer of

I can not find my Great Grandparents Jacob Simon, Annie Simon (Goldman), Celia Schuster (Nathan) (Nechowitz), Morris Schuster, Harris Block, and Sarah Block. I can not find where they all lived. I

I've just received an offer for 20% off a World Explorer subscription on Ancestry. The price is $119 for 6 months. My family is from Babruysk & Minsk in Belarus and Warsaw in Poland. I already have

I am looking for information ( email address and/or phone number of Mr. Shraga Tzevi Levi who was living in Jerusalem in the Torat Chesed Street. He wrote a book about a Din Torah ( Galanta) and I

Help requested to translate Hebrew on family gravestone. Enid Rose Paramus, NJ

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The first six Hebrew lines read as follows: Here lies our dear father an upright man pursuing righteousness [tzedakah] and lovingkindness [chesed] the rabbi Mordechai son of Mr. Yechiel may his memory

Many of us have sent our DNA off to a firm, curious about what we might find. We receive an ethnicity estimate followed often by a long list of matches ranging from 2nd cousins to more distant ones.

Here is buried our dear father, a man who chased righteousness and kindness, the Rabbi Mordechai son of Reb Yechiel of blessed memory MICHALOVER. Died Purim 5671 at 67 years. Why were you taken before

The pamphlet "The Oldest Jewish Families in Czestochowa" by Janusz Spyra contains numerous references to the Tiktin family that may be of use. From the footnotes there, there are references to

The usage of "Christian Name" for "Given Name" was normal in Britain but started to die in about 1975. Round about that year official documents started to change from the one to the other when asking

Good afternoon, Please would it be possible for someone to translate this Head Stone belonging to my Paternal Grandmother who was buried by my late Father. [FANNY LEVENE [LEVY] After searching for

To Sydney Levine and other researchrs–– Beloved Rabbi Max Ticktin died nearly 5 years ago. This obituary gives the names of his daughters. You could try reaching out to them to see if they have

My son in law Benjamin Sanderson has one DNA match on Ancestry with surname Schneirow. Do you know the town of origin? We know Sanderson was an adopted English form. The original surname is not known.

Hi, There was actually another person asking about the Laniado family (from Livorno Italy, I believe). My only comment is that there were Laniados from Syria (Sam Laniado from Brooklyn NY sent a

Eliezer and Raizel are my great great grandparents on my father's side. They were living in Mount Street, Whitechapel, London in 1911 with their 10-month old daughter Rebecca (Sarah). Eliezer may have

Thank you - fantastic. What is the meaning/translation of the word Dajan? It didn’t translate or i am just ignorant. With many thanks. Karen Saunders -- Hello. I would like to join to research

In the last ten years I am searching for information about my great grand grandfather Naftali (Eli) Hertz Raskin, who lived in the village of El'nya, close to Hotimsk, Mogilev, Belarus, and was a