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Announcing the publication of the Yizkor Book of Wysokie-Mazowieckie #JewishGenUpdates #poland #yizkorbooks

The Yizkor-Books-In-Print Project is proud to announce its 126th title: Wysokie-Mazowieckie; Memorial Book (Wysokie Mazowieckie, Poland). This is the English translation of Wysokie-Mazowieckie; sefer

By Susan Rosin · #659336 ·

Re: Download the Cowan Report #records

I posted my transcription of the Travel Section of the Cowan Report here: https://btstack.com/Family/1906%20Cowen_Report%20on%20ImmigrationTravel%20section.doc Barbara Stack Berkeley, CA

By Barbara Stack · #659335 ·

Re: Travel from Shtetll to Sea Port #ukraine

Under US Immigration laws the steamship companies were legally responsible for every passenger who boarded one of their ships. The steamship companies knew the medical and financial requirements that

By Jim Peskin · #659334 ·

Re: Looking for information about Leon Buchmann (formerly Markowitch) #general #lithuania #unitedkingdom

Your best bet is to search the All Lithuania Database on Jewishgen.org You need to register if you have not done so before. There is a lot of good vital records, revision Lists and other databases.

By Diane Jacobs · #659333 ·

Looking for information about Leon Buchmann (formerly Markowitch) #general #lithuania #unitedkingdom

Hi All, I’m looking for any information about Leon Buchmann (formerly Markowitch) born about 1852 in West Russia, Wilno (currenlty Vilnius, Lituania) and died in 1910 in London ; profession

By brufra69@... · #659332 ·

Re: Travel from Shtetll to Sea Port #ukraine

Hello Ada, If you are looking at the pdf document online, within your browser, click on File / Save As... and you will save the entire pdf (108.9 MB) to wherever you want it. Richard Gordon Northern

By Richard Gordon · #659331 ·

Re: Looking for “enfants cachés” (hidden children) in the South of France #france #holocaust

My father's three first cousins were sent from Frankfurt to France in 1939; their parents and baby brother stayed behind and were later killed. The three spent time in Munster, Bergerac, and Oeuvre de

By Sandy · #659330 ·

Re: Help locate a birthplace #general #usa #lithuania

"Polanky" is identified as Polanka (Nowogródek) in Simon Wiesenthal's "Every Day Remembrance Day: A Chronicle of Jewish Martyrdom. New York: Henry Holt and Company,1986. "Polanky" appears to be an

By Alexander Sharon · #659329 ·

ViewMate translation request - I think it's Russian #translation

Hi Genners, I want to apologize for the resolution of this file; it came from the database and wasn’t great. Do whatever you can. I am requesting a translation of what I think is Russian, of a

By Wendy Newman · #659328 ·

Religious Marriage Record - Antwerp #records

My maternal grandparents met in Antwerp, Belgium, in 1922. My grandfather, Hirsch Singer, arrived as a boy with his family from Poland in 1906. They spent the World War 1 years in London, but returned

By Rick Zeckel · #659327 ·

Re: Great Genealogy Resources #israel #records #holocaust #hungary

Shia, Thank you for posting these resources. I found that when the first three letters of a name are typed in the search field at the top of https://library.hungaricana.hu/ it shows a menu of names

By Sherri Bobish · #659326 ·

Cowen report (was Travel from Shtetll to Sea Port) #general

In fact the link goes here, might be even easier for folks to access: https://catalog.archives.gov/OpaAPI/media/602984/content/dc-metro/rg-085/559947/Cowen_Report.pdf Juliana Berland (France)

By Family and DNA · #659325 ·

Re: Download the Cowan Report #records

I found an easier way to download the report. I open the archive.gov page containing the report (https://catalog.archives.gov/id/602984), Just below the first page of the report and above the

By Stephen Katz · #659324 ·

This week's Yizkor book excerpt on the JewishGen Facebook page #yizkorbooks #ukraine

The stories in most Yizkor book chapters are resurrected from memories of survivors that were written in the years after the Holocaust. But there are also contemporaneous accounts of events that

By Bruce Drake · #659323 ·

Re: Travel from Shtetll to Sea Port #ukraine

This is the site with the Cowen Report PDF. Scroll down to see it. https://catalog.archives.gov/id/602984 David Rosen Boston, MA On 5/28/2021 8:57 AM, Peter MacDonald

By Susan&David · #659322 ·

Re: Travel from Shtetll to Sea Port #ukraine

There appear to be two ways to download the whole file. 1. Scroll down the page and just below the document window there is an icon with a down arrow. Click it. 2. Scroll down the page until you see

By Peter MacDonald · #659321 ·

Re: Travel from Shtetll to Sea Port #ukraine

Thank you Michele. The Cowen report is fascinating, but much too long to read online in a single sitting. I tried to download it using the export button, but only managed to get a 3 page description

By Billie Stein · #659320 ·

Re: Help locate a birthplace #general #usa #lithuania

Have you tried searching Dubinsky phonetically on the All Lithuania Database for vital records, revision lists etc on Jewishgen? Diane Jacobs -- Diane Jacobs, Somerset, New Jersey

By Diane Jacobs · #659319 ·

Birth Records 1907-1908 and 1934 in Israel #israel #records

I'm looking for birth records for the years 1907-1908 in Israel (Ottoman Regime) and 1934 (Palestine-British Mandate). Where can I find them? -- Shia Rabinowitz

By S R · #659317 ·

Help locate a birthplace #general #usa #lithuania

I am trying to locate my wife’s grandfather’s birthplace. Can you help? His name was Dawid Dubinsky, but in America, became David Berkman. He told me that he was from the Vilna gubernia. He

By MarkWeinberg18@... · #659316 ·

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