Using those pre-surname records is challenging, but I've been able to trace a couple of my lines there. WIth the Russian "revision list" censuses, even when there were no surnames,, the order in

Hello All: I am looking for the birth and death dates of my great grandfather, Moishe Wechsler. He lived in Stefanesti, Romania. I know my great grandmother's name was Estera. I also know that my

Shalom We are pleased to announce the Yedinitz Yizkor Book translation project. Please post the attachment. Please confirm when completed. Thank you Allan I Bass

There has been a lot on the National News this week regarding the Tulsa Race Massacre. President Biden is in Tulsa today for the 100th anniversary of one of the worst racial massacres in United States

Ancestry Library Edition, through its distributor ProQuest, has announced that Ancestry Library edition availability has been extended remotely with libraries with Ancestry subscriptions through

According to Dictionary of Ashkenazic Given Names by Alexander Beider the name Kielman is a variation of Kalman. Dassy Wilen dasw5@... Flohr, Hirsch, Wilensky, Trembitsky

I'm looking to connect to the family of Aharon KATZ, born 22/12/1900 in Sieniawa. He died in Beit Shean in 1987. His daughter, Lea Kaplan, submitted a page of testimony that provided that

I contacted http://library.temple.edu/scrc for a copy of a 1912 bank ledger 5 years ago that wasn't online. They sent me a PDF of the record. I assume they will still do the same now. -- Josh

Thank you but ... Is there a way to translate the Hungarian into English? Susan J Gordon EISMANN Budapest BIALAZURKER Budapest

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Hi David, Thank you so much for your reply and help! I am not sure if you know the answer to this but I was wondering if you know why Mollie would be called Kreindel? Is Kreindel her name in

Some very kind people in the group recently helped me translate my ancestors' names from Hebrew to English. Moving forward when doing research for my family tree, does it make sense to look up each

Shalom Genners I WANDER if any one here is familiar with the Weiss family from Velke Kapussany. There were several Weiss families living there and I am searching for the family of Baruch Chaim

Here is a list of the Jewish BMD records for various towns in Lower Franconia. Most of the records are copies of RSA (Gatermann) films bound in books and held by the Würzburg Staate Archives. Others

I am surprised that political comments of this sort are allowed at this website where people are researching on information on their relatives. Half of those who we are researching about were from

Prof Tony Kushner of PARKES institute Southampton university has published a number of papers on this. Here is just one reference. https://www.southampton.ac.uk › 08...Web

The easy part first - recognizing text from late 1700's - early 1800's. There are a number websites that list samples of Russian letters as they changed over the past couple of hundred years, that

I am dismayed that anyone is even thinking of contacting a state organisation of that state in the light of the recent act of the recent international air piracy. David Harrison Birmingham, England

Recently, it has been brought to my attention several times that at least some of the records which the Nazi Reichssippenamt (RSA) assembled and filmed, which were subsequently destroyed by the

Hi, Meldezettel can be obtained from the Archiv Wien whose website is www.archiv.wien.at . You can write to them at post@... . Give the name of the person and the period you wish to cover. You