A tree on MyHeritage for the Brahinsky family says Rachel died Apr 9 1952 in Toulouse.  No source is given but this provides a path to pursue.  On Geneanet, there is at least one tree viewable with the free membership, and one tree owner  has the last name Brahinsky and may have more information.

Andra Marx
New Jersey, USA

Anybody can change anything on the profiles that FamilySearch has on their web site. Some people enter things in Spanish or another language, and I have to keep my fingers off the keyboard, as I want them in English, but they have as much right as I do to have things in whatever language. People also get things mixed up, and if I know that somebody is wrong about a person's birth or whatever, I will fix it. But births for immigrants can be different on different documents, so I would only fix an approximate date with a Social Security of JRI-PP (even better) birth date if I have it. FamilySearch does not take 'circa' or 'about' dates.

Everybody doing research needs to have records at home, on their own devices, where they can keep things safe (and backed up). A genealogy program can keep a lot of information that the web apps don't keep, and also the research notes along with them. I make 'Events' for documents I find, so I know what a document says and where I found it; I could identify a document's source in a Source, but the events are very handy and versatile. 

Sally Bruckheimer
Princeton, NJ

"Family search is a collaborative tree meaning anyone can see anything except living people.  AND it also means that anyone can add, change, attach and delete any document person or relationship"

Hello friends,

Does anyone know if a Mohel Book was kept and if it is available to search for Augsburg Germany circumcisions made between 1910 and 1920?

 

Richard Oppenheimer
Venice, Florida, USA

There is a partial listing of the graves on Find -a - Grave (Chestnut Street Cemetery)  but none for her.  However, there are several headstones listed that are Hebrew only and have not been translated (on that site) so you might take a look at those photos.
The listing on Jewish Cemeteries of Cincinnati Jewish Cemeteries of Greater Cincinnati - Jewish Cemeteries of Greater Cincinnati (jcemcin.org) seems more complete, but also has untranslated Hebrew inscriptions.  There is no Silverstone or Harris.  This site mentions that this cemetery was filled up during the epidemic.   You can search all of the area Jewish cemeteries on this site, including wild card searches of any variation of her first and last names that you can think of - such as possible yiddish or Hebrew variations.

Elise Cundiff
Ohio
 

Hi Jay,

Many of the PA naturalization records can be found on Fold3.  Also I believe that there are some on Ancestry.  These are full declaration and application copies not indexes.
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Katherine Block
Canton, GA
blockmk@...

Family search is a collaborative tree meaning anyone can see anything except living people.  AND it also means that anyone can add, change, attach and delete any document person or relationship.  You basically won't have any control of your research.  Myheritage will allow you to keep your own research.  My preference is Ancestry though I have used all the platforms.   I don't recommend researching on a phone.  
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Katherine Block
Canton, GA
blockmk@...

Does anyone have any information on the following on the Journey of a Kinder (our late father)
We have done my own research but unable to find any details

After general KT arrival in Harwich ( in our case Jan. 1939), our father , Kurt Ehrmann (11.7.1922) age 16,  was
relocated from Dovercourt (holding area during harsh winter) to Thirlby/Grange in North York (approx. 8 hours north)?
We believe he was moved to a farm owned and operated by a "Mrs. Hebden" (this is an artifact I was able to recover-see attached) which we believe is in the Spring of 1939.  
I would be grateful if anyone knows of this area or any other details pertaining to these events.
Thank you in advance.

Paul and David Ehrmann
ehrmann.paul@...

The Big Y tests (500 and then 700) place the tester’s Y-DNA at the end of a twig on a small branch of a larger branch of a still larger branch etc of the Y-DNA tree.  Some lucky testers will discover that there are other testers on their tiny twig, and those other testers may be relatives within genealogical time (or not).  For most of us, I suspect, we will just find ourselves alone on our own little twig.  For me, Big Y has been genealogically useless, but for others it has been helpful.  For all of us, it would be nice if FTDNA provided a plain language explanation for how to interpret the data, which FTDNA displays in a quirky manner.  We shouldn’t have to hire experts to tell us what it means.
Jeffrey Herrmann
New Rochelle, NY

hi,

attached is a 1848 wedding record for LEJZOR FRYDMAN second marriage.
Appreciate if someone could help me translate and locate his birth
city mentioned in the record.

I do not need the whole record translated, just the birth city
information for lejzor.

The family in that time frame was in the przytzk, gmina stara
blotnica, glowaczow area north of radom, poland.

it is possible lejzor could have been born in this area, or elsewhere
and moved here with his parents when he was young. At 18 years old,
at the time of his first marriage, he lived in village bobrek.

Thank you for your help.

best,

arnold friedman
redwood city, california
#FRYDMAN
POLAND

The naturalization doc images for Jacob Weiss can be found here: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9BL-67V6?i=792&cat=61800


Regards,
David Oseas

Researching:
HYMAN/HEYMAN/HEIMOWITS/CHAJMOVITS: Zemplen-Dobra, Hungary > New York;  KLEIN: Satoraljaujhely (Ujhely), Hungary > New York > Los Angeles
KRONOWITH: Hungary > New York;  OSEAS/OSIAS/OSIASI/OZIAS: Iasi, Romania > Chicago > Milwaukee > Los Angeles
SCHECHTER/SHEKTER: Kishinev, Bessarabia > New York;  SHERMAN: Iasi, Romania > New York > Los Angeles
STRUL:  Iasi, Romania > Haifa, Israel;  WICHMAN: Syczkowo (Bobruisk), Belarus > Milwaukee > Los Angeles

Number 19 Prenzlauer Strasse is between Hirtenstrasse and Alexanderstrasse and is the location of today's Pressehaus am Alexanderplatz at 29 Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse. It's a 20 min walk from there to the school at Artilleriestrasse. 24 Grenadierstrasse was at the corner of Münzstrasse, today Almstadtstrasse 1, 4 min walk from 19 Prenzlauer Strasse. All these addresses are in Berlin-Mitte near Alexanderplatz. Chralottenburg is far more west. 
The numbering of street adresses in Belin have often changed. One can find the numbering of the street addresses at the address section of the Berliner Adressbuch, usually labeled "Strassen und Häuser von Berlin". At the beginning of this section there is a list of all Berlin streets with the page where the street appears. Here is an example for Grenadierstrasse 1914:
https://digital.zlb.de/viewer/image/34115495_1914/4409/
Prenzlauer Strasse 1928 ie here:
https://digital.zlb.de/viewer/image/34115495_1928/5979/
See also this page on the history of the Adass Jisroel schools: https://adassjisroel.de/en/yesterday/the-schools-of-adass-yisroel/


Andreas Schwab, Montreal, Canada

I've posted three records (in Hungarian, dated 1902-1907) from the Royal Criminal Court of Budapest Prison for which I'd like a translation. They are on ViewMate at the following addresses:

I wish to thank all of the people who responded here or privately to my question of how I could have a picture of my aunt removed from my mother's Find a Grave page https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/77312694/lore-baer.  The most common answer was to ask to have a page transferred to me which I could do since I am a son. However since a couple of people said that would only give me the right to rearrange the pictures, I decided not to go that route. Instead I went through the Find A Grave help function (writing to support@findagrave) and asking to have it removed. Someone named Jacobo has now removed the picture for me.

The picture originated from my aunt's US citizenship application. The page of the application on Family Search with the picture is here https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-99HD-59BK?i=223&cc=2060123 .
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Ralph N. Baer        RalphNBaer@...       Washington, DC

I am looking for a family tree program that will replace my Family Tree Maker and run on the android platform (I will no longer have a computer that runs on Windows or IOS).  I have been a member of Family Search for years, but have never posted my tree there because of the issue with the Mormons baptizing one's dead ancestors.  I believe that this was resolved a few years ago, but am not sure that the resolution was successful and will be lasting.  I am also a member of Ancestry and of My Heritage, but have hesitated to use them for the complete family tree for privacy reasons.  I tried Familygtg, but the version is too old to be fully compatible with my version of android.  I would like some guidance.  I am not necessarily looking for a free program.


Geri Mund

It * IS * possible to limit the number of Y-DNA markers that you look
for matches on, even if 700 were tested.  You can limit it to 35
markers, 67 markers, or 111 markers, and have a much better chance of
finding surname matches.

And yes, it is a good idea to also use the Family Finder test as well,
along with the Y-DNA test.

-- Mary D. Taffet
    Syracuse, NY
    mdtaffet@...