There are 4 people, immigrants from Minsk Gubernia, who lived in New York City and/or Canada who I can identify as siblings via Census records or immigration manifests or other documents. I've tracked

My paternal grandfather's family name was Charmatz. they lived in Lithuania. I know that the name is an acronym for "Son in law of Reb Moshe Tzvi" However, I do not know who Reb Moshe Tzvi was or

Jeff, Sorry to complicate things, but I came up with Belura or Beluras just by looking at the letters. I was trying to match the letters used in this name with letters used in other parts of the

Ok folks, I fell for it. I actually went to the parking lot and tried to log in. It appeared that were several hot wifi's in the area. So I tried them all. I tried many versions of the password -

I am going to make a brief visit to New Montefiore Cemetery (West Babylon, NY) on Sunday and wanted to offer the possibility of photos while I am there. I have to emphasize time will be limited so it

I would agree with "Belmas." Definitely not an "h" in there--look at how the "h" is constructed in "chronic" to the right. The "m" seems to match how the person wrote that letter in the word

I also recommend a book - A Brotherhood of Memory: Jewish Landsmanshaftn in the New World, by Michael R. Weisser, pub 1985 by Basic books, and 1989 by Cornell U Press. as paperback. Susan

In the 1939 WPA Survey, an alternative name is Congregation Nachlas Zwie Anshe Ungam (“Congregation Inheritance of Tzvi, People of Ungam”). I was unable to find an “Ungam” in the JewishGen

Few photographs but the maps in Baedecker guides are wonderful ways to look back at cities. Dennis Whitehead

Try calling the cemetery - cemeteries will take pictures for a fee On jewishdata website is an Isaac Kaufman who died in 1900 - is this your Isaac? If so I can send picture to you. No Dora or Minnie

The Iasi Archives have entered into the Romanian Archives' online catalogue an index of birth records from 1865-1913 (solely the name, date of registration, and index number). We have extracted the

R Meir was a Levi. The Tiktin rabbinical family of SW Poland may have been Cohanim (anyone know for sure?). -- Jeremy Lichtman Toronto, Canada

The Galanta affair very briefly: When the Rav of Galanta, R' Shimon Friedman passed away in 1891, his son-in-law R' Moshe Feldman was serving as Dayan. He was appointed to be Rav by supporters a few

The images still exist. For some reason they are no longer attached to the index records, but it's not hard to find them. Since my last attempt at this message was rejected by the moderators, PM me

In the summer of 1941, as the Germans invaded Russia, my Aunt Chana escaped from Czernowitz with a unit of the Komsomol in the direction of Vinitsa, never to be heard from again. I would appreciate

A third option is to check FindAGrave a free Online search database. The fourth option is to search in Jewishgen’s JOWBR database which is free but requires registration. Both have provided me

Perhaps it is "Behrman" -- Avrohom Krauss Kiryat Yearim (Telz-Stone) ISRAEL kraussfig@... Researching: KRAUS, GOTTFRIED, MONAT from PRZEMYSL (Galicia) Poland/ KINSTLICH, GREENBERG, SCHMIDT from

Michele Another option is to search for Dora Kaufman in the NYC (& one NJ) cemetery databases available here: http://www.museumoffamilyhistory.com/erc-scdb.htm Part of Washington Cem. in Brooklyn is

Alan, I searched https://genealogy.cjh.org/family-collections for their NYC incorporation papers using search term Hazedek. The incorporation papers should provide you with lots more information. You

It is impossible to read. Michael Ryabinky Boynton Beach, FL