My cousin asked me to help her find her father and uncles. "...They were born in Sompolno, Polin. Can they write another address "Jacob Wilczynski" born 1908? married to Rela Roboski " After the Shoa

We all have that problem and the problem behind the problem is that we do not know what the other person likes to see in an email or letter or her or his interest in the family tree. I suspect most

So I have now located the Sharit haPlatah list of survivors on this site, which includes a Malvin-Mor Weiss last known location as Homberg. I am wondering if this is the Malvin I am looking for, as

Hi Sherri, Unfortunately I do not have any of that. I've checked all the usual places for that kind of information but have come up with nothing. This is my grandfather's stepmother's parents. Their

Sorry, I have to correct my response. r means correct, i.e., the correct version is given. David

TY for this discussion. Could you please inform me how does one submit a new town name to the town finder list? Adam Cherson

Marcia, "ov" suffix is an indicator of a male patronymic. This person's father's name was Itsko. This name should be preceded by a given name of the person, e.g., Aron Itskov Dunner means Aron son

Would like to know if Iskov is the same male name as Isko? Information needed to clarify records of gg grandfather Iskov/Isko Dunner of Minsk. Thank you, Marcia Amster Heller marciaheller@...

I've posted two photographs and a piece of text in Romanian for which I need a translation. They are on ViewMate at the following addresses:

Looking for relatives of Lodja Lebowicz who left Warsaw just before the war and settled in Buenos Aires. She was a friend of my father. Lewis Kampel majork1972@... MODERATOR NOTE: Please reply

Mike Redel <redel.mike@...> 19:39 (vor 38 Minuten) an main+help Dear gersigs, I hope one of you could help me. Elfriede Kaufmann died 26.08.1870 in Dudenroth now a part of Holzwickede. Her parents

This has been answered several time in the past. r stands for recte, meaning false, i.e., needing correction. You can search the Jewishgen Discussion List Archives or do a Google search

I have not been keeping score, but my batting average is definitely better when I send out via snail mail (unless I am responding to a posting on the Internet, as in "Off-Topic: Your

What a pity I can’t attend this talk. It will be 3am in Western Australia, way past my bedtime!!! Is there any way of accessing anywhere this at a more convenient hour? Sue Levy Perth,

In the marriage abstract below, which I copied and pasted from Gesher Galicia, what does the "r" signify after the bride's surname (Lea Frenkel r. Lustig)? Another abstract for the same couple lists

Michael, I was confused by the handwriting and some of the words in the document, but after you translated, it made more sense. Apparently, it's not Plato, but Platon (Rozhdestvensky) - name of the

Join us for a virtual presentation about the Straus Family, their relationship with the Lehman family, and their commitment to their synagogues, Temples Emanu-El and Beth-El on Wednesday, November 18,

Are any of the people in this photo on Viewmate https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM80652 familiar? I know their names from the back of the photo (Jozef, Sabrina, Bela and Henryk

Twenty or thirty or more years ago, I would write to a distant relative who didn’t know me, and that person would answer my questions just based upon my statement that I was compiling a family tree.

Roy, I looked at Benjamin Alperstein's 1920 manifest. Easy to find by searching "Zanzire" as keyword on Ancestry. It's the only hit. You might try searching for records of his friend, Hersh