I am looking for the descendants of two brothers of my late grandmother, Golda Ella Hoffman (or Gofman), who left Panevezys, Lithuania for New York. Their names were Solomon and Joseph Hoffman

Hello All: I am trying to trace where and when my Aunt Shelly Sternberg, maiden name Rasela Blauer, was born. She married my uncle Willy ( aka Wilhelm) Sternberg in 1935, in Bucharest Romania. They

My wife's great grandmother who came from Rajgrod, Poland was called Khuna / Kune - that is her name on both Polish documents and English records The Jewish Given Names Database suggests a Germn

JRI-Poland is pleased to announce the extraction of the Polish Index to the Włoszczowa Book of Residents, with sincere thanks to the diligent efforts of volunteer Ornit Laska. This Book of Residents

The only time I have seen manifest pages without the names of children are on the detention pages of U.S. arrival manifests where it might just have something like the name of the adult + 5 children.

Land sounds like an anglicisation of another name, or possibly a variation on a patronymic name. There is however, the surname Landa which can be found in Suwalki area. This may be your best

The answer may depend on the date. In United States passenger lists of the early 19th century one might find only "Mr. So-and-so, wife, and 5 children" listed. It gets better as the century

In my family from various towns in Galicia (now Western Ukraine), we have an ancestor with the name of Kuna. I find Phillip Trauring's 'blood and frogs' website a good source of information for first

Please send information for this family who lived in Gomel and Bielitza late 1800's and prior. Includes Mikel and Mikelia Neukhman and others. Some owners or managers of cherry orchards. -- Mark

Shalom, Have you tried the Montreal Tel. Book, Jewish Federation, Orthodox Synagogue I recall a Rokah Rabbi was a Principal of Associated Hebrew Schools maybe 40 years ago in Toronto, after about 10

This is interesting because some of the family left Ireland in the 1950s and went to South Africa but according to family sources we believe they went to Leeds for a few weeks before making the

According A. Beider, A Dictionary of Ashkenazic Given Names, p. 530, Kune is a Jewish name borrowed from German Christians who used the form Cuna since the 10th century as a hypocorism for Cunigundis

I suspect that maybe you did not read this correctly or it was written incorrectly There is the name NOAZ in English [ from Isaiah] = strength It is possible that an English a or o cursive

The next IGRA Show & Tell session will be Monday, December 14 at 9 pm Israel time (2 pm EST) Moriah Amit will speak on "Online Genealogy Collections from the Center for Jewish History’s

In some cases Rosenthal copied the 1809 list and in others the 1815 list. Rarely did he copy both. The 1809 lists only contain ages, not dates of birth. The 1815 lists usually contain the dates of

1. Sometimes the list was prepared in advance, before the ship reached England, and everyone planning to go to the U.S. was put on it, and then those who got off early were crossed out. So look on

Looking for birth records of brothers Ezekiel and Max (do not know his birth name) in the Suwalki Gbernia of Poland/Lithuania in the 1869-1875 period. Ezekiel settled in Virginia and Max in New York.

Trying to make contact with the children of David Rokeach, died in New York in 1971, father of a son in Jerusalem, another son of Chicago, and a daughter. His first wife was his relative of the Flamm

Alas, what is a 'real' name. My ggrandmother was one of 20 kids born to a couple in a tiny town in Nassau. On each birth record, the mother's name was different. My ggrandmother was apparently Rachel,

A LATVIAN CHANUKAH PRESENT - DAY 4 The Death of Morduch (Maks or Max) Halsman by Ann Rabinowitz In memory of my great uncle Max Hillman, who was born in Bauska, Latvia, and who started me on my