I am trying to find the original name of the RIPSTEIN family of Winnipeg. They came early to Winnipeg in the 1870s. My cousin Reg Ripstein said his father told him the family name had been changed

My great-grandfather Bernard Ackerman was born in 1874 in the northeast Hungarian village of Benk (near present-day borders with Ukraine, Slovakia, and Romania). After his birth, the next record I

Fredel, When Ernst, Else and Erich arrived in NY in 1937 they were going to Ernst's brother-in-law John SIMON at 352 Central Park West, NYC. In 1940 in NYC, a John SIMON married Frieda Liebreich (born

Hello: I am looking for connections to my grandfather Leon Sacks. He arrived in South Africa in 1898/99 from Lithuania, via London. He subsequently married Rebecca Solomon. He died in Cape Town in

One of the most convenient and cheapest (!) routes of emigration from the Ukrainian regions in the 1890s was by train to Libau (today: Liepaja) and from there by ship directly to England or Ireland.

Can't access this article without being a subscriber, unfortunately. -- Nancy L. Reicher Kansas City MO

Hello! Has anyone had success obtaining an Israeli death certificate from the US - either from the Israeli consulate/embassy or from Israel directly? To request from Israel living in Israel it says

When we went to Jaroslaw, we were able to go to the cemetery to see the ohel of my ancestor R. Shimon of Yaroslav. There is a fenced pathway next to the house with the barking dog. (That dog is

It would be useful to have a name index on those records. -- Jeremy Lichtman Toronto, Canada

For several of my family members, I found "Brinsk, Russia" on census documents. It turned out to be Briceni, a town in Bessarabia, a Russian jurisdiction. Briceni might be the place you're looking

There are very few early ship records for journeys across the Baltic to Britain, and certainly hardly any in the 19th century for those who travelled to Hull, and other East Coast ports. They were

Can you please post the whole page? The language of the record is Hungarian Beth Long

The birthplace could have been expressed as the town or as the Gubernia (County/Province) the town was situated in All my great grandparents were born in the Suwalki Lomza Gubernias in NE Poland as

I have family by marriage who travelled in the 1860's across the Baltic, possibly from Konigsberg in East Prussia, to Hull in Yorkshire on the East Coast of England, then by train to Liverpool (this

Looking for records of family members in Ekaterinoslav (now Dnipropetrovs'ka), Ukraine. Does anyone know if there are any records from the 19th century, and where I might find them? Thank you! Diane

My grandmother left Markovka in 1921, travelled to Bucharest where she obtained a passport and then travelled to Constantinople. From there she took a Greek ship to New York. A complicated

“As soon as the autumn rains ended, the soaked ground was covered with frost, and the first snow dressed up the shtetl for Chanukah.” So begins this chapter from the Yizkor book of Kaluszyn,

My grandmother's maiden name was SHENKER, She was from Opole Lubelskie, Poland. MODERATOR'S NOTE: Please reply privately with family information.

In Russian: First picrure: Дорогому брату Нюне и Соне Нася. 27 сентября 1974 года. Second picture: Дорогому брату Нюне. Нася и

In Russian: First picrure: На вечную добрую память любимому сыну Н. От крепко любящей матери Деборы. 10 сентября 1923