My best reading is either Seoto or Leoto. I hope that is helpful. -- Barbara Sloan Conway, SC

Both my research and my experience are that while occasionally non-cohanim adopted a cohan surname for reasons as offered above...this was rare. In Jewish tradition---and I'm secular so not pushing a

Translated by Michael Ryabinky Columbus, OH Thank you so much Michael for your kind assistance. The indexed record showed the following errors, in particular the LIBERMAN names: 1)WOGOWSKI(Should be

Hello, I am looking for information about Urche GERSZONOWICZ, born around 1893 in Lodz. He emigrated to the USA, I don't know in which year. His parents were Jankiel GERSZONOWICZ and Yenta

There was a wave of Jewish migration from the Gouvernement Suwalki to and through Sweden. It began in 1850 and ended in 1900, and your ancestors that you have listed may well be among them. Among

Do people with expertise in Jewish vital records in 19th century Poland know if Levite status was typically referenced in those records? Would the Levite status of a groom or his father typically

Have you come across "family trees" in Ancestry with tens of thousands of members that are not a tree but what looks a collection of disjointed small family trees? They seem to be related to DNA

Well, first of all it was in the middle of XIX century, sometime in 1860s or so. The main reason for changing surnames is that Jews did not want to go to Tzar army, and by changing names, that may

Dear Friends, You are invited to join The Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Miami and Temple Beth Am Sunday Salon by Zoom on Sunday, December 13th at 10:30 a.m. ET. The topic is Seders and

I used it and found it very helpful in learning about a member of my family who moved to France in the 19th century. None of the information I found on Geneanet was available on Ancestry or any other

Kind of hit a dead end. My great-great grandfathers last name, translated more accurately than what they used in the United States, was MANDELSHTEYN. In the United States the spelling was Mandelstein,

This may not apply in your case, but a lot depends on how you know they arrived at Ellis Island. I "knew" that my paternal grandfather, who died long before I was born, immigrated from France to Ellis

According to Bieder's Dictionary of Jewish Surnames in the Russian Empire: Turkovich and phonetic variants derive from the village of Turkovichi. Turchanovskiy is listed as a variant of Turchinskiy

The name Yom Tov Lipa is not so uncommon to find among chassidim. It's likely that many of them do trace back to the Rabbi the "Tosfos Yom Tov" because the major chassidim families are very

Hello All: The marriage certificate of one of my grandmother's sisters (dated 1903) states that their mother, "Gitl, born of Avram Grinberg". I tried to look up Avram Grinberg on JewishGen and on

From loctown on JewishGen, it would seem to be: Suhuluceni (or Sukhulucheni, Sukuluchen', Sukhulucheny all given as alternative spellings) With map coordinates:

Stephen, If your grandmother was born in Sweden in 1869, it is not sure that she came from Russia, as the later immigration of Jews to Sweden from the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th

In Russian: 43 Состоялось в городе Петроков 9-го августа 1874 года в 8 часов утра. Явился лично равин Петроковского

Can anyone suggest a reliable researcher for NY public records 1880 to 1920? Thanks Anthony Rabin London, England

One reason people changed names was to avoid the draft. I have a friend named Katz, which is usually a Kohen-name (as it is in my case), but he is not a Kohen. Their tradition is that an ancestor was