I have posted four vital records to Viemate and requesting translation from Polish. The documents are 86803, 86802, 86801, 86786, 86785. Thank you for your help. Researching Lowin in Galicia. Best

For Mollie, the most likely Yiddish/Hebrew name would be Malke/Malkah. Others might be Michle or Mamle. And then each of these might have various YIddish nicknames. Have you tried just searching M*

PLEASE SHARE THIS INFORMATION AND THE ATTACHED ONE-PAGER WITH YOUR READERS, BLOG POSTS, SOCIETY MEMBERS. ETC. New York City is the one jurisdiction where everyone knows someone on their family

Susan, The 1890's can be a tough decade to search for manifests. Information varied by shipping line. Some may list little data, not even the town of birth. The handwriting on the manifests can be

In Russian Cyrillic, the letters Ч “ch” and Ц “ts” are somewhat interchangeable. Also, Cyrillic Г is transliterated to “G” or sometimes “V” from Russian, but to “H” from

Hi, My 2nd ggrandfather Benjamin ITMAN s/o Chaim can be found on ALD for 1858 as head of household and he was 55. He is registered with his wife Ita 52 and the following children: Freyda (daughter -

Liz, Searching https://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/search.pl I see a Murray LINDNER born 1915, mother's maiden SMITH. There is also another Murray LINDNER born 1881. Searching the above site for births,

Friends - The New York Genealogical and Biological Society has posted the follow important message on their website. The NYC Department of Records and Information Services (DORIS) is proposing

Paul & everyone else -- that Boris Finkelstein file has lists of Jewish names for various "cases" (each book is a case) in the fond 384 opus 15. The names are divided by case, which is the

Dear Cesar, I do not recognize the people in the picture but the interesting thing is your search about the Silbert family that migrated to Argentina in 1913. My grand mother family name was Silbert

Earl, Try searching The JewishGen Ukraine Database https://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Ukraine/ I suggest doing a soundex (sounds like) search. I very quick look at the database shows a few people

Are BMD records available for Wishnitz (c. 1850-75)? Thank you- Allan Linderman

Over the past months I have submitted to ViewMate many photos with inscriptions for translation. Several of the photos were of Zionist youth groups and include names of members emigrating to Israel

Thanks so very much. Most appreciate. Debby Myers

On the Ukrainian archive material recently discussed I worked my way to the Berdychev 1897 census page

Interested in making contact with descendants of the JERUSALEMSKY family from Sczuchin who came to the USA around the turn of the 19-20th century. In the USA most of them changed their family name

Reading all of the above, I think that the name Kos is from Kehos/Kohos/Kehat/Kohat, from the name of one of the son's of Levi. All very interesting. I looked on SteveMorse to see if there are any New

My cousins would like to find the birth certificate of their mother, who was born in 1946 in the DP Camp in Benzheim. Is there a special archive for DP camp records? Do they just write to the nearest

Are there any records from Kolonie L'vove, Kherson Guberniya, which was one of the former Russian Jewish agricultural colonies. BTW I am one of the webmasters for this shtetl on the Kehilla links.

Say, Dad, Grandpa is Not dead? Reuniting the Family After 68 Years by Noah Isman “… Many people gathered at the border-crossing but the Russians did not let them pass. While they were waiting,