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A friend helped me find this place via an old website: http://radzima.net/ru/map/kalyskovka-347.html There is the link, but I am not sure what to make of it - or what to get out of it. Still though,

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These are three photos from a series of high-definition photographs obtained from town residents/for identification. If you are able to recognize someone/please contact me privately using the

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Stephen's suggestion is excellent. As one of my heroes, Jessica Mitford, once said: "You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty." This is a situation in which

Others have answered your main questions excellently and in detail. To those answers let me add an observation and a question: "Chicago" appears on this index card. What might this mean? If it has

Nicholas - were your great grandparents from Grodno and that is why you looked there? Or does Grodno have records from many cities in Belarus? I have some relatives that were from near Minsk, a

Ellen, Yes those online sources come from exactly one man, his son Nosson. They are just copied from one place to the next - and even the spelling changes from book to book. Which is utterly

Alexander, Interesting so this town no longer exists? Ellen who replied to this thread is not aware of any such thing in Kremenets district - I assume this is the same Kremenets? -- Arkady

That seems unlikely due to distance. Way too far from Dolginovo. My family seemed to travel between Kaliskovkeh and Dolginovo with great ease around 1900 - even getting to Minsk was a great ordeal.

Try Kalinkovichi, near Mozir in Belarus. It's a small City. Michael Ryabinky

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2 upcoming Webinars that may well be of interest. I have no connection with either, but felt they would be good info for many in this group. Both are free the day of. The first is likely to be

I am attaching an e-mail I sent to the Czech National Archives asking about the above family members. The reply to my e-mail gives four links and explains that Jewish vital records are digitised and

No one can touch them, including you. To update you need to submit a whole new gedcom file. In the past you were allowed one gedcom file per member, which can include multiple trees, I don't think

Dear all, I'm looking for information about Josef Hermann Löwenthal, born 12.4.1858 in Jihlava (Iglau), Mähren. He is my Grand-grandfather. His parents: Maximilian Löwenthal (born in Rousinov,

I have a Picture of Skuodas members. Taken in +-1930 Anyone recognize the faces? The only person recognized by my mother is her father David Yudelman- Top extreem left, My namesake. The others are

Sherri, I cannot read Hebrew, but I actually posted an update to this post. It is not Kolosova and it is probably not Ukraine, the village is in fact called Kaliskovkeh. What is weird is that both