Ruth First - are you sure you have the right town - there are two towns with similar names - the JG town page for the town you refer to has the warning:Not to be confused with Ladyzhinka, Kiev

Thanks to everyone who answered my previous post! I now have a follow-up question: I know that men sometimes took the name "Chaim" after the death of their father, but did they ever do so after the

Jeremy Lichtman's tip is good. Even better, LitvakSIG translated that tax list long ago and it has 25 ZUNDEL/ZUNDELOVICH entries (all males). It's all available on the ALD

VM86815 In Russian: #12 Гершель Шаульштик и Миндля-Сурля Бекер Состоялось в городе Сташов 23 марта (4 апреля) 1878 года

As part of IGRAs recognition of Heshvan as International Jewish Genealogy Month (https://www.iajgs.org/ijgm/) we are sponsoring our Heshvan Event on November 8, 2020. The event is free. The theme this

A 1932 Group photo of the students of the Jewishprofessional vocational in Puliny, Ukraine (Chervonoarmiisk or Krasnoarmeiskduring Soviet times) was submitted to ViewMate and can be viewed

VM86682 In Russian: 32 Нахум Вайсблех Состоялось в городе Люблин 13 (26) января 1914 года в 5 часов вечера. Явился еврей

VM86681 In Russian: 31 Лейб Вайсблех Состоялось в городе Люблин 13 (26) января 1914 года в 5 часов вечера. Явился еврей

I think you mean records of Jewish conversion to Catholicism, not of conversion to Judaism. And if your grandfather adopted an orphaned Jewish child (for example, a baby orphaned in the wake of a

Father's name would be pronounced Manish on Joseph's stone. Assuming the letter vav is an erroneously engraved nun on Samuel's stone, the pronunciation Manish would be the same. David

"How common is the surname Kremer in that area?" Although Kremet may not be common in the area, Kramer is very common (I don't know about that specific area), and since the clerks that wrote our civil

Are there records available for the town of Majaky? It's very close to Odessa (a suburb?), so if these records exist, are they part of Odessa's records? Thanks for all your responses. Ira Ira

Please share the DNA findings with us. If possible, make sure you look at them on GEDmatch because it does a better job of showing the shared segments. Bob Silverstein bobsilverstein@...

VM86683 In Russian: 96. Состоялось в городе Лублин 26 февраля (10 марта) 1870 года в 6 часов вечера. Явились евреи Тобияш

Munish is a Yiddish name, usually a nickname for Menachem, Emanuel could very possibly be the legal name for Menachem. About the discrepancy of the the 2 tombstones, I believe that the second has a

Hello Carl, I think this family story is plausible. She was born a US citizen and would have been aware that the 1920 election was the first in which women would be allowed to vote in a Federal

VM86680 In Russian: 446. Эля-Вольф Вайсблех. Состоялось в городе Лублин 13 (26) сентября 1911 года в 10 часов утра. Явились

I am looking for any descendants of families LINDNER and SPIWAK . All originally from Poland, and some found in Buones Aires, Belgium and England. - Any descendants of Ingram Joseph LINDNER -

The Benjamin I refer to was a son of Jacob LEVIN of London(Islington) who lived in Cape Town in the eighteensixties/seventies. He was a cape merchant. When he returned to England his sons Julius LEVIN

VM86543 In Russian: 126. Состоялось в городе Лублин 20 марта (1 апреля) 1874 года в час дня. Явились евреи Тобиаш Либерман,