Hi, all! Thank you for all the great responses! Based on the reply from JewishGenner Sharon Frank, who observed - it seems that the term "stroller" had at some point in time connoted a "vagabond" or

Not to be contrarian, but the statement "patronyms in Russian are always "ovitch" never "ov" is not consistent with my extensive experience. I have records of Russian family (from throughout the

Does anyone know why whenever I search JewishGen for birth, marriage or death records from Bessarabia, only records from Kishinev are found? Where are those records for the smaller towns? I’m mainly

MNJGS is pleased to present a panel discussion of the film The Flat on Sunday December 13 at 1:00 Central Time. Summary: As the film maker cleans out the apartment that belonged to his grandparents,

Jay, Do you know Simon and Lena's original first names? That may help you to find their passenger manifests. I have a LEVY branch, and I know how tough it can be to search a common surname. Please

Christiane Try searching this way at Ancestry.com Put ROSENSTEIN in the surname box. Put Neutstadt in the keyword box. You will get 106 hits. If you do not have an Ancestry subscription than check if

Hello Leon, A question for you - where does this document come from? The same passenger list is indexed at https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:ZXSF-K8T2 , but the color of the document is

There is also the town of Kuty in Galicia. http://jgaliciabukovina.net/110749/community/kuty Jack Nathanson Montreal

Hello Genners, The document seems to be a Ketubah (marriage contract) that is partially written in Arameic. It was written for – the virgin Bracha daughter of Yosef. Shalom, Malka chosnek

Hi Mary, I looked at the 1910 census page. It is fascinating! All men, a very wide age range (the youngest being 15), and a lot of info left blank for all of them. Interesting that at the top of

JGS-Montreal presents Stanley Diamond Nov 23 - 7:30 pm - https://youtu.be/XBAr94gW83o Victoria Barkoff victoria.barkoff@...

Hello all: The marriage certificate of my father's father states that he was "of the profession molitor". I am wondering what profession this is- I know that in German the term refers to a miller.

I am undertaking an attempt to save and restore parts of this small cemetery in Potok Zloty-now Zolityi Potik (Ukraine). There is a website from the Center for Jewish Art, in Jerusalem, with many

Has anyone heard of young men and even boys used as forced labor for the Russian army during the FIRST Word War? I know they were often used to dig trenches, etc. This happened in our family and I’m

There are ALHADEFFs in Cape Town, originally from Rhodes. Some came via the Congo - Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) to Cape Town. Louis ZETLER Yokneam, Israel

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I've posted 3 vital records for which I would appreciate as full a translation as possible. I would especially like to know if Estera Gitla's mother Ena was alive when the birth was registered and

David, This is encouraging news. I consider R. Meir Wunder the ultimate authority on Galician rabbis, especially the Margolioth line But I don't read Hebrew well enough to trust my reading of his

Dear Adam and Moishe, Belated thank you for providing the information on LANGSAMS, DNA and rabbinical lineages. I am quite behind the curve when reading DNA stats, but hopefully one day there will be

The attached pdf file contains several pages from a Holocaust Testimony file. I am only asking for translation of the two handwritten pages (p2-3) Any help will be greatly appreciated! Thank