This is a marvelous and significant addition to Miriam's pioneering work cataloguing Jewish records in the Eastern European archives. The JewishGen Belarus Research Division was very fortunate to be

Congratulations, Miriam, for the monumental work you are doing with Jewish genealogy. These precious records will open countless doors for us. The treasures we find will be handed down to our

Miriam Weiner's website at The Routes to Roots Foundation (www.rtrfoundation.org) has always been one of the go-to sites for Eastern European Jewish research. Now, with this update and the additional

Sarah, Although "Terminal Dimentia" seemed to be a catch-all diagnosis meaning the patient couldn't be cured, it included patients with all sorts of conditions -- Syphilitic Pareses among them. This

Hello All: I am still trying to track down information on my great grandmother Gitl ( Gitla) Grindberg Vigderovici. I have documentation that places her birth year around 1855 and names her father

Do you know if they were identical twins? Could make a difference a doctor would tell you more. Eleanor Platt Lind London UK

I have attended several webinars, and they tend to advise to ignore the "relationship estimate", and rather go with the numbers, and what you know about the family. The numbers I use, from the

Looks like the town is "Warschau" - Warsaw. And then the second part would be a street address in Warsaw. Michael Richman

Harry is Tsvi bar Shloma Ida is Chaia bat R Shmuel I hope this helps. Diane Jacobs -- Diane Jacobs, Somerset, New Jersey

I don't have any information on Myriam Alpern, but my great grandfather Yosef Farber was from Triczianne and came to America in 1903 after spending some time in Bialystok. He was a bricklayer by

I have to somewhat disagree with your statement about the person not appearing on a sibling’s list , not being related… DNA is not evenly distributed so sometimes a sibling may or may not get the

An opinion. Try to have more than one known relative to submit DNA. Best a sibling. If a person is your 3rd cousin, but does not appear in your sibling list, they are probably not relatives. But if a

Leah, you don’t indicate where you have already researched but there are extensive indexes for Lwow on JRI-Poland.org, many of them linked to the original records. GesherGalicia.org has an ongoing

Dwore SILBERGLATT Does anyone recognise this lady? She arrived at New York on 13 Jun 1892, single, apparently alone and allegedly aged 16, having sailed from Hamburg on the "Rugia". Her native

After getting chased out of Zhivotov by a pogrom, my maternal grandmother and her family made the crossing to Romania. I'm not clear on the exact details, but I know it took several attempts. I

Start the New Year right Fresh Start (U.S. Genealogy) January 3 - 24 2021 If you are just starting out or are beginning again, this class is for those who want to move beyond an interest in family

I found out about the Philadelphia Immigrant bank ticket purchase ledgers by searching on JewishGen for anything about my Leibman relatives in Pennsylvania. That's when the index entries for my

I have seen the 1811 and 1850 Slutsk, Belarus Revision lists records on Jewishgen. When I go to the Belarus database I can't find them. Why aren't they there? Can someone tell me where to find them

The lead story in Gary Mokotoff’s Nu? What’s New? this week was a lengthy article about Miriam Weiner’s updated website of The Routes to Roots Foundation at www.rtrfoundation.org . In addition,

Michele Lock posted a wonderful link to Temple University's holdings of record books of immigrant ticket purchases at the Blitzstein Immigrant Bank in Philadelphia.