For Podwoloczyska/Podvolochisk, formerly in Galicia https://www.jri-poland.org/town/podwoloczyska.htm https://inventories.geshergalicia.org/#/ Search both the JRI-Poland and Gesher Galicia databases

Left side card (2 messages): For memory to our dear uncle and family Our picture Chava Yaakov Rachel'le This is Shlomo Strenger Chava's son --- Right side card: For memory to our uncle Benny our

Note the title "holy" which is used either for an actual holy person like a holy Rabbi etc., or for a martyr who was killed for being a Jew. As it clearly states that he was killed, I assume the

I am trying to decipher this birth record that appears in my computer with low resolution The titles above the columns are in German and Polish, indicating that the document is from Galicia. Most of

Dear uncle Zelik and aunt Mina and your dear family! On the day of my dear brother's wedding we celebrated in my house, I'm standing behind my husband's uncle the short one with the ??? behind me is

Trying to make contact with the family of Shoshana Raizi Stern who lived in Montreal and posted a Page of Testimony to Yad Vashem for her uncle Moshe Menchel Stern in 2004. They descend from

My maternal grandfather, Louis S. Weil (Leizer Wahl), was from in or around Tarnobryzn Galicia. I have never been able to find any records from this shtetl. When I was a child some of my grandfather's

How about marriage and birth records for Volochysk and Podvolochisk. Also census data for these cities from 1850-1900 Karen Goldsmith Adelman

My great-great grandfather Mordechai Dov HURWITZ of Rokiskis, Lithuania had a brother Shmuel Yehuda HURWITZ who moved to St Petersburg c1900. While some of Shmuel Yehuda's children managed to leave

Hi Les ,Just wondering if you are related to either Sheldon Evans or Ron Evans they are both on Ancestry .My father is from Koidenov ,he shares a high DNA Cm with both Sheldon and Ron.My Dad was born

Dear Friends, As 5780 and 2020 come to a close, we at Gesher Galicia thank all of our members for their support during what has been a uniquely challenging year. Despite the hurdles, we were able to

David WOW I am duly impressed. I was trying to find Glusk to no good luck. And kudos on the Aisik Helfman , I would never have found that! =] Much appreciated 1910 and 1920 censuses both say 1906,

Babi Yar (Babyn Yar) is a ravine outside the Ukrainian city of Kyiv (Kiev) where Einsatzgruppen mobile squads killed at least 34,000 Jews over a one week period in September 1941. Jews were marched in

She actually would have been naturalized under her husband's application in 1906. If she applied again separately, I would check the indexes at

Vivs: Because of arranged marriages, your assumption that the towns are near each other may not be correct. His town is Sluck/Slutsk

Joel, One solution - You can sync with MyHeritage’s Family Tree Builder and export gedcom from there. Max Heffler

Hi, I indexed many jewish records in Tuchola and the area. My grandmother's line is from there. BUKOFZER is a common name in that area that is now Poland but used to be Prussia. You can search the

I am writing a novel set in the 20th century in which the wife of a major character is murdered at Auschwitz. She was living and hiding in Paris during the Nazi occupation, but she was caught in 1943

"Father - papers" Regards, David Oseas

Nancy, During that time frame, Annie would have derived her citizenship status from her husband. She would not have separate naturalization documents. Also, unfortunately, the docs of that period do