Bill, you wrote that someone, "told me his goal was to 'memorialize' Holocaust victims." and that "this is a term used by the Mormon church to designate a ceremony in which Jewish victims of the

I need to know what the boundaries are for inclusion of victims of the Holocaust in genealogical databases. While building a db of Jewish residents I cannot decide where to cut off the margins for

You may be the only honest on of all the curators, then maybe not. I know a curator and he has changed things on my verry small tree that I put up on Geni , when Geni was first alive. The things he

"it's quite likely that the records of Jewish births, like those of marriages and deaths, were reported and registered in the town's Kehilah, where Jewish records were kept". Few Jewish groups kept

Bill, Its unfortunate you had such a bad experience with Geni. I never post my family tree on any site because once you do its tantamount to tacit acceptance for the site owners and anyone else with

Hi all, I'm looking for someone to help translate several dozen 19th century vital and census records from Russian into English. The records are handwritten in Cyrillic script. I've found ViewMate

Except that it isn't anything like Wikipedia. There are a huge number of problems with this type of "genealogy" of which erroneous data is just one. But even at this level: Wikipedia, imperfect as it

NTalbot, The certificate states that the doctor attended Gussie from March 19th to April 8th, which is 21 days. The length of stay in hospital is 10 years, ? months, and 5 days. This is written as 3

Trying to make contact with Elie Rosner of Paris, France who posted a Page of Testimony to Yad VaShem in 2007 for his wife's grandfather, Feiwel Rosenkrantz. descendants of Baharir rabbinical

Hi Moishe, As your grandparents came from Hungary and reached a port city in Italy, it is very likely that such a city was Trieste. If they continued travelling by ship from there, they had to cross

Just like Wikipedia provide the ability for correcting the incorrect, my tree is infinitely more correct as people have found and suggested corrections, which I have gladly made. This would be

Barbara - what search resources would you recommend? I am having a similar issue with finding a relative's manifest. I have looked at Ancestry and Family Search. I tried Steven Morse, but it doesn't

Len, https://www.jewishgen.org/Communities/community.php?usbgn=-1060603 https://www.jewishgen.org/databases/jgform.php https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/zhabokrich/page4cemetery.asp Regards, Sherri

A good place to look is in your local Central Library, which could/should have a copy of "Who's Who in the Theatre". this publication has not only information about Actors but information about

That is precisely why web-based genealogy trees cannot betrusted. I have long since stopped adding anything to mine David Lewin London

Years ago, when I first found an online copy of my grandfather's 1883 birth info and name listed as "Unehelichen"/illegitimate, I wondered why, as there was no question or doubt that his parents were

I agree with Jeffrey, I gave up on Geni because it does allow people to make massive mistakes that are impossible to correct. Years ago I added a small piece of my own branch there. Someone added

Len, A Jewish history of shtetl Zabokrich is written in Russian. Please use Google translate the article. https://stmegi.com/posts/71070/evreyskaya-istoriya-mestechka-zhabokrich/ Alexander Sharon JGFF

I'm grateful to Bill Katz (no relation, as far as I'm aware, but hey, who knows) for his thoughtful and detailed exposition of his bad experiences with geni.com. I have had had the same horrid

The name Hannah (Хана in Russian) is in a wrong grammatical case in the writing, which makes one think that either the person was not very literate in Russian or there is a missing word "from",