Connie, Try using www.familysearch.org which has very large worldwide databases, i.e. census, vital records, etc. I suggest starting with what you know about current family and working your way back

Dear Jo Ann Apologies - it was mis-filed. It's now on the Data page under "Kaunas". It's the last file in that section. Best regards Jill Anderson President, LitvakSIG

NTalbot, St. Lawrence State Hospital was a psychiatric facility. https://www.asylumprojects.org/index.php/St._Lawrence_State_Hospital If Gussie was there than I would assume it was for psychiatric

A new file has been added to our records and it's the conclusion of our work on the 1834 revision list for Vilna Uyezd, including additional revision lists. There are now 15,974 lines in this file.

Thanks for this suggestion. The occupation doesn't appear against them on the UK censuses so I have been a little doubtful about the veracity of this belief. I suspect they may have used stage names

The attached is in Russian, appearing on the back of a very old photo of a woman family member I would greatly appreciate a translation -- Deanna M. Levinsky, Long Island, NY

The genetic connection is interesting – it might partially explain the Litvak/Galitizaner divide about sweet things, since Jews tended to intermarry locally. Judy Floam Baltimore, MD

My apologies for my typo. The Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 not 1952. Jan Meisels Allen Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee The Institute for Jewish

I've been following this thread and wonder if this suggestion might be viable... or if I'm being very naive. Since one cannot eliminate bad stuff added to their tree (I too had the ex-wife's family

The JewishGen Discussion Group is a lively forum for asking questions and sharing information pertaining to Jewish genealogy. Because it’s not an anonymous forum, we require each posting and

JewishGen's Hungarian Research Division has a Slovak Archives Project that is undertaking digitization and transcription of all of the the Hungarian civil registration records held by Slovak Archives.

Salt and pepper on sour cream? yum; salt and pepper on a banana? ugh Jules Levin

I have read the various comments about GENI and the Mormons. Some considerable number of years ago I was Chairman of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain, when the question arose of

I put a small tree on Geni years ago and keep getting messages about smart matches with my own My Heritage tree. I too would like to delete it. If there is a process to do that, please let me know.

Salt & pepper was all I needed. My mothers family was from Ukraine. Iris Folkson

The Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, not 1951. Yale Zussman

Well these posts explain a few things....I recently found that someone took a line back on my family tree to the 300's BCE maybe, I don't remember exactly, but it was in that time period anyway. The

Dear Michael, the one who decleared the birth probably was the midwife, the mother of the child Regina was the illegitimate Karolina nee Isaak, age 24 years. Wolfgang Fritzsche Germany

Reply to Alan Cohen: I think that "2699" would only be "2nd June 1899" if there was punctuation between the month, day, and year parts of the date... -- and if dates were written as in today's UK (as

My GGGM was Betti Nuszbaum Steiner. She married my GGGF Refael Steiner and lived in Szilagynagyfalu (today Nusfalau, Romania) where she raised several children, among them my GGM Roza. There are