I and many others on JewishGen have ranted about this for years. There seems to be many individuals -- I call them "amassers" -- who pluck small family groups as new data appear on Ancestry and

Does anyone know what is the meaning of the "146" attached to the town name? It is not the house number as that is 113 Daniella Alyagon 11 Rav Ashi St, Tel Aviv 6939545,

Thanks to Asaf Feig who found a U.S. public records index for Peter from which I was able to track him to a phone number. I spoke with Peter who now lives in the U.S. Thank you to

The gravestone photos for Martha and for Isaac can be found JOWBR. David Rosen Boston, MA

Arnon, If you know the city or town in which the certificate is filed than you may get a quicker response by applying directly there, rather than applying through Albany. This page may be

Hi Debbie, If you search at: https://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Poland/ for surname GARFUNKEL, in the region of Lwow, you will find records for Rzeszow. I spotted several records of births to

I found one place in Russia, in Smolensk region. SolnechnayaСолнечнаяSmolensk OblastRussia215825 What you are looking in particular? I can help with translation. Michael Ryabinky Columbus,

I read it as Bechel Teitler, but it is on line 5. It is much easier to read at familysearch.org: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JNYN-54D I hope this helps, Rodney Eisfelder Melbourne,

Dear Group, This 1930 wording on a child's photo seems to be a short (seasonal ?) greetings in Polish. I'd appreciate help transcribing this greeting:

Dear Group, I've been studying an official record from 1884, where a relative called "Feige" was said to actually be "Fani". Some of the words in the record are are to transcribe, and I'd appreciate

Throughout Chanukah we will be posting “presents” from Ann Rabinowitz — a series of articles focused on Latvia but of general interest to Jewish genealogy researchers. Ann has written

Hi Rebecca, My family is also from Maramures. I found a lot of information on birth dates and other info (although not the actual records) on the Arolson Archives, which would help if he was in the

February 23, 1921 my grandparents with their four adult children arrived at Ellis Island. On the manifest, in the far left column, is "SI", Special Inquiry. Spread over columns 4-7, next to my

I have had some success with finding family members, but my frustration is that the view of a family group is isolated and there is no way to connect the family laterally to other names in the tree.

Many people copy other trees that pop up as hints which is why they have so many names in their tree to begin with. In the beginning of my own research a decade ago I was guilty but didn't take long

It looks like Sol Levinson handled Yehuda's funeral: https://www.tributearchive.com/obituaries/18839552/Russell-Scott-Barch In case you haven't seen, this is Yehuda's brother's

Can you please specify which town in Romania? There are differences in what is available from the part that was formerly Hungary and the rest of Romania. Beth Long

If they were buried in metropolitan Baltimore, call Sol Levinson funeral home at 410-653-8900. They are the only Jewish funeral home in that area, so probably did it. Vicki E. Lessans Baltimore

It looks like Frudi or Friedl to me (perhaps masculine form of Frieda). Rafael Manory, PhD

I need the e-mail for Seth Edlavitch. I have found information on the edlavitch family of Jonava which may interest him. Chaim Luria Jerusalem cluria48@...