I am looking for : Pentue, Russia. My husband's great-grandfather and grandfather came from there. Thank you Ellen Honig

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My great great grandfather travelled from Krasilov Ukraine to Tzefat Palestine in August 1899.He sent a letter to his daughter setting out the travel details. The town/cities are in Hrbrew and I have

I was given a memoir by a cousin whose father was hired as a "raft worker." He helped take timber from the forests in Lithuania to a port by working on a raft about 1892. It is the only time that

If this was an arranged marriage, then there are any manner of ways in which he might have learned of his future wife, including mutual friends or perhaps family living in CT. I know of a happy

I suggest that you start by contacting Lara Diamond, JewishGen's Sub-Carpathian Research Director at ldiamond@.... The Sub-Carpathian database, which is described at

I am researching a Jewish family of distillers in Moscow who had to leave in 1891 when the Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich became Governor General of Moscow whose goal was “to save Moscow from the

I live a 90 or so minute easy ride from Utica, would be willing to go there in the spring (we just had over 2' of snow). Please do find out the details and feel free to contact me again. Linda Cohen

Sherri, In 1880 the family lived in Alachua County, FL. In the U.S. Census of the same year, the young man in question was 15 yrs old and listed as attending school with his siblings, strongly

Hello all: I am wondering if someone can help me decipher the signature on a postcard written to my grandmother in 1914? The lines before it are from a poem and are in German. Apparently there are

Thanks for the various pieces of information, some of which I was aware. Hope you will understand when I say that the ancestral waters have become very cloudy. Hyman's brother, Louis, emigrated to

This is so interesting, my great grandparents travelled early 1900's came to live in England, but the brothers all USA, so I've been trying to imagine what journey they would have had. Not sure if

Thank you so much, Arthur. I am going to check this book now. I am so looking for photos of what Lodz was like then during the war and prior. Also, descriptions of life there. I will check this book

Hi, Try contacting Mr. Huber from Ungvar. Hi is a local researcher and guide. His email huberbelay@... Other contact information you can find on the jewish gen researchers list. Good luck Mark

Malka, They were required to have a civil marriage. You can search here for

Hi Ellen, This is the place you are looking for, https://www.jewishgen.org/Communities/Community.php?usbgn=-1952659 -- Giannis Daropoulos Greece

Dear Sharon, My uncle, Dr. Jacob Stupay, his wife and two children lived in Lodz from the early 1920s until the war. He returned to Lodz from Krakow alone, losing his family, and lived there from 1945

Hi David, Here is Hyman's death certificate. https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X83Z-7GD The names of his parents were Morris Wolk and Lillian Levinson. Obviously the names were anglicized.

They travelled by many times hoping in different wagons, sometimes by train, either bought a ticket, or someone gave them....and Yes, by walking...they were looking at the end result ...the light at

My paternal great-grandparents and grandparents came from Sitcowitz/ Zytkiewicze, Russia(?). Their names were BERELPORTNOY/PORTNOY 7 ESTHER PORTNOY/PORTNOJ WILLIAM PORTNOY/PORTNOJ I am trying to