Facebook has two groups: "Tracing the Tribe" and "Genealogical Translations." Jeri Friedman Port Saint Lucie, Florida -- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus

Richard, If she was in the same location in 1940 as she was in 1930, try searching the 1940 census for her neighbors (particularly those with uncommon names). If you can't find any of them in 1940,

In my experience, Jewishgen is a great source. People have contacted me about things in the area of my signature at the time, and I have gotten them stuff. Sally Bruckheimer Princeton, NJ

I don't know if the area in the Bronx that you're searching fits but the Cross Bronx Expressway obliterated large areas of apartment housing If you can compare her location from right after WWII and

Barbara, SteveMorse's search pages are the gold standard for flexible name searching. Ancestry has a good soundex search capability on both first names and surnames. On FamilySearch if you do not

From: Yana Semenyuk <yana.semenyuk.v@...> Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2020 Do you know any forums where people need a translator from Russian to English for documents like this? I would love to join

I am having difficulty finding a 1940 census sheet for my grandmother. I have her listed with her family in the 1910, 1920, 1930 censuses. I used Steve Morse's site to get the ED and went through

The point about damaging people's lives by posting their details on a public geneaogy site is a valid one, I feel that everyone should respect the privacy of the present and the recet past simply

I would really appreciate a translation of this marriage record for my ancestors Lejzor [FLESER] and Frejda [GIELCOWSKA] from 1826. Thank

I am going to be visiting Beth David to do some photos on Sunday weather permitting. I would be happy to try and assist with requests, but this is a challenging cemetery. They do not have a public

Once the Germans were routed in World War 2, many Jews who weathered the Nazi storm hiding in bunkers, or in the forests or who had sheltered in other countries began to make their way back to the

Rick, There is the website Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness (RAOGK), which has been around for a long time - raogk.org Another alternative is to conduct the local Jewish Genealogical Society. To

The Association of Professional Genealogists https://www.apgen.org maintains a directory of its membership which includes specializations - you might try that. It's obviously not a comprehensive

The reason so many Jewish children are listed as illegitimate is that many couples did not care to have a civil marriage, or in some jurisdictions, were not permitted to marry civilly. In most cases,

Please click on this link to hear Rabbi Jeremy Borovitz speak about what Gesher Galicia means to him. The full interview entitled, "Shtetl Life: Am American's Journey from Ukraine to the Rabbinate and

Hello Michael and list-readers, I agree to Wolfgang Fritsche - yet this is a quite unusual phrase word-order-wise, also considering the conventions in that time. The sentence extracted would be

Hi everyone, I would appreciate it if someone could translate a Polish birth record of Izrael Wolf Reiner for me. It's an 1841 copy of the 1817 birth record. I'm especially interested in information

unehelichen clearly applies to the child not the mother. Eheichen also appears in marriage records. With regard to the mother of an illegitimate child, it may say nothing or ledig or Standers ledig,

Jacob, Abraham ROSNER, of 223 Penn Street in Brooklyn, naturalized in 1941 in The U.S. District Court at Brooklyn, NY. Petition number 298703. This is your Abraham since the birth date you cite (Aug.

Jacob, You can also use https://stevemorse.org/census/unified.html to find Abraham's address on the 1940 census. You said you tried to find him, but could not. The name could have been missed in the