I am not sure where this information came from but I can tell you on the wiki page https://uk.wikisource.org/wiki/%D0%90%D1%80%D1%85%D1%96%D0%B2%D0%B8/%D0%94%D0%90%D0%96%D0%9E/67/3 there are 150 files

Rachel, Perhaps the bride's parents had an objection to the marriage and the synagogue required their permission. The couple's only alternative would have been a civil marriage (or Gretna Green?), if

-- I made my family tree for many years, and posted it on MyCanvas, from Alexanders.( Familily Roimiser, Roimisher, Roemicher, Romischer...etc). Since that site uses Flash Player, which will

I am not very skilled at this, but I understand some people have been able to really narrow things down by using dnapainter.com. I would also suggest going back to your oldest relatives and asking

How about birth, marriage and death records as well as revision lists for Mogilev Podol'sk and Kopaigorod Ukraine? Janis Friedenberg Datz jjdatz@...

I couldn't find your Viewmate, so I can just speak generally. Lots of helpful links, including Kurrent letters, at https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Slovakia_Genealogy. Find the 1869 Census in the

I think those numbers are pretty good. 10% of Americans don't have a high school diploma or GED. Less than 40% have a bachelors degree. Less than 3% of Americans are Jewish. Ignorance of history

See: https://www.segal.org/name/index.html David Rosen Boston, MA

The name "Segel" is said to have also been an honorific sometimes added to surnames of rabbinical-levitical families. Is anyone aware of the tradition surrounding the use of it? -Ari Dale

Thanks so much for this very detailed response. It does seem possible that Reizl could be Rose. She did live on Henry St at one point, so very possible that she could be related to the person at 100

Birth, marriage, and death records for Zhitomir are in the archives in that city. The Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People in Jerusalem has film of birth records through 1907. Alex

I went to school in New Jersey in the 50's and there was very little taught about World War II and later. I guess they made the ridiculous assumption that since it was relatively recent we all knew

Prof. Lipstadt hits the nail on the head when she states: "These lessons remain relevant today in order to understand not only anti-Semitism, but also all the other 'isms' of society. There is real

regarding Odessa - there are index files (in Cyrillic) posted by Alex Krakovsky at https://uk.wikisource.org/wiki/Архіви/ДАОО/39/6 regarding Zhitomir - there are index files (in Cyrillic)

There are currently virtually no records from Volochysk in the JewishGen Ukraine database, outside of a handful of people listed in the Vsia Rossiia business directory and a few cases of people from

In addition to Kherson having been a gubernia in southern Ukraine, it is a city that was the capital of the gubernia. Odessa is a city that was in that gubernia. -- Alan Shuchat Newton, MA

If Elaine's ancestors came from New East Prussia, the area around Konigsberg, now Kaliningrad, she would have been on the borders of the Suwalki Lomza gubernias in NE Poland which used to be in

Karen, Volochys'k https://www.jewishgen.org/Communities/community.php?usbgn=-1058702 Pidvolochys'k https://www.jewishgen.org/Communities/community.php?usbgn=-1051014 The towns are only one mile

Looking for any records of my Pevsner family, grandfather Gershon and his son Mordecai . Mordecai and his brothers owned a department store there which was burned down in a program in the early 1900 s

Looking for Yaakov Rotem (or relative) Yad Vashem testimonial reporter who reported murders of Wilder family members from Lwow. Nina Talbot, Brooklyn, NY