Hello, I have heard the expression "vonce" used by my parents and others from NYC while growing up. I am certain it is a Yiddish expression altered by English speakers. It was used to refer to an

Hey genners: My gr-grandfather left Lithuania in 1929 for the United States. I have been trying to find Lithuanian phone (or other directories) prior to 1929 to see if I could find his address.

Thank you, Jeremy, From google street views, it is clear that the area was redeveloped later; I just did not know it was because of the expressway construction. That whole area was very Jewish

Hello genners. I am researching my ancestor R. Tzvi Hirsh Braude, the son of Aron, who was a rabbi in Salant and Alsedziai in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. I am pretty sure that he is

Hello Arianne, In your post you wrote that "Leia had a brother, Mendel who moved to Denver with his wife, Frieda in 1911." Mendel and Frieda GINSBURG are the grandparents of my husband, Gerald. His

Tsilka is diminutive The actual name isTzilla

Hi, I have attached two birth records that I found using JewishGen Unified Search. The person's name was Hersch Yosel (Metzger) born in Sniatyn on 25 March 1883. I don't think either record is correct

Get in touch with the Jewish Genealogical society of Colorado. https://jgsco.org/ they have a ton of stuff. Shelia Toffell

Hi Ron, Col. Sir David Harris was born in London in 1852 under that name. Barney was his first cousin and born the same year in London. In his memoir Pioneer Soldier and Politician, David writes that

Maria, I have tried enlarging the picture, and the word that appears at the end of the first line and is partially cut off looks like the word for pleasant -which is Hebrew is Nechmad. I also did not

Although my family was in Cuba during the war years, my brother was too young to have attended this school. If anyone reading this had family in Cuba at that time, I recommend a documentary called

Hello Susan, Otto Seelig is not in the Bundesarchiv's Residentlisten of German Jews in Germany 1933-1945, nor is he in the Bundesarchiv Gedenkbuch of German Jewish victims or the 1939 German Minority

When all the dusty family trees books and scribbly civil records have been exhaustively mined (and I believe that time is rapidly approaching), yDNA-based rabbinical research is the way forward.

White pages. Try Laurance Baschkin. Has Bernard as family. 914 978 0253. 914 878 7802. 914 835 3506. Pound Ridge NY.

I saw a map with surnames of a Kamenetz - Podolsky Jewish Cemetery (27 plots wide) and was wondering if anyone knows if pictures of the gravestones exist. Are there any ongoing projects to take

The Jewish name of Cacilie is Tsilka Her Hebrew death date matches the Gregorian calendar. Her father was possibly alive when she died as the usual ז"ל or similar acronyms are not written. Jacob

This may not be exactly what you are looking for, but I have 2 bits of information that may be useful: 1. My great-grandfather Shmerl Hellerstein emigrated to Denver from Brest-Litovsk in the 1880s.

Will this be recorded? I'm unable to attend at that time, but I'd very much like to hear the lecture later if possible. -- Deborah Blankenberg (JewishGen ID #613395) Lodi, CA dtblankenberg@...

Genners: I've posted a vital record in Russian. I have found a birth record. I'm hoping it is for Sophia Greenburg, daughter of a Meyer or Myer Greenburg and Fanny or Jennie Brodesky (sp?). It is

Thanks so much for that! I didn’t know that Opole Lubelskie residents were sent to Treblinka. I had heard of Poniatowa before but unsure how to trace people since the official sources have no