The US Census Bureau will end data collection on the 2020 Census on October 15, 2020 as a result of the U.S. Supreme Court emergency ruling on October 13 stating they need not collect data through

The writing on the bottom right hand side of the frame is the stamp of the photographer in Skudas - it has no relationship to identifying the people in the photo. Carol Hoffman

A pit that rainfall exposed at a former Jewish cemetery in Iasi, Romania in October 2020, (©Dan Acostioaiei) Heavy rainfall in northeastern Romania exposed an underground chamber full of

The U.S. Supreme Court approved a request from the Trump Administration to suspend the lower federal court’s order that extended the census count to October 31.The Court offered no explanation for

I was sent this video (see attached) by a friend (not jewish) who I have volunteered with in Israel. I found the video to be very creative and moving. Lowell Sorry if you get multiple emails.

I've recently seen several references (on JewishGen) to Jews employed by the Czar. Considering the general distain Russians exhibited (and still exhibit) towards Jewish people, was this a reality? --

Received a very kind email from someone who explained what Kaliskovkeh was. It was actually a large estate, a folwark specifically and it was largely dismantled by the Russian Czar somewhere around

I want to be a town leader for Shatava but have not received any response to my previous emails. I also want to submit material for the Odessa site and have not been able to make contact with the town

Hi, The name of the village I imgine is KULACKOWCE pronounced Kulchkovtse. It is now in Ukraine by the name KLITVICI pronounced Klitvichi. It is south Kolomyya near the town Zablotiv now, then

I spoke with my husband and he said that we were told that my Great Grandfather Alexander Borisovich was in charge of the Hospital at Kronstadt. When he did not come home it was on the same day of

Alexander, I was wrong in my original premise, it was not Kolosva Ukraine - it was this place: https://radzima.net/eng/miejsce/kalyskovka-347.html Some kind of village that no longer exists, but very

So I tracked it down to this https://radzima.net/eng/miejsce/kalyskovka-347.html . Looks like it was a village that existed near Dolginovo. I used online image translation of his tombstone and there

Marcy, It is definitely not Vitebsk. It is this thing: https://radzima.net/eng/miejsce/kalyskovka-347.html I just have no idea what this means. Looks like some kind of village/area, but it no

This is one of a series of high-definition photographs obtained from town residents/for identification. If you are able to recognize someone/please contact me privately using the 'Private' button

Arkady, You can post a request to the discussion list asking for someone who can read Hebrew to translate the stone for you. I tried to find Yakov Kamenetsky's passenger manifest, but could not, even

Dear Arkady, My maternal great-grandparents came from a shtetl in Vitebsk, Belarus called Kolyshki. Sometimes it is called Kalisk. Marcy Kalvelage

Sometimes, writers receive unexpected payoffs when their words spur readers into action. My article describes what happened when a cousin I never knew read my memoir, BECAUSE OF EVA: A Jewish

I have been asked to give a presentation on doing Jewish Genealogy in Belarus. Has anyone got any ideas besides Belarus Research Division, FamilySearch and my handout from Yuri Dorn and a handout from

Arkady, I have provided you with two reliable sources of the village existence in the past, and yes it was located just 9 km distance from Krzemieniec. Krzemieniec is original Polish name of Ukrainian

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