Dear Agne Grigaraviciute, If you are saying that you believe your maternal grandmother was born Jewish then you would have a substantial amount of Jewish genes. I have used a method before to identify

Dear Stefanie, I keep a database of Gerszons due to my own tree's Kherszon (both pronounced as an 'h' in slavic). This is a long shot of course, but I do have an Ysroel Gerszon born in Vilna in 1866.

I agree with Phil Karlin's (above) assessment of Ancestry. Its interface is too opaque to be really useful in genetic genealogy. It needs a chromosome browser and to make available (and downloadable)

Sophia is referring to the town of Tomaszów Lubelski, 124 km SE of Lublin and not Tomaszów Mazowiecki, 57 km SE of Łódź. To find answers to the status of record indexing/extraction of Polish

There is a Facebook group called FreeObituaryLookups. https://obituarieshelp.org/ is like a Cindy's list for obituaries - it links to newspapers based on geographical location - but you may need a

My 16 year old uncle was an art school student in Yelizavetgrad, Russia in October 1905 when the pogrom broke out, and his older brother was killed. He boarded a ship in Trieste, Austria. The

Hey, thanks for the answer! My grandfather was born after his parents had already immigrated from Russia to Brazil around the 1924... if I recall it correctly my great grandmother, Feodora POPOV, was

Hey everyone! I am looking for any information on my maternal family that goes by the surname of LEBEDENKO/LEBEDENCO or POPOV, whom lived in Moldova. My grandfather was born after his parents had

Susan, Reba's post is incorrect. The IGI and the Genealogies section of FS are two totally different things. The first is an index (not family trees); it is indeed no longer being added to, but that's

Reba, Susan, as I pointed out somewhere above, you're looking in the WRONG PLACE. Genealogies is NOT the IGI. The International Genealogical Index is a no-longer-being-added-to _index_. It is not a

Looking for any relatives from Anna Zacknau from Vienna arround 1914 emanuel norman

I have good luck with genealogybank.com - a subscription service. It looks for ANY mention of a name, so I can find wedding announcements and interesting articles about people. -- Susan Gray,

Trudy, As Barbara said, where to look for obituaries depends a lot on where your relatives lived. I know of several websites that provide access to upstate New York newspapers, for example. This

I have found some obituaries in https://fultonhistory.com/fulton.html Beth Erez Hod Hasharon, Israel

Hi Sophia, I believe the old LDS records may have gone to only 1890 or so - but the Polish archives has been scanning records and it appears that birth records past 1900 are available (and some are

Reba...thank you for this info. I was just about to see if I could put my tree on Family Search but now I know we can't. I am going to try my old Family Tree Maker disc, like Marcel Apsel from

I do not like to cite to Wikipedia, but my time is now pressed to do other projects. Never mind the Arabs whose total life aspirations are to exterminate Jews, "Plastun" in Russian or Ukrainian

Eva, I have found town Plastun on the map. It lays in the far-far East of Russia, on the Japan sea. from the linguistic point in may work: PaLeSTiN=PLaSTuN. the problem is - it had got its name in

Hello, I would like to find records from around 1900-1903 from Tomaszow Poland on my mother Pesa Apfel. I have located the people she claims were he family, but cannot locate any documents on her

Dear Everyone, I hope my note finds you well, safe from the pandemic. Would anyone have experience in obtaining a picture of a tombstone from the Lodz Cemetery? I looked up the person of interest at: