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I recently learned that my Great Grandfather Charles Chaskell Goishen Gerscheiner's brother Rachmiel immigrated from Zhytomer to Israel. I do not know to where or when. We believe current family in

Greetings. You might be aware about the recent discovery in the town square of Lezajsk, Poland. Workers unearthed 150 gravestones in July, which were stoled from the nearby Jewish Cemetery to lay

Hi again, folks. Palestyna is listed in JRI-P database 266 times, as birth place or residence. It shows mainly in historical Galicia regions: 62 times in Lwow Province, 145 times in Stanislawow and

Speaking from memory, I am not sure there was such a thing as “Telephone Book” in Russia of 1905. There were books titled “Telephone and Reference Books” but I think they came in later. (If

With respect to the nickname Nettie, I had a great aunt Nettie whose Hebrew name was Neshama (soul) and whose given name was Ernestine. So, Nettie could derive from either. -- Marc M. Cohen, Los

Hi, I am in a similar position to your father. I found out that I am 26% Jewish earlier this year. My grandmother named a Jewish father on a Salvation Army Home for unmarried mothers document (not on

My father-in-law called his much older first cousin "Tante Manya" out of respect for their age difference. That confused me when I first began putting together the family tree! Sherri Bobish

If you choose to save the original clippings, I suggest putting them in acid-free sleeves in an acid-free box. This will slow down further deterioration. But I applaud you for scanning everything,

Hi Gayle, Nellie, or possibly Nettie, might have had the Yiddish name, Necha. (Not the greatest homonym for a current Hebrew word that means handicapped.) My mother-in-law was a Nettie/Necha so I

Stefanie, It is not clear from your message exactly what you are looking for. Are you looking for research tips for searching U..S. records, or for Belarus records? Are there specific types of records

Some time ago I investigated my Kaminsky grandmothers family. I found out they came from Yanova and searched for them in JewishGen. Because of some very clever men who worked on JewishGen (I would

The link to the LitvakSIG website that I gave doesn't direct properly. This one should work better: https://www.litvaksig.org Russ Maurer

I am seeking descendants of Simkha and Ze'ev WALDER/VALDER in Israel. They are themselves the sons of Eliyahu and Dvora WALDER/VALDER. All are buried in Bnei Brak cemetery, Hazon Ish Street, Ramat

The Jewish agricultural colony of Zhankoye was in the Crimea, not Birobidzhan. The song's lyrics mention Simferopel and Sevastopol. Judy Baston San Francisco.

Greetings to the JewishGen Community: As some of you know, I have spent the last couple years researching my grandfather’s life experience, learning about his childhood growing up in Europe just

From my years of studying Yidddish, I believe it means Aunt Fryma from the father; in other words, from the father's side. We called my great-aunt Mima Yenta. Happy hunting, Molly Staub

I am a 4th generation pharmacist by profession and my great grandfather was one in Mogilev and then in Ekaterinoslav from 1895-1904. My grandfather told me that they had a telephone in the drug store

Many thanks Josef and David. You could both be right. The oral history is that she was from a town near Belgrade. Going by that, Dubno would make more sense as it is closer to Belgrade, but still not

According to various reports that I have read, there were almost no deportations during the First World War that led specifically from point A to point B. As a rule, there were several stages. Nor