First telephone directory (телефонный справочник) in Russia was published in Moscow in 1901. At this time in Moscow were only 2,860 subscribers, mostly business owners and few

HI Moses, Would you please share your database, and photos if you get them, with JewishGen so we can add the material to the JOWBR database? Please contact me at NAltman@... Thank you in advance for

A humorous anecdote: My family said if we had an "Aunta Tanta" then we must have also had an "Uncle Tunkle". (phonetic spellings). Larry Bassist

My mother-in-law’s cousin was married to the Jewish Lord Mayor of Dublin, Robert Briscoe. Max Heffler

I wouldn't trust any DNA companies ethnicity estimates. I have tested with 3 different companies and guess what? I have 3 different ethnicity results. That said, your real answers will probably come

Hi All, If the paper originals don’t take up an unmanageable amount of space there are credible arguments for keeping the originals. Once stored properly (in archival containers), old paper is

This week’s excerpt, “Shabbosim, Holidays and Weddings,” from the Yizkor book of Klobuck, Poland is a charming snapshot of the arrival of the Sabbath — the women and girls hurrying to the

What would be the Yiddish/Hebrew equivalent for Shirley and Libby? Richard Stower Yarmouth, Maine SECHESTOWER, SPIERMAN, THAU, GRAF in Kolomyya area. KANNER, SCHMIDT in Dobrowa Tarnowska. GROSS and

In researching a tree I found the JewishGen record for Sheva [Sylvia] and Srul Yisroel [Isadore] Shnayder [ Snyder] listed as twins born on 5/3/1891 or 7 Adar 2 In Kishinev. Using a date converter,

Dear Friends, It is with no small amount of pleasure that I inform you of the completion of the translation of the Belz Yizkor Book from Yiddish and Hebrew into English. This is the sixteenth endeavor

There is a Kartenai in Lithuania, http://www.fallingrain.com/world/LH/a/K/a/r/t/ https://www.tripmondo.com/lithuania/vilniaus-apskritis/ukmerge/kartenai/ David Rosen Boston, MA

I'm trying to determine if a cousin named Leibisch Sperber, who lived in Vienna 1928-1939, was living with any other family members. If he was, I'm hoping of identify the connection and find

My mother's given name was Nellie, her Hebrew name was Gnendela after her Galician grandmother. Alex Woodle Groton, MA

I have done a little research on two agricultural colonies . One was Trochenbrod ,(Sofievka ) which was only an agricultural colony in part, near Lutsk in Ukraine. You can google the details but it

I do not have information about telephone books in Ekaterinoslav, however, your post caught my attention. My grandfather, Louis (Lazer) Witkin was born in 1890 in Cherikov, Mogilev and I have found

Hi, I'm trying to figure what the town of origin is in the attached photo. Any ideas? Thanks, Harold Love Pittsburgh, PA

It isn't really relevant to the topic, but like most threads, it has drifted somewhat. I was born in the late 1940's. My parents and grandparents were born in Germany. I used "Aunt" for my aunts and

My ggf had a cloth store in Novo georgiusk..shortly before Pesach a customer warned him of a pogrom planned by locals..he emptied out the potato cellar under the house, posted a child as a lookout and

My Belarus [Minsk] side used Tante and my Ukrainian [Galician] side used Mima. In each case the aunt was older than the speaker, and the title was respectful. These are regionalisms used by native

Nettie is also derived from Genesha. I had an aunt named Nettie, and as far as I know, it wasn't a nickname or diminutive. Her "Jewish" name was Genesha, and formal/English name was Nettie. I can't