Thanks. I'm still learning. Were you able to connect Isaac to Meier by age and occupation, or is there something in the name Meier also? Thanks again. -- Carl Kaplan KAPLAN Minsk, Belarus EDELSON,

I can confirm the information given by others since I recently looked up this JewishGen entry. For reasons I do not understand, my grandfather Jack Cooke (Kruk) and his brother Max helped found the

I am looking for further ideas concerning Sarah nee MENDES (b 1791) was my fourth great-grandmother and was married to David JUDA RODRIGUES.

I request a translation from German to English or French for the following posts I sent through viewmate (there are 4 posts, but in fact they correspond to one single letter which is very long and

Thanks a lot Peter for posting Bernard's guide to research in France. I have found naturalisation for Paul STRANSKY a cousin of my mother's in 1946 the year I was born in Prague. Now I need to find

The Martin-Springer Institute at Northern Arizona University (NAU) in Flagstaff, Arizona has announced the completion of a web project featuring the James P. Kuykendall World War II Photography

Hello, I've posted a vital record in Russian for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address ... https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM85235 Please

As stated in several replies, information in databases should only be corrected if the indexer clearly misread the original record. No information absent from the original record should be added. You

Dale, A soundex search at https://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Belarus/ for surname JABLOW finds this surname in Minsk records, along with other possibilities: YAVELOV I see a December 1903 Ellis

https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/responselist.asp?key=85183 I've posted a vital record in German for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the address above. This is a marriage record

I've posted a vital record in German for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address: https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/responselist.asp?key=85183 This is a marriage

 I've posted three vital records (two birth records and one marriage record) in Polish for which I need full translations. They are on ViewMate at the following addresses

Jay, A Google search found this on GoogleBooks. B'nai Moishe Alexandrovsky is cited in an index in the book listed below the citation. Ben Shloime, “The History of B'nai Moishe,” B'nai Moishe

My sister's English name is Anne. Her Hebrew name is Chana. I would think that Mira is a diminutive for Miriam. -- Barbara Sloan Conway, SC

I've posted a vital record in German for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address: https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/responselist.asp?key=85183 This is a marriage

If you look at his NY ship arrival on the Hamburg in 1904 it says he is from Kovno. (He is Meier Edelson, glazier, age 18) If you look at the Hamburg departure lists, he is Meier Edelson from

For an amazing list of resources check out https://www.museumoffamilyhistory.com/links.htm Merrie Blocker, Silver Spring, MD https://thebaronhirschcommunity.org/

To all, I have been trying to learn more about Jewish stonemasons, to understand how they gained their skills and expertise. Also, I want to know what kind of religious knowledge they might have

For convenience, here's the direct link to Bernard Flam's instructions on researching in France: https://groups.jewishgen.org/g/main/message/646211 Peter Cherna

Noticing that family Edelson has some roots in Kovno I have to assume that some transliteration went wrong and that the place of birth/abode was WILKOMIR [ Ukmerge] which is not far from Kovno and is