One of my ggrandmothers was one of 20 children born to a couple in a tiny town. On each of the 20 birth records, her name was different. She was Reis, Rachel, Regina, Rosa, every other R name you can

Have you considered a Canadian entry? I notice that Ancestry has an Abraham SLOOTSKY (born c. 1894, "Russia") arriving in Quebec City, 2 July 1913, aboard The Sicilian. Might he have been following

I have just looked at the conditions for submitting a tree to the JewishGen website.. One of the conditions is that the tree must be all the result of one's own research, or only published with the

I made a mistake in my previous post. Hermann and Elisabeth probably did not marry in 1788 when Elisabeth (Leids) was 12. That was when Hermann (Heymann) received the right to marry. Their first child

JewishGen is pleased to announce a significant upgrade to the Family Tree of the Jewish People (FTJP), enabling the addition of 555 new family trees, representing 454,416 individuals. In total, the

I am looking for someone with insight into Jewish migration to Britain's American colonies in the 1700s. I was adopted as an infant by a Jewish family, and have known all my life that I was not of

I have hit a brick wall looking for the origins of my family and would appreciate some suggestions. My paternal great grandparents are Joseph and Kate Slootsky. According to the census, they arrived

Or Elisheva ? David Lewin Londn

Wondering if your Nathan & Ann lived in Stl Mo, if so. They are related to Bertha Brody Schneider Brssjs@... Barbara Schneider

Given names in all areas of Eastern Europe were the same or similar. I searched the JRI-Poland database for Seiva and similar spellings and the results were: Seiva 4 Siva 1 Seiwe 14 (in Polish the

Just to add a note. The following Hebrew names would be nicknamed Sheva and Shevy (apparently Seiva and Sheiva too): 1) Sheva 2) Bas-shehva/Batsheva 3) Elisheva Yitschok Margareten

My 4th-great-grandmother, Elisabeth BECKER (called Leids, Leitz, or Leize Benjamin before 1808), was born on 6 April 1776 in Niederzissen (Landkreis Ahrweiler, Rheinland-Pfalz) and died there on 10

I have documents and specific names I would like to post in message board for my husband's parents, seeking information from anyone who might know them from wartime or after. What would be the best

Hi, My maternal grandmother from Czernowitz was called 'Sheiva' or 'Sheive', a Yiddish diminutive of the biblical Hebrew name 'Batsheva'. 'Seiva' might be an alternative spelling. Regards, Zev Cohen

Paul, The headers are explained on the Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Empire_Census Regards, Mike Vayser

I haven't seen "Seiva," but here's a person in my tree (Galicia, 1800s) named "Schewa" whose Hebrew name was Batsheva. --Nevet Basker (Bellevue, WA) Researching: Zolkiew, Brody, Uhnow, Rawa Ruska,

Almost every Jewish community had a mikveh, where Jews went for the ritual bath to cleanse themselves of deeds from the past. Unmarried women went to the mikveh prior to their wedding, and married

During World War ll over 190,000 British and Commonwealth troops were taken prisoner by the Imperial Japanese Army. Many were held captive in the Far East and conditions were brutally harsh, including

Vel is the polish equivalent of "aka", or "also known as." Harry Auerbach

Does anyone know of any databases of internal passports and travel permits for Tsarist Russia? Birth records prove that my grandfather's family came from the Chernigov oblast in what is now northern