London stonecutters also indicate their names on side and occasionally back of stone. Adele Lester

Aranka usually turned into Goldie in English (since that is literally what it means), which I would not consider a name change. Turning it into Gladys (which may be from an old Welsh name that's

Are the records indexed? Harvey Kaplan Glasgow, Scotland

Since my message yesterday folks have asked me where to find lists of immigrants assisted by Baron Hirsch. Below is a list of the Baron Hirsch archives around the world. Almost all are NOT digitized

Hello, All my mother's family adopted the name JABLOW when they came to the U.S., but I can't find records for them in Minsk. Does anyone have any idea what their name in Minsk might have been? Many

Did she receive Social Security? If so, you can check with them to see what name she used when she was assigned an SSN. What name did she use in census records? The earliest census record for her

Hi Lee. Bremen or Hamburg, I would say. Trieste and FIume were closer to Hungary but the travel to the U.S. would have been longer and maybe more expensive. Jorge Sexer

Shelley Please let us know if/when you find Aunt Zippe!! Rhonda Post rhonda.post@... SIlver Spring, MD

My family all lived in a small village of Raslavice, northeast of Presov. I am researching the area and would appreciate any information about life in the city itself. My family's migration started

I had heard that during the era of conscripting children into the army at young ages, that because the Army wouldn’t take an only son, sometimes the family would change the last names of one of one

In a remarkable coincidence, I happened to look at the French National Archives website today in the hope of finding something that would help me further my family research, only to see this wonderful

Dick Eastman included an article in his Eastman Genealogy Newsletter on How to Store Print Photographs So The Last for Generations. See:

Dear fellow researchers, What would you recommend as the easiest program to use for a Hebrew ,10 generation tree , preferably in fan chart design, editable and printable in large format ( on

The Orange County California Jewish Genealogy Society is having a conversation with Gary Mokotoff and SallyAnn Amdur Sack-Pikus in February. Sunday February 28th at 10:00 am Pacific time. The event

Hi, I am trying to trace information on my ancestors from Lvov. I have screenshots of birth certificates from JRI-Poland but I don't understand much of the detail. I request a translation of these

There are manifests missing - at least from the on-line we sites. We had complete information for the arrival of my husband's grandfather in December 1899 - name of boat, date, etc. We even have

Hi Shelley, My second great-grandmother was named Zipe in the passenger records when she came to the USA in 1897. She became Celia; that is how she appears in the one census record in which she was

Lizzie, Oh dear, straightaway, the divide in Anglo Jewry about who is a Jew is coming to the fore. Just so irrelevant to Lizzie at this point. Veronika, at least give accurate information. The

Here is card # 3: Mister / L. Schwartz / in Brocklyn / 47 Hoyt St. / New York Americka------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear

I am pleased to announce that Alexandre Crazover has taken over as the new translation coordinator for Balti Bessarabia: A Memorial of the Jewish Community. Current translations can be seen at