My great uncle on my mother's side was Sergiu Godeanu (born Goldenzweig in Bucharest, Romania in 1896). I have found only one reference to a Sergiu Godeanu here on JewishGen and nowhere else. I know

Hi Stuart There is a group on the Facebook: Jews from Мукачево-Munkács-Mukačevo-Munkatsh https://www.facebook.com/groups/218852678140904 You can try to post this question there. Best

My great-grandparents on my mother's side of the family were Nathan and Rita (Ritta) Goldenzweig who lived in Bucharest, Romania. I cannot find any reference to them on JewishGen or on MyHeritage.com

Replying to David Rosen suggestion regarding Cewice: Cewice (Zewitz) was not in Poland prior to the end of WWII. This region: Pomorze (German: Pomerania) was allocated by USSR to Poland as the

I got tired of scrolling looking for these - so I went to the shared cM tab and put in 19 cM to 20 cM and they opened right up. Everything above 8 is still there. I am personally having problems

Daniela, Have you contacted Paul's grandson, Nicolas Frédéric Jan Stransky ? https://www.geni.com/people/Nicolas-Stransky/6000000010877743587 Peter Lowe

My mistake, Joseph. The second email does bring up the correct one. Sorry about that. And also sorry that I can't begin to make out that handwriting. Good luck! Peter Strauss

“When the month of Elul arrives, you immediately sense the special atmosphere that has enveloped the town, the atmosphere of the approaching Yamim Noraim, or Days of Awe.” So begins “On the

Hi. I'm a member of the Local History of Sullivan County, NY group on Facebook, so I put the question to them. The only suggestion that came back was that Ginsburg & Klausner were real estate agents,

Maybe Cewice http://www.fallingrain.com/world/PL/82/Cewice.html David Rosen Boston, MA

Trying to find the siblings of Harry SCHWARTZ (1887 in Zanekhov, Ukraine). May have lived in Mogilev-Podolsky. His parents were Joseph SCHWARTZ (1885-1941) and Belen (Bela) PILDERWEIS SCHWARTZ

My maternal grandfather was Aron Eliyahu Wysoker, but he was born in Wysokie Litovsk in 1891. I've always understood that families never took the surname of the town in which they lived. His father

A fascinating story. I am not an expert in this area but I have to think records from the Red Army at that time were (a) not so good (b) hard to find. and (c) still secret, so I don't like your

I thought i was the only one fighting for the loss of the 6-7.9 cM. i complained the day the notice came out and shared with some others. Many were thankful and a few tried to tell me it was just

Dear Daniela, I have made a small mistake, the date of the decree is 8 October 1946 - not 13. please find below the decree number 51755 x 38 (the last digits stand for 1938) last step is to

Not to beat a dead horse :~), but I have some thoughts on other people's replies .... Pisztráng is indeed Hungarian for "trout". While it is an unrelated language, Hungarian shares quite a bit of

Dear Daniela, a quick look at the "Journal Officiel de la République Française" under Gallica.fr is saying that there is a Naturalisation file (date of the decree 13 october 1946) a recent update

My grand uncle Simon Taganski survived in Paris. Some of my uncles visited him when WWII was over. Would love to know how he survived as well. Iris Folkson

This is most probably place Cewkow (Tsevkuv) in Cieszanow district. There are two entries for this location in JGFF database. This town had 2,700 residents, including 135 Jewish souls registered

Personally I do not find small segments of any use whatsoever, as they go so far back in time that they are unreliable, and give faulty results. It is the 20cm plus which are the key to finding recent