I only recently discovered that my maternal gf's family came from Vilnius, not Russia as I had previously been told. My gf was the youngest of 3 siblings, all of whom came to the US somewhere between

Dear Debbie Bloch: Google pointed me toward this "centre médical" (= "medical center", at least approximately) in today's Woluwe-Saint Pierre in Belgium: http://www.cmco.info ("Centre Médical du

I am looking to research records for Vilna, Lithuania and Nasielsk, Poland for my family. Where would be the best place to connect with to see what vital records might be available for the 1800’s

For somebody born in Brussels you have to know which borough he was born and there eventually you might find a birth certificate, if the birth was officially registered. This is always the case when

Tanya, As I have said in another thread some time ago, I found evidence of my father's father's name change when looking at his birth certificate at the New York City Municipal Archives (he was born

Hi to all who will read this post. I am not sure that my own US Census/genealogy story counts exactly as "invented relatives" (although it seems to involve persons who were not relatives of mine who

Hi All, There was a post recently about 500,000 records added to GenTeam but details were not provided. I received this information: Larry Bassist Springville, Utah www.GenTeam.at 500,000 new

Hello all! The Jewish Genealogy Society of Long Island is delighted to invite you to our November monthly meeting featuring our guest speaker, Jeanette Rosenberg. JGSLI is extending the invitation

Hello all! The Jewish Genealogy Society of Long Island is delighted to invite you to our bonus monthly meeting featuring a book and author talk with our guest speaker, Meryl Ain, about her book The

Tanya, Did he naturalize? If so, he may have done the name change during the naturalization process. Both FamilySearch and Ancestry have good databases of naturalization indices and documents.

Thanks to everyone for he ideas/alternative explanations. a few more details - this was isolated to the 1930 census. It was the inventory of the house my Grandparents lived in for many years and the

VM31822 In Russian: 37. Состоялось в Варшаве, в 1888-м году, 7-го (19) декабря, в 6 часов вечера, в концелярии чиновника

My parents were in Kammer-Schaerffing for about 4 years. -- George (Naftali) Muenz Vancouver, Canada

Wondering if any direct line descendants from the WORMS family of Frankfurt, Germany have taken a Y-DNA test? I would be interested in comparing results to see if there is any connection to my Worms

The USHMM has added 54,695 names taken from collection RG31.013M, Ivano-Frankivsk State Oblast Archives records. The names come from reels 24-38 in Lista osob zamieszkalych (list of residents) in

I have Rothenberg/ Rottenberg on my immediate tree; from Galicia, towns, villages both west and slightly north of Lemberg, now Lviv, Ukraine. Your Lina is intriguing; my gr gr grandmother was Liebe,

Janis, I would start with HIAS. https://www.hias.org/records-search-requests AJHS has a HIAS client database, but it is a later time frame than you

Hi Israel, The Arolsen Archives records have many DP records. Check their website arolsen-archives.org to see what they have put online already. Ancestry.com has indexing some of their postwar lists

Hello, Invitation to the wedding of GITTEL, sister of the person inviting to MENACHEM, son of the late Shmuel Bialik. Date of wedding is Tuesday, the 7th of Kislev, 5665 which corresponds to November

I was an enumerator for the recent 2020 census. I can tell you that there is no assurance that the census information is accurate. I don't know how it worked in 1930, but this year we were told that