The link is much appreciated! I studied Russian rather than Ukrainian, but I'm finding the website pretty understandable. Kahan is yet another variant I'm trying. Pronunciation of Cyrillic Г varies

Hi Apologies for a long post - I'm trying to search for my great aunt daughters descendants and have hit a brick wall so hoping this group can help. Here's what I know... my great aunt was Sarah

Kagan is a common surname. It is the Russian version of Cohen. As far as Zvenigorodka is concerned, Alex Krakovski has posted a number of records scans on his wiki site at

The voter database is on JewishGen. I worked on the translation a number of years ago. For example, if you search for Zvenigorodka on JewishGen, you'll see that there are 1925 listings in the Kiev

Thank you, that is fascinating. I'm trying to understand the purpose - would the intentional twisting of the author's name for the title have been done to reflect some honorific title? I cant imagine

Thank you for clarifying that. It is confusing because in addition to seeing it used as this Rabbi's surname in multiple sources, I do see it used as a surname in a lot of other records on JewishGen,

I took a DNA test several years ago with MY Heritage and found a 2C1R ... and she was the great granddaugther of my grandmother. I never knew about my grandmother's much younger sister, who was left

SO fascinating! I hope that you will post here again when you've added the rest of the story. -- Fredel Fruhman Brooklyn, New York, USA

Elena, the percentage with roots anywhere that Russia is still the official language would be much lower. Most of the Pale was farther west than modern-day Russia. The "Russian Empire" included not

I suggest you contact the "Together Plan", a British based charity helping the remaining Jewish communities in Belarus learn to help themselves. One of the Directors, fluent in English, Russian and

Goldie was from Derevna, also known as Derewna, was in the Minsk region in the county of Stolpce. She might, therefore, be related to your line. One of the problems lies in the use of different

I have been reading Primo Levi's collection of stories The Periodic Table and looked up some biography on him. He married a woman named Lucia Morpurgo and I wonder if her family had any connection

Hello, Looking for any information how my Great Grandfather Hersche Shore, Grandmother Fannie Shore and her younger sister traveled in July 1903 from Jaffa to board the La Loraine in Le Havre,

A PDF of the short book is available at https://hebrewbooks.org/18. It is in the genre of rabbinic responsa. It seems highly unlikely to me that you would find am English translation as it is a

The name is Uri David ben Yosef EFRON (the letter Peh is also pronounced Feh, and the title of the book is a play on the two sounds of this letter: in the name a Feh and in the title Peh.) Hope this

Please does anyone know if apart from 'Brother-in -law' there might be other meanings for the hebrew גיס , used in 1770 in a Memorbook from Deutz, Germany. I am trying to work out a complicated

Peter, have you contacted World Jewish Relief, they have an archive of all the records for refugees that they helped prior to and after WWII, see the following

Never heard of Goldie Bass but I do descend from the Bass clan of the Minsk suburbs.

That is very true which comes from trial and error and experience but as far as I am concerned it is also a matter of luck and grey matter, ie if the records are there to be found and if you use

This link may help. Good luck. https://www.archives.gov/research/holocaust/international-resources/navigate.html