Wildcard searching It’s important to remember that names are often misspelled or mis-transcribed, so doing “fuzzy” searching on names can often help you find a good match, even though the name

Relly, Other options for finding names of parents of the original immigrants: Circa 1910 passenger manifests for the U.S. listed not only the person the immigrant was bound for, but also closest

Deborah, Do you mean Tarnobrzeg? https://www.jewishgen.org/Communities/community.php?usbgn=-532659 There are records for Tarnobrzeg at: https://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Poland/ Regards, Sherri

Katja, Try: https://www.familysearch.org/search/ They seem to have some records from Perleberg. Regards, Sherri Bobish

Nancy, Many databases allow a soundex (sounds like) search on surnames, some allow a soundex search on first names as well, If the surname was totally mangled (either in the original document or the

These are references to articles/books about Babi Yar: "Memory of Babi Yar. Book of Martyrs" / Author V. A. Zgursky. Kiev: newspaper "Moment of silence" and "Young Guards" 1991, page

Are there birth and marriage records for Odessa going back to 1830's to 1881? I can't seem to find many. My grandfather, his parents and siblings left Odessa from 1881-1885 for New York. I'd love to

I have a 1920 photo postcard with a handwritten greeting from Cila/Cirla IGEL (my grandfather's niece from the family that adopted him) that I'd like to share with any descendants of her family. Cila

On my grandfather-in-law’s naturalization form he lists “Gizejikanis” as his birthplace. Could someone tell me where this is located? My guess is that it around Kaunas/Kovno Lithuania because

Does it cost $180-$200 for the offline data of each town/village? Is there a global amount that allows access to a number of offline towns? Thanks, Relly Coleman

les evenchick <levenchick@...> 06/19/1999 #9418 There are lots of problems with town names on JGFF - one is requested to use current name as listed in a standard cartography publication at least

Visa files were started in 1924, as their own file series, and as of 1944, were rolled over into the newly-created A File series (Alien files). Both are held by USCIS as part of their Genealogy

response to Bonnie Gould This is in the Skyvra district in the Kyiv province before WW I there are few metric records or Revision lists translated and online for Ruzhyn. However there are several

Be prepared. This can be a Herculean task. I have gone so far as to check for just first names. I have found the name "Karasik" spelled "Caress" and "Harasik." I have found the name "Tillie"

response to Toby Glickman Fairy tale is the unfortunate and laughable translation by Google for a Revision List. So a fairy tale in our context is actually quite valuable There are no translations

Hello Allan, Your question begins saying the person came to the US in 1948 "for a visit." This may be the factor determining the answer. US visas (as documents) date from 1924 and include both

Dear Laurent, Thank you so much for this translation--it will help me in researching this family branch. Kind regards, Nina Talbot

Gary, What does "fairy tale" mean in this context? And is there a translation of the Dubno section of the "fairy tale of the Jews of Dubna County"? My mother's family was from Dubno and I have failed

Looks like Typwolen or Typworlen. Diane jacobs Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone

It's labeled as a girl but in my experience this is a photo of a boy, not yet potty trained. I'd guess that it was taken 1880 to 1900 unless child fashion was totally different in Germany than in the