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Thank you Gary, i went to the page and I found books re the town Zaslav. How do I go about finding out if there is a translation for those books. Deborah Friedman FRIEDMAN, SPECTOR,

Thank you Shmiel, I would love it if they could search for FRIEDMAN, SHULMAN, PODGAITZ, LIPSHITZ Thanks so much DEborah Friedman Walnut Creek, CA

Thank you for this! my Gr-gr-grandmother's name was Hinda Podgaitz. She married Ephraim Friedman and they lived in Kopaigorod, Ukraine. I have always wondered if the last name Podgaitz meant that she

A number of years ago I paid the Latvian Archives to do some family research for me. I also have some research obtained by other researchers and we are trying to connect the dots to put branches of

I have had success working with a local genealogist in retrieving records from the Zhitomir archives for my family who lived in Novograd-Volynsk and emigrated to MA. Contact me if you want additional

I would like to print my tree that has approximately 500 names. I cannot do it with the program I use (Family Tree Maker 2019). Is there another program or way to print it? Thank you for your

if you go to Alex K's main wiki page (use chrome so you get a translated version)

I am not sure where this information came from but I can tell you on the wiki page https://uk.wikisource.org/wiki/%D0%90%D1%80%D1%85%D1%96%D0%B2%D0%B8/%D0%94%D0%90%D0%96%D0%9E/67/3 there are 150 files

Rachel, Perhaps the bride's parents had an objection to the marriage and the synagogue required their permission. The couple's only alternative would have been a civil marriage (or Gretna Green?), if

-- I made my family tree for many years, and posted it on MyCanvas, from Alexanders.( Familily Roimiser, Roimisher, Roemicher, Romischer...etc). Since that site uses Flash Player, which will

I am not very skilled at this, but I understand some people have been able to really narrow things down by using dnapainter.com. I would also suggest going back to your oldest relatives and asking

How about birth, marriage and death records as well as revision lists for Mogilev Podol'sk and Kopaigorod Ukraine? Janis Friedenberg Datz jjdatz@...

I couldn't find your Viewmate, so I can just speak generally. Lots of helpful links, including Kurrent letters, at https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Slovakia_Genealogy. Find the 1869 Census in the

I think those numbers are pretty good. 10% of Americans don't have a high school diploma or GED. Less than 40% have a bachelors degree. Less than 3% of Americans are Jewish. Ignorance of history

See: https://www.segal.org/name/index.html David Rosen Boston, MA

The name "Segel" is said to have also been an honorific sometimes added to surnames of rabbinical-levitical families. Is anyone aware of the tradition surrounding the use of it? -Ari Dale

Thanks so much for this very detailed response. It does seem possible that Reizl could be Rose. She did live on Henry St at one point, so very possible that she could be related to the person at 100

Birth, marriage, and death records for Zhitomir are in the archives in that city. The Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People in Jerusalem has film of birth records through 1907. Alex

I went to school in New Jersey in the 50's and there was very little taught about World War II and later. I guess they made the ridiculous assumption that since it was relatively recent we all knew