The question is both general, of possibleinterest to many, and specific, addressed to Miami mavens. A relative, born Naftali Lasutra inPulin, Ukraine, who changed his surname to Lester - or

This is a follow up to a postfrom last week about Naftali Lasutra and his wife Hannah/Nekhama or Khaya wholived in Toronto between 1920's - 1960's. While in Canada, he changed hissurname to Lester. It

A small thing about changing borders, citizenships, living mobile or staying put in Eastern Europe. Living in today’s Ukranian Zakarpatska Oblast, formerly Ruthenia, Kárpátalja, etc. meant that

The choice of whom to name a child after has always been made by the parents regardless of who died in what order. And it was not required that children be named after deceased grandparents. That

Thank you for responding and sorry about my failure to include the link. I got confused when posting-forgetting that I had to post the image, get it approved, and then put out the request!! The links

Thank you for responding and sorry about my failure to include the link. I got confused when posting-forgetting that I had to post the image, get it approved, and then put out the request!! The links

BS'D I am looking for help with a mazeva of the Warsaw cemetery. I know the name's person buried there, but for some reason in the picture I have it is not possible to see the name of his father,

Thank you to all the replies to my inquiry regarding Yaakov Rotem's testimonies on Yad Vashem regarding Wilder family from Lwow. The replies have helped me further my research regarding this family

VM86555 In Russian: 41. Состоялось в городе Петриков 29-го апреля (11-го мая) 1898 года в 9 часов утра. Явился лично Юдель

This Wednesday, at 5pm New York time, I will be teaching a one-hour interactive class, Jewish Research Basics 1 - Where to Look. Topic: Introduction to the most important databases for Jewish

L' Shana Tova tikutevu v'tikutemu. -- Sarah L Meyer Georgetown TX ANK(I)ER, BIGOS, KARMELEK, PERLSTADT, STOKFISZ, SZPIL(T)BAUM, Poland BIRGARDOVSKY, EDELBERG, HITE (CHAIT), PERCHIK Russia (southern

Laura, Does MyCanvas offer an option to print your family tree? If yes, remember that most PCs offer an option to print to a pdf file and save it to disk. If you don't see that option when choosing

See: Given names here. Explains a lot about naming traditions. https://www.jewishgen.org/InfoFiles/GivenNames/slide1.html David Rosen Boston, MA

They had at least five girls, Chaya Riva, Shayla, Sora Feigel, Fruma Devasha, and Yudis. Fruma Devasha was born in 1884, and Gertie Nillis died in her thirties. Rafual died in his 40s and Chaya Riva

I have been wanting for a long time to post an update of my family tree on JewishGen. Does JewishGen have any plans to allow people to do this or has this aspect of JewishGen been

They had four children, including Morris (B. 1878, Louis, Israel Joseph, and Ida). Barbara Levy

I have posted a message written by my relative to,or about my great grandfather. It is in transliterated Yiddish on the back of a formal document. The document is legal sized, so the message is in

I am struggling to fit together the Reisfeld - Lewin/Löw - Schmelkes Family of Brody, Lviv and Przemysl. I have collected helpful information from Gesher Galicia and JewishGen, from Yizkor books,

Thank you for sharing this Yvonne! Do you know what the fees are to attend the conference? I was unable to find more information on their website about the cost to attend. Thank you, Andrew Cooke

The Israel Genealogy Research Association has been looking for these two censuses for years and not found them the statistics from them are available. We suggest you register for the IGRA website