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

"In the late 1800s, if paternal and maternal grandfathers were both deceased when the first son was born, would he have been named after the paternal grandfather, or was it a choice?" You don't say

There is no universal rule that I am aware of. He could have been named after either, or both. In my experience, that is not what happened. The child was given the same Hebrew name as the ancestor,

Yonat sorry to disappoint ....while there are a number of records from Volyn Province I dont see anything in Alex K files posted from this town.....and the JG database has very little available from

VM85357 290 Гинда Вайсблех Состоялось в городе Люблин 27-го апреля (9-го мая) 1912 года в 9 часов утра. Явился еврей

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

VM86358 In Rusian: 290 Шимон-Лейб Вайсблех Состоялось в городе Лублин 27-го апреля (9-гомая)1920 года в 9 часов утра.

If you want to find the story that Judite mentions above, it was the daughter of the man who was raised Irish, but was really from a Jewish family was on Good Morning America not that long ago and the