Was this 1930 census from New York City? When I have researched into New York City relatives, I could not believe the number of persons with the same name and birth year. For instance, I found 8

Hello all who helped with this thread. I finally heard back from the cemetery and your research was correct. Thanks again "Our grounds personnel inspected the gravesite that you referred to and find

Hi, I understand you believe, "The 1930 U.S. census lists three children in my (HERSHKOWITZ) family that never actually existed." How do you know that they never existed? Moishe Miller Brooklyn,

Sally, the Silberman/Silverman difference was in the same household, and the odd one out was still legally a minor. As for spelling, what with the transition from Cyrillic to Roman (and now, to

Chava is Hebrew for Eve. It comes from the same root as the verb l'hiyot, to be. Chavala (Chava'leh) is a diminuitive, the same way your bubbe might have called you her bubba'leh. Nancy

My great grandmother (last name Primack or Primak) and all her siblings came from a town named Montchelek. On their naturalization and immigration documents, I have seen variations of the town:

Rabbi Moshe of Kletzk (18th cent.) appears in several sources I've seen in the past. I have reason to believe I may be a descendant of his. One of his sons, David, also known as the "Galia Mesechta"

Thank you for the link to the Google pronounciation tool. That is very useful to listen to, to get a good idea of how the name should be pronounced. The pronunciation of 'Kh' sounds like a softer

My GGM was Fannie = Fruma Rothenberg (1864-1920) from Suwalki region, she emigrated to Cincinnati with her parents Hyman (1838-1918) and Chana Prenska (1839-1915). If Lina was from Suwalki, can share

My maternal grandfather was Abramowitz and was born in a town near Boston around 1910. He had a number of brothers and some of them changed their names to Abrams, others Abbott. His father Zalman

The JewishGen Danzig/Gdańsk Research Division's chart showing the locations of Jewish vital records from Danzig has been updated to include census records and more early marriage records, and to

Dear Ric, I am reading like the others (Narodné Gubierna). But usually on those files you have other pages where you have a duplicate of this information (a list of questions about the

Regarding Rabbi Avraham ben Yehiel Michael Danzig, Chayei Adam, I would appreciate hearing from anyone knowledgeable about sources and their reliability concerning: his date of birth, possible

The people in the office at Beth David have always been very nice to me. In some cemeteries the staff becomes hostile when you ask for a list of different grave locations and tell you you should have

Rachel, A Google search found this book, which is written in Polish which I cannot read, but the English blurb sounds like the book may be about the orphanage you seek info

-----Original Message----- From: T R via groups.jewishgen.org My grandfather changed the family name when they arrived in NYC post Anschluss, 1939. I contacted the archives in NYC but they weren't

In reviewing census records from the very early 1900s I found an uncle Morris listed as Mary and a cousin Dasha as David. Possible causes for listings you think of as errors or omissions: Census taker

See: http://www.archives.nysed.gov/research/res_topics_gen_naturalization_name David Rosen Boston, MA

" took all kinds of measures to obscure, obscure, twist, and disinform the world regarding their origins" Different spellings were common. There was no standard spelling in the US until the mid-20th

I have posted two death records in Polish for which I would appreciate complete translations. They can be found on Viewmate at the following