Thank you and with kind regards. -- Hello. I would like to join to research info about my 4 x g grandfather Abraham ben Gedaliah Tiktin 1764 - 1820. With thx.

It’s a very Russian thing to do but as far as I know not a ceremony. Those berries were hard to come by and labor intensive. It showed love and respect to serve the berries -- Deanna M. Levinsky,

Dear Hilary There is no town in Lancashire Uk with the name St Anne’s. There is the coastal resort of Lytham St Anne’s south of Blackpool to where I was evacuated at the beginning of WW2 from

Hello Deborah, I'm assuming you mean a USCIS "AA" Certificate file for Jon, since he was born abroad to US citizen parents. No, no file or record of his derivative citizenship would be created upon

Hello all. I found the following reference in Julius Sumner Miller’s autobiography to a ceremony his mother Sarah engaged in. Does anybody recognize this? If so, are you able to tell me anything

I think this conversation is backwards - the original name was Yiddish and/or Hebrew. The question should be what English name was chosen based on the original and not the other way around. I know

Volume 4: Page 416 - Rebecca Leah, (2'nd wife of Rabbi Moses Judah Leib Zilberberg ABD Kolo, Dobri, Lask & Kutno) was the daughter of Rabbi Zeev Wolf, ABD Piotrikov and Dabie. She died in 1892,

Unfortunately, I don't know where in Poland (other than Russian Poland on the census) my BARNETT family came from. However, my father's much younger, now octogenarian, first cousin and sole living

If I had looked a bit further I could have seen that what I read as an 'i' was in fact a 't' which makes it a Matrikelschein, in translation 'a registration form/card'. Ron Peeters Ulvenhout (NL)

Hi Jenny, They do exist today, the only question is exactly where they are filed. The visas came to the US with the immigrants in 1925. They were taken up by the Immigrant Inspector at the port of

As all my knowledge about Zeev Wolf Landau comes from the book The Unbroken Chain Vol 3, and there no mention is made of any Tiktin, I can unfortunately not help you any further. I would suggest that

I recently learned from an online seminar presented by the JGSGW that children born on ships going to the US were listed on the last page of the ship’s manifest. If you can find that, it might help.

Dear Ruth, Exactly the information I was looking for. You may have seen I changed my original question to 19th century which I assume showed similar usage of the water ways. Thanks a lot, Ron

My sister Shirley was Shajne or Shaine in Yiddish. #names Avigdor Ben-Dov

In 1896 my great aunt Eva FINKELSTEIN (later Abremovich) (1877-1953) was the first Jew to graduate from what became the University of Manitoba. During her life she touched the lives of many people

My grandmother's siblings immigrated from Poland (now Belarus) to the US in 1925. The ship manifest says that they were issued immigration visas in Warsaw, along with the date that they were granted.

Hello researchers, Here is another in my opinion interesting finding for Bessarabia records. It is a Merchant Dues List. The list I found so far was for town of Khotin, 1865. The reason it was not

what do you want to find in Yaroslavl oblast? That is the site of archive https://af.yar-archives.ru/ sincerely, Elena yelena.v.volk@...

Dear researchers, I was responding today on an email and was looking up something on internet, and found a terrific place about Jewish towns and shtetl in Ukraine. Some of them were part of

Dear Shmiel, Ooh. I would love to know if Gelburd and Gordy show in those censuses. I do note that I expect at some point Alex Krakovsky will be scanning them in the next year or two.