Sheintche the daughter of Reb Reuven. It is Yiddish and probably the diminutive of Sheineh. Sheine means beautiful in Yiddish and the Hebrew equivalent would be "Yaffa".

I've posted a vital record in RUSSIAN for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key= 83655 Please respond via the

Toldot Mishpachs Ginzburg is on the Hebrewbooks.org website. Incidentally, Rabbi R Brim of Bnei Brak has recently published a book 'Lemaalah Bakodesh' which details the descent of one branch of the

It's Shayntsche, a diminutive for Shayna.

In my late mother's picture album i found a picture of a Moshe NATANSON taken in Camp Achva in 1937. I presume camp achva is (was) in the USA . If anyone wants the picture please contact me. Besides

We hope you will join us for a meeting of the Jewishgen Romanian Research Division (session code 4009) at the annual IAJGS conference which is being held virtually this year. This meeting will start

Good Evening Joel, Thank you for this information. My maternal ancestors came from Vilna, although, I believe they originally were registered in Musninkai. May I ask you to do a lookup from these

I can read her father's name, but don't recognize this woman's Hebrew name, Sheyn...? Thank you for your help.

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Hi Trudie: The surname list that Alex Krakovsky has was developed by JRI-Poland, not Krakovsky. And you do not really need that list. You should just search the JRI-Poland database

I descend from a famous centenarian, Lazarus (Eleazar) Finkelstein of Mariampol, who was 109 when he died in Chicago in 1918. Many newspaper stories about him, but NOTHING in any Census. Yet I believe

Hello everybody, 40th International Jewish Genealogy conference started today. We had Bessarabia Research group meeting. I saw about 50 people attending the meeting. I want to thank everybody who

Nathan Phillips, the beloved mayor of Toronto, was a Rosenblum on his mother's side. I believe his children/grandchildren still live in Toronto and they'd probably be easy to locate. I am also a

Sharon, I am searching for vital records for HORNSTEIN from Ivano-Frankivs’k, Ukraine (Stanislawow). I would like to see if Simon Hornstein DOB 1844, his parents Itzig & Hinde Hornstein appears on

Here is the map I meant to attach to the original posting.

-- just found my husband's paternal grandfathers naturalization record for Max gottesman. We were told he grew up near Munkach/Mukacevo. His record shows two different spellings in Hungary neither of

Noticing just now that Jim Bennett's post here is from the JGen archive... and dates from 2004 'jogged' my memory. Sadly, in fact, Jim passed away back in 2015

The most commonly known and available 19th record sources for the city of Vilna include the vital records and revision lists. The vital records as well as the 9th and 10th revisions of 1850/51 and

I'm trying to track down information on the MSTISLAVSKY family from Chernigov. My maternal grandmother's maternal grandmother's father was Nison TSIMBEROV. I believe his brother Abram was married to

I have never seen this name other than on a piece of paper on my Mom's possession that we came across after her death. Her family names include Feldman which was supposedly Feldon, Goldman, Sabatsky,